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*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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 249 (SMMJ 00249) 1,565 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-14v On Elijah and Elisha 
  • fol. 14v-23v On Elijah the prophet
  • fol. 23v-88r Story of Victor of Alexandria and his mother Martha
  • fol. 88r-96r Story of Mark of Jabal Tarmaq
  • fol. 96v-102r Isaac of Nineveh, Praise to Mary
  • fol. 102v-113v Story of George the Martyr
  • fol. 113v-118v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on youth and age
  • fol. 119r-126v Story of Jacob
  • fol. 127r-138r Story of Stephen the first Martyr
  • fol. 138r-147v Story of Matthew and Andrew
  • fol. 148r-150v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on the disciples's question to the Lord about his Second Coming
  • fol. 151r-168v John Chrysostom, Homily on the Ten Commandments

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 252 (SMMJ 00252) 1,621 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2r-49r Ḥusōyō prayers (Garshuni)
  • fol. 49v-79v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Canons (Garshuni)
  • fol. 80r-85r Feasts of the church year (Syriac)
  • fol. 85r-87v Jacob of Sarug, Selections from homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 87v-88r Ephrem of Nisibis, Selections from homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 88v-94v Anaphora of Xystus (Syriac)
  • fol. 95r-103v Unidentified liturgical text (Garshuni)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 284 (SMMJ 00284) 1,889 CE Syriac

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

  • Includes homilies by Ephrem of Nisibis, Bihnam Hadlōyō, Shemʿūn II Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, and Jacob of Serugh

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 290 (SMMJ 00290) 1,477 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-90v Psalter (Syriac Rite, Western; Syriac)
  • fol. 91r-100r Prayers (Syriac)
  • fol. 100r-101v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on humility and love of learning (Syriac)
  • fol. 102r-198r Treatises and letters (Syriac)
  • fol. 198r-200r Monastic and ascetic selections (Syriac)
  • fol. 200v-209v Canons (Garshuni)
  • fol. 210r-210v Homily (Garshuni)
  • fol. 211r-220v Homily for Sunday (Garshuni)
  • fol. 221r-235v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Letter on the canons (Syriac)
  • fol. 235v-236v Questions and answers between a teacher and student (Syriac)
  • fol. 237r-243v John of Ephesus, Homily on repentance, death and the judgment (Garshuni)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 346 (SMMJ 00346) 1,894 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 12r-56r Secure foundation
  • fol. 59r Names of the bishops and patriarchs of Antioch
  • fol. 60r-60v Prayer over a woman that has given birth
  • fol. 61r Petition of Mār Ephrem
  • fol. 65r-67v Iwannīs of Birtha, Homily
  • fol. 68r-70v Denḥā I, Response to the letter of Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō
  • fol. 74r-74v Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the hour of death of the good and evil
  • fol. 74v-75v Ephrem of Nisibis, homily
  • fol. 75v-76v Homily in the meter of Mar Ephrem
  • fol. 76v Ephrem of Nisibis, Soghitha on himself
  • fol. 77r-77v On the death of Patriarch Peter
  • fol. 78r-78v Homily in praise of Patriarch Peter
  • fol. 79r-79v Homily on the death of Patriarch Peter

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 475 (SMMJ 00475) 2,012 CE Garshuni, Kurdish, Syriac
  • Memre and hymns
    • Includes memre and hymns by Jacob of Serugh, Jacob ʿUrdansaya, Ignatius Marcus bar Qīqī, Ḥananyō Akhsnōyō, Shemʿūn II Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, and Ephrem of Nisibis; historical homilies by Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina on incursion of the Turks into Mesopotamia and on Tamerlane, pages 54-72

Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00008 1,828 CE Neo-Aramaic, Syriac
  • fol. [1]v-20r Book of Seven prayers (Syriac)
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܫܒܥ ܨܠܘ̈ܢ
  • fol. 21v-171v Catholic Prayer Book (Neo-Aramaic, Syriac)
    • Includes chapters of prayer from the book of Gregory (ܪ̈ܫܐ ܕܨܠܘ܊ ܡ̣ܢ ܟܬܒܗ ܕܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ), fol. 21v-92r; nine prayers attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian (ܨܠܘܬܐ ܐܦܪܡܝܬܐ), fol. 103r-121r

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