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
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 297 1,357 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 61; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Book of Directions, (or the summary of Ecclesiastical canons)

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 298 1,488 CE Syriac

See Assemani 62; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Syriac Sermons
    • St. Ephrem Syrus
    • St. Isaac
    • John Chrysostom
    • Ignatius of Antioch
    • Gregory Thaumatugos
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
    • Severus of Antioch
    • Rabbula of Edessa
    • St. John
    • Jacob of Edessa
    • John bar Ma'dani
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Physical Tractate
    • On planets
    • On air
    • On 4-footed animals
    • On birds
    • On fish
    • On earth
    • On minerals
    • On hot water
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Grammar

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 342 1,396 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry in Assemani 200; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Philosophical works

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 366 1,579 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 118; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle
  • Bar Hebraeus, Syriac Chronicle

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 437 Unknown Syriac

See entry for Assemani 44; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Rite of Baptism (Syrian Orthodox)
  • Shorter Baptismal rite of Philoxenus of Mabbug

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00419) 1,395 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 91

  • f. 2r-34r Gregory bar Hebraeus, On perfection. With commentary by Khamis bar Qardahe
  • f. 34r-67v Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onitha on Sabrisho' of Beth Qoqa
  • f. 67v-73v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onitha on Isho'sabran
  • f. 73v-79r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onitha on the Feast of the Cross
  • f. 79r-136v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for the Rogation of the Ninevites and other subjects
  • f. 136v-171v Khamis bar Qardahe, Homilies on feasts of the liturgical year and other subjects
  • f. 171v-240r Khamis bar Qardahe, Colleciton of epigrams, verses, homilies and sogyatha
  • f. 240r-269v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha and sogyatha for feasts of the liturgical year and other subjects
  • f. 270r-271r Poems
  • f. 272v-282r Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogyatha and 'onyatha

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00431) 1,700 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 92

  • f. 6v-7v Gregory bar Hebraeus, De Perfectione with additions by Khamis bar Qardahe and Isho'yahb bar Meqaddam
  • f. 8r-85v Joseph II, Patriarch of the Chaldeans, Supplement to the De perfectione of Bar 'Ebrōyō
  • f. 86v-103r Joseph II, Homily on spiritual exile

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00463) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • f. 2v-80v Gregory bar Hebraeus, Book of Splendors

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00484) 1,600 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-76v Gregory Bar Hebraeus, De Perfectione

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00495) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-41r Gregroy bar Hebraeus, Book of the Dove
  • f. 41v-42v Gregory bar Hebraeus, Book of the Youthfulness of the Mind (Liber de pueritia mentis)

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