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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 51 (SMMJ 00051) 900 CE Syriac

See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-1; SMC 2-1). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • f. 1r-222v [Fenqitho] Hymnary for Sundays and feasts, for the Fast and for commemorations
    • f. 1r-4v Nativity
    • f. 4v-11v Mother of God
    • f. 11v-17r (Mt. 2:16-18)
    • f. 17r-20v Saints Basil and Gregory
    • f. 20b-27b Epiphany
    • f. 27v-42v Sundays after Epiphany
    • f. 42v-47v Beheading of John the Baptist
    • f. 47v-52r St. Stephen
    • f. 52r-58r [Presentation of Christ in the Temple]
    • f. 58v-61v St. Barsauma
    • f. 61v-66r St. Severus of Antioch
    • f. 66r-69r Sunday before the Fast, the Sunday of the Priests
    • f. 69r-127r Sundays and weekdays of the Fast. 
      • f. 77r-78r St. Ephrem
      • f. 115v-124v Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
      • f. 124v-127r Raising of Lazarus
    • f. 127r-131r Palm Sunday
    • f. 131r-135v Monday through Wednesday of Passion Week
    • f. 135v-145r Thursday of Passion Week, including ff. 144r-145r, the service of footwashing
    • f. 145r-148v Friday of Passion Week
    • f. 148v-151r Saturday of Good Titings
    • f. 151r-155v Easter Sunday [Pascha]
    • f. 155v-180v Eastertie liturgy in the other seven tones
    • f. 180v-184r New Sunday
    • f. 184r-187v Ascension Thursday
    • f. 187v-191v Pentecost
    • f. 191v-194r Holy Cross
    • f. 194r-195v The Prophet Elijah
    • f. 195v-197v The Apostle Thomas
    • f. 197v-198r The Apostles in common
    • f. 198r-201r St. Jacob of Sarug
    • f. 201r-203r Saints Sergius and Bacchus
    • f. 203r-205r St. Barbara
    • f. 205r-207v St. George
    • f. 207v-210r Patron Saint
    • f. 210r-213v Common office of the Mother of God, the Saints and the departed
    • f. 213v-222v Common offices in the other seven tones
Vat. sir. 369 700 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory of Nyssa, On St. Stephen 
  • Amphicolus, Funeral oration on praise
  • Severian of Gabala, On the Nativity of the Lord
  • Gregory Nazianzus, on the holy light seen at the Baptism of our Lord
  • John Chrysostom, On the holy light
  • John Chrysostom, On the Epiphany of our Lord
  • John Chrysostom, On the baptism of the Lord
  • John Chrysostom, Wrestling with Satan
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the baptism of the Lord
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the Epiphany and on the baptism of the Lord
  • Jacob (Doctor of the Church), On the Epiphany of the Lord
  • John Chrysostom, On the entrance of the Lord into the temple
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the entrance of the Lord into the temple
  • Proclus of Constantinople, On dogma
  • Basil the Great, On the Initian sunday of the 40-day fast
  • Basil the Great, On the 40-day fast
  • Basil the Great, Another on the 40-day fast
  • Jacob (Doctor of the Church), On the 40-day fast
  • John Chrysostom, On the Fast
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the Fast
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the Holy Fast
  • Basil the Great, On the 40 martyrs of Sebaste
  • Basil the Great, Another on the 40 martyrs of Sebaste
  • John Chrysostom, On the Annunciation
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the Annunciation
  • Cyril of Alexandria, In praise of the Mother
  • John Chrysostom, On Lazarus the poor man
  • John Chrysostom, On Palm Sunday
  • John Chrysostom, On the second day of Holy Week
  • Anastasius of Sinai, On the descent of our Lord into Sheol
  • Gregory Nazianzus, On the Pascha
  • Gregory Nazianzus, Another on the Pascha
  • John Chrysostom, On the 5th day of the mysteries
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the 5th day of the mysteries
  • John Chrysostom, On the cross and on the thief on the right
  • John Chrysostom, On the sixth day of the crucifixion
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the crucifixion of our Lord
  • On the pascha
  • John Chrysostom, On the resurrection of our Lord
  • Gregory Nazianzus, On the New Sunday
  • John Chrysostom, On the New Sunday
  • John Chrysostom, On the Ascension of our Lord
  • Gregory Nazianzus, On the feast of Pentecost and on the Holy Spirit
  • John Chrysostom, On Pentecost
  • John Chrysostom, On the Holy Apostles and the Holy Spirit
  • John Chrysostom, On the holy cross, and on Adam and Eve
  • John Chrysostom, On the Prodigal Son
  • John Chrysostom, Another on the Prodigal Son
  • John Chrysostom, A third on the Prodigal Son
  • John Chrysostom, On virginity, penitence, and corruption
  • John Chrysostom, On Pslalm 50
  • Anastasius of Sinai, On Psalm 6
  • John Chrysostom, On the statement to Timothy "Drink a bit of wine for thy stomach's sake"
  • John Chrysostom, On that statement "Whoever does not hurt his own soul, no one can hurt him."