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
Harvard MS Syr 37 1,554 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Book of Splendors

Borg. sir. 57 1,686 CE Syriac

Catalog entry here

  • Episcopal Ceremonies according to the West-Syrian Rite
    • Consecration of the oils
    • Consecration of the church
    • Renewal of a church
    • Consecration of the altar
    • Various prayers for the laying on of hands
    • Rite of the laying on of hands upon the Psalter-readers and lectors, sub-deacons, deacons, priests, archdeacons, Chorbishops, patriarchs, metropolitans and Bishops
    • Three rites of baptism
    • Order of the taking up of the monastic habit
    • Homily (Turgama) of Moses bar Kepha
    • Order of the taking up of the monastic habit for women
    • Benediction over the waters for the day of Epiphany
    • Benediction of the palms
    • Various rites to do during holy week, the week of Easter and the Sunday of Pentecost
    • Prayers to recite over the apostate
    • Benediction over sacred linens, on images, on statues, etc.
    • Rite of baptism by Bar 'Ebroyo
    • Rite of extreme unction
    • Funeral rites

Borg. sir. 118 1,654 CE Syriac

See catalog entry here

  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Ethicon
  • The Testament of our Lord given to His disciples and written by Clement of Rome in 8 books

Vat. sir. 36 1,597 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry from Assemani

  • f. 1-34 Missal (Jacobite Rite)
    • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
    • Anaphora of Peter the Apostle
    • Anaphora of St. Eustathius
    • Anaphora of St. John (bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis)
    • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
  • Porphyry, Isagoge
  • The way of finding East
  • Bishop Moses, excerpts from Yaḥya ibn 'Adī
    • Against those who affirm that Christ was not truly crucified
    • Against those who maintain the Christian Gospel has been corrupted
    • The world was not from eternity
  • Bishop Moses, Excerpt from an Arabic grammar
  • Jacob of Sarug, a philosophical poem: On being, substance, and accidents
  • Baptismal Rite
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Syriac Grammar
  • Bishop Moses, Syriac-Arabic Lexicon
  • Catalog of the works of Bar 'Ebroyo

Vat. sir. 164 1,702 CE Syriac

Catalog in Assemani

  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicon Syriacum

Vat. sir. 166 pt. 1 1,496 CE Syriac

​Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Part 1: Bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicon Syriacum
  • Part 2: Bar 'Ebroyo, Ecclesiastical Chronicle

Vat. sir. 166 pt. 2 1,496 CE Syriac

​Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Part 1: Bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicon Syriacum
  • Part 2: Bar 'Ebroyo, Ecclesiastical Chronicle

Vat. sir. 167 1,394 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Bar 'Ebroyo, The Book of the Chronogrophy (Librum Chronographie)
  • Continuators of the book of the Chronography
  • The history of Hathem, the king of Cilicia
  • History of the destruction of Amid
  • Continuation of the Syriac Chronography

Vat. sir. 171 1,550 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Ethicon

Vat. sir. 173 1,333 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Poems (12-syllable meter) on executing proper duties of the Priest and Deacon
  • Order of the consecration of Chrism
  • On the Fast and the calendar
  • On ten Fathers
  • St. Cyril of Alexandria, Twelve Chapters
  • Priest Aitallaha
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, excerpt from Chronicon Syriacum
  • Jacob of Edessa, 12-syllable meter poems on faith against Nestorianism
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, The mystery of his confession of faith
  • Syriac Calendar
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of histories

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