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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 544 1,712 CE Armenian (in Syriac Script), Syriac
  • Binding
  • f. 1r-4v Various pieces in diverse hands
  • f. 5r-9r Ba'utha of Mar Ephrem
  • f. 9v-12v Ba'utha of Jacob of Sarug (Armenian in Syriac Script)
  • f. 13r-14v Prayers
  • f. 15r-17v Excerpts form Jacob of Sarug and Mar Ephrem
  • f. 17v-19v Verses for the celebrations before the Gospel
  • f. 19v-20v Ba'utha of Jacob of Sarug
  • f. 20v-24v Table of incipits
  • f. 25r-33v Ba'utha of Jacob of Sarug
  • f. 34r-34v Prayer
  • f. 34v-96r Shhimo
  • f. 96r-107r Prayers for Various Circumstances
  • f. 107r-145v Various prayers and gospel pericopes (In another hand)
  • f. 146r-147v Pages of another manuscript wiith ascetic content
  • Binding
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 71 1,340 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 36; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Offices for feast days
  • Jacob of Sarug, hymns
  • Ephrem Syrus, hymn 49, on the saints and the departed
  • Order of the blessing of the waters
  • Order of the blessing of the oil
  • Order of the entrance
  • Order of the washing of the feet
  • Order of the commemoration of the cross
  • Order of forgiveness and pardon
  • Order of the mass and rubrics
  • Order of the reception of heretics and apostates
  • Order of confession
  • Order of the reception of public sinners
  • Prayers and absolutions for all general sins
  • Prayers and benedictions
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 298 (DIYR 00019) 1,745 CE Syriac
  • Psalm 104
  • Hymn
  • Ephrem Syrus, Supplication
  • Fenqīthō
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 155; 10/18 (DIYR 00123) 1,871 CE Syriac
  • Šḥīmō
  • Supplication of St. Ephrem
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 309 (DIYR 00345) 1,755 CE Syriac
  • Service for the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • Rogation of Mar Ephrem
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 58 (ASOM 00058) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 4r-5v, Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander Romance (Arabic Garshuni)
  • fol. 6r-75v Psalms
  • fol. 76r-85v Poem on the divine wisdom
    • Title NS: ܥܠ ܚܟܡܬܐ ܐܠܗܝܬܐ
  • fol. 86v-88v Memra on the Trinity
  • fol. 89v-92v Prayers
    • Includes prayers attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis and Jacob of Edessa
  • fol. 92v-96v Memre and Sogitha
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 14 (SMMJ 00014) 1,424 CE Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-131v Psalter
  • fol. 131v-136v Prayer and two homilies ascribed to Ephrem of Nisibis
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00008 1,828 CE Neo-Aramaic, Syriac
  • fol. [1]v-20r Book of Seven prayers (Syriac)
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܫܒܥ ܨܠܘ̈ܢ
  • fol. 21v-171v Catholic Prayer Book (Neo-Aramaic, Syriac)
    • Includes chapters of prayer from the book of Gregory (ܪ̈ܫܐ ܕܨܠܘ܊ ܡ̣ܢ ܟܬܒܗ ܕܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ), fol. 21v-92r; nine prayers attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian (ܨܠܘܬܐ ܐܦܪܡܝܬܐ), fol. 103r-121r