Ephrem, De beatitudine animae

Ephraem the Syrian, De beatitudine animae

(name variants: Ephraim, Effrem, Ephraim Syrus)

CPL 1143, ii
CPG 3935, 2a

Incipit: Beatus qui odio habuerit hunc mundum...

Edition:

Ephrem Syrus, Sermones, ed. Kilianus Fischer (Piscator), Freiburg im Breisgau c. 1491, fol. 12-13v.
Assemani, J. S., Ephraemi Syri opera omnia, Rome 1746, pp. 292C-298B: Greek text with Assemani's own Latin translation.

The work usually appears in a compilation of six sermons beginning with Ephraem's De compunctione cordis. These compilations are listed on the page for this work - click here.

Manuscripts (only those listed in Ganz):

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Theol. fol. 355	s. IX		Northern France, later Werden	connected to Ms. Laon
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale 1831-1833 (932)	s. X	after fol. 1	Rheims	according to Ganz, catalogue on archive.org
Laon, Bibliothèque municipale	s. IX		France	connected to Ms. Berlin
London, British Library Harley 3060	s. X		France
Metz, Bibliothèque municipale 134	s. VIII^ex	no. 1 (Ms. destroyed)	Saint-Arnoul	CLA 788, connected to Ms. St. Omer and Ms. Turin; archive.org
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 3717	s. X		Augsburg	not yet digitized, check
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 6330	s. IX	fol. 6v-11	Alemannia, later Freising	image
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14364	s. IX		Bavaria	not yet digitized, check
Paris, BN lat. 19805	s. IX^med	possibly fragment	Northern France	verify
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 92	s. IX^4/4	pp. 20-31		image
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 93	s. IX^4/4	pp. 88-99		image
St. Omer, Bibliothèque municipale 33bis	s. IXⁱⁿ	no. 4	St. Bertin	connected to Ms. Metz and Ms. Turin; archive.org
Troyes, Bibliothèque municipale 898	s. IX			archive.org
Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale G.V.7	s. IX	fol. 59-	Bobbio	connected to Ms. Metz and St. Omer
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticaba Barb. lat. 671	s. VIII²	within fol. 125v-150v	Italy

Literature:

Ganz, David, ‘Knowledge of Ephraim’s Writings in the Merovingian and Carolingian Age’, in: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Stuides 2:1 (1999), online.
Hemmerdinger-Iliadou, D., 'Éphrem latin', in: Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, vol. 4, Paris 1960, col. 815-819.
Petitmengin, P. 'Notes sur des manuscrits patristiques latins I: Fragments patristiques dans le ms. Strasbourg 3762', in: Revue Augustinienne 17 (1971), pp. 3-12.
Siegmund, Albert, Die Überlieferung der griechischen christlichen Literatur in der lateinischen Kirche bis zum 12. Jahrhundert, Munich 1948 (Abhandlungen der bayerischen Benediktiner-Akademie, vol. 5), pp. 67-71.