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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 126 pt. 2 1,253 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

pp. 397-end (Begins with Abba Isaiah the Monk)

  • 'Enanisho', Paradise of the Fathers
    • Book 1: Palladius, Bishop of Heleopolis
    • Book 2: Palladius (Begins in this section)
    • ​Lives of the Fathers according to St. Jerome
    • Book 4: Apophthegmata Patrum 
    • Doctrine and Admonitions of the Fathers on the monastic institution
    • Abba Evagrius, Sermons
    • Abba Anthony, Letters to the monastic brothers 
    • St. Macarius of Egypt, sermons
    • St. Macarius of Egypt, epistles
    • St. Macarius the Alexandrian, Sermons
    • Abraham Nathpar, sermons
    • Ammon the monk and Bishop of Oxyrinchus, letters
    • St. Xystus of Rome, sermons
    • John of Dalyatha, sermons
    • Gregory the Monk on the isle of Cyprus, sermons
    • John of Thebes, sermons
    • St. Basil the Great, Monstaic institutions, Questions and answers from the brethren
      • Letter to his brother Gregory of Nyssa
      • Paranaetic Chapter
      • Ascetic Chatper
    • Jacob of Sarug, letter on the ascetic way
      • Letter to an abbot on the soul
      • Letter about the virtuous men
    • Philoxenus of Mabbug, on the one whose desire is changed toward refraining from the priesthood
      • Letter to the monks of Amid
    • St. Ephrem, sermon
    • St. Mark the hermit, paranaetic sermon
Vat. sir. 93 823 CE Syriac

Catalog entries in Assemani and CPART

  • Binding
  • ff. 1v-19v John of Apamea, on the Passions of the Soul
  • ff. 19v-25r John of Apamea, On proper faith in the Divine dispensation fo Christ
  • ff. 25r-28v John of Apamea, On the Fear of God
  • ff. 29r-69v John of Apamea, On Continence of Body and of Soul
  • ff. 69v-73v Ephrem, Two Qole on the Deceased
  • ff. 74r-75v John of Apamea, An exhortation to virtue
  • ff. 75v-77r John of Apamea, How One Might Acquire Patient Endurance
  • ff. 77r-107v Ephrem, Eighteen Admonitory Madrashe
  • ff. 108r-114r Isaac, On the Perfection of the Brethren
  • ff. 114r-118v Isaac, On Humility
  • ff. 119r-127r John of Apamea, On the Mystery of the Dispensation of our Lord
  • ff. 127r-128v John of Apamea, On Purity of Mind
  • ff. 129r-137r John of Apamea, An Epistle on the Incomprehensibility of God
  • ff. 137r-140r John of Apamea, On the Causes of Revelations and of Visions
  • ff. 140r-144r John of Apamea, Epistle of Leontius on Spiritual Communication
  • ff. 144r-145r Severus bar Mashke, on Julian the Patriarch
  • ff. 145r-162v John of Apamea, Principle Teachings
  • ff. 163r-169r Ephrem, An Admonition (incipit illegible)
  • ff. 169r-183r Ephrem, Eleven Madrashe and Memre on the Deceased
  • ff.183v Evagrius, On the Eight Evil thoughts
  • ff. 183v-194v Balai, three Madrashe on the contempt of the world
  • ff. 195r-204v Ephrem, Nine madrashe on the deceased 
  • Binding