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*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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 184 (SMMJ 00184) 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 3-6; SMC 3-6). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • f. 1r-4r Patriarch Cyril Ibn Laqlaq, Confession
  • f. 4v-22r St. John Chrysostom, Homily on repentance and on the reception of the divine mysteries
  • f. 22r-34r Mar Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the benefit of the Eucharist for the dead in the next world
  • f. 34r-39v St. John Chrysostom, Homily on the illustrious feastday of Palm Sunday
  • f. 39v-43r St. John Chrysostom, Homily on the Supper of the Mysteries and on the washing of the feet of the disciples
  • f. 43r-50v An exposition of the reason for the fast of Wednesday and Friday, its obligations and its benefit
  • f. 50v-54r Especially concerning the true faith, concerning the Unity and the Trinity, and concerning the [one] interior Church
  • f. 54r-57v
  • f. 57v-62r Sedro for the feast of the Ascension
  • f. 62r-69v Homily of Jacob of Sarug on the dispute of Satan with our Lord
  • f. 69v-75v Mar Jacob of Sarug, Homily the entry of Christ into the Temple on the arm of Simeon, the Old Man
  • f. 75v-78v Mar Ephrem, On the birth of John the Baptist
  • f. 79r-87v Mar Ephrem, On Mary and Joseph and the reproach they received from the Jews (Syriac and Garshuni in parallel columns)
  • f. 87v-92r Mar Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the resurrection of the dead (Syriac and Garshuni)
  • f. 92r-107v The story of Gabriel of the Monastery of Qartmin
  • f. 108r-197v Patriarch Cyrillus Ibn Laqlaq, The book of the master and the disciples, consisting of 22 articles
  • f. 198r-204v Mar Isaac, On the feast of the Annunciation
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00135) 1,800 CE Garshuni
  • Ephrem Syrus, Homily
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • New Testament Lectionary (Syriac Rite)
  • Prooemia and Sedrē
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00291) 1,728 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Prayers, Prooemia, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's Brother
  • Selection from a Liturgical Text
  • Readings from the Gospels, prooemia, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Anaphora of Julius of Rome
  • Anaphora of Eustathius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of John of Nisibis
  • Anaphora of Ignatius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of Jacob Burd'oyo
  • Anaphora of Marutha of Tagrit
  • Anaphora of Philoxenus of Mabbug
  • Dismissal Prayers of Mor Jacob
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00295) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Service before the Mass; Readings; Prooemia; Sedrē
  • Small Anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of John of Ḥarran
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome
  • Anaphora of Jacob from the Monastery of Mor Ḥannanyo
  • Anaphora of Julius of Rome
  • Anaphora of Mushe bar Kepha
  • Dismissal Prayer of Mor Jacob
  • Dismissal Prayer of Mor Ephrem