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 20 (SMMJ 00020) 1,500 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-210v Psalter
    • fol. 187v-201r Homilies by Severus of Antioch, Ephrem of Nisibis, Philoxenus of Mabbug, and Bar Hebraeus on fol. 187v-201r
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 151 (SMMJ 00151) 1,855 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-128r Priest's guide
  • fol. 132v Cream of Wisdom. Selections
  • fol. 133r-161r Calendrical text
  • fol. 163v-164r On discernment: A brief physiognomic text
  • fol. 164v-165r Two texts on illness
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 196 (SMMJ 00196) 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 3v-34r Apocalypes of Paul (Syriac)
  • fol. 34r-56v Questions to the holy elders (Syriac)
  • fol. 56v-60r Letter on solitaries (Syriac)
  • fol. 60r-66v Proclamations before the Gospel (Syriac)
  • fol. 66v- 166v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the Dove (Garshuni, Syriac)
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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 281b (SMMJ 00281b) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 5v-202v Psalter (Syriac)
  • fol. 203r-204r Names of the seventy-two translators of the Septuagint (Syriac)
  • fol. 204r-209r Conclusion to the Psalter (Syriac)
  • fol. 201r-212v Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, Ethicon. Selections (Garshuni)