Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 36668

	Ἀρχὴν ἄναρχον δημιουργοῦ μηνύων
	ὁ ψαλμὸς αἰτεῖ τοῦδε τὴν εὐσπλαγχνίαν.

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)	Psalter
Tag(s)	Division of the book Reference to content of the book Title
Translation(s)	Tout en signifiant que le Créateur est le principe sans principe, le psaume demande sa miséricorde. 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	Secondary G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 65 (n. 4)
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[36670] αρχην αναρ(...) δημιουρ(...) μηνυ(...) [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 159r) (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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