Harvard MS Syr 35 |
1,500 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Histories of the Virgin Mary: The Histories of the Virgin are in five books, all but no. 4 having lacunae in their text. Ff. 135-140 (disordered) contain a memra of Mar Aprim "on Mary and Joseph and on the scorn they endured from the Jews."
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Harvard MS Syr 36 |
1,500 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- 1. Part of the story of Bar Sauma (ff. 1-9, 82-117, the leaves being disordered)
- 2. 1 Thes. 4:12-18 and John 5:24-9, from a lectionary (f. 11)
- 3. Part of the History of the Virgin (10, 12-61r; disordered, and with one leaf missing)
- 4. Memra of Jacob on the passing, that is the obsequies, of the Virgin (61v-69r)
- 5. Another memra on Mary and Joseph and the envy of the Jews, in the meter of Mar Ephrem (69r-78v)
- 6. A wonder done by the Virgin Mary (78v-81; breaking off before the end).
- 7. F. 10v has a geometric design incorporating a prayer
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Harvard MS Syr 40 |
1,559 CE |
Arabic, Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Ps. 1-150 (f. 3r-228r)
- Ps. 151 (229r-v)
- Canticles, beatitudes, Gloria in excelsis, trishagion, Nicene creed (229v-244r)
- Memra attributed to Ephrem (ff. 244r-249v, incomplete at the end)
- Colophon (250r).
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Harvard MS Syr 85 |
1,100 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Order for the burial of priests, including eight services, and lections and memre of Ephrem and Jacob (f. 10-59r, incomplete at the beginning)
- Order of burial for laymen (4 services), women (4), nuns (2) and children (4) (58r-114v)
- Memre in the names of Ephrem, Isaac, and Jacob (114v-146, incomplete at the end). The other leaves come from at least three mss.: two of burial services (4-5 and 6-9, all paper) and the other of unidentified services (1-3, 147-150, all vellum).
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Harvard Ms Syr 99 |
1,889 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry
- ff. 1v-76v Didascalia apostolorum
- ff. 76-92v First epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
- ff. 92v-93v Letter of James of Jerusalem to Quadratus
- ff. 93v-96v Letters of Herod and Pilate
- ff. 96v-103v Hypomnemata of our Lord
- ff. 103v-106v The teaching of Peter in Rome
- ff. 107r-111v Letter of Dionysius of Athens to Timothy on the deaths of Peter and Paul
- ff. 111v-117r Extracts from various Fathers
- ff. 117r-120r Severus on the synods
- ff. 120r-120v Letter that the Jews wrote to the emperor Marcion about the Synod of Chalcedon
- ff. 120v-122v Short texts by Philoxenus
- ff. 122v Creed of orthodox Christians
- ff. 122v-124v Letter of John bar Shushan against Chalcedon
- ff. 124v-126v Easy questions against the Chalcedonians
- ff. 126v-128r Diagrams explaining theology and christology
- ff. 128v-131v Disputation against the Nestorians
- ff. 131v Cyril against anyone who keeps a book from a reader
- ff. 132r-146v Prophecies of the pagan philosophers
- ff. 147r-148r 6 questions of Jacob of Edessa
- ff. 148r-150v Riddles from the Old Testament
- ff. 150v-151r Under which kings each of the prophets prophesied
- ff. 151r-154r On the foundation of the true faith which we have received from the apostles etc.
- ff. 154r On what the Jews wrote above the cross of Christ
- ff. 154r-155r From the story of Peter the Iberian, that one should not give up hope of God's mercy
- ff. 155r-157r Severus, from a letter to Thomas of Germanica on the Epistle of Jude
- ff. 157r-160r Short sections on the eucharist, baptism, etc.
- ff. 160r-162r On the prophets
- ff. 162r-163r Jacob of Edessa on the seven spirits of Isaiah 11.2
- ff. 163 r/v Ephrem on the dove that Noah sent out from the ark
- ff. 163v-174r Answers to questions, including extracts from various Fathers
- ff. 174v Diagram of the ten commandments
- ff. 174v-178r Various other short sections on Old Testament exegesis
- ff. 178r-181v Jacob of Edessa on the heavenly powers
- ff. 181v-188v The orthodox teachers on the souls of human beings, and other short extracts
- ff. 188v-190r Letter of Cyril of Jerusalem on the rebuilding of the temple by the Jews
- ff. 190r-191r Extracts from Puman, John, Cyril and Basil
- ff. 191r-201r Explanations of Ephrem on various matters from the Law
- ff. 201r Colophon
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Harvard Ms Syr 130 |
1,888 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry
- ff. 1r/v Table of contents
- ff. 2r Cross design
- Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
- ff. 2v-23v Commentaries on Genesis
- ff. 23v-37r Exodus
- ff. 37r-45v Leviticus
- ff. 45v-57r Numbers
- ff. 57r-67r Deuteronomy
- ff. 67v-79v Job
- ff. 79v-81v Joshua
- ff. 81v-84r Judges
- ff. 84v-88r Samuel
- ff. 88v-95r Kings
- ff. 95r-103r-166r Psalms (introduction in 32 chapters by Moses bar Kepha, 95r-103r; commentary 103r-166r)
- ff. 166v-179v Proverbs
- ff. 179v-193r Ecclesiastes
- ff. 193r-201r Song of Songs
- ff. 201r/v A section on chronology entitled ʻAl qadimut nbiye ḥad men ḥabreh
- ff. 201v-234r Isaiah
- ff. 234v-250r Jeremiah
- ff. 250r-271v Ezekiel
- ff. 272r-282v Daniel
- ff. 282v-286r Hippolytus on Susanna
- ff. 286r-309r Twelve Prophets
- ff. 309r-315v Bar Asira
- ff. 315v-316v Colophons
- ff. 316v Prayer
- ff. 317r-318v Ephrem on Malachi (317r-v) and Joel (317v-318v)
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