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
Sinai Syr. 9 700 CE Syriac

See entry in Lewis

  • St. Basil, Hexaemeron
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul, MS 2 (ASOM 00002) 1,914 CE Syriac
  • Homilies
    • John Chrysostom, Ephrem Syrus, Basil of Caesarea, Isaac <of Antioch?>, Cyril of Alexandria, Jacob of Sarug, Gregory <Nazianzus?>
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 169 (SMMJ 00169) 1,781 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-135v Homilies (Syriac, Garshuni)
    • Includes homilies by Michael the Syrian, John Chrysostom, Ephrem of Nisibis, Jacob of Serugh, Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, and Epiphanius of Constantia in Cyprus
  • fol. 136v-145r Story of Saint Michael in Dayr al-Samaka at the gate of Mardin (Garshuni)
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 200 (SMMJ 00200) 1,673 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 3v-89r Palladius, Lausiac history
  • fol. 89v-158v Jerome, History of the monks of Egypt
    • Manuscript attributes work to St. Jerome
  • fol. 158v-218v Palladius, Sayings excerpted from the Lausiac history
  • fol. 219r-230v Abraham of Nathpar, Ten treatises
  • fol. 230v-233r Basil of Caesarea, Counsels to monks
  • fol. 233r-237v Counsels
    • Mnauscript attributes text to Xystus, Bishop of Rome
  • fol. 237v-241r Joseph Hazzāyā, Admonition

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