“Lines to the divine David”, a ten-line epigram appended to the first printed Romanian Bible (1688), have engaged the attention of Romanian scholars since the early 1960s. Initially the poem was believed to be an original composition of Radu Greceanu, one of the revisers of that edition; recent scholarship, however, traces it to a period from before the appearance of the Frankfurt Septuagint in 1597. The present study shows that this poem is a translation of certain Greek verses commonly ascribed to the 10th-century Ioannes Geometres, which were appended to numerous manuscripts of the Psalter as well as to printed editions of the Psalter and the complete Greek Bible.
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Bucharest Bible, David, Orpheus, Psalter, Lines to the divine David
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