Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 36584

	Ἐξουθενημένος τις, οἰκεῖος θέλων
	θεῷ γενέσθαι, τοῦτο μελπέτω μέλος.

Text source	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: 239
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Niketas (12th c.) (chartophylax of Hagia Sophia < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, metropolites of Thessaloniki < Central Macedonia < Greece)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Music Psalter
Tag(s)	Division of the book Reference to content of the book Title
Translation(s)	Si quelqu’un est tenu pour moins que rien et veut devenir familier de Dieu, qu’il entonne ce chant ! Language French Source(s) 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: 238
Comment	On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223). The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 220r), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography	Secondary G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 65 (n. 4)
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[36586] εξουθενη(...) τις οικεῖ(...) θελω(...) [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 127v) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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