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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
Sachau 312; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 83 1,680 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 312

  • f. 1v-41v 'Abdisho', The Book of the pearl; on the faith of Christianity
    • f. 1v Introduction
    • f. 3v-8r Part 1
    • f. 8v-12v Part 2
    • f. 13r-23v Part 3
    • f. 24r-32r Part 4
    • f. 33v-41v Part 5
  • f. 44r-63r Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writings of 'Abdisho'
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00022) 1,682 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 1v Syriac Grammar
  • f. 2r-8v Bar Qardāḥe, Khāmīs, Wine poems
  • f. 9r Liturgical notes
  • f. 9v-17v Elijah of Nisibis, Syriac Grammar (abridged)
  • f. 18r-136v Bar Zō'bī, Yōḥannān, Syriac Grammar
  • f. 137r-144v Bar Zō'bī, Yōḥannān, Brief metrical grammar
  • f. 144v-145r Bar Zō'bī, Yōḥannān, Homily on philosophy, in the meter of Jacob
  • f. 145r-146r Commentary on the previous text
  • f. 146r-146v Metrical treatise on points
  • f. 147r-152r Homily on the divisions of philosophers, in the meter of Ephrem
  • f. 152v-153r Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, On weights and measures
  • f. 153r On fate
  • f. 153r On the kinds of conception
  • f. 153r-153v On one person (ܦܪܨܘܦܐ)
  • f. 153v-155v Calendrical text
  • f. 155v How to determine if a sick person will live or die
  • f. 156r-156v On the months of the Arabs, in the seven-syllable meter
  • f. 157r-158v Shlemon, Bishop of Basra, Calendrical text
  • f. 158v On the years from Adam to the present time
  • f. 158v 'Abdisho' bar Brikā, On the events of Jesus' life, from the Book of the principles of religion
  • f. 159r-162r Bar Qardaḥe, Khāmīs, Homily on the letters of the Alphabet
  • f. 162r Calculating Islamic years
  • f. 163v On barren women
  • f. 164r Cures and spells
  • f. 164v Notes on reckoning years
  • f. 164v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, short poem on a monk
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00473) 1,721 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 1v-20v Gospel Lectionary (Syriac Rite, Eastern) (Syriac)
  • f. 23v-54v Hymns for feasts selected from the Hudra (Syriac)
  • f. 55v-91r Anaphora of the Apostles (Syriac)
  • f. 92r-105r Anaphora of Theodore of Mopsuestia (Syriac)
  • f. 106r-128v Anaphora celebrated five times a year (Syriac)
  • f. 129r-132r Hymns for Dominical feasts (Syriac)
  • f. 132v-182v 'Abdisho' bar Brika, Dismissal hymns for various feasts (Syriac)
  • f. 186r-188r Prayers (Syriac)
  • f. 189r-203v Turgame for feasts and commemorations of the liturgical year (Syriac)
  • f. 204r-209v Hymns for feasts selected from the Hudra (Syriac)
  • f. 210r-212r Rite of veneration (Syriac)
  • f. 212v-223v Epistle to Hebrews (Syriac)
  • f. 224r-225r Gospel of Matthew (Garshuni)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00341) 1,686 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 27

  • f. 2r-71v 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, The Book of the Pearl
  • f. 78v-79r Shlēmōn of Basra, Prayer before meals
  • f. 79v-105v Fables of Aesop
  • f. 109v-161r Gregory bar Hebraeus, Conversation of wisdom
  • f. 161v-168r Summary of Aristotle's Categories in diagrams
  • f. 169r-189v Gregory bar Hebraeus, Book of the pupils of the eye
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00402) 1,700 CE Mongolian, Syriac
  • f. 1v-55r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for the Rogation of the Ninevites and on penitence (Syriac)
  • f. 55r-56v 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Dismissal prayers in Strophes (Syriac)
  • f. 57v-66v 'Onyatha from the life of Rabban Hormizd (Syriac)
  • f. 67r-68v Service for a blessing of the months (Syriac)
  • f. 69r-74v Hymns (Syriac)
  • f. 75r-80v Hymns for New Sunday (Syriac)
  • f. 80v-86v Dismissal Prayers (Syriac)
  • f. 87r-92r Service for a blessing of the months (Syriac)
  • f. 92r-94v Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogitha on economy (Mongolian and Syriac)
  • f. 94v-98v Sogyatha on the Church and on New Sunday (Syriac)
  • f. 99r-109r Midnight service for the fifth Sunday of Lent (Syriac)
  • f. 109r-110v Hymns for the commemoration of saints (Syriac)
  • f. 110v-115v Khamis bar Qardahe, Hymns (Syriac)
  • f. 115v-117v Madrasha (Syriac)
  • f. 117v-124v Madrashe (Syriac)
  • f. 125r-132r Rite of bishop ordination (Syriac)
  • f. 132r-144v Hymns from Ḥudrā (Syriac)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00409) 1,480 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 72

  • f. 1v-91r 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Paradise of Eden
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00410) 1,579 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 74

  • f. 2v-140v 'Abdishō' bar Brīkā, Paradise of Eden
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00415) 1,578 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 33

  • f. 1v-34v 'Abdīshō bar Brīkā, Turgame for feasts and commemorations of the liturgical year
  • f. 34v-40v Turgame for weekdays
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00418) 1,500 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 77

  • 'Abdīshō' bar Brīkā, Paradise of Eden

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