Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3939
(formerly typ/2026)

	Ψαλτήριον τήρησον, ὦ ψυχή, πόθῳ·
	τῆς γὰρ μερίμνης ἄξονας κατατρίβει,
	νέμον λογισμοῖς ἤρεμον ζῳουχίαν.

Text source	G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 237
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Psalter
Tag(s)	Address to the soul
Comment	The epigram also occurs - with a variant reading in v. 3: νέμων λογισμοὺς τῆς ἄνω θεωρίας - in a 16th-century manuscript: Lesbos, Mone tou Leimonos 220 (1527).
Bibliography	Primary H. Coxe, 1969, Greek Manuscripts, Oxford: 623 A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 1884, Μαυρογορδάτειος Βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι Γενικὸς περιγραφικὸς κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἀνὰ τὴν Ἀνατολὴν βιβλιοθήκαις εὑρισκομένων ἑλληνικῶν χειρογράφων, Constantinople: 111
Number of verses	3
Occurrence(s)	[24589] Ψαλτήριον τήρησον, ὦ ψυχή, πόθῳ [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 60 [13th c.] (f. 228r) (3 verses) [19953] ψαλτήριον τήρησον ὦ ψυχὴ πόθῳ [951] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Auct. D. 4.1 [951] (f. 300r) (3 verses) [24588] Ψαλτήριον τήρησον, ὦ ψυχή, πόθῳ [878] SAINT PETERSBURG - Rossijskaja Nacional'naja biblioteka (RNB) - Ф. № 906 (Gr.) Gr. 216 (Granstrem 072) [851-900] (f. 337r-337v) (3 verses) [27045] μεγαλῆον ὕμνησον ὦ ψυχὴ πόθω [13th c.] SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 189 [13th c.] (f. 153r) (3 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Cristina Cocola - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: 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: "In psalterium"
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