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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00483) 1,511 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-108r 'Onitha on Rabban Hormizd
  • f. 108v-115r 'Onitha on Mār Khodahwi
  • f. 116r-132v Ephrem Syrus, Homily on the Last Days and the accomplishment, and on Gog and Magog, and about the false Messiah
  • f. 133r-141v Homily 
  • f. 142r-153v Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the Last Judgment, the Kingdom, and Gehenna
  • f. 154r-163v Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onitha for Monday of the Rogation of the Ninevites
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 309 (DIYR 00345) 1,755 CE Syriac
  • Service for the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • Rogation of Mar Ephrem
Syriac 37. Ephrem of Syria 1,251 CE Syriac

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  • St. Ephrem: Selected memre on the Rogation of the Ninevites
Irbīl, Chaldean Archdiocese of Irbīl, MS 53 (ACE 00053) 1,572 CE Syriac
  • Bā‘ūtā d-nīnwāyē (Chaldean Rite)
    • ​ܟܬܒܐ ܕܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ ܕܒܥܘܬܐ (Book of the Memre of the supplication [of Nineveh])
    • Includes memre attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis
Irbīl, Chaldean Archdiocese of Irbīl, MS 54 (ACE 00054) 1,851 CE Syriac
  • Bā‘ūtā d-nīnwāyē (Chaldean Rite)
    • ​ܟܬܒܐ ܕܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ ܕܒܥܘܬܐ (Book of the Memre of the supplication [of Nineveh])
    • Includes memre attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis