Isaac Of Nineveh Ascetical Homilies online

Roger Pearse, translator singularis, has uploaded the 1923 version of Isaac Of Nineveh's Mystic Treatises (aka the Ascetical Homilies) translated by Arent Jan Wensinck. This first series of treatises was very translated from Syriac into Greek and several other languages. (A second series of mystical treatises in Syriac was recently discovered and translated by Sebastian Brock). Patrik Hagman's forthcoming book on Isaac mentions the Wensinck translation:

The First Part has been translated several times into many languages. A large number of these translations are based on the Greek text. The only complete translations of the Syriac text into modern languages are Wensinck's English translation from 1923, and Serafim Seppälä's translation into Finnish from 2005. Wensinck's translation is far from satisfactory, and the student of Isaac's text can profitably consult the partial translations made by Hansbury and Brock. Finally, the translation by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, although mostly done from the Greek translation, includes translations from Syriac of those parts of the First Part that are not included in the Greek text.

The downloadable file (PDF, 16 MB) can be found on Archive.org:

http://www.archive.org/details/IsaacOfNinevehMysticTreatises

Or open/download directly from this link:

http://www.archive.org/download/IsaacOfNinevehMysticTreatises/isaac_of_nineveh_mystical_treatises.pdf

To find out more about Roger Pearse, who has done a lot to bring ancient Christian texts to the internet for us regular folks, see his blog here:

http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/