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Incipit (Opening Line)
“ܐܡܐ ܕܫܒܥܐ ܢܨ̈ܝܚܝܢ ܐܝܟ ܫܒܬܐ ܕܫܒܥܐ ܝܘܡ̈ܝܢ ܘܡܢܪܬܐ ܕܫܒܥܐ ܫܒ̈ܛܝܢ ܘܚܟܡܐ ܕܫܒܥܐ ܥܡ̈ܘܕܝܢ ܘܪܘܚܐ ܕܫܒܥܐ ܣܘܥܪ̈ܢܝܢ.”
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“La mère des sept illustres saints est comme la semaine de sept jours, comme le lampadaire à sept branches, comme la sagesse aux sept colonnes et comme l’Esprit aux sept actions.”
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Explicit (Closing Line)
“ܒܝܬ ܣܢܐ̈ܝܗܿ ܕܒܬܘܠܘܬܐ ܢܛܪܗܿ ܗ̈ܘܝ ܠܒܬܘܠܘܬܐ ܬܪ̈ܝܢ ܟ̈ܠܝܠܝܢ ܐܥܕܝ ܘܢܦܩ ܕܪܕܘܦܝܐ ܘܒܬܘܠܘܬܐ ܗܠܝܢ ܕܝܢ ܚܕ ܥܠ ܡܚܣܢ.”
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“Parmi les ennemis de la virginité elles ont gardé la virginité; elles ont obtenu et sont sorties avec deux couronnes, celle de la persécution et celle de la virginité; celles-ci avec peine une.”
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Editions
Edmund Beck (ed.), Nachträge zu Ephraem Syrus [Text] vol. 1 , Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 363 (Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1975), : Louvain, 1975, p. 15-19.
(Edition from manuscript witness 1. See below.)
(Edition from manuscript witness 1. See below.)
Thomas Josephus Lamy (ed.), ܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ ܘܡܕܪ̈ܫܐ ܕܛܘܒܢܐ ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܡܠܦܢܐ III (Mechliniae: H. Dessain, Summi Pontificis, S. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide et Archiepiscopatus Mechliniensis, 1889)., vol: 3, : col. 685-695.
(Edition from manuscript witness 3. See below.)
(Edition from manuscript witness 3. See below.)
Robert Lubbock Bensly and W. Emery Barnes, The fourth book of Maccabees and kindred documents in Syriac (Cambridge: University Press, 1895)., : Cambridge, 1895, p. 118-124 (syr.).
(Edition from manuscript witness 2. See below.)
(Edition from manuscript witness 2. See below.)Modern Translations
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1 Syriac Manuscript Witnesses
et (2): ms Londres, British Library, Add. 14592, f. 61v-62v
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mss Londres, British Library, Add. 14592, f. 61v-62v + Add. 14520, f. 43r-v
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The manuscript witnesses for edition 2 are undetermined.
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Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 401.
- 2 W. Witakowski, "Mart(y) Shmuni, the Mother of the Maccabean
Martyrs, in Syriac Tradition." in R. Lavenant (ed.), VI Symposium Syriacum 1992, Orientalia christiana analecta, vol. 247 (Rome, 1994), pp: 153-168.
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- Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
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- This document includes data from Ugo Zanetti, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca (unpublished database). Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- This document includes data from Ugo Zanetti, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca (unpublished database). Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne