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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
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
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 10/17; 232 (DIYR 00244) 1,800 CE Armenian, Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish
  • Nativity Canticle (Garshuni)
  • Epiphany Canticle (Garshuni)
  • Rogation (Garshuni)
  • Shem'un II, Canticle (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Jacob of Sarug, Petition on Epiphany (Syriac)
  • Liturgical proclamations (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for the Cross (Syriac)​
  • Canticle for the Passions (Garshuni)
  • Liturgical proclamations (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for the Passion of Our Lord (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for the Presentation of Our Lord at the Temple (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Barsawma (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Adoration of the Magi (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Our Lady (Armenian)
  • Canticles (Garshuni)
  • Liturgical Proclamations (Garshuni)
  • Canticles for the Virgin Mary (Garshuni)
  • Canticles for Nativity (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Saint George (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Peter (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for John the Baptist (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for St. Ephrem (Garshuni)
  • Canticles for Our Lady (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Saint Cyriacus (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Shem'on the Poor (Garshuni)
  • Canticles (Garshuni)
  • Liturgical proclamations (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Shmoni and her sons (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for the Passion (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Jesus and His Mother (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Our Lady and others (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Canticle for Repentance (Garshuni)
  • Account about an event in Aleppo (Garshuni)
  • Canticle for Our Lady (Garshuni)
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)
Vat. sir. 217 1,585 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gabriel Barclay, Maronite Bishop of Nicosa, On the Sphere
  • Daniel the sage, On the Zodiac Signs
  • Berozi the teacher, to Theo
  • Astrologia & Lunarium
  • Gabriel Barclay, Metrical exposition on the Apocalypse of John
  • Prayers, benedictions, and absolutions (Syriac and Arabic)
  • Order of the benediction for the great Sunday
  • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Joseph
  • On the discovery of the body of Joseph under Arcadius and Honorius
  • On the children of Ephesus
  • Various memre
  • Calendar
  • History of animals
  • Hunayn of Hirta, excerpt on medicine
  • Ishō' bar 'Alī, Explination of exotic words
  • Utilizing plants, planets and herbs
  • Michael the Maronite Patriarch, Epistle to the king of the Franks (dated 1575)
  • 'Abdisho' the Catholicos, syriac memre
  • 'Abdisho' the patriarch of the Chaldeans
  • Creed of St. Athanasius
  • Isho'yahb of Nisibis (Bar Malkon), profession of the faith
  • Epistle of formularies
  • Profession of the faith
  • College rules of the Maronites
  • Mass for the Nativity
  • David bar Pawlos, Syriac Memre
  • On the seven climates, Syriac memre
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 252 (SMMJ 00252) 1,621 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2r-49r Ḥusōyō prayers (Garshuni)
  • fol. 49v-79v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Canons (Garshuni)
  • fol. 80r-85r Feasts of the church year (Syriac)
  • fol. 85r-87v Jacob of Sarug, Selections from homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 87v-88r Ephrem of Nisibis, Selections from homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 88v-94v Anaphora of Xystus (Syriac)
  • fol. 95r-103v Unidentified liturgical text (Garshuni)