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
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi10/5; 195 (DIYR 00277) 1,200 CE Syriac
  • Hymn tunes related to vigils
  • Hymn tunes related to the celebration of the Cross
  • Jacob of Sarug, Rogations of the Cross
  • Service of glorifications
  • Service fo seblotho hymns 
  • Hymns for offering incense
  • Prayers recited before the Psalms
  • Index of the feasts of the saints
  • Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History (selections)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 346 (SMMJ 00346) 1,894 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 12r-56r Secure foundation
  • fol. 59r Names of the bishops and patriarchs of Antioch
  • fol. 60r-60v Prayer over a woman that has given birth
  • fol. 61r Petition of Mār Ephrem
  • fol. 65r-67v Iwannīs of Birtha, Homily
  • fol. 68r-70v Denḥā I, Response to the letter of Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō
  • fol. 74r-74v Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the hour of death of the good and evil
  • fol. 74v-75v Ephrem of Nisibis, homily
  • fol. 75v-76v Homily in the meter of Mar Ephrem
  • fol. 76v Ephrem of Nisibis, Soghitha on himself
  • fol. 77r-77v On the death of Patriarch Peter
  • fol. 78r-78v Homily in praise of Patriarch Peter
  • fol. 79r-79v Homily on the death of Patriarch Peter
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 475 (SMMJ 00475) 2,012 CE Garshuni, Kurdish, Syriac
  • Memre and hymns
    • Includes memre and hymns by Jacob of Serugh, Jacob ʿUrdansaya, Ignatius Marcus bar Qīqī, Ḥananyō Akhsnōyō, Shemʿūn II Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, and Ephrem of Nisibis; historical homilies by Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina on incursion of the Turks into Mesopotamia and on Tamerlane, pages 54-72