Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36436

	(...) μεμνημ(εν)(...)
	τεραστιων τουτου τε μελπουσι τά(δε) ⁘

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Type(s)	[36434] Οἱ πρὸς θεὸν φεύγοντες ὡς μεμνημένοι (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text partially unknown
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088]
Place in Manuscript	f. 82v
Palaeographical information	Written by a later hand in the upper margin, in two columns, to be read horizontally. Due to the trimming of the margins of the manuscript, the upper part of the verses has been cut and some accents and letters are lost.
Contextual information	The epigram introduces Psalm 43.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Psalter
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.342/170
Bibliography	Primary G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 233 Secondary G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 65 (n. 4)
Number of verses	2
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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