You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a Florentine humanistic manuscript of Bede's De Tabernaculo. It dates to the XV Century, but I don't know if it belongs to the first or the second part of the Century. Our passage is at f.231v and has "amianthon".
About "Sermo de fine extremo," if I understand correctly, the Latin translation was written by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., who published it You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. There is a footnote about Alexander's gates; it mentions Pliny VI,II (whose relevance is not clear to me), a "Syro-Armenian chronicle of Michel the Patriarch" and a poem ("carmen") by Jacob of Serugh. It seems that, according to Syriac sources, the gates were made of bronze and iron ("aere et ferro").
Since the passage from the sermon is enjoyable, and Lamy's Latin accessible, here is my rough translation (I have not made much efforts to properly translate the long list of peoples and leaders).
5. Then divine justice calls very powerful kings and armies, which are beyond those gates that were made by Alexander; and many kings and peoples gather on the other side of those gates, and they look at the sky invoking the name of God. God agrees, from his glorious sky: the divine voice sounds in those gates and, by God's command, suddenly those gates fall and are destroyed and innumerable armies, as many as the stars in the sky, even more than the stars in the sky, innumerable as the sand of the sea, come out. The upper lintel is consumed by the measure of a span, and the lower lintel also by a span, by a multitude of spear points that lacerate as they come out; from there many kings and armies exit in trepidation; all peoples and languages exit through those gates: Agog and Magog, and Naval and Agag, very powerful kings and armies, Thorgama, Ascenez and Daiphar and Phutans with Libyans, Amzartans, and Garmidul, Taleb as the leader of Sanurtans, Azmurtans, Chusans, Huns and Pharzans [Farsis?], Declans Thubalans, and Moschans [Muscovites?] with Chusans, who are joined by Medes and Persians and Armenians and Turks and Nemruchans and Chaeon son of a Muschan, and Jactin son of a Sarugan, and Mahunans; many armies and peoples, without number, come out and invade the lands; the foundations of the world are shaken, dust rises as smoke from the earth, it hides the sun high above and covers earth as black clouds, as announced by Ezekiel, son of Buzi, in his prophecy.
6. Also, as the Huns come out to war and battle, they take pregnant women and gather fire upon them, and putting them to fire they chant incantations above them and so they cook the foetus in their womb; cutting the womb, they extract the foetus; the extracted foetuses are put in trays and they pour water upon them, and they divide their limbs in enchanted water; they take their swords, bows and spears and arrows and they dip their weapons in that water. All tools that are touched by the enchanted water make it seem that, when one of them falls in the battle where he was fighting, he had with him a multitude of six thousands. Everyone who extends his hand at the same time draws a knife. They eat the flesh of children and drink the blood of women. Wearing leather armour, and as carried by the wind and the storm, they conquer cities in the wink of an eye, bring their walls to the ground, destroy fortified citadels; they move fast and kill very strong men. When they run, they are faster than the wind and the storm. Whenever in a region there is a rumour that the Huns are coming, they seem to appear everywhere in the whole world, because they are enchanters; their chariots fly as the wind between the sky and the earth; their swords and spears strike as terribly as lightning; they command two or three horses holding the reins in their hands; each of them leads five or six hundred of men who precede or follow as fast as the wind and the storm; their noise is the roaring of lions; indeed the formidable Huns terrify the whole world, which they entirely cover, as the waters at the times of Noah. They reach to the end of world, and nobody can stand before them.
7. This is that numerous people about which Ezekiel said that they cover the earth like clouds (xxxviii,16).
About "Sermo de fine extremo," if I understand correctly, the Latin translation was written by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., who published it You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. There is a footnote about Alexander's gates; it mentions Pliny VI,II (whose relevance is not clear to me), a "Syro-Armenian chronicle of Michel the Patriarch" and a poem ("carmen") by Jacob of Serugh. It seems that, according to Syriac sources, the gates were made of bronze and iron ("aere et ferro").
Since the passage from the sermon is enjoyable, and Lamy's Latin accessible, here is my rough translation (I have not made much efforts to properly translate the long list of peoples and leaders).
5. Then divine justice calls very powerful kings and armies, which are beyond those gates that were made by Alexander; and many kings and peoples gather on the other side of those gates, and they look at the sky invoking the name of God. God agrees, from his glorious sky: the divine voice sounds in those gates and, by God's command, suddenly those gates fall and are destroyed and innumerable armies, as many as the stars in the sky, even more than the stars in the sky, innumerable as the sand of the sea, come out. The upper lintel is consumed by the measure of a span, and the lower lintel also by a span, by a multitude of spear points that lacerate as they come out; from there many kings and armies exit in trepidation; all peoples and languages exit through those gates: Agog and Magog, and Naval and Agag, very powerful kings and armies, Thorgama, Ascenez and Daiphar and Phutans with Libyans, Amzartans, and Garmidul, Taleb as the leader of Sanurtans, Azmurtans, Chusans, Huns and Pharzans [Farsis?], Declans Thubalans, and Moschans [Muscovites?] with Chusans, who are joined by Medes and Persians and Armenians and Turks and Nemruchans and Chaeon son of a Muschan, and Jactin son of a Sarugan, and Mahunans; many armies and peoples, without number, come out and invade the lands; the foundations of the world are shaken, dust rises as smoke from the earth, it hides the sun high above and covers earth as black clouds, as announced by Ezekiel, son of Buzi, in his prophecy.
6. Also, as the Huns come out to war and battle, they take pregnant women and gather fire upon them, and putting them to fire they chant incantations above them and so they cook the foetus in their womb; cutting the womb, they extract the foetus; the extracted foetuses are put in trays and they pour water upon them, and they divide their limbs in enchanted water; they take their swords, bows and spears and arrows and they dip their weapons in that water. All tools that are touched by the enchanted water make it seem that, when one of them falls in the battle where he was fighting, he had with him a multitude of six thousands. Everyone who extends his hand at the same time draws a knife. They eat the flesh of children and drink the blood of women. Wearing leather armour, and as carried by the wind and the storm, they conquer cities in the wink of an eye, bring their walls to the ground, destroy fortified citadels; they move fast and kill very strong men. When they run, they are faster than the wind and the storm. Whenever in a region there is a rumour that the Huns are coming, they seem to appear everywhere in the whole world, because they are enchanters; their chariots fly as the wind between the sky and the earth; their swords and spears strike as terribly as lightning; they command two or three horses holding the reins in their hands; each of them leads five or six hundred of men who precede or follow as fast as the wind and the storm; their noise is the roaring of lions; indeed the formidable Huns terrify the whole world, which they entirely cover, as the waters at the times of Noah. They reach to the end of world, and nobody can stand before them.
7. This is that numerous people about which Ezekiel said that they cover the earth like clouds (xxxviii,16).
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