Homily on the Death and Burial of the Virgin, by Jacob of Serug

Oratio metrica de dormitione B. V. Mariae, auctore Iacobo Sarugensi

Standard abbreviation: Hom. Dorm. Vir.

Other titles: Festal Homily 81, Homily on the Death and Burial of the Virgin

Clavis numbers: ECCA 156; CANT 125; CANT 161

Category: Dormition Accounts

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1. SUMMARY

2. RESOURCES

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY

3.1 Manuscripts and Editions

3.1.1 Armenian

Paris, arm. 117, fols. 156–158 (1307)

3.1.1 Syriac (BHO 676; BHSE 1080)

Aleppo, Église Mar Giwargis, cod. A, cah. 19, fols. 6–8v

Anhel, Église Saint-Cyriaque, cod. 14, cah. 18, fols. 3v–9v

Cambridge Mass., Houghton Library, Syr. 36 (formerly SMH 24, access 3962), fols. 61^v–68^v (16th/17th cent.)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Add. 2001, fols. 152^r–160^r (1481)

Charfet, Syrian-Catholic Patriarchate, Fonds Rahmani 274 = Sony 204

Damas, Patriarcat syrien orthodoxe, cod. 12/16 (olim Jérusalem, Couvent syrien orthodoxe Saint-Marc, cod. 156), fols. 23v–24

Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 48, fols. 76^r–80^r (1906, but based in part on a MS from 1757)

Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 560, fols. 143^r–149^r (1491)

Jerusalem, Monastery of Saint Mark, 201, pp. 210–211

Jerusalem, Monastery of Saint Mark, Syriac 53, fols. 235v–247v (1413) (Syriaca)

London, British Library, Add. 12165, fols. 333v–336r

Mardin, Évêché syrien orthodoxe, cod. 132 (olim ms Dayr az-Za‘faran, cod. pap. 59)

Mardin, Évêché syrien orthodoxe, cod. 135 (olim ms Dayr az-Za‘faran, cod. pap. 62)

Mosul, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese, 4

Oxford, Bodleian Library, syr. 135 (Poc. 404), fols. 280v–282r

Oxford, Bodleian Library, syr. 136 (Hunt. 595), fols. 51r–65v<

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, syr. 196, fols. 417–419

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, syr. 377, fols. 33^v–42^v (1854/1855)

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Sir. 128, fols. 417^r–419^r (1720)

Bedjan, P.  ed. S. Martyrii, qui et Sahdona, quae supersunt omnia. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1902 (edition, pp. 709–19).

Baumstark, Anton.  “Zwei syrische Dichtungen auf das Entschlafen der allerseligsten Jungfrau.” Oriens Christianus 5 (1905): 82–125 (Latin translation, pp. 91–99)

3.2 Modern Translations

3.2.1 English

Shoemaker, Stephen J. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Hansbury, Mary (trans.), and Sebastian Brock (introduction). Jacob of Serug. On the Mother of God. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Press, 1998 (translation based on Bedjan, pp. 89–100).

3.2.2 Italian

Giacomo. Omelie mariologiche di S. Giacomo di Sarug. Rome: Facultas Theologica Pontificii Athenaei Lateranensis, 1953 (pp. 187–94).

3.3 General Works

Shoemaker, Stephen J. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Vona, V. Omilie mariologiche di S. Giacomo di Sarug. Introduction, traduzione dal siriaco e commento. Rome, 1953.