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. 61v–68v (16th/17th cent.)
Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Add. 2001, fols. 152r–160r (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. 76r–80r (1906, but based in part on a MS from 1757)
Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 560, fols. 143r–149r (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. 33v–42v (1854/1855)
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Sir. 128, fols. 417r–419r (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
Vona, Costantino. Omilie mariologiche di S. Giacomo di Sarug. Introduction, traduzione dal siriaco e commento. Lateranum 19. Rome: Facultas Theologica Pontificii Athenaei Lateranensis, 1953 (pp. 187–94).
3.3 General Works
3.3.1 Dormition Narratives
Esbroeck, Michel 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.
McNamara, Martin. “Transitus Mariae: General Introduction.” Pages 225–44 in Apocrypha Hiberniae II. Apocalyptica 2. Edited by Martin McNamara et al. CCSA 21. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
Mimouni, Simon. Dormition et assumption de Marie: Histoire des traditions anciennnes. Paris: Beauchesne, 1995.
__________. Les traditions anciennes sur la Dormition et l’Assomption de Marie: Études littéraires, historiques et doctrinales. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 104. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
Shoemaker, Stephen J. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
__________. Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Wenger, Antoine. L’Assomption de la T.S. Vierge dans la tradition byzantine du VIe au Xe siècle. Études et documents. Archives de l’Orient chrétien 5. Paris: Institut français d’études byzantines, 1955.
Shoemaker, Stephen J. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
3.3.2 Homily on the Death and Burial of the Virgin, by Jacob of Serug