Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

About This Table

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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 129 (SMMJ 00129) 806 CE Syriac

See entry at CPART and in Macomber. Collected writings of Isaiah of Scete and Cyriacus of Antioch (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-7; SMC 2-7). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark, 3*

  • pp. 1-8 Fragments of Treatises by Isaiah of Scete
    • pp. 1-2 End of first Treatise
    • pp. 2 Beginning of second Treatise
    • pp. 3-8 Fragment of third Treatise 
  • pp. 9-195 Collection of writings of Cyriac, Patriarch of Antioch
    • pp. 9-162 Treatises on the providence of God
    • pp. 162-166 Treatise 24/94, on the gospel parable of the net that was cast or fell on the right side
    • pp. 166-171 Treatise 25/95, that the souls do not precede the bodies
    • pp. 171-177 Treatise 26/96 on the question of Walid and Isho', believers from the village of Tarmanaz (on the oblation of the New Testament)
    • pp. 177-183 Treatise 27/97 on the passions of avarice and fornication
    • pp. 183-185 Treatise 28/98 on the passions of the desire of domination and vainglory
    • pp. 185-188 Explanation of the questions that were asked by Isho' the deacon living in the village of Tarmanaz
    • pp. 190-195 Profession of faith of the same holy Mar Cyriacus, clothed with divinity, Patriarch of Antioch of Syria