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 115 1,889 CE Syriac

Catalog entry

  • ff. 1-7r Blank
  • ff. 7v-8r John of Dalyatha, Apology
  • ff. 8r-54r John of Dalyatha, Homilies numbered 1-24
  • ff. 54r-56v Chapters (sic) of knowledge, numbered 25
  • ff. 56v-97r John of Dalyatha, Letters numbered 1-51
  • ff. 97r-124r John of Dalyatha, Chapters of knowledge
  • ff. 124r-126r John of Dalyatha, Diverse chapters by the same author
  • ff. 126r-127r John of Dalyatha, Madrashe by the same author
  • ff. 127r/v John of Dalyatha, Apology by the author's brother
  • ff. 127v-128r John of Dalyatha, The author to his brother
  • ff. 128r-129r Extract of David the Phoenician
  • ff. 129r Colophon
  • ff. 129v-130r Extract from Jacob of Serug
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 132 (SMMJ 00132) 1,850 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2v-106r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on the liturgy (Garshuni)
  • fol. 106v-109r Homily on receiving the Eucharist (Garshuni)
  • fol. 109v-120r On the Lord's Prayer (Garshuni)
  • fol. 120v-187v Five Homilies (Garshuni)
  • fol. 188r-192r Parable of the apple (Garshuni)
  • fol. 192v David the Phoenician (Dawid Puniqoyo), On Biblical Chronology (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 165 (SMMJ 00165) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 17.

  • Homilies and Poems
    • Includes homilies by Ephrem of Nisibis, Dawīd Pūnīqōyō, Jacob of Serugh, Ignatius Marcus Bar Qīqī, and Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina, and poems by Nūh the Lebanese