Type 36658

Τὴν ἀσφάλειαν πίστεως τῆς ἐνθέου
ὁ ψαλμός οἶδεν, ἣν ἀποστόλων λόγοις
ἥδρασε Χριστὸς ὡς ὀρῶν στερρῷ κράτει.
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: 241
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)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) La sûreté de la foi venue de Dieu,
le psaume la connaît : sur les paroles des apôtres,
le Christ l’a établie comme sur la puissance imperturbable des montagnes.
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: 240
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 220v), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography
Number of verses 3
Occurrence(s) [36660] τὴν ἀσφάλει(αν) πιστεως τῆς ἐνθέ(...) [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 152r)
(3 verses)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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