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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 178 (SMMJ 00178) 1,900 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-22v Homilies
  • fol. 22v-39r Instruction in Christian Doctrine
  • fol. 39r-67r John Chrysostom, Commentary on the Ten Commandments
  • fol. 67r-71r Gregory of Nyssa, Books against Eunomius. Selections
  • fol. 71r-76v John Chrysostom, Against one who does not believe that Christ is God
  • fol. 76v-78v On the Trinity
  • fol. 78v-86r Gregory Nazianzus, Twelve Chapters against heretics
  • fol. 86r-98v Cyril of Alexandria, Twelve Chapters
  • fol. 98v-106v On the bread that becomes the body of Jesus 
  • fol. 106v-110v On the faith of the Armenians and the Jacobite Syrians
  • fol. 110v-118r Michael I, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, Confession of faith
  • fol. 118r-143v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Confession of faith
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 187 (SMMJ 00187) 1,817 CE Garshuni

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 21*

  • fol. 1v-46v Elijah of Nisibis, Dissipation of sorrow. Selections
  • fol. 46v-78v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the dove. Selections
  • fol. 78v-141v, 330r-388v Shem'un II, Chariot of mysteries. Selections
  • fol. 142v-321v Book of chapters. Dialogue between master and disciple
  • fol. 322r-324v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Canon with comments
  • fol. 324v-325r Sixth canon from the Council of Nicea
  • fol. 390v-403v Useful lessons from wise men
  • fol. 403v-414v Pseudo-Athanasius, Questions to Antiochus
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 189 (SMMJ 00189) 1,883 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-273r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Ethicon (Garshuni)
  • fol. 274r-301v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the Dove (Garshuni)
  • fol. 302r-304v Sayings of the wise (Garshuni)
  • fol. 305r-306r Explanation of the nine ranks of priesthood (Syriac)
  • fol. 312r-325r Treatise on celestial bodies (Garshuni)
  • fol. 325v-344r Explanation of the courses of the celestial bodies (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 207 (SMMJ 00207) 1,300 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 7*

  • fol. 1v-115v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Nomocanon
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 208 (SMMJ 00208) 1,391 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 8*

  • fol. 1v-216r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Nomocanon
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 209 (SMMJ 00209) 1,700 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-290v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Nomocanon