Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6414
(formerly typ/4376)

	Λύρα βίβλον τέτευχα τερπνὴν Δαυίδου,
	ἥν εἰσορῶντες οἱ κεκτημένοι φίλοι
	ἐμοῦ μέμνησθε τοῦ τρόπου καὶ τῶν πόνων.

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)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	David Music Psalter
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Entreaty for first person Reference to content of the book
Comment	The epigram is preserved in a sixteenth-century manuscript: Lesbos, Mone tou Leimonos 220 (1527).
Bibliography	Primary A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 1888, Μαυρογορδάτειος Βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι Γενικὸς περιγραφικὸς κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἀνὰ τὴν Ἀνατολὴν βιβλιοθήκαις εὑρισκομένων ἑλληνικῶν χειρογράφων, Constantinople: 111
Number of verses	3
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	Vassis ICB 2005, 440: "In psalterium"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.