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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 211 (SMMJ 00211) 1,503 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 3-9; SMC 3-9). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 36*. Macler 16.

  • f. 1r-402v Gregorius Abū al-Faraj Barhebraeus, Secular and Ecclesiastical Chronicles (Syriac)
    • f. 1rv Introduction
    • f. 1v-241r First part of the Chronography
    • f. 242r-250v Addition to the secular history covering 1393-1492
    • f. 251r-390r The Ecclesiastical Chronicle
    • f. 390r-393v Continuation of the history by the author's brother, Barsawma
    • f. 393v-402v A continuation of the history by an anonymous writer to 1495/6
  • fol. 403r-v On the life of Gregory bar 'Ebroyo (Garshuni)

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 170 (SMMJ 00170) 1,596 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Includes texts by Isaac of Nineveh, Ephrem of Nisibis, Basil of Caesarea, John Chrysostom, Jacob of Serugh, Athanasius of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, Cyril of Alexandria, Epiphanius of Constantia, and Bar Hebraeus. Narratives in the collection include story of a penitent demon and some monks, fol. 189v-192r; story of the merchant and his wife, fol. 235v-236v

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 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 242 (SMMJ 00242) 1,860 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Theological Miscellany
    • Includes interpretations of Hebrew names in the Old Testament, fol. 1r-3r; interpretations of Greek words, fol. 3r-4v; unidentified grammatical texts, fol. 17v-19v; selections from Bar Hebraeus’ Lamp of the sanctuary, fol. 20r-24v; theological texts by John Maron, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom.

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)