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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 199A (SMMJ 00199A) 1,734 CE Garshuni

See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 3-2; SMC 3-2). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 38*(A)

  • Lives of Saints
    • f. Ir-IIv Contents
    • f. IIv, 1r-400r Text
      • f. 1v-4v Life of Anba Paul of Alexandria
      • f. 4v-33v Life of St. Anthony, written by St. Athanasius
      • f. 33v-52r Life of Anba Macarius
      • f. 52r-67r Story of the life of the brothers Maximus, and Dometius, sons of Emperor Valentinus
      • f. 67r-81r Life of Anba Bishoi
      • f. 81r-98r Life of Mar John the Short, head of the elders of the Desert of Scete
      • f. 98r-110v History of the great saint and exalted Anba Shenute
      • f. 110v-114r Life of Anba Mark
      • f. 114r-132v The history of Anba Serapion
      • f. 132v-137v Story of the vizier, Xenophon and his sons, John and Arcadius
      • f. 138r-142v History of the life of St. Archelides of Constantinople
      • f. 142r-146r History of St. John of the Golden Gospel
      • f. 146r-148r Story of Mar Risha
      • f. 148r-150v A second story of Mar Risha
      • f. 150v-153v Story of the great and marvelous persons, children of the potentates of Rome and Antioch, who renounced this world and all that is in it and lived a life of voluntary poverty in a miserable manner
      • f. 154v-156r History of St. Andronicus and Athanasia, his wife
      • f. 156r-159r Story of the father, Daniel, of Scetis, and of Eulogius, the stonecutter
      • f. 159r-162v The story of Simeon of Katar 'Abdin
      • f. 162v-166r Story of St. Reuben
      • f. 166v-171r History of the elect saint, Mar Awtil
      • f. 171v-174v Story of Mar Dometius
      • f. 174v-182r Ephrem Syrus, the story of St. Abraham Qidunaya
      • f. 182r-187r Story of Mar Julianus
      • f. 187r-195v History of the blessed Mar Aaron
      • f. 196r-226r Story of the life of Mar Simeon the Stylite
      • f. 226r-265v Story of Mar Barsawma
      • f. 266r-272r Story of the blessed Mar Daniel by Mar Jacob
      • f. 272r-277r Story about the Holy Mar Jacob the anchorite
      • f. 277r-278r History of the blessed Martinianus
      • f. 278r-280r Story of a certain youth from Alexandria (St. Saba of Alexandria)
      • f. 280r-282v Story of St. Malchus of Clysma
      • f. 282v-286v Story of the blessed sons of Rechab, whom the prophet Jeremiah commemorates
      • f. 286v-290r Story of the believing merchant Mark, who died in the West and entrusted his business to a Muslim, who was converted and became a Christian
      • f. 290v-294r Story of St. John who completed the course of his life in the well
      • f. 294r-308r Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis, Story of Mar Simeon Salus and St. John, the spiritual brothers of Edessa 
      • f. 308r-310r Story of Anba Gerasimus
      • f. 310r-311v Story of Abraham of Kashkar 
      • f. 311v-313r Story of Petrā from Atriqi
      • f. 313r-323r St. John, Story of Mar Bayt al-Shuhadā
      • f. 323r-340r Story of Mar Eugene from the Copts
      • f. 340r-349v Story of Mar Malchus
      • f. 349v-356r Story of Mar Isaiah of Aleppo
      • f. 356v-362r Story of Mar Yareth of Alexandria
      • f. 362r-363v Story of Evagrius
      • f. 363v-366r Story of Anba Isaiah of Bayt al-Qiddīsīn
      • f. 366r-379v Story of the icon of Christ that the Jews made in the city of Tiberius in order to mock it, in the days of Zeno, the believing emperor
      • f. 379v-390r Story of Jacob the Recluse
      • f. 390v-400r Story of the holy Mar Eulogius the Copt 
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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 7 (SMMJ 00007) 1,572 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 2.

  • fol. 1v-115v Psalter
  • fol. 115v-117r Homily attributed to Mar Ephrem, On humility, admonition, correction
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 20 (SMMJ 00020) 1,500 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-210v Psalter
    • fol. 187v-201r Homilies by Severus of Antioch, Ephrem of Nisibis, Philoxenus of Mabbug, and Bar Hebraeus on fol. 187v-201r
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 88 (SMMJ 00088) 1,838 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • Prayer book for monks
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܨܠ̈ܘܬܐ ܕܡܨܠܐ ܠܗܝܢ ܐܢܫ ܕܝܪܝܐ ܟܝܬ ܠܗ ܘܠܢܦܫܗ ܒܥܕܢܐ ܕܫ̈ܥܐ ܕܠܠܝܐ ܘܕܐܝܡܡܐ
    • Includes prayer of genuflection by Philoxenus of Mabbug, fol. 42r-52r; prayers to Virgin Mary by Shemʿūn II, Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, fol. 75r-82v; homilies by Bihnam Hadlōyō and Ephrem of Nisibis, fol. 106v-125r
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 137 (SMMJ 00137) 1,873 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 4r-60v Ignatius bar Wāhib, Treatise on the Syriac alphabet (Syriac)
  • fol. 60v-102r Ignatius bar Wāhib, Treatise on the Syriac alphabet (Garshuni)
  • fol. 103r-112v Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on Isaiah (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 159 (SMMJ 00159) 1,700 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

​Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • Theological miscellany
    • Includes Questions and answers by John Chrysostom, fol. 3v-46v; Syriac-Arabic and Greek-Syriac vocabularies, fol. 46v-55v; hymns and poems by ʻAbdīshōʻ of Gazarta, ʿAbdīshōʿ of Ātēl, Abrāhām of Bēth Slōk, and Israel of Alqosh; homily on fasting and on the Pentateuch by Ephrem of Nisibis, fol. 138v-139r
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 160 (SMMJ 00160) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 1r-3v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the departed, part two (Syriac)
  • fol. 3v-12v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the soul and body (Syriac)
  • fol. 12v-15r Hananyo Akhsnoyo, Homily (Syriac)
  • fol. 15r-16r Homily (Syriac)
  • fol. 16r-29r Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on Joseph and Mary (Syriac)
  • fol. 29r-35v Isaac of Antioch, Homily on the death of one in exile (Syriac)
  • fol. 35v-39v Isaac of Antioch, Homily on Monks (Syriac)
  • fol. 40r-64v Story of Habib (Syriac)
    • Title NS: ܬܫܥܝܬܐ ܕܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܚܒܝܒ ܣܗܕܐ ܐܘܪܗܝܐ ܕܣܗܕ ܒܐܘܪܗܝ ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܫܢܬ ܫܝܬ ܡܐܐ ܘܥܣܪܝܢ ܕܝܘܢܝܐ ܒܝܘܡ̈ܝܢ ܒܓ ܒܐܝܪܚ ܐܒ
  • fol. 64v-68r Story of Mark of Jabal Tarmaq (Syriac)
    • Title NS: ܬܫܥܝܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܡܪܩܘܣ ܗܘ ܕܥܡܪ ܗܘܐ ܒܛܘܪܐ ܕܡܬܩܪܝܐ ܬܪܡܩܐ ܒܢܝܫܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܝܥܩܘܒ
  • fol. 68r-68v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily (Syriac)
  • fol. 68v-69v Annunciation (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 163 (SMMJ 00163) 1,830 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • Homilies and poems
    • Includes homilies and poems by Jacob ʿUrdansaya, Jacob of Serugh, Ephrem of Nisibis, Shemʿūn II Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, and Ignatius Marcus Bar Qīqī
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 165 (SMMJ 00165) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 17.

  • Homilies and Poems
    • Includes homilies by Ephrem of Nisibis, Dawīd Pūnīqōyō, Jacob of Serugh, Ignatius Marcus Bar Qīqī, and Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina, and poems by Nūh the Lebanese

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