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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00382) 1,800 CE Syriac

​See Scher's note on Mardin 61

  • f. 4v-125r Gregory bar Hebraeus, Tractatus tractatuum: Tegrat tegratha
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00383) 1,638 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 32

  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Cream of Wisdom, part 1
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00398) 1,583 CE Arabic, Latin, Persian, Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 95

  • f. 1v-5v Homily for the blessed brethren (Syriac)
  • f. 5v-13v Homily on Repentance (Syriac)
  • f. 15v Story about a monk from Najran (Arabic)
  • f. 16v-53r Gregory bar Hebraeus, On Perfection with additions and commentaries by Khamis bar Qardahe and Īsho'yahb bar Mqaddam (Syriac)
  • f. 53v-55v Ode on the soul, with commentary by Khamis bar Qardahe (Syriac)
  • f. 56r-75r Khamis bar Qardahe, Homilies (Syriac)
  • f. 76v-77r Isho'yahb bar Malkon, Book of Instruction (Syriac) 
  • f. 78v-144v Homily on Rabban Hormizd (Syriac)
  • f. 147v-160v 'Onitha: Pearl of Knowledge (Syriac)
  • f. 172v-182v 'Onitha for the commemoration of Yuliṭa and her son (Syriac)
  • f. 183v-197v 'Abdishō' of Gazarta, Homily on the homonyms (Syriac)
  • f. 198r-203v Riddles (Syriac)
  • f. 204r-204v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Turgama of Cyriacus (Syriac)
  • f. 205r-208v Homily of Rogation (Syriac)
  • f. 208v-212v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Dismissal prayers in strophes  (Syriac)
  • f. 212v-216v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
  • f. 216v-217v Homily about bad time (Syriac)
  • f. 218r-222r Ephrem Syrus, Sermon on Reprehension V (Syriac)
  • f. 223r-227r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the mysteries of our Lord in the Old Testament (Syriac)
  • f. 227v-232v Credo of the true Orthodox (Syriac)
  • f. 232v-233v Credo of Isho'panaḥ, who was accused of drinking the poison of paganism (Syriac)
  • f. 234v-243r Excerprs from various canonical texts on the election of a patriarch and his rights (Syriac)
  • f. 243v-245r Khamis bar Qardahe, Brief note on heresies and on the pagan gods that were abolished through the coming of Christ (Latin, Persian, Syriac)
  • f. 245v-246v Homily that awakens and exhorts and incites penitents (Syriac)
  • f. 247r-248r Homily about a Syrian Orthodox Patriarch (Syriac)
  • f. 248r-256r 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
  • f. 256r-258r Riddles (Syriac)
  • f. 258r-266v Poems (Syriac)
  • f. 267r-274v Disputation between a monk of Bet Ḥale and an Arab notable (Syriac)
  • f. 274v-277v On the Trinity (in questions and answers) and other liturgical matters (Syriac)
  • f. 278r-280r Names of the prophets (Syriac)
  • f. 280r-281r On the cities of pagan kingdoms (Syriac)
  • f. 281v-299r Isho'dad of Merv, Excerpts from the Commentary on the New Testament (Syriac)
  • f. 299r-310v Questions on the Pentateuch (Syriac)
  • f. 310v-312v On the barbarious nations that do not know writing and god (Syriac)
  • f. 313r-334v Computus and other astronomical and historical reckonings (Syriac)
  • f. 335v-344v Rite of reception of an ordained bishop
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

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