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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00426) 1,805 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Jacob of Sarug
    • Psalms and prayers
    • Commentary by Jacob of Sarug
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
Sachau 220; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 28 800 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 220

  • Syrian Orthodox Homiliary; For an ordered breakdown, see the Sachau entry above
    • Basil, f. 9
    • Gregory Nazianzus, f. 3, 4, 26, 28
    • Gregory of Nyssa, f. 6
    • Epiphanius, f. 17
    • John Chrysostom, f. 8, 9, 12, 13, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 41, 43, 47
    • Cyril of Alexandria, f. 13, 15, 17, 49, 50
    • Proclus of Constantinople, f. 40, 41
    • Jacob of Sarug, f. 10, 11, 29
    • Severus of Antioch, f. 10-12, 24, 26, 35, 43, 48
    • Pantoleon Presbyter Byzantinus, f. 48
    • Theodotus the bishop of Ancyra, f. 6
    • Antipater of Bostra, f. 29
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 30b 700 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 71 and Assemani 73; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 71 (XVI century)
    • f. 11v-28v- Assemani 71: Homilies of Jacob of Sarug (Garshuni)
      •  On the angel guarding paradise
      • On the explusion of Adam from Paradise
      • On Adam, whether he was created in a state of mortality or immortality
      • On the Thief on the Right
    • f. 29r-49r Ephrem Syrus, Ascetical sermon on penitence and contrition
  • Assemani 73 (VIII century)
    • The letters of Severus of Antioch translated into Syriac from Greek by Anastasius of Nisibis (A.D. 669)
      • f. 1r To the monks of the great monastery
      • f. 2r To Bishop Eleusinius
      • f. 3v To Archelaus of Tyre
      • f. 4r About Monks and monasteries, to Valeriana the deaconness and abbess
      • f. 5r To Iannia the deaconness and abbess
      • f. 6v Letter to Simeon, the abbot of the great monastery
      • f. 7r Letter to Nonnus, the Bishop of Seleucia
      • f. 9r Letter to Victor, the Bishop of Philadelphia
      • f. 9v Letter to Stephen, Bishop of Apamea
      • f. 10r Letter to the wife of Calliopius, the Patriarch with a diptych
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 71 1,340 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 36; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Offices for feast days
  • Jacob of Sarug, hymns
  • Ephrem Syrus, hymn 49, on the saints and the departed
  • Order of the blessing of the waters
  • Order of the blessing of the oil
  • Order of the entrance
  • Order of the washing of the feet
  • Order of the commemoration of the cross
  • Order of forgiveness and pardon
  • Order of the mass and rubrics
  • Order of the reception of heretics and apostates
  • Order of confession
  • Order of the reception of public sinners
  • Prayers and absolutions for all general sins
  • Prayers and benedictions
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409a 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46, Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409b 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409c 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00483) 1,511 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-108r 'Onitha on Rabban Hormizd
  • f. 108v-115r 'Onitha on Mār Khodahwi
  • f. 116r-132v Ephrem Syrus, Homily on the Last Days and the accomplishment, and on Gog and Magog, and about the false Messiah
  • f. 133r-141v Homily 
  • f. 142r-153v Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the Last Judgment, the Kingdom, and Gehenna
  • f. 154r-163v Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onitha for Monday of the Rogation of the Ninevites
Tur Abdin, Turkey, Churches in Enhil (CET 00039) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homilies

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