Ephrem the syrian saint (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 7.25x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. pp. xxx + 393.

Zustand: Good. . Limited edition. Copy #30/2000. (Syriac Hymns).

First collected and first complete edition, 6 volumes, large folio (38.4 cm), tomus primus: Graece et Latine: pp. [4], ix-xx, xx, cciii, [1], 350, [2]; tomus secundus, Graece et Latine: pp. [4], vii-xi, [1], lxiv, 453, [1], 52; tomus tertius, Graece et Latine, pp. [6], lxiv, 834, [2]; tomus primus: Graece et Latine: pp. tomus primus: Syriace et Latine: pp. [22], 467, [1]; tomus secundus: Syriace et Latine, pp. [5], viii-xxviii, 560; tomus tertius: Syriace et Latine: pp. [5], viii-xv, [1], lxiv, 687, [1]; double column text in Greek, Syriac and Latin, engraved frontispiece portrait of St. Ephrem engraved by Io. Baptista Sintes at beginning of each volume, engraved initials and headpieces, woodcut ornaments; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spines in 7 compartments, red and black morocco labels in 2; slight wear, joints with small cracks, but on the whole this is a very nice copy, sound bindings, and the text crisp and clean. The works of Ephrem the Syrian (306-373), one of the earliest and most important theologians and writers in the Syriac language, edited by Giuseppe Simone Assemani. "The original Syriac texts remained unknown in Europe until the Eastern expeditions of Giuseppe Simone Assemani (1687-1768), a librarian, orientalist, and Lebanese-born Catholic archbishop who became an Italian citizen. These journeys culminated in the discovery of a precious collection of manuscripts at the Monastery of Our Lady in Nitria (Egypt), which subsequently found their home in the Vatican Library. Assemani immediately proposed to Pope Clement XII a complete edition of Ephrem's works in the original Syriac and Greek versions, accompanied by a new Latin translation of the entire corpus" (Pandolfini). …