8vo. pages 134-198., publisher’s original wrappers, faded with small stain at lower margin, pencil annotation verso title page, copy in very good condition otherwise, extract from the Analecta Bollandiana, Tomus LXVI, Societe des Bollandistes, Brussels, 1948.

Synopsis

Jacob of Sarug (c. 451 – 521 AD), also called Mar Jacob, was one of the foremost Syriac poet-theologians among the Syriac, perhaps only second in stature to Ephrem the Syrian and equal to Narsai. Where his predecessor Ephrem is known as the ‘Harp of the Spirit’, Jacob is the ‘Flute of the Spirit’. He is best known for his prodigious corpus of more than seven-hundred verse homilies, of which only 225 have thus far been edited and published.