Vat. sir. 596 |
1,917 CE |
Arabic, Syriac |
- Binding
- 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)
- Binding
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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
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Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00398) |
1,583 CE |
Arabic, Latin, Persian, Syriac |
See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 95
- f. 1v-5v Homily for the blessed brethren (Syriac)
- f. 5v-13v Homily on Repentance (Syriac)
- f. 15v Story about a monk from Najran (Arabic)
- f. 16v-53r Gregory bar Hebraeus, On Perfection with additions and commentaries by Khamis bar Qardahe and Īsho'yahb bar Mqaddam (Syriac)
- f. 53v-55v Ode on the soul, with commentary by Khamis bar Qardahe (Syriac)
- f. 56r-75r Khamis bar Qardahe, Homilies (Syriac)
- f. 76v-77r Isho'yahb bar Malkon, Book of Instruction (Syriac)
- f. 78v-144v Homily on Rabban Hormizd (Syriac)
- f. 147v-160v 'Onitha: Pearl of Knowledge (Syriac)
- f. 172v-182v 'Onitha for the commemoration of Yuliṭa and her son (Syriac)
- f. 183v-197v 'Abdishō' of Gazarta, Homily on the homonyms (Syriac)
- f. 198r-203v Riddles (Syriac)
- f. 204r-204v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Turgama of Cyriacus (Syriac)
- f. 205r-208v Homily of Rogation (Syriac)
- f. 208v-212v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Dismissal prayers in strophes (Syriac)
- f. 212v-216v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
- f. 216v-217v Homily about bad time (Syriac)
- f. 218r-222r Ephrem Syrus, Sermon on Reprehension V (Syriac)
- f. 223r-227r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the mysteries of our Lord in the Old Testament (Syriac)
- f. 227v-232v Credo of the true Orthodox (Syriac)
- f. 232v-233v Credo of Isho'panaḥ, who was accused of drinking the poison of paganism (Syriac)
- f. 234v-243r Excerprs from various canonical texts on the election of a patriarch and his rights (Syriac)
- f. 243v-245r Khamis bar Qardahe, Brief note on heresies and on the pagan gods that were abolished through the coming of Christ (Latin, Persian, Syriac)
- f. 245v-246v Homily that awakens and exhorts and incites penitents (Syriac)
- f. 247r-248r Homily about a Syrian Orthodox Patriarch (Syriac)
- f. 248r-256r 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
- f. 256r-258r Riddles (Syriac)
- f. 258r-266v Poems (Syriac)
- f. 267r-274v Disputation between a monk of Bet Ḥale and an Arab notable (Syriac)
- f. 274v-277v On the Trinity (in questions and answers) and other liturgical matters (Syriac)
- f. 278r-280r Names of the prophets (Syriac)
- f. 280r-281r On the cities of pagan kingdoms (Syriac)
- f. 281v-299r Isho'dad of Merv, Excerpts from the Commentary on the New Testament (Syriac)
- f. 299r-310v Questions on the Pentateuch (Syriac)
- f. 310v-312v On the barbarious nations that do not know writing and god (Syriac)
- f. 313r-334v Computus and other astronomical and historical reckonings (Syriac)
- f. 335v-344v Rite of reception of an ordained bishop
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Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 135; 241 (DIYR 00241) |
1,907 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
- Readings from the Gospels and Pauline Epistles
- Jacob of Sarug, on the Destruction of Amid
- The Life of Ephrem
- Book of the Fox
- Summary of the Garden of the Monks
- Testimonies on behalf of the old Syrians concerning the faith in Christ
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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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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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Sinai Syr. 27 |
1,300 CE |
Syriac |
See entry in Lewis
- Troparion followed by a few leaves of St. Ephrem and a life of St. Barbara
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Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 60 (ASOM 00060) |
1,724 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
- fol. 3v-30v Jacob of Edessa, Memra on Alexander the Great, Gog and Magog, and the end-times (Syriac)
- fol. 31r-41r Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on the end-times, Gog and Magog, and the Antichrist (Syriac)
- fol. 41v-79r Burial Rite (Garshuni, Syriac)
- fol. 79v-81v Lamentation for Gehenna (Syriac)
- fol. 81v-100r Story of Mar Bassus (Syriac)
- fol. 100r-131r Story of Mar Gabriel of Qartmin (Syriac)
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