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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00113) 1,553 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-51r Elijah III, Catholicos of the Church of the East, Collection of prayers for the morning office throughout the liturgical year
  • f. 51v-94r Gabriel Qamṣa, Metropolitan of Mossul, Hymn in commemoration of Saint Sabrīshō' of Beth Qoqa
  • f. 94r-106r Īsḥāq Shbadnāyā, Hymn in commemoration of St. George the Martyr
  • f. 106v-111v, Hymn in commemoration of St. Stephen
  • f. 112r-121r Khamis bar Qardahe, Epigrams on various subjects in strophic form 

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00127) 1,757 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-159r Elijah III, Catholicos, Collection of the prayers for the morning office of the liturgical year
  • f. 159v-169r Ḥutāmē for the evening and morning services of Sundays and feast days
  • f. 171r-179r Prayers

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00134) 1,800 CE Syriac
  • f. 4v-140v Elijah III, Catholicos, Collection of prayers for the morning office of feasts and prayers for Sundays, commemoration days and Fridays of Lent
  • f. 141r-152v Prayers

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00140) 1,608 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 49

  • f. 1r-132v Elijah III, Catholicos, Collection of prayers for the morning office of feasts
  • f. 133r-140r Prayers for the kathismas at the morning offices of Sundays
  • f. 141r-150r Ḥutāmē for the evening and morning services of Sundays and feast days
  • f. 152v-166r Prayers recited before hymns 
  • f. 166v-169v Hymns on a disposition of the months

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00141) Unknown Syriac
  • f. 1r-180r + 185v-187v Elijah III, Catholicos, Collection of prayers for the morning office of feasts
  • f. 181v-185r Ḥutāmē for the evening and morning services of Sundays and feast days

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00440) 1,700 CE Garshuni

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 151

  • f. 3v-71r Elijah III, Consolatory of invocations on the deceased

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00444) 1,700 CE Garshuni

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 151

  • f. 2v-37v Elijah III, Consolatory orations for the deceased

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00466) 1,700 CE Arabic, Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 73

  • f. 1v-9v Elijah III, Consolatory discourses (Arabic)
  • f. 10r-12r Credo of the Church of the East (Arabic)
  • f. 13v-140r Elijah of Nisibis, Book of the Translator (Arabic, Syriac)
  • f. 143v-200r Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onyatha related to the celebration of the Rogation of the Ninevites