Bod-Inc: E-013
Ephrem Syrus
Sermones.
Analysis of Content
a1r Traversarius, Ambrosius: [Letter addressed to] Cosimus de Medici. Incipit: ‘[P]eregrinum nuper offendi e Syria ut aiebant . . .’ See E‑012.
a2r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De penitentia. [All the sermons are translated by Ambrosius Traversarius.] Incipit: ‘[D]ilectissimi, nihil sanctae caritati praeferamus . . .’
b2v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De iudicio. Incipit: ‘[V]enite fratres mei, omnes audite consilium peccatoris et minimi . . .’
b6r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De iudicio et resurrectione. Incipit: ‘[V]enite omnes fratres mei, audite me pusillum Ephrem mentemque . . .’
b7r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De vita et exercitatione monastica. Incipit: ‘[D]olor me in uerba compellit et indignitas mea ut taceam . . .’
d2v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones. Incipit: ‘[V]enite dilectissimi mei, uenite patres ac fratres mei . . .’ expl. as above: these 2 sermons as 1 in this ed.
d5r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Quod non oporteat ridere sed flere ac lugere. Incipit: ‘[I]nitium peruersionis animae monachi risus est atque . . .’
d7r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Ad animam negligentem. Incipit: ‘[A]nima quaeso ne concidas neque affligaris et si multitudine . . .’
d8r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De sanctis. Incipit: ‘[C]or meum doleo, compatimini mihi fratres mei . . .’
e1v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De armatura monachi. Incipit: ‘[T]alem armaturam sibi debet acquirere qui pro Christo certare . . .’
e7v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De conversione et poenitentia. ‘Libellus . . . de poenitentia'. Incipit: ‘[D]ominus qui de alto patris sinu descendit ad terras . . .’
f2r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De secundo domini adventu. Incipit: ‘[A]ccedite filii lucis, audite dulcissimam et beatissimam saluatoris . . .’
f4r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Admonitio de timore dei. Incipit: ‘[A]ttende tibiipsi dilectissime, nequando in negligentia et uanitate . . .’
f5r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De angustia qua praemitur anima. Incipit: ‘[A]nima angustiis praessa accedit ad te, sancte domine . . .’
f7v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De compunctione. Incipit: ‘[I]ndultor bonorum omnium fonsque sanitatum . . .’
g1v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De passione domini saluatoris. Incipit: ‘[L]oqui timeo et narrationem plenam horroris linguae . . .’
g3v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Ad eos qui filii naturam scrutari uolunt. Incipit: ‘[R]ex caelestis immortalis dominus filius unigenitus dilectus . . .’
g6v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De antichristo. Incipit: ‘[Q]uomodo peccator ego plenusque delictis explicare ea potero . . .’
h3r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De virginitate. Incipit: ‘[D]e uirginitate et sanctificatione animae, Paulus apostolus . . .’
h5r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De laudibus martyrum. Incipit: ‘[I]nsipiens imperitus rudis pictor et horridus pulcherrimam . . .’
h7v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Laudatio sancti Josephi patriarchae. Incipit: ‘[D]eus Abraham deus Isaac deus Jacob . . .’
i6v [Colophon.]
i7v ‘Tabula super sermones Ephrem'.
Imprint
Imprint: Brescia: Baptista Farfengus, 15 Nov. 1490. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–i8.
References
ISTC: ie00046000
GW: GW 9332;
Hain: HCR 6600 = HC 6596;
Goff: Goff E‑46;
BMC: BMC VII 985;
Proctor: Pr 7014;
Others: Oates 2632; Sheppard 5803; Veneziani, Brescia, 167.
LCN: 14865572
Copies
Copy number: E-013(1)
Wanting the blank leaf i8.
Binding: Parchment; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 193 × 141 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 188 × 132 mm.
Some marginal notes, mainly extracting key passages; mostly faded, possibly washed, and ‘nota' marks.
Provenance: Purchased for ‘fl. 4' from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Catalogue 3 (1885), no. 43; see Library Bills (1885), no. 210.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.45.
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