Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 49 (SMMJ 00049) |
1,600 CE |
Garshuni |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-9; SMC 2-9); Catalog entry in Baumstark 18*. Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- f. 1v-139v Anonymous, Lections gathered from the four gospels with commentaries.
- f. 140r-171v Pragsha, that is, a book that is a sort of collection of commentaries and discourses and canons of the Fathers
- f. 140r-144r Chapter 1, That God is eternal, pre-existent, invisible and omnipotent
- f. 144rv Chapter 2, On the construction of the earthly church
- f. 144v-145r Chapter 3, Concerning the eucharistic bread and wine
- f. 145r-156r Chapter 4, Explanation of the office and the mass
- f. 156r-157v Chapter 5, Concerning the priesthood
- f. 157v-162r Chapter 6, On priests, deacons and penance
- f. 162r-164r Chapter 7, concerning prayer
- f. 164r-170r Translation of what has been mentioned in this chapter from Syriac and Arabic. A translation of the Sanctus and Trisagion, with commentary of the Fathers
- f. 170r-171r On first fruits, votive offerings and tithes
- f. 171r-197r A miscellany of stories, homilies, and short treatises
- f. 171r-172v The story of a merchant. This is an edifying tale of a God-fearing merchant who had a very beautiful wife.
- f. 172v-174v A delightful portrayal from one of the authorities
- f. 174v-177v A parable that the doctors of the Church set forth on the interpretation of the gospel. It is a story about a certain jeweler
- f. 177v-183v St. Jacob of Sarug, Homily on charity
- f. 183v-192v Anonymous, Discourse on Sunday
- f. 193r-195v The commandments that our Lord ordered in his holy Gospel, there are 99
- f. 195v-197r Seven prayers that are prescribed for us
- f. 197r-222r Book of homilies delivered by Severus, more commonly known as Moshe bar Kepha
- f. 197r-201r First homily, on the consecration of the Church and her renewal
- f. 201r-207r Second homily, On when the angel brought the good news to the priest Zechariah about the birth of John (the Baptist)
- f. 207r-212r Third homily, On the annunciation of the angel Gabriel to the holy and pure St. Mary
- f. 212r-217v Homily on the temptation by Satan of our Lord Jesus Christ
- f. 217v-221r Homily on the leper whom our Lord cured of the affliction of leprosy
- f. 221r-222r Homily read on the first Sunday of the blessed Fast
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Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00398) |
1,583 CE |
Arabic, Latin, Persian, Syriac |
See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 95
- f. 1v-5v Homily for the blessed brethren (Syriac)
- f. 5v-13v Homily on Repentance (Syriac)
- f. 15v Story about a monk from Najran (Arabic)
- f. 16v-53r Gregory bar Hebraeus, On Perfection with additions and commentaries by Khamis bar Qardahe and Īsho'yahb bar Mqaddam (Syriac)
- f. 53v-55v Ode on the soul, with commentary by Khamis bar Qardahe (Syriac)
- f. 56r-75r Khamis bar Qardahe, Homilies (Syriac)
- f. 76v-77r Isho'yahb bar Malkon, Book of Instruction (Syriac)
- f. 78v-144v Homily on Rabban Hormizd (Syriac)
- f. 147v-160v 'Onitha: Pearl of Knowledge (Syriac)
- f. 172v-182v 'Onitha for the commemoration of Yuliṭa and her son (Syriac)
- f. 183v-197v 'Abdishō' of Gazarta, Homily on the homonyms (Syriac)
- f. 198r-203v Riddles (Syriac)
- f. 204r-204v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Turgama of Cyriacus (Syriac)
- f. 205r-208v Homily of Rogation (Syriac)
- f. 208v-212v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Dismissal prayers in strophes (Syriac)
- f. 212v-216v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
- f. 216v-217v Homily about bad time (Syriac)
- f. 218r-222r Ephrem Syrus, Sermon on Reprehension V (Syriac)
- f. 223r-227r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the mysteries of our Lord in the Old Testament (Syriac)
- f. 227v-232v Credo of the true Orthodox (Syriac)
- f. 232v-233v Credo of Isho'panaḥ, who was accused of drinking the poison of paganism (Syriac)
- f. 234v-243r Excerprs from various canonical texts on the election of a patriarch and his rights (Syriac)
- f. 243v-245r Khamis bar Qardahe, Brief note on heresies and on the pagan gods that were abolished through the coming of Christ (Latin, Persian, Syriac)
- f. 245v-246v Homily that awakens and exhorts and incites penitents (Syriac)
- f. 247r-248r Homily about a Syrian Orthodox Patriarch (Syriac)
- f. 248r-256r 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
- f. 256r-258r Riddles (Syriac)
- f. 258r-266v Poems (Syriac)
- f. 267r-274v Disputation between a monk of Bet Ḥale and an Arab notable (Syriac)
- f. 274v-277v On the Trinity (in questions and answers) and other liturgical matters (Syriac)
- f. 278r-280r Names of the prophets (Syriac)
- f. 280r-281r On the cities of pagan kingdoms (Syriac)
- f. 281v-299r Isho'dad of Merv, Excerpts from the Commentary on the New Testament (Syriac)
- f. 299r-310v Questions on the Pentateuch (Syriac)
- f. 310v-312v On the barbarious nations that do not know writing and god (Syriac)
- f. 313r-334v Computus and other astronomical and historical reckonings (Syriac)
- f. 335v-344v Rite of reception of an ordained bishop
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Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 58; 3/16 (DIYR 00190) |
1,910 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
- Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, the Cream of Wisdom [Selections]
- List of the Syriac and Arabic works of Bar 'Ebrōyō
- Account of the death of bar 'Ebrōyō
- Account of the death of bar 'Ebrōyō
- Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, Homily
- List of the Patriarchs of Antioch
- John bar Ma'dani, praises and prayers
- John bar Ma'dani, Hymns for the Lord's feast
- Book of guidance about the ranks of deacons
- Collection of services
- Jacob of Edessa, List of feasts
- John bar Ma'dani, On our God who became man on behalf of us
- John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the seizure of Edessa
- Daniel ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Book on the foundations of religion
- World is a bodily behavior
- Homily on Mar Matthew from the mountain Alfaf
- Canon on how it is necessary to perform church prayer
- Morning Gospel reading for Children
- On the Assumption of our Lady Mary and how the Apostles gathered on the day of her death
- Jacob of Sarug, Homily
- Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, For Priests
- Jacob of Sarug, Commentary on Deuteronomy. Selections
- Philoxenus of Mabbug, on the Prophets
- Jacob of Sarug, From the homily on the love of God
- Jacob of Sarug, From the Holy Mar Jacob
- From the Works of the Holy Fathers
- Daniel of Salaḥ, Commentary on Psalm 8
- Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On performing the sign of the cross with one finger
- Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the Trisagion
- Timothy Isaac, Selections from the Holy Fathers against the Chalcedonians
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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 222 (SMMJ 00222) |
1,791 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- fol. 1v-60r Yūsuf al-Kaslūqīṯī, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni)
- fol. 61v-62r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the Twelve Apostles (Syriac)
- fol. 62v-63v Jacob of Sarug, Homilies (Syriac)
- fol. 63v-66r Commands of the Gospel (Syriac)
- fol. 66r-69r Philoxenus of Mabbug, Admonition to keep the Lord's commands (Syriac)
- fol. 69r-69v Evagrius and John of Dalyatha, Collection of sayings
- fol. 69v-72r Philoxenus of Mabbug, Creed (Syriac)
- fol. 72r-74v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Creed of the Syriac Orthodox Church (Syriac)
- fol. 74v-75v Dialogue on the body of Christ (Syriac)
- fol. 75v-91v Jacob of Edessa, Letter on the Providence of God (Syriac)
- fol. 91v-94r Ephrem of Nisibis, Selections from a homily (Syriac)
- fol. 94r-99r Jacob of Sarug, Homilies (Syriac)
- Includes note on the life of Jacob of Sarug, fol. 98v-99r
- fol. 99r-99v Jacob of Edessa, Letter on God's providence
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