Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

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This table searches all collections of Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts that are freely available online by key terms. Click any of the categorized menu items to narrow down your search. If you would like to sort the manuscripts by shelf-mark or date, or search by general keyword, see our other table here, which includes all the same manuscript data.

*The Approximate Date column is derived from the best available information for the manuscript. This is not asserted as a scholarly position on the dating of the manuscript. Instead, it is merely used here for the convenience of being able to sort all manuscripts by numerical date. The user should keep in mind that there may be considerable debate over the precise dating of the manuscript and should consult the manuscript repository and relevant scholarly literature for details.

Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Near East School of Theology, Book of the Conversation of Wisdom, and other Works 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gregory Barhebraeus, Book of the conversation of Wisdom (Syriac and Garshuni)
  • Two texts in response to "Nestorians"
  • Gregory Barhebraeus, Poems
    • On Divine Love
    • On the Marvelous arrangement of the heavens
    • On Maphrian and Patriarch John Bar Ma'dani
  • Maphrian and Patriarch John Bar Ma'dani, Poems
    • On the soul
    • On the excellent way of the perfect
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
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 43 (ASOM 00043) 1,893 CE Syriac
  • fol. 2v-25v Gregory bar Hebraeus, Book of the pupils of the eyes
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܒܒ̈ܬܐ
  • fol. 26v-58v Gregory bar Hebraeus, Conversation of Wisdom
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܣܘܕ ܣܘܦܝܐ
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 89 (ASOM 00089) 1,889 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1r-65v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Conversation of wisdom
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܣܘܕ ܣܘܦܝܐ
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 231 (SMMJ 00231) 1,881 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 8v-254r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the treatises (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 254v-275v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the pupils of the eye (Syriac)
  • fol. 276r-307r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the conversation of wisdom (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 232 (SMMJ 00232) 1,566 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 1v-155r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the treatise of treatises
  • fol. 155v-172v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the pupils of the eye
  • fol. 172v-196r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the conversation of wisdom