Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6427
(formerly typ/4389)

	Κινῶν ὁ Δαυὶδ τὴν κιννύραν εὐρύθμως
	τῇ πνευματικῇ φόρμιγγι συνημμένην
	βάλλει, διώκει τῇ βοῇ ταύτης ξένως
	στῖφος νοητῶν δυσμενῶν ἀλαστόρων.

Text source	G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 244
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	David Music Psalter
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book Spiritual value of the book
Comment	The epigram is preserved in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 221bisv), 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: 215 J. Boissonade, 1831, Anekdota. Anecdota Graeca e codicibus regiis (vol. 3), Paris: 40
Number of verses	4
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, 406: "In Davidem"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.