tie00045000

Text-inc Id:

tie00045000

Bod-inc Id:

E-012

Headings:

Ephrem Syrus Sermones.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r Traversarius, Ambrosius: [Letter addressed to] Cosimus de Medici. Incipit: ‘[P]eregrinum nuper offendi e Syria ut aiebant . . .’ Explicit: tecum illum relinquo Partially printed in Charles L. Stinger, Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and Christian Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance (Albany, NY, 1977), 282-3.
2. a2v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De penitentia. [All the sermons are translated by Ambrosius Traversarius.] Incipit: ‘[D]ilectissimi, nihil sanctae caritati praeferamus . . .’ Explicit: cum patre sine principio . . .Amen
3. b5r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De iudicio. Incipit: ‘[V]enite, fratres mei omnes, audite consilium peccatoris et minimi . . .’ Explicit: in æternam uitam. Amen
4. c1r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De iudicio et resurrectione. Incipit: ‘[V]enite, omnes fratres mei, audite me pusillum Ephrem mentemque . . .’ Explicit: Christo portauerit. Gloria deo Amen
5. c2v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De vita et exercitatione monastica. Incipit: ‘[D]olor me in uerba compellit et indignitas mea ut taceam . . .’ Explicit: renouauit nos in sæcula sæculorum Amen
6. e5r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Quod non oporteat ridere sed flere ac lugere. Incipit: ‘[I]nitium peruersionis animae monachi risus est atque . . .’
7. e7r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Ad animam negligentem. Incipit: ‘[A]nima, quaeso ne concidas neque affligaris et si multitudine . . .’ Explicit: festina tectum illud quod nos quoque persequimur per gratiam Christi. Amen
8. e8v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De sanctis. Incipit: ‘[C]or meum doleo, compatimini mihi fratres mei . . .’ Explicit: ut faciat consummationem huius uanissimi sæculi. Amen
9. f2r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De armatura monachi. Incipit: ‘[T]alem armaturam sibi debet acquirere qui pro Christo certare . . .’ Explicit: secundum opus suum . . .Amen
10. g2r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De conversione et poenitentia. ‘Libellus . . . de poenitentia'. Incipit: ‘[D]ominus qui de alto patris sinu descendit ad terras . . .’ Explicit: Quoniam tua est gloria in sæcula. Amen
11. g5r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De secundo domini adventu. Incipit: ‘[A]ccedite filii lucis, audite dulcissimam et beatissimam saluatoris . . .’ Explicit: benedictus es tu et gloriosum nomen tuum . . .Amen
12. g7v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Admonitio de timore dei. Incipit: ‘[A]ttende tibiipsi dilectissime, nequando in negligentia et uanitate . . .’ Explicit: peragere irreprehensibilem uitam, cui est honor . . .Amen
13. h1r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De angustia qua praemitur anima. Incipit: ‘[A]nima angustiis praessa accedit ad te, sancte domine . . .’ Explicit: per infinita sæcula sæculorum. Amen
14. h4r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De compunctione. Incipit: ‘[I]ndultor bonorum omnium fonsque sanitatum . . .’ Explicit: fieri merear in sæcula sæculorum. Amen
15. h6v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De passione domini saluatoris. Incipit: ‘[L]oqui timeo et narrationem plenam horroris linguae . . .’ Explicit: per omnia sæcula sæculorum. Amen
16. i1r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Ad eos qui filii naturam scrutari uolunt. Incipit: ‘[R]ex caelestis immortalis dominus filius unigenitus dilectus . . .’ Explicit: excellentissimam p*tantem in sæcula sæculorum. Amen
17. i4v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De Antichristo. Incipit: ‘[Q]uomodo peccator ego plenusque delictis explicare ea potero . . .’ Explicit: gaudio in sæcula sæculorum. Amen
18. k2r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De virginitate. Incipit: ‘[D]e uirginitate et sanctificatione animae, Paulus apostolus . . .’ Explicit: sit gloria in sæcula sæculorum. Amen
19. k4v Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: De laudibus martyrum. Incipit: ‘[I]nsipiens imperitus rudis pictor et horridus pulcherrimam . . .’ Explicit: honor et gloria in sæcula sæculorum. Amen
20. k7r Ephrem Syrus: Sermones: Laudatio sancti Josephi patriarchae. Incipit: ‘[D]eus Abraham deus Isaac deus Jacob . . .’ Explicit: et semper et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen

Imprint:

Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 23 Aug. 1481. Folio.

Collation:

[*²] a–l⁸.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ie00045000 GW 9331; HC *6599; Goff E‑45; BMC VI 636; Pr 6138; BSB‑Ink E‑69; Rhodes 735; Sack, Freiburg, 1359; Sheppard 5100. LCN: 14865509

Copies:

1. E-012(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [*1] and [*2], containing the table. Stamped pagination: 2-175. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf with triple gold fillets forming a border on each cover; the spine gold-tooled; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 288 × 208 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 279 × 194 mm. On a1r a five-line (Italian, Veneto) initial ‘P' inhabited by a winged cherub and on a2v a five-line initial ‘D' inhabited by a winged cherub with a vase, are both supplied in sepia. The historiated initials are in a style related to that of the so-called ‘Master of the Putti' (`Maestro dei Putti'): see Pächt and Alexander II, 111 no. pr. 94; other items in the Bodleian Library decorated in a similar way are: 1. MS. Buchanan e. 15 (Lucius Fenestella, De magistratibus Romanorum. Venice, c.1470-80 [Pächt and Alexander II, 55 no. pr. 558]); 2. Byw. U 4.1 (Georgius Trapezuntius, Commentary on Cicero, Philippics. Venice: Filippo di Pietro, c.1475 (Pr 4263) [Pächt and Alexander II, 111 no. pr. 80]). Other epigraphic initials are supplied in red or blue. Provenance: Coat of arms on a1r: azure, a lion passant proper [or?] on a mount gules. Achille, Count Crispi (†1782); inscription on a1r: ‘Achille Conte Crispi'. Small unidentified armorial stamp on a1r. Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale (1830), lot 1070. Thomas Thorpe's catalogue (1830), no. 5917. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851) for £1. 1. 0: see Books Purchased (1830), 8, and Bills (1829-32), fol. 156. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 4.14. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 3.9.