Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

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Type 4292
(formerly typ/2391)

	Δαυίδου πινυτοῦ μελέων βεβοημένος ὕμνος
	εὐκελάδου κιθάρης βασιλήϊος ὕμνος ἐτύχθη.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 212-213
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	David Music Psalter
Tag(s)	Division of the book Praise of the author Reference to content of the book Title
Translation(s)	Der berühmte Hymnos der Lieder des weisen David wurde zum königlichen Hymnos der wohlklingenden Leier. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 212
Comment	The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 222r), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography	Primary 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: 216 A. Ludwich, 1912, Apolinarii metaphrasis psalmorum, Leipzig: 131 G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 243
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[20581] δαυίδου πινυτοῦ μελέων βεβοημένος ὕμνος [1346] ATHOS - Mone Iberon 1384 [1346] (f. 1r) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	BEiÜ IV, GR32 Vassis ICB 2005, 131: "Inscriptio in Apolinarii metaphrasin Psalmi 67"
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