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Vat. sir. 252 |
900 CE |
Syriac |
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- f. 1r-2r Jacob of Sarug, On the Samaritan Woman (John 4:4-26)
- f. 2r-3r Jacob of Sarug, On the woman who was bent over for eighteen years (Luke 13:11)
- f. 3r-4r Jacob of Sarug, On the torrent that Ezekiel saw
- f. 4r-6r St. Ephrem, A spiritual homily on War (elsewhere attributed to Jacob of Sarug, On Job)
- f. 6r-11r Jacob of Sarug, On Uzziah the king and Isaiah the prophet
- f. 11r-13r On Job (incipit illegible)
- f. 13r-13r On Elijah the Prophet (incipit illegible)
- f. 13r-16r Jacob of Sarug, On Elisha the prophet and the Shunammite woman (2 Kings 4) (incipit illegible)
- f. 16r-19r Jacob of Sarug, On the Ark of the Covenant
- f. 19r-22r Jacob of Sarug, On the circumcision of Moses (incipit illegible)
- f. 22r-24r Jacob of Sarug, On Phineas
- f. 24r-28r Jacob of Sarug, On Samson
- f. 24r-28r Jacob of Sarug, On Samson
- f. 28r-30r Jacob of Sarug, On Tamar
- f. 30r-32r Jacob of Sarug, On Hosea the Prophet
- f. 32r-37r Jacob of Sarug, On Sinai
- f. 37r-40r Jacob of Sarug, On the veil of Moses
- f. 40r-42r Jacob of Sarug, On Moses and Amalek
- f. 42r-45r Jacob of Sarug, On the saying of Moses: Show me your glory (Ex 33:18)
- f. 45r-48r Jacob of Sarug, On the Tower of Babel
- f. 48r-49r Jacob of Sarug, On Melchizedek
- f. 49r-52r Jacob of Sarug, On those two small birds (Leviticus 14)
- f. 52r-53r Jacob of Sarug, On those who way that angels had intercourse with the daughters of men
- f. 53r-60r Jacob of Sarug, Four Homilies on Joseph
- f. 60r-65v Jacob of Sarug, Four Homilies on Cain and Abel
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Vat. sir. 464 pt. 1 |
1,234 CE |
Syriac |
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- IIr-IIIr French Table of Contents
- f. 1r Fragment of a homily
- f. 1v-3r Syriac Table of Contents
- f. 3v-19r Ephrem Syrus, Memre
- f. 3v-6r On the Love of Wisdom
- f. 6r-9v On Discipline
- f. 9v-10v On Sleep
- f. 11r-16r On Humility
- f. 16r 19r On the Observance of Moral Behavior
- f. 19r-45v Works of Mar Isaac
- f. 19r-21v On Penitence
- f. 21v-26v On Gentleness toward one's Brothers
- f. 26v-37v On Sparrows
- f. 37v-43v On Humility and Poverty
- f. 43v-45v On the Hermits
- f. 45v-63v Ephrem Syrus, Memre
- f. 45v-48v On Purity of Heart
- f. 48v-53v On the Conversion of the Soul
- f. 54r-63v On Alex (cod. "John") son of Euphemianus
- f. 63v-72r Isaac of Antioch, Memre
- f. 72r-81r Ephrem Syrus, On the Conception of the Holy Virgin
- f. 81r-98v Memre on David and Uriah in the meter of Ephrem Syrus, Jacob of Sarug, and Mar Balai
- f. 81r-85r Ephrem Syrus
- f. 85r-85v Jacob of Sarug
- f. 85v-91r Ephrem Syrus
- f. 91r-92r Mar Balai
- f. 92r-92v Jacob of Sarug
- f. 92v-98r Ephrem Syrus
- f. 98r-98v Mar Balai
- f. 98v-101v Isaac of Antioch, On privacy of thought
- f. 101v-115v Ephrem Syrus, Memre
- f. 101v-102v On the Outsiders
- f. 102v-104v On Silence during Prayer
- f. 104v-115v On Warnings
- f. 115v-125v First part of Jacob of Sarug, Memre (continued in Vat. sir. 464 pt. 2)
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Vat. sir. 464 pt.2 |
1,234 CE |
Syriac |
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- f. 126r-148v Second part of Jacob of Sarug, Memre (continued from Vat. sir. 464 pt. 1)
- f. 126r-133r The second part of On Bassus and his Companions (continued from Vat. sir. 464 pt. 1)
- f. 133r-136v On the Outsiders
- f. 136v-148v On the Creation of Adam
- f. 148v-154r Ephrem Syrus, On Humility
- f. 154v Ephrem Syrus, A brief excerpt
- f. 155r-246v First part of Jacob of Sarug, Memre (Continued on Vat. sir. 464 pt. 3)
- f. 155r-156v On the Observance of Commandments
- f. 156v Extract from a Homily by Jacob
- f. 157r-157v On the Vision of Jacob
- f. 157v-163v On the Consecration of the Church
- f. 163v-174r On the Cherubim
- f. 174r-184v On the Questions of our Lord
- f. 184v-195v On Simeon the Stylite
- f. 196r-205r On Joseph
- f. 2054-224r On Jonah and Ninevah
- f. 224r-228r On the Three Youths
- f. 228r-238r On the Love of our Lord
- f. 238r-243v On Fasting
- f. 243v-246v The First part of On the Prodigal Son (Continued on Vat. sir. 464 pt. 3)
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Vat. sir. 464 pt. 3 |
1,234 CE |
Syriac |
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- f. 247r-274v Second part of Jacob of Sarug, Memre (continued from Vat. sir. 464 pt. 2)
- f. 247r-258v Second part of On the Prodigal Son (continued from Vat. sir. 464 pt. 2)
- f. 259r-265r On the Son of the Widow
- f. 265r-274r On the Disavowal of St. Peter
- f. 275r Ephrem Syrus, On the Crucifixion
- f. 275r-348v Jacob of Sarug, Memre
- f. 275r-287r On Constantine and the Council of Nicea
- f. 287r-295v On the Man who Made a Feast for His Son
- f. 295v-308r On Lazarus and the Rich Man
- f. 308r-316r On the Rich Man and the Poor Man
- f. 316v-325v On Discipline
- f. 325v-335r On Discipline
- f. 335r-348v On the Five Talents
- f. 335r-348v Colophon
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Vat. sir. 469 |
1,804 CE |
Syriac |
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- Table of the Sermons of Ephrem Syrus
- f. 1v-123r Sermons of Ephrem Syrus
- f. 123r-123v Colophon
- f. 124r-132r Barhebraeus, Wonders of Creation
- f. 124r-125r First day
- f. 125r-125v Second day
- f. 125v-127r Third day
- f. 127r-128r Fourth day
- f. 128r-130r Fifth day
- f. 130r-132r Sixth day
- f. 132v-151v Barhebraeus, Treatise on metals, taken from the crème of the sciences of Barhebraeus
- f. 132v-136v Chapter 1
- f. 136v-140r Chapter 2
- f. 140r-141r Chapter 3
- f. 141r-147r Chapter 4
- f. 147r 151v Chapter 5
- f. 151v-152v Sayings against exile, preceded (151v) and followed by (152v) a short lexicon of foreign words
- f. 154r-154v Fragment of a grammar
- f. 155r-155v Fragment of a magic text
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Vat. sir. 544 |
1,712 CE |
Armenian (in Syriac Script), Syriac |
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- 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
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Vat. sir. 596 |
1,917 CE |
Arabic, Syriac |
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- f. 1r-53v Jacob of Edessa, Commentary on the Old Testament
- f. 1r-20r Genesis
- f. 20v-32r Exodus
- f. 32r-39v Leviticus
- f. 39v-42v Numbers (f. 41rv lacuna)
- f. 42v-47r Deuteronomy
- f. 47v-50v Job
- f. 51r-52r Joshua
- f. 52v-53v Judges
- f. 53v-66r Exlanation of difficult Old Testament passages (Ephrem, Jacob, and others)
- f. 66r Colophon
- f. 66v-79r Explanations of various subjects attributed to different authors
- f. 79v-81v Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
- f. 81v-83v The Doctrine of Addai
- f. 83v-84r Twenty Canons of the Apostles
- f. 84r-85r Six questions and answers of Jacob of Edessa
- f. 85v-90r Hypomnemata of our Lord
- f. 90v-99v Two letters of Theodore bar Wahbun
- f. 99v-105r Prophecies of pagan philosophers
- f. 105r-111r Chosen words of philosophers teaching wisdom
- f. 111r Colophon
- f. 111v-112v Eulogy of Abraham of Nathpar
- f. 113r Anecdote of Moses bar Kepha by Mar Sawira
- f. 113v-115r Profession of Faith by Mar Michael
- f. 115v-116v Questions and answers on ousia
- f. 117r-120v Legend of Mar Eli al-Hira in Arabic
- f. 121r-130r History of Yareth the Alexandrian
- f. 130r Colophon (other colophons found at 66r and 111r)
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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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Vat. sir. 199 |
1,545 CE |
Garshuni |
Catalog entry in Assemani
- Life of St. Maron
- Homily on Penitence
- Story of the three holy Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
- Death of Isaac the patriarch
- Death of Jacob the patriarch
- Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the thief
- Life of St. Alexei
- History of St. Abdulmasih
- Lives of Ss. Sergius and Bacchus
- Life of St. Marina
- Life of St. Susanna
- On Isaac, the son of Abraham the Patriarch
- Life of St. John
- Life of Paul
- On St. Abba Ammon
- On the Seven children of Ephesus
- Life of St. Cyril
- Life of St. Martinianus the Anchorite
- Life of St. Archelidos
- History of the Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul
- Homily on Penitence
- Life of St. Dionysius the Aereopagite
- Jacob of Sarug, Homily on Constantine the great
- Life of St. Simon
- Life of Ahiqar the sage
- Fables of Shaddad, son of 'Addi and Solomon, son of David
- Letter from heaven given by Athanasius Patriarch of Alexandria
- History of the conception and nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary by her mother Anna
- Narration of bribery
- Fable of a certain prince
- Homily of St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Questions and answers
- History of Pontius Pilate
- Apostolic Constitutions
- Homily of St. John Chrysostom
- Ephrem Syrus, On wrestling with the Devil
- Prayer for the sick and penitential
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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
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