Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6413
(formerly typ/4375)

	Δαυίδ θεόπτα, τὴν θεόφθογγον λύραν
	κρούων, κραδαίνων τὴν ὑφήλιον κτίσιν
	σκότους λύτρωσαι δαιμόνων κακουργίας,
	σύνεσιν πάρασχε τοῖς ψάλλουσί τε
	λιταῖς τῆς πανάγνου Θεομήτορος. Ἀμήν.

Text source	G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 238
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	David Music Psalter Theotokos
Tag(s)	Prayer Spiritual value of the book
Comment	The last two lines are metrically faulty. The first three lines of the epigram also occur in a 16th-century manuscript: Lesbos, Mone tou Leimonos 220 (1527).
Bibliography	Primary 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	5
Occurrence(s)	[24596] (...) θεόπτα τὴν θεόφθογγον λύραν [9th c.] SAINT PETERSBURG - Rossijskaja Nacional'naja biblioteka (RNB) - Ф. № 906 (Gr.) Gr. 216 (Granstrem 072) [878] (f. 348r) (5 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 129: "In psalterium"
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Last modified: 2023-10-31.