Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

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This table searches all collections of Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts that are freely available online by key terms. Click any of the categorized menu items to narrow down your search. If you would like to sort the manuscripts by shelf-mark or date, or search by general keyword, see our other table here, which includes all the same manuscript data.

*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
Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 57 (ASCBN 00057) 1,915 CE Syriac
  • Homilies of Isaac of Antioch
    • pages 1-13, On the love of doctrine
    • pages 13-26, On the humility of the bretheren, and an admonition
    • pages 26-37, On humility
    • pages 37-46, On avarice
    • pages 46-50, On the departed
    • pages 51-70, On the solitaries and mourners and rulers
    • pages 70-75, On the end
    • pages 75-80 On repentance
    • pages 80-99, On solitaries and on monks, an admonition
    • pages 99-104, On exhortation and admonition and on himself
    • pages 104-119, On the rich man and Lazarus
    • pages 119-127, On repentance
    • pages 127-136, On Poverty
    • pages 136-144, On exhortation
    • pages 144-149, On those who complain against one another at the time of prayer and of the mysteries
    • pages 149-162, On the holy fast of forty days
    • pages 162-171, On the holy fast
    • pages 171-204, On admonition
    • pages 204-228, On admonition
    • pages 229-242, On Constantine
    • pages 242-248, On repentance
    • pages 248-259, On repentance
    • pages 259-272, On rogations
    • pages 272-283, On rogations
    • pages 283-297, On faith
    • pages 297-308, On the passibility and impassibility of the Word of God, the Word incarnate
    • page 308-328 On that bird which cried out "Holy God"<ܐܝܓܝܘܣ ܐܬܐܘܣ> in the city of Antioch
  • pages 332-348, Ephem Syrus, Memra made at the time of his death
    • Incipit: ܐܢܐ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܡܐܬ ܐܢܐ ܘܕܝܬܝܩܐ ܥܒܕ ܐܢܐ
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 154 (SMMJ 00154) 1,600 CE Arabic, Garshuni

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

  • Theological Miscellany
    • Includes homilies and other texts by Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzus, Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffaʻ of el-Ashmunein, Gregory the Illuminator, and Isaac of Nineveh​