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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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Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00366) |
1,700 CE |
Arabic, Gashuni |
- f. 2r-4v Rite for the consecration of water according to the Roman Catholic Church
- f. 5r-24r Prayer for scapular of our Lady of Mount Carmel and on indulgences
- f. 25r-28r Homily
- f. 28r-32r John Chrysostom, Homily on the Nativity of Our Lord
- f. 32v-36r John Chrysostom, Homily on the beheading of John the Baptist
- f. 36r-44v Cyril of Alexandria, Homily for the Sunday before Lent
- f. 44v-50r John Chrysostom, homily on fasting, prayer and alms
- f. 50r-55r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the rejection of sin, and the necessity of fasting, prayer and alms
- f. 55r-60r Ephrem syrus, Homily on Repentance
- f. 60r-71r Basil of Caesarea, Homily on Repentance
- f. 71r-75v John Chrysostom, Homily on Repentance
- f. 76r-77v John Chrysostom, Homily on Repentance
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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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Harvard MS Syr 40 |
1,559 CE |
Arabic, Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Ps. 1-150 (f. 3r-228r)
- Ps. 151 (229r-v)
- Canticles, beatitudes, Gloria in excelsis, trishagion, Nicene creed (229v-244r)
- Memra attributed to Ephrem (ff. 244r-249v, incomplete at the end)
- Colophon (250r).
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Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 57 (ASCBN 00057) |
1,915 CE |
Syriac |
- Homilies of Isaac of Antioch
- pages 1-13, On the love of doctrine
- pages 13-26, On the humility of the bretheren, and an admonition
- pages 26-37, On humility
- pages 37-46, On avarice
- pages 46-50, On the departed
- pages 51-70, On the solitaries and mourners and rulers
- pages 70-75, On the end
- pages 75-80 On repentance
- pages 80-99, On solitaries and on monks, an admonition
- pages 99-104, On exhortation and admonition and on himself
- pages 104-119, On the rich man and Lazarus
- pages 119-127, On repentance
- pages 127-136, On Poverty
- pages 136-144, On exhortation
- pages 144-149, On those who complain against one another at the time of prayer and of the mysteries
- pages 149-162, On the holy fast of forty days
- pages 162-171, On the holy fast
- pages 171-204, On admonition
- pages 204-228, On admonition
- pages 229-242, On Constantine
- pages 242-248, On repentance
- pages 248-259, On repentance
- pages 259-272, On rogations
- pages 272-283, On rogations
- pages 283-297, On faith
- pages 297-308, On the passibility and impassibility of the Word of God, the Word incarnate
- page 308-328 On that bird which cried out "Holy God"<ܐܝܓܝܘܣ ܐܬܐܘܣ> in the city of Antioch
- pages 332-348, Ephem Syrus, Memra made at the time of his death
- Incipit: ܐܢܐ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܡܐܬ ܐܢܐ ܘܕܝܬܝܩܐ ܥܒܕ ܐܢܐ
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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
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