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 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)
Tur Abdin, Turkey, Churches in Enhil (CET 00031) 1,815 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Ethicon
Tur Abdin, Turkey, Churches in Enhil (CET 00032) 1,858 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Book of Master and Disciple
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 1/1 (DIYR 00002) 1,496 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Commentary on the Old Testament (Syriac)
  • Old Testament (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • New Testament (Syriac)
  • Pseudo Clement of Rome, Octateuch (Syriac)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 3/7 (DIYR 00112) 1,716 CE Syriac
  • Gregory Bar Hebraeus, Menarat qudshe (The Book of the Lamp of Holiness)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00130) 1,400 CE Syriac
  • Daniel of Salaḥ, Commentary on the Psalter
  • Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, Treatise on the Psalms
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Commentary on the Beatitudes
  • Nicene Creed
  • John, Bishop of Tella, Commentary on the Trisagion
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on the Trisagion
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Commentary on the Our Father
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on the Nicene Creed
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Nomocanon (selections)
  • Glorifications of our Lady
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Chronological calculations
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 189; 3/23 (DIYR 00134) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Prayers
  • Life of John the Baptist
  • Shem'ūn II, poem
  • Shem'ūn II, poems
  • John of Sbīrīnō, poems
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Poem on wisdom
  • Lamentations
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • Ignatius Marcus bar Qīqī, Homily on himself
  • Poem on the capture of Tur Abdin
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Poems
  • Our Father
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, On the Love of Learning
  • Jacob 'Urdansaya, Homily on the disturbance of the present time
  • Shem'ūn II, Poems

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