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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 599 1,871 CE Syriac
  • Binding
  • Copyists Note
  • f. 1r-1v Table of contents
  • f. 1v-11r Letter of Mar Aba, Catholicos Patriarch of the East to those in the Episcopal city of Seleucia 
  • f. 11r-19v  Another letter of Mar Abba on the boundary of joining of marriage
  • f. 19v-33v The Letter of Mar Isho'yahb of Gedalaya the Patriarch to Rabban Abraham
  • f. 33v-44r Letter of St. Atticus, Bishop of Constantinople to the priest, Eupesicos
  • f. 44r-50v Letter of Bishop Andrew of Samosata to Rabbula, Bishop of Urhoy [Edessa] 
  • f. 50v-51v Demonstrations from the teachers of the Church
  • f. 51v-54v St. Athanasius, From the Homily against Apollonarius; Against Theopaschites
  • f. 54v-58v A letter translated from Greek to Syriac containing the history of Mar Nestorius
  • f. 58v-63r Excerpted words from the Holy Gregory the Theologian against the heretics, the Theopaschites and those who deny the duality of the natures of the Messiah, our Lord, and our God
  • f. 63r-66r St. John Chrysostom, On the Passion
  • f. 66r-78v Histories of the death of Hormizd, the son of Khosrau and unto the end of the kingdom of the Persians
  • f. 78v-79v The statement of faith the Bishops of Persia brought to king Khosrau
  • f. 80r-80v Two letters of Barsawma of Nisibis to Acacius
  • f. 80v-83v The canons written by Rabban Mar Abraham the Abbot of the brethren of the monastery on the mountain of Izla
  • f. 83v-87r The canons of Rabban Dadisho' about the monaster of 'Ahid
  • f. 87r-97v The canons of the holy school of the city of Nisibis
  • f. 97v-111r The decisions which were made by the blessed of God, Mar Hannanisho' the Catholicos, Patriarch of the East
  • f. 111r-136r The arrangements of ecclesiastical decisions of Mar Timothy I, Catholicos
  • f. 136r-155v The canons and decisions of Mar Isho' bar Nun
  • f.155v-175v The laws and canons of marriage and inheritances of the excellent Mar 'Abdisho', magistrate of Assyria
  • f. 175v-190r Various chapters of the ecclesiastical decisions of the excellent Simon, the magistrate of Revardashir
  • f. 190r-250v The book about the decisions of Mar Isho'bokht, the Metropolitan of Persia  
  • f. 250v-262v Laws and decisions set down by Christian kings
  • f. 262v-294r Canon of the judgments of Constantine, Theodosius, and Leo: another translation outside of the writings above, and also the canons which are beyond these and chapters of oath 
  • f. 294r-305r Secular laws of the Romans of Ambrosius the confessor
  • f. 305v-306r Table of Contents (Syriac)
  • Binding
Vat. sir. 129 1,020 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Apostolic Constitutions
  • 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Collection of synodical canons
  • Synod of Timothy the Patriarch
  • 'Abidsho' bar Brīkā, Collection of synodical canons (part II)
  • Elijah of Nisibis, Letters to the Bishops and faithful Deacons
Vat. sir. 176 1,476 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abisho' bar Brīkā, the Book of the Pearl
  • 'Abisho' bar Brīkā, Catalog of all his Ecclesiastical books
  • Solomon of Baṣra, Collection of works
    • Part 1: On things of the Old Testament
    • Part 2: On the Divine dispensation which is in the New Testament
Vat. sir. 187 1,669 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho' of Nisibis, Interpretation of the 'Onyatha of Simeon of Sancalabar
  • Exposition of the obscure places in the Gospels
  • Exposition on certain places in Genesis and Exodus
  • Etymologies of Syriac words
  • A question of Macarius the Solitary and answer of Joshua bar Nun, Patriarch of the Chaldeans
  • Questions and answers from the Scriptures from Theodore of Mopsuestia
Vat. sir. 303 1,608 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Book of Priests (East Syrian Rite)
    • Order of presbyters (obligations and absolutions found for the presbyter in the office)
    • Liturgy of the blessed apostles
    • Liturgy of Theodore of Mopsuestia
    • Liturgy of Nestorius
    • Order of Baptism (composed by Isho'yahb of Adiabene)
    • Order of the consecration of waters
    • Order of the renewal of the dough
    • Absolutions at the end of the mass recited at the door of the chancel (by 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā)
    • Sanctifying polluted water
    • Order of indulgences or absolutions, composed by Isho'yahb Catholicos
    • Prayers for Dominical feasts
    • Prayers for the dedication of a church by Abul-Azar
    • Absolution at the end of the Mass
    • Other absolutions at the door of the chancel, by Mar Gabriel
    • History of martyrs
Vat. sir. 379 1,539 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Paradise of Eden
Vat. sir. 419 pt. 1 1,572 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho', Catholicos of the East, Tractatate on the words of Scripture being as one thing, but signifying another
  • Explanation of difficult words in alphabetical order
  • Abraham of Nathpar, Ascetic sermons
  • Exposition of other words of Scripture meaning something but symbolizing another
Vat. sir. 419 pt. 2 1,572 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho', Catholicos of the East, Tractatate on the words of Scripture being as one thing, but signifying another
  • Explanation of difficult words in alphabetical order
  • Abraham of Nathpar, Ascetic sermons
  • Exposition of other words of Scripture meaning something but symbolizing another
Vat. sir. 520 Unknown Syriac
  • Fenqīthō (Syriac Rite, Western)
Vat. sir. 644 Unknown Syriac
  • 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Paradise of Eden [Uncatalogued]