Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36509

	⁘ ἀνδρὸς προσευχὴ προ(ς) μάχην ἀλλοτρί(ων)
	ἐχθρ(ων) καλοῦντο(ς) σύμμαχ(ον) τ(ὸν) δεσπότ(ην) ⁘

Type(s)	[36507] Ἀνδρὸς προσευχὴ πρὸς μάχην ἀλλοτρίων (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088]
Place in Manuscript	f. 97r
Palaeographical information	Written by a later hand in the upper margin, in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram introduces Psalm 53.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Psalter
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.342/199
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: 235 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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