Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6324
(formerly typ/4279)

Δυσσαέων μελιχρᾶς Δαυίδου λύρας ὥστιδος ὀμφαί.

Title(s)	ἕτερος, ῥήτορος κυροῦ Μαξίμου τοῦ Ὁλοβόλου
Text source	G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 65
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Manuel Holobolos monkname Maximos (1245 - 1310-1314) - PLP: IX.21047 (grammatikos, retor)
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	David Music Psalter
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book
Comment	The attribution of this verse to Manuel Holobolos is desumed from the inscriptiones of the related occurrences.
Bibliography
Number of verses	1
Occurrence(s)	[24250] Δυσσαέων μελιχρ(ᾶς) δαυίδου λύρας ὥστιδος ὁμφαί [14th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Auct. T. 2.3 [1076-1125] (f. 2v) (1 verse) [24355] Δυσσαέων μελιχρᾶς δαυίδου λύρας ὥστιδος ὀμφαί [14th c.] SOFIA - Centar I Dujcev D. gr. 389 [14th c.] (f. 1v) (1 verse)
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.
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.