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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00377) 1,706 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 33

  • f. 5v-157r Gregory Bar Hebraeus, the Cream of Wisdom, part 2

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 6 1,612 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 178; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus ['Ebroyo], the Cream of Wisdom (ܟܬܒܐ ܕܚܘܬ ܚܟܡܬܐ) – Third Book

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 8 1,612 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 178; [Bibliographic Record] [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus ['Ebroyo], the Cream of Wisdom (ܟܬܒܐ ܕܚܘܬ ܚܟܡܬܐ) – Fourth Book

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 10 1,612 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 177; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus ['Ebroyo], the Cream of Wisdom (ܟܬܒܐ ܕܚܘܬ ܚܟܡܬܐ) – Fourth Book [Part 2]

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 37 1,612 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 176; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus, The Cream of Wisdom
    • f. 4-32r Isagoge
    • f. 32r-57v Categories
    • f. 57v-108v Peri Hermeneias
    • f. 109r-179v first book of Analytics

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 69 1,340 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 186; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus, The Cream of Wisdom
    • Isagoge
    • Categories
    • Perihermenias
    • Analytics, Book 1
    • Analytics, Book 2
    • Dialectics
    • The Sophstical book
    • Book of Rhetoric
    • book of Poetics

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 83 1,340 CE Syriac

See Assemani 187; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • On physical hearing
  • On heaven and the earth
  • On meteors
  • On generation and corruption
  • On fossils
  • On plants
  • On animals
  • On the soul

Tw tracts on metaphysics

  • Tract 1
    • On the origin and authors of philosophy
    • On theology or metaphysics
  • Tract 2
    • On Ethnicities
    • On Economics
    • On politics

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 58; 3/16 (DIYR 00190) 1,910 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, the Cream of Wisdom [Selections]
  • List of the Syriac and Arabic works of Bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Account of the death of bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Account of the death of bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, Homily
  • List of the Patriarchs of Antioch
  • John bar Ma'dani, praises and prayers
  • John bar Ma'dani, Hymns for the Lord's feast
  • Book of guidance about the ranks of deacons
  • Collection of services
  • Jacob of Edessa, List of feasts
  • John bar Ma'dani, On our God who became man on behalf of us
  • John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the seizure of Edessa
  • Daniel ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Book on the foundations of religion
  • World is a bodily behavior
  • Homily on Mar Matthew from the mountain Alfaf
  • Canon on how it is necessary to perform church prayer
  • Morning Gospel reading for Children
  • On the Assumption of our Lady Mary and how the Apostles gathered on the day of her death
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, For Priests
  • Jacob of Sarug, Commentary on Deuteronomy. Selections
  • Philoxenus of Mabbug, on the Prophets
  • Jacob of Sarug, From the homily on the love of God
  • Jacob of Sarug, From the Holy Mar Jacob
  • From the Works of the Holy Fathers
  • Daniel of Salaḥ, Commentary on Psalm 8
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On performing the sign of the cross with one finger
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the Trisagion
  • Timothy Isaac, Selections from the Holy Fathers against the Chalcedonians

Vat. sir. 526 Unknown Syriac
  •  Bar 'Ebroyo, The Cream of Wisdom

Vat. sir. 618 Unknown Syriac
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, the Cream of Wisdom