Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

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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.

*The Approximate Date column is derived from the best available information for the manuscript. This is not asserted as a scholarly position on the dating of the manuscript. Instead, it is merely used here for the convenience of being able to sort all manuscripts by numerical date. The user should keep in mind that there may be considerable debate over the precise dating of the manuscript and should consult the manuscript repository and relevant scholarly literature for details.

Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 94 (ASOM 00094) 1,911 CE Syriac
  • fol. 3r-35v Philoxenus of Mabbug, Letters on the Ascetic Life
    • Title NS: ܐܓܪ̈ܬܐ ܡܛܠ ܥܢܘܝܘܬܐ
  • fol. 36r-42r Abraham of Nathpar, Teaching on steadfastness
  • fol. 42v-49v Rules for candidates for monastic life
  • fol. 49v-75r Sayings of the church fathers on the ascetic life
  • fol. 75v-77r Ephrem of Nisibis, Petitionary Prayers
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 16 (SMMJ 00016) 1,396 CE Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1r-177v Psalter
  • End of text contains
    • Prayers 
    • Nicene Creed
    • Magnificat
    • fol. 158v-159r Names of the seventy-two translators of the Septuagint
    • fol. 160r-166r homilies and prayer by Ephrem of Nisibis
    • fol. 168r-177v Commandmets of Father Isaiah in Arabic Garshuni