Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2125
(formerly typ/187)

Ψαλμῶν τὸ τεῦχος ἐσφραγισμένοις χάρις,
εὔρυθμος ᾠδὴ καὶ παθοκτόνον μέλος
ἐχθροῦ πονηρὰν προσβολὴν καταστρέφον·
Δαυὶδ γὰρ νῦν πάρεστι καὶ λαλεῖ ξένα,
ἠχεῖ τὰ θεῖα καὶ κροτεῖ παρρησίᾳ,
ἐν γῇ μελῳδεῖ καὶ συνᾴδει τοῖς ἄνω
καὶ νοῦν καθαίρει καὶ μεταίρει τῶν κάτω
καὶ χειραγωγεῖ πρὸς τρίβους σωτηρίας,
πληροῖ δὲ φωτὸς τὰς φρένας τοῦ κτωμένου
καὶ προσοικειοῖ τῷ φιλανθρώπῳ λόγῳ.
Ποιητὰ οὖν μου, λυτρωτὰ καὶ οἰκτίρμον,
ὃς πάντας ἡμᾶς εἰς τὸ σωθῆναι θέλεις,
νοσοῦντα ὁμοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὸ σῶμα
ἡ σὴ τάχος με προφθάσοι χάρις, Σῶτερ,
μακρὰν τὰ πάθη ἐξ ἐμοῦ ποιουμένη.
Ἀμήν· γένοιτο εἰς ἅπαντά μου χρόνον
Μιχαὴλ μοναχῷ εὐτελεῖ καὶ ἀλίτρῳ.
Text source G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 225
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Michael (11th c.) - RGK: I.289, III.472 (alitros, monachos)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Spiritual value of the book
Bibliography

Primary

R. Devreesse, 1937, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 330-603 (vol. 2), Vatican City: 16

Bibliography category to be determined
Number of verses 17
Occurrence(s) [17092] Ψαλμῶν το τεύχος ἐσφραγισμέν(ων) χάρις [1087]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 24r)
(17 verses)
Related type(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Michael mon., In psalterium"
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