Liber superiorum
Subtitle: seu Historia monastica auctore Thoma, episcopo margensi ; liber fundatorum monasteriorum in regno Persarum et Arabum ; homiliæ Mar-Narsetis in Joseph
By: documenta patrum de quibusdam veræ fidei dogmatibus ; edidit Paulus Bedjan
Contributors: Īshō'-Denah, bp. of Basṛā, active 790; Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373; Leo I, Pope, -461; Sāhdōnā, bp. of Māhọ̄ē dh' Arēwān in Beth Gamdi; Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, active 428; Thomas, bp. of Marga, active 850; Narsai, approximately 413-503
Publisher: Lipsiæ, O. Harrassowitz
Published: 1901
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 711
Subjects: Collections; Syriac literature; Theology
Notes: Added title in Syriac.

Preface in French, text in Syriac within red borders. Headings in red.

The "Liber fundatorum monasteriorum," ascribed in Īshō'-Denah, bishop of Basṛā, and edited from a manuscript in Mozul, is quoted as "Liber de castitate" by Assemani, Bibl. orient. III, I, p. 196, and edited, with a French translation, by J.B. Chabot under title "Le livre de la chasteté" in Mél. d'archéol., année 16, pub. par l'École franç. de Rome, 1896.

Part IV, under the collective title "Documenta patrum de quibusdam veræ fidei dogmatibus," comprises (1) A Syriac translation, by the editor, of the "epistola dogmatica" addresses by Pope Leo I to St. Flavian, of Constantinople; also a reproduction of the Syriac manuscript K VI, vol. 4, 17°, p. 201-216 of the Propaganda (translation of the Greek version of Leo's letter) (2) Extracts, in Syriac, from Nestorius' Liber Heraclidis. (3) A treatise, in Syriac by Martyrius Sahdona, on the orthodox faith. (4) A portion of manuscript 69, (Sachau 72) Syriac collection, Royal library, Berlin, containing the testament of Ephrem Syrus.