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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 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)

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 74 (ASOM 00074) 1,890 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 2v-73v Selected Memrē
    • Title NS: ܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ ܡܓܒܝ̈ܐ
    • A Memra in the meter of Mar Jacob <of Sarug>
    • Jacob of Sarug, On the chariot which Ezekiel saw
    • Isaac of Nineveh, Memra in the meter of Mar Ephrem
    • Isaac of Nineveh, On Silence and Stillness, and on Love
    • Isaac the Teacher <of Antioch>, On the Perfection of the Brethren
    • Isaac the Teacher <of Antioch>, On solitaries and guides and the humble and the Nazirites and the poor and the mourners and the aliens  and the perfect and those like them
    • Isaac the Teacher <of Antioch>, On the Perfection of the Brethren
    • Isaac the Teacher <of Antioch>, On the natural division of natural thought
    • Ephrem Syrus, Demonstration on Paradise
    • Mar Jacob, Memra on the moment of the departure of good and bad people, how each receives his repayment and his labor
    • Moshe bar Kepha, Examination about the resurrection of the body

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

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 106 (ASOM 00106) 1,781 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-75r Memre
    • Includes memre by Ephrem of Nisibis and Isaac of Antioch
  • fol. 76r-99r Commentary on Revelation
  • fol. 99r-106r Isaac of Antioch, Memra on the love of learning
  • fol. 106v-135v On the sacrament of penance and reconciliation
    • Title NS: ܣܪ ܐܠܬܘܒܗ̈

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 117 (ASOM 00117) 1,730 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-140r Psalms
    • Title NS: ܡܙܡܘܪ̈ܐ ܕܕܘܝܕ
    • Parallel columns in Syriac and Arabic Garshuni
    • Note: Includes also Psalm 151
  • fol. 140v-142r Odes
    • Moses and the song of the Red Sea
    • Isaiah the prophet
    • Hannah the prophetess [Mother of Samuel]
    • Jonah the Prophet
    • [Mary] the God-bearer
  • fol. 142v-143r Nicene Creed
  • fol. 143r-v The praise of the angel (Gloria in excelsis) and other liturgical prayers
  • fol. 143v Trisagion
  • fol. 143v The Lord's Prayer
  • fol. 143v-145r Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on doctrine
    • Title NS: ܬܘܒ ܡܐܡܪܐ ܕܩ̄ܕ ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܕܥܠ ܝܘܠܦܢܐ

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 7 (SMMJ 00007) 1,572 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 2.

  • fol. 1v-115v Psalter
  • fol. 115v-117r Homily attributed to Mar Ephrem, On humility, admonition, correction

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 14 (SMMJ 00014) 1,424 CE Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-131v Psalter
  • fol. 131v-136v Prayer and two homilies ascribed to Ephrem of Nisibis

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 

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 20 (SMMJ 00020) 1,500 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-210v Psalter
    • fol. 187v-201r Homilies by Severus of Antioch, Ephrem of Nisibis, Philoxenus of Mabbug, and Bar Hebraeus on fol. 187v-201r

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 88 (SMMJ 00088) 1,838 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • Prayer book for monks
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܨܠ̈ܘܬܐ ܕܡܨܠܐ ܠܗܝܢ ܐܢܫ ܕܝܪܝܐ ܟܝܬ ܠܗ ܘܠܢܦܫܗ ܒܥܕܢܐ ܕܫ̈ܥܐ ܕܠܠܝܐ ܘܕܐܝܡܡܐ
    • Includes prayer of genuflection by Philoxenus of Mabbug, fol. 42r-52r; prayers to Virgin Mary by Shemʿūn II, Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, fol. 75r-82v; homilies by Bihnam Hadlōyō and Ephrem of Nisibis, fol. 106v-125r

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