Liber de dormitione B. M. Virginis
Standard abbreviation: Assum. Vir.
Other titles: Transitus Mariae
Clavis numbers: ECCA 290; CANT 121; CANT 122
Category: Dormition Accounts
Related literature: Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin
Status: in progress by Tony Burke.
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style): Burke, Tony. “Assumption of the Virgin (Syriac).” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/assumption-of-the-virgin-syriac/.
Posted June 2019.
1. SUMMARY
Named historical figures and characters:
Geographical locations:
2. RESOURCES
2.1 Art and Iconography
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Syriac (BHO 631–632)
London, British Library, Add. 12174, fols. 449r–452r (1197)
London, British Library, Add. 14484, fols. 9v–11r (formerly numbered 7v–9r) (10th/11th cent.)
Wright, William. Contributions to the Apocryphal Literature of the New Testament. London: Williams & Norgate, 1865 (edition of BL 14484, pp. 27–33 [Syriac numbering], and English translation, pp. 18–41; BL 12174, pp. 33–51 [Syriac numbering], English translation, pp. 24–41).
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
Wright, William. Contributions to the Apocryphal Literature of the New Testament. London: Williams & Norgate, 1865 (pp. 18–41).
3.2.2 Italian
Erbetta, Mario. Gli apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento. 3 vols. Italy: Marietti, 1975–1981 (translation of Wright’s text, vol. 1.2, pp. 534–44).
3.3 General Works
Esbroeck, Michel-Jean van. “Les textes litteraires sur l’Assomption avant le Xe siècle.” Pages 265–85 in Les actes apocryphes des apôtres. Edited by François Bovon. Publications de la faculte de theologie de l’Universite de Geneve 4. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1981.
Meshcherskaya, Elena. “Apocryphal Stories in Ancient Syriac Manuscripts” (in Russian). Pages 94–108 in Albo dies notanda lapillo. Edited by V. Yakubsky. Kollegi i ucheniki G. E. Lebedevoy. St. Petersburg, 2005. (reorders the Obsequies fragments)
Meshcherskaya, Elena. “The Seasons of the Year and the Marian Feasts in the Syriac Apocryphon ‘Dormition of Mary’” (in Russian). Pages 168–86 in Bible Studies, Slavonic Studies and Russian Studies in Honour of the 70th Birthday of Professor A. Alekseev. St. Petersburg, 2011.
__________. “Apocrypha about Moses and Mary’s Dormition” (in Russian). Pages 124–38 in Jewish Studies and Bible Studies. Materials of the Second Conference on Jewish and Oriental Studies. Edited by K. Bitner and L. Lukincova. St. Petersburg, 2013.
__________. “Solomon and the the Theotokos. Formation of the Prototype Traditions” (in Russian). Pages 174–86 in Jewish Studies and Bible Studies. Materials of the Second Conference on Jewish and Oriental Studies. Edited by K. Bitner and L. Lukincova. St. Petersburg, 2013.
Mimouni, Simon. Dormition et assumption de Marie: Histoire des traditions anciennnes. Paris: Beauchesne, 1995 (pp. 87–91).
Shoemaker, Stephen J. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (pp. 32–33).