Borg. sir. 128 |
1,720 CE |
Syriac |
A more detailed description can be found on the following page: Kristian S. Heal, “Vatican Borgia Syriac 128: A New Description,” entry published March 31, 2014, cpart.byu.edu: The Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts, Brigham Young University.
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- f. 1r-67v History of Mary
- f. 67v-71v Jacob of Sarug, Memra on the Burial of Mary, Bearer of God
- f. 71v-78v Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Mary, Bearer of God
- f. 78v-99r Anonymous, Memra on the Holy Bearer of God
- f. 99r-104v Anonymous, Another memra on the Feast of the Ears of Wheat and on the Praises of Mary, Bearer of God
- f. 104v Note
- f. 104v-111r Timothy of Gargar, Memra on the departure of Mary, Bearer of God
- f. 111r Note
- f. 111r-112r Anonymous, A Miracle Worked by Mary at Apamea
- f. 112r-129r Jacob of Sarug, On the Martyrdom of Behnam and his Companions I
- f. 129r-151v Jacob of Sarug, On the Martyrdom of Behnam and his Companions II
- f. 151v Colophon
- f. 152r-159r Jacob of Sarug, On Simeon the Stylite
- f. 159r-170v Jacob of Sarug, On the Maccabean Martyrs Shmuni and her Children
- f. 170v-175v Jacob of Sarug, on Mor Sharbel
- f. 175v Note
- f. 176r-181v Jacob of Sarug, On the Last Judgment and Gehenna
- f. 181v Note
- f. 181v-184v Ephrem Syrus, On Humility
- f. 184v-185v [An Acrostic] On Pity in the Metre of Mor Jacob
- f. 185v-188v Ephrem Syrus, On Job
- f. 188v-193v Jacob of Sarug, On the Discovery of the Cross
- f. 193v-199r Jacob of Sarug, Memra in Praise of John the Baptist
- f. 199v Colophon
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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 184 (SMMJ 00184) |
1,600 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 3-6; SMC 3-6). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- f. 1r-4r Patriarch Cyril Ibn Laqlaq, Confession
- f. 4v-22r St. John Chrysostom, Homily on repentance and on the reception of the divine mysteries
- f. 22r-34r Mar Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the benefit of the Eucharist for the dead in the next world
- f. 34r-39v St. John Chrysostom, Homily on the illustrious feastday of Palm Sunday
- f. 39v-43r St. John Chrysostom, Homily on the Supper of the Mysteries and on the washing of the feet of the disciples
- f. 43r-50v An exposition of the reason for the fast of Wednesday and Friday, its obligations and its benefit
- f. 50v-54r Especially concerning the true faith, concerning the Unity and the Trinity, and concerning the [one] interior Church
- f. 54r-57v
- f. 57v-62r Sedro for the feast of the Ascension
- f. 62r-69v Homily of Jacob of Sarug on the dispute of Satan with our Lord
- f. 69v-75v Mar Jacob of Sarug, Homily the entry of Christ into the Temple on the arm of Simeon, the Old Man
- f. 75v-78v Mar Ephrem, On the birth of John the Baptist
- f. 79r-87v Mar Ephrem, On Mary and Joseph and the reproach they received from the Jews (Syriac and Garshuni in parallel columns)
- f. 87v-92r Mar Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the resurrection of the dead (Syriac and Garshuni)
- f. 92r-107v The story of Gabriel of the Monastery of Qartmin
- f. 108r-197v Patriarch Cyrillus Ibn Laqlaq, The book of the master and the disciples, consisting of 22 articles
- f. 198r-204v Mar Isaac, On the feast of the Annunciation
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Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00340) |
1,700 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
- f. 3r-26r Basil of Caesarea, Homily on Easter, Good Friday, and on the departure of the soul from the body
- f. 27r-28r Collection of Proverbs
- f. 28v-30v Chronological calculations
- f. 32v-68v Life of St. Gregory
- f. 68v-74r Story of Susanna
- f. 74v-80r Miracles of the Virgin Mary
- f. 80v-81r Ephrem Syrus, Homily
- f. 81v-87r John Chrysostom, On Repentance
- f. 87v-95v Moses' conversation on Mt. Sinai
- f. 97r-100v Life of Mar Isaac
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Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00344) |
1,600 CE |
Garshuni |
- f. 2r-3v Homily
- f. 3r-5v John Chrysostom, Homily on the denial of Peter
- f. 6r-11r John Chrysostom, Homily on Great Lent
- f. 11r-17v John Chrysostom, On repentance and love
- f. 17v-22v Ephrem Syrus, Homily on repentance and the soul
- f. 22v-31r John Chrysostom, commentary on the sixth Psalm
- f. 31v-37r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the Holy Mysteries, Confession, and Repentance
- f. 37v-43v John Chrysostom, On Repentance and the rebuke of the soul
- f. 43v-48v Ephrem Syrus, Homily on the end and the punishment of the world
- f. 48v-60v Basil, Bishop of Caesarea, Homily on repentance, on the poor Lazarus and the rich man
- f. 60v-69r John Chrysostom, Homily on the first day of creation
- f. 69r-75r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on repentance and baptism
- f. 75v-79v Gregory Nazianzus, Homily on the Nativity of our Lord
- f. 79v-95v John Chrysostom, Homily on the ten virgins
- f. 85v-91r John Chrysostom, Homily on Abraham and Isaac, when he took his son to sacrifice him
- f. 91r-105v John Chrysostom, Homily on Judas' betrayal of Christ
- f. 106r-114r John Chrysostom, Homily on the Lord's words "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me"
- f. 114v-121v Book of the paradise. Chapter 1. "On the love of the near ones"
- f. 122v-127r Great miracle of the Virgin Mary that occured in the days of Caliph al-Mamun in Baghdad
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Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00398) |
1,583 CE |
Arabic, Latin, Persian, Syriac |
See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 95
- f. 1v-5v Homily for the blessed brethren (Syriac)
- f. 5v-13v Homily on Repentance (Syriac)
- f. 15v Story about a monk from Najran (Arabic)
- f. 16v-53r Gregory bar Hebraeus, On Perfection with additions and commentaries by Khamis bar Qardahe and Īsho'yahb bar Mqaddam (Syriac)
- f. 53v-55v Ode on the soul, with commentary by Khamis bar Qardahe (Syriac)
- f. 56r-75r Khamis bar Qardahe, Homilies (Syriac)
- f. 76v-77r Isho'yahb bar Malkon, Book of Instruction (Syriac)
- f. 78v-144v Homily on Rabban Hormizd (Syriac)
- f. 147v-160v 'Onitha: Pearl of Knowledge (Syriac)
- f. 172v-182v 'Onitha for the commemoration of Yuliṭa and her son (Syriac)
- f. 183v-197v 'Abdishō' of Gazarta, Homily on the homonyms (Syriac)
- f. 198r-203v Riddles (Syriac)
- f. 204r-204v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Turgama of Cyriacus (Syriac)
- f. 205r-208v Homily of Rogation (Syriac)
- f. 208v-212v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Dismissal prayers in strophes (Syriac)
- f. 212v-216v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
- f. 216v-217v Homily about bad time (Syriac)
- f. 218r-222r Ephrem Syrus, Sermon on Reprehension V (Syriac)
- f. 223r-227r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the mysteries of our Lord in the Old Testament (Syriac)
- f. 227v-232v Credo of the true Orthodox (Syriac)
- f. 232v-233v Credo of Isho'panaḥ, who was accused of drinking the poison of paganism (Syriac)
- f. 234v-243r Excerprs from various canonical texts on the election of a patriarch and his rights (Syriac)
- f. 243v-245r Khamis bar Qardahe, Brief note on heresies and on the pagan gods that were abolished through the coming of Christ (Latin, Persian, Syriac)
- f. 245v-246v Homily that awakens and exhorts and incites penitents (Syriac)
- f. 247r-248r Homily about a Syrian Orthodox Patriarch (Syriac)
- f. 248r-256r 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
- f. 256r-258r Riddles (Syriac)
- f. 258r-266v Poems (Syriac)
- f. 267r-274v Disputation between a monk of Bet Ḥale and an Arab notable (Syriac)
- f. 274v-277v On the Trinity (in questions and answers) and other liturgical matters (Syriac)
- f. 278r-280r Names of the prophets (Syriac)
- f. 280r-281r On the cities of pagan kingdoms (Syriac)
- f. 281v-299r Isho'dad of Merv, Excerpts from the Commentary on the New Testament (Syriac)
- f. 299r-310v Questions on the Pentateuch (Syriac)
- f. 310v-312v On the barbarious nations that do not know writing and god (Syriac)
- f. 313r-334v Computus and other astronomical and historical reckonings (Syriac)
- f. 335v-344v Rite of reception of an ordained bishop
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Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00411) |
1,545 CE |
Syriac |
See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 76
- f. 2v-76r Homily on Rabban Hormizd
- f. 76v-93v Homily on Mār Aḥā, brother of Mar John the Egyptian
- f. 94v-176r Ephrem Syrus, Twelve Homilies on Joseph the Righteous
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Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 242; 7/13; 279 (DIYR 00242) |
1,707 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
- Homily
- John Chrysostom, On repentance
- On repentance
- Story of the Forty Martyrs
- On repentance
- John Chrysostom, On mercy
- Ephrem Syrus, On repentance
- Homily on the Holy Lent that is recited every day in the church
- George, Bishop of the Arabs, Homily on Dying, the world and the soul's exit from the body
- Story of St. Gregory
- Basil, Bishop of Caesarea, About a swimmer in springs and streams
- Moses' conversation on Mt. Sinai
- Letter that fell from heaven
- Story of John of the Golden Gospel
- Jacob of Sarug, Homily on repentance that is recited during the days of the Lent
- Story of St. Gregory
- Martyrdom of Barbara and Juliana
- Story of righteous Job
- Story of Anba Cyrus
- Story of St. Michael
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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
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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 166 (SMMJ 00166) |
1,800 CE |
Syriac |
Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- fol. 1r-14v Sayings of the Fathers
- fol. 14v-26v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on humility
- Title NS: ܡܐܡܪܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܟܝܟܘܬܐ
- fol. 26v-42r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the end, the kingdom, and gehenna
- fol. 42v-72r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the solitaries
- Title NS: ܡܐܡܪܐ ܥܠ ܝ̈ܚܝܕܝܐ ܘܡܕܒܪ̈ܢܐ ܘܐܒ̈ܝܠܐ
- fol. 72v-95v Isaac of Antioch, Homily on solitaries
- fol. 95v Fragment on Aba Sisoes
- fol. 96r-135v Story of John the Short
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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 169 (SMMJ 00169) |
1,781 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- fol. 1r-135v Homilies (Syriac, Garshuni)
- Includes homilies by Michael the Syrian, John Chrysostom, Ephrem of Nisibis, Jacob of Serugh, Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, and Epiphanius of Constantia in Cyprus
- fol. 136v-145r Story of Saint Michael in Dayr al-Samaka at the gate of Mardin (Garshuni)
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