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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mingana Syriac 86 1,300 CE Syriac

See catalog entry for Mingana 86

  • f. 4r-90v Mystic treatises (Mingana believes them to be Isaac or Ninevah. Many headings are missing)
  • f. 90v-97v St. Macarius of Alexandria, A Prayer
  • f. 97v-109r Philoxenus of Mabbug, A Prayer
  • f. 109-112r A treatise of the holy and godly elder [John of Dalyatha or John Saba?] (ܡܡܠܠܐ ܕܣܒܐ ܩܕܝܫܐ ܘܐܠܗܝܐ) (called "18th mimra" in the margin)
  • f. 112r-115v Isaac of Ninevah, Treatise consisting mostly of prayers
  • f. 115v-116v Palladius, A treatise on the virtues without which no man can make any progress
  • f. 116v-117r The virtues which an old monk possessed
  • f. 117r-119v A treatise on mysticism
  • f. 119v-138v Mark the Monk, A long treatise on mysticism, often consisting of good sayings
  • f. 138v-139v Ephrem Syrus, A treatise (ܡܡܠܠܐ) in prose
  • f. 139v-154v Isaac of Ninevah, A long mystical treatise
  • f. 154-166 A treatise on mysticism attributed to the holy and godly elder [John of Dalyatha or John Saba?] (ܡܡܠܠܐ ܕܣܒܐ ܩܕܝܫܐ ܘܐܠܗܝܐ)
  • f. 166v-178v Gregory the Monk [Gregory of Cyprus], A treatise on spirituality for monks
  • f. 179r-179v Isaac of Ninevah, A short discourse on spirituality
  • f. 179v-184v Isaac of Ninevah, A short discourse on spirituality, on night vigils
  • f. 184v-190v Evagrius, A discourse on mysticism
  • f. 190 St. Ephrem, A short mimra on mysticism
  • f. 190v-198r John Saba, A treatise on mysticism
  • f. 198r-198v John Naqar (ܝܘܚܢܢ ܢܩܪ), A short treatise on mysticism
  • f. 198v-200v John Naqar (ܝܘܚܢܢ ܢܩܪ), A short treatise on mysticism
  • f. 201r-207v Evagrius, Exhortations and good advice on mysticism
  • f. 207v-213v Evagrius, A treatise on the definition of vices and virtues 
  • f. 213v-232v Evagrius, A long treatise on mysticism (f. 229r-232v contain 97 evangelical sayings on perfection)
  • f. 233r-263v John the Seer (Hazzaya) or possibly John of Lycopolis, A long discourse on mysticism
  • f. 264r-274v The Monk Isaiah (Esha'ya) of Scete, A mystical treatise
Beinecke Syriac MS 8 1,225 CE Syriac

See catalog entry

  • f. 1r Pauline Epistles (fragment)
  • f. 1v-2v Questions by Queen Sheba to King Solomon
  • f. 3ra-4va Philoxenus of Mabbug, Letter to Patrikios of Edessa
  • f. 4vb Sayings, 2 by ? (Philoxenus?), 4 by Evagrius, 1 by Abba Isaiah
  • f. 4vb-7vb Philoxenus of Mabbug, Confessions of Faith
  • f. 7vb-9ra John of Lycopolis (or of Amapea), also the solitary, or "seer, and prophet", The Holy Commandments of the Gospel
  • f. 9ra-29va Commandments (from the gospels, the Pauline and Catholic Epistles, and the prophets
  • f. 29va-end anonymous, about the Sacraments
Sachau 302; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 27 600 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 27

  • f. 1-9r Selections of the work of Mark the Monk (Includes the tractate against the Melchizedekians)
  • f. 9r-11v Another work of Mark the Monk, on Malchus
  • f. 11v-13v Letter of St. Anthony to the monks of all the East
  • f. 13v-16r Letter of John of Thebes
  • f. 16r-19v Letter of Jacob the Seer
  • f. 19v-21v Memra of John Chrysostom on Repentance
  • f. 21v-22r Ephrem Syrus, from the Memra against Bardaisan
  • f. 22r-29v Evagrius Ponticus, Teaching and correction for the solitary brothers in the wilderness
  • f. 30r-41v Evagrius Ponticus, On the perfection of Disciplines
  • f. 41v-42v Evagrius Ponticus, Asceticon
  • f. 42v-54v Evagrius Ponticus, Antirhetikos
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (C2: n12-86) Unknown Sogdian, Syriac
  • Matyrium of St. Pethion
  • Dādišo‛ Qaṭrāyā, commentary on the 15th Homily of Abba Isaiah
  • Legend of the seven sleepers of Ephesus
  • Martyrdom of the Holy Barba‛šemin
  • Martyrdom of the 120 martyrs and of the Holy Barba‛šemin
  • Martyrdom of St. Šahdost
  • *Perhaps part of the homily of Babai of Nisibis, "On the Final Evil Hour"
  • Commentary on the Liturgy; Unidentified Homily
  • Apophthegmata Patrum?
  • Martyrdom of St. Eustathius
  • Evagrius Ponticus, Antirrheticus 
  • Possibly Evagrius Ponticus, Antirrheticus
  • Unidentified
  • Probably part of the homily, "On the divine grace toward creation"
  • Apostolic Canons
  • Apostolic Canons/Commentary on the Liturgy
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00205) 1,800 CE Syriac
  • Psalter
  • Evagrius Ponticus, Kephalaia Gnostica
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 64; 5/15; 124 (DIYR 00231) 1,553 CE Garshuni
  • Husoye; Sedrē
  • Answer to the Armenians with testimonies from the Orthodox Fathers
    • Authors cited include: Ephrem of Nisibis, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory the Theologian, Gregory of Nyssa, Clement, John Chrysostom, Evagrius, John of Edessa, Ignatius of Antioch, Dionysius the Areopagite, Severus of Antioch, Basil the Great
Vat. sir. 126 pt. 2 1,253 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

pp. 397-end (Begins with Abba Isaiah the Monk)

  • 'Enanisho', Paradise of the Fathers
    • Book 1: Palladius, Bishop of Heleopolis
    • Book 2: Palladius (Begins in this section)
    • ​Lives of the Fathers according to St. Jerome
    • Book 4: Apophthegmata Patrum 
    • Doctrine and Admonitions of the Fathers on the monastic institution
    • Abba Evagrius, Sermons
    • Abba Anthony, Letters to the monastic brothers 
    • St. Macarius of Egypt, sermons
    • St. Macarius of Egypt, epistles
    • St. Macarius the Alexandrian, Sermons
    • Abraham Nathpar, sermons
    • Ammon the monk and Bishop of Oxyrinchus, letters
    • St. Xystus of Rome, sermons
    • John of Dalyatha, sermons
    • Gregory the Monk on the isle of Cyprus, sermons
    • John of Thebes, sermons
    • St. Basil the Great, Monstaic institutions, Questions and answers from the brethren
      • Letter to his brother Gregory of Nyssa
      • Paranaetic Chapter
      • Ascetic Chatper
    • Jacob of Sarug, letter on the ascetic way
      • Letter to an abbot on the soul
      • Letter about the virtuous men
    • Philoxenus of Mabbug, on the one whose desire is changed toward refraining from the priesthood
      • Letter to the monks of Amid
    • St. Ephrem, sermon
    • St. Mark the hermit, paranaetic sermon
Vat. sir. 178 Unknown Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Babai of Nisibis, Commentary on the Centuries of Evagrius, and an Apology of Evagrius
Vat. sir. 376 Unknown Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Paradise of the Fathers
    • Abba Evagrius, sermons
    • Abba Anthony, Epistle to the monastic brethren
    • Macarius of Egypt, Sermons
    • Macarius of Egypt, Epistles
    • Macarius of Egypt, On demonic war and prayer
    • Macarius of Alexandria, Sermons
    • Macarius of Alexandria, Letters
Sinai Syr. 60 800 CE Syriac

See entry in Lewis

  • Homilies of Evagrius

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