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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 249 (SMMJ 00249) 1,565 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-14v On Elijah and Elisha 
  • fol. 14v-23v On Elijah the prophet
  • fol. 23v-88r Story of Victor of Alexandria and his mother Martha
  • fol. 88r-96r Story of Mark of Jabal Tarmaq
  • fol. 96v-102r Isaac of Nineveh, Praise to Mary
  • fol. 102v-113v Story of George the Martyr
  • fol. 113v-118v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on youth and age
  • fol. 119r-126v Story of Jacob
  • fol. 127r-138r Story of Stephen the first Martyr
  • fol. 138r-147v Story of Matthew and Andrew
  • fol. 148r-150v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on the disciples's question to the Lord about his Second Coming
  • fol. 151r-168v John Chrysostom, Homily on the Ten Commandments

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