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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.

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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
BnF syr. 198 1,600 CE Garshuni

See catalog entry here

  • f. 1-10v Ignatius of Antioch, Letter of Exhortation to Priests (CPG 1030)
  • f. 10v-28v Questions and responses between a disciple and his master regarding the sacrament and confession
  • f. 28v-48 Memra on Lent
  • f. 48-53v Ephrem Syrus, Memra on the Departure of the soul from the body
  • f. 53v-66v On the Excellence of the Christian Religion
  • f. 70v-88v Some canons relative to Baptism
  • f. 88v-100 Canons on penitence in the form of question and answer
  • f. 100-112 Sixty-two canons on penitence
  • f. 112-130 Questions and answers of Ss. Basil and Gregory
Vat. sir. 222 1,670 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Chaldean office for common days, former
  • Chaldean office for common days, latter
  • Hymns
  • Common office for matins
  • Canticles for common days
  • Calendar
  • 'Onyatha 
  • 'Onyatha on the martyrs
  • Song for vespers and matins
  • Hymn of Mar Narsai, Memra for nocturns of a Dominical feast
  • St. Ephrem, acrostic memra with the letters of Jesus' name
  • Mar Narsai, Memra for matins of a Dominical feast
  • Song of the three youths
  • Theodore of Mopsuestia, hymn for matins of feast days
  • Hymn on the Eucharist
  • Elijah the Patriarch, prayer
  • Names of the Arabic months
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 34 (ASOM 00034) 1,750 CE Syriac
  • fol. 2v-129r Psalms
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܡܙܡܘܪ̈ܐ ܕܕܘܝܕ
    • Note: Syriac with Arabic Garshuni translation in parallel columns
  • fol. 129v-130r Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, Hymn of the angels at the Nativity
    • Title NS: ܬܫܒܘܚܬܐ ܕܡ̈ܠܐܟܐ ܕܫܒܚܘܗ̇ ܒܝܘܡܐ ܕܡܘܠܕܗ ܕܡܪܢ ܒܒܣܪ
    • Note: Dominical prayer and Nicene Creed in Syriac on fol. 130rv
  • fol. 130v-133v Memre
    • Note: Includes memre by Ephrem of Nisibis, fol. 130v-131r, 132v-133v; also an acrostic memra in the meter of Ephrem of Nisibis, fol. 131r-132r