Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

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*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
Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo: Gospel Commentary 1,941 CE Syriac

Dionysius Bar Salibi, Commentary on the Holy Gospel

Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00393) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Dionysius bar Ṣalibi

  • Explanation of the guidelines of the liturgy
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 107c 1,584 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 40; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Order of the Mass (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • Hymns, antiphones, and responses in the daily office and feasts
  • Ecclesiastical calendar
  • Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa, 10 songs on the Virgin Mary, bearer of God
  • Dionysius bar Salibi
    • Homily on the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 298 1,488 CE Syriac

See Assemani 62; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Syriac Sermons
    • St. Ephrem Syrus
    • St. Isaac
    • John Chrysostom
    • Ignatius of Antioch
    • Gregory Thaumatugos
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
    • Severus of Antioch
    • Rabbula of Edessa
    • St. John
    • Jacob of Edessa
    • John bar Ma'dani
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Physical Tractate
    • On planets
    • On air
    • On 4-footed animals
    • On birds
    • On fish
    • On earth
    • On minerals
    • On hot water
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Grammar
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409a 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46, Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409b 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409c 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
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 58; 3/16 (DIYR 00190) 1,910 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, the Cream of Wisdom [Selections]
  • List of the Syriac and Arabic works of Bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Account of the death of bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Account of the death of bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, Homily
  • List of the Patriarchs of Antioch
  • John bar Ma'dani, praises and prayers
  • John bar Ma'dani, Hymns for the Lord's feast
  • Book of guidance about the ranks of deacons
  • Collection of services
  • Jacob of Edessa, List of feasts
  • John bar Ma'dani, On our God who became man on behalf of us
  • John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the seizure of Edessa
  • Daniel ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Book on the foundations of religion
  • World is a bodily behavior
  • Homily on Mar Matthew from the mountain Alfaf
  • Canon on how it is necessary to perform church prayer
  • Morning Gospel reading for Children
  • On the Assumption of our Lady Mary and how the Apostles gathered on the day of her death
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, For Priests
  • Jacob of Sarug, Commentary on Deuteronomy. Selections
  • Philoxenus of Mabbug, on the Prophets
  • Jacob of Sarug, From the homily on the love of God
  • Jacob of Sarug, From the Holy Mar Jacob
  • From the Works of the Holy Fathers
  • Daniel of Salaḥ, Commentary on Psalm 8
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On performing the sign of the cross with one finger
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the Trisagion
  • Timothy Isaac, Selections from the Holy Fathers against the Chalcedonians
Harvard MS Syr 47 1,400 CE Syriac

​Catalog Entry

  • Bound at an early date with a manuscript of theological texts (ff. 1-160)
  • Canons by Mar Yoḥanan the bishop on the holy mysteries (ff.161r-162r)
  • Scholion of Jacob of Edessa on the communion (162r-163v)
  • Commentary on the creed and baptism by Dionysius bar Ṣalibi (163v-168v)
  • An account of the faith and the cross and the other mysteries one by one (168v-177r)
  • The holy and life-giving mysteries of the holy chrism (177r-187r)
  • The hidden mystery concerning baptism (187r-203v)
  • On the making of olive oil for chrism (203v-204v)
  • Various short sections in different hands (205-207)

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