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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 242; 7/13; 279 (DIYR 00242) 1,707 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Homily
  • John Chrysostom, On repentance
  • On repentance
  • Story of the Forty Martyrs
  • On repentance
  • John Chrysostom, On mercy
  • Ephrem Syrus, On repentance
  • Homily on the Holy Lent that is recited every day in the church
  • George, Bishop of the Arabs, Homily on Dying, the world and the soul's exit from the body
  • Story of St. Gregory
  • Basil, Bishop of Caesarea, About a swimmer in springs and streams
  • Moses' conversation on Mt. Sinai
  • Letter that fell from heaven
  • Story of John of the Golden Gospel
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily on repentance that is recited during the days of the Lent
  • Story of St. Gregory
  • Martyrdom of Barbara and Juliana
  • Story of righteous Job
  • Story of Anba Cyrus
  • Story of St. Michael
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 245 (DIYR 00245) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Table of contents (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Nativity (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for John the Baptist (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Nativity (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for the Presentation of Christ at the Temple (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Joseph (Garshuni)
  • Shem'un II, From the doctrine on the Trinity (Garshuni)
  • Balai, On Gehenna (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Canticle for Palm Sunday (Garshuni)
  • Canticles for our Lady (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Jesus and Mary (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for the Cross (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Our Lady (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Repentance (Garshuni)
  • Ephrem Syrus, Canticle (Garshuni)
  • Coptic canticle for our Lady (Garshuni)
  • Canticle in the Meter of Mar Jacob (Garshuni)
  • Canticle in the meter of Mar Ephrem (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for our Lady (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Metropolitan Ḥannon (Garshuni)
  • Canticle in the meter of Ephrem (Garshuni)
  • Liturgical proclamations (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Repentance (Garshuni)
  • Liturgical Proclamations (Garshuni)
  • Canticles (Garshuni)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 268 (DIYR 00268) 1,865 CE Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish
  • \Table of Contents
  • Reading from the Gospel of Matthew (Turkish)
  • Reading from one of Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians (Turkish)
  • Ephrem Syrus, On the third day after the burial (Garshuni)
  • Jacob of Sarug, On the seventh day after the burial (Garshuni)
  • Jacob of Sarug, On the fortieth day after the burial (Garshuni)
  • Readings from the Gospels and Pauline Epistles (Garshuni)
  • Prooemion (Syriac)
  • Burial rite for laymen (Syriac, Garshuni)
  • Burial rite for women (Garshuni)
  • Burial rite for children (Garshuni)
  • Burial rite for priests and deacons (Garshuni)
  • Readings from the Gospels and Pauline Epistles (Garshuni)
  • Ephrem Syrus, Homily for the dead (Garshuni)
  • Readings from the Gospels and Pauline Epistles (Turkish)
  • Liturgical Chants (Syriac)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 42; 6/5 (DIYR 00292) 1,400 CE Syriac
  • Funeral rite for priests
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the burial of Aaron the Priest
  • Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily 
  • Funeral Rite for Believers
  • Runeral Rite for women
  • Funeral Rite for children
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily upon dying children and infants
  • Ephrem Syrus, Homily on the benediction of the table
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the deceased
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 309 (DIYR 00345) 1,755 CE Syriac
  • Service for the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • Rogation of Mar Ephrem
Harvard MS Syr 35 1,500 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • Histories of the Virgin Mary: The Histories of the Virgin are in five books, all but no. 4 having lacunae in their text. Ff. 135-140 (disordered) contain a memra of Mar Aprim "on Mary and Joseph and on the scorn they endured from the Jews."
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
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).
Harvard MS Syr 85 1,100 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • Order for the burial of priests, including eight services, and lections and memre of Ephrem and Jacob (f. 10-59r, incomplete at the beginning)
  • Order of burial for laymen (4 services), women (4), nuns (2) and children (4) (58r-114v)
  • Memre in the names of Ephrem, Isaac, and Jacob (114v-146, incomplete at the end). The other leaves come from at least three mss.: two of burial services (4-5 and 6-9, all paper) and the other of unidentified services (1-3, 147-150, all vellum).
Borg. sir. 10 Unknown Syriac

Homilies of the Fathers: Catalog entry link

  • Eleven homilies of Isaac of Antioch, Jacob of Sarug, Isaac of Ninevah, and of St. Ephrem on the ascetic life and on the incarnation
  • A Memra composed by a certain bishop on the seven climates of the earth and on the variations of the climates
  • Canons of the Holy Fathers on the Christian life, on the liturgy, and on the sacrifice

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