Un fragmento del «Liber de compunctione cordis» de Efrén Sirio (inc. «Sicut adstans quis ante regem»)

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ABSTRACT: The manuscript Vatican Ross. 350 (15th century, 2nd half) transmits a hitherto unidentified text. It corresponds to a passage extracted from Ephraim’s Liber de compunctione cordis, the late-antique translation of the Greek Λόγος ἀσκητικός, partially derived from Syriac sources. The fragment actually dates back at least to the Carolingian period, as shown by the manuscripts Angers, Bibliothèque Municipale, 279 (270) and Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, B. 3. Its study and edition allow offering some general remarks on Ephraim’s Latin and Greek manuscript tradition and the influence of this passage and other related texts during the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.