1. Brock, Sebastian P. (1984). “From Antagonism to Assimilation: Syriac Attitudes to Greek Learning.” In Syriac Perspectives on Late Antiquity. Vol. 5, pp. 17–34, esp. 23–24, 28. London: Variorum Reprints. (For specialized treatment of Severus and his contemporaries.)
2. Gunther, Robert T. (1932). The Astrolabes of the World. Vol. 1, The Eastern Astrolabes. Oxford: University Press, pp. 82–103. (For an English version of Treatise on the Astrolabe, from Nau’s French.)
3. Moosa, Matti (ed. and trans.) (2000). The History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Pueblo, Colorado: Passeggiata Press, pp. 65, 108. (Originally published as I. Aphram Barsoum, Kitāb al-Lu’lu’ al-manthūr fī ta’rīkh al-ҁulūm wa-’ l-ādāb al-Suryāniyya. Hims, Syria, 1943). (Earlier treatments of Severus are now incorporated into this work, which conveniently lists and briefly discusses all of Severus’s works.)
4. Nau, F. N. (1899). “Le traité sur l’astrolabe plan de Sévère Sabokt.” Journal asiatique, 9th ser., 13: 56–101, 238–303. (For the Treatise on the Astrolabe.)
5. — (1910). “La cosmographie au VIIe siècle chez les Syriens.” Revue de l’Orient chrétien 5, no. 18: 225–254. (Assesses Severus’s contributions and surveys the contents of Paris MS Syr. 346, three quarters of which is made up of his works.)