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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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00135) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 2v-46v Joseph II, Patriarch of the Chaldeans, Chaldean Gazzā (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
    • Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
    • Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
    • Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
    • Feast of the Circumcision
  • f. 48r-49r Supplication read at the time of confession
  • f. 50r-96r Psalter (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
  • f. 96r-115v Hudra (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
    • Prayers attributed to Ephrem Syrus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Yazdin, Timothy I, Abraham of Beth Rabban, Thomas of Edessa, Abimalk, John of Beth Rabban, Babai the Great, Babai of Nisibis, George of Nisibis, and others
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00112) 1,702 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 4v-140v Joseph II, Patriarch of the Chaldeans, Gazzā (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
    • ​Feast of the Circumcision
    • Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
    • The Annunciation
    • Commemoration of St. Pethion
    • The Assumption of the Virgin Mary
    • The Nativity of the Virgin Mary
    • The Entombment of Christ
    • Washing of the Feet
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00128) 1,723 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 2v-23r Service in commemoration of Rabban Hormizd (Syriac, Syriac Rite, Eastern)
  • f. 24r-29r Admonition for a burial (Syriac/Garshuni)
  • f. 29v-35v Psalms (Garshuni)
  • f. 36r-49r Prayers (Garshuni)
  • f. 50v-57r Hymns for the ordinary weekdays of the year (Garshuni, Syriac Rite, Eastern)
  • f. 58v-68r Joseph II, Patriarch of the Chaldeans, Prayers for Sundays and Feast Days (Garshuni)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00131) 1,693 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Joseph II, Patriarch of the Chaldeans
    • f. 1v-10r Service for the feast of the Assumption of our Lady (Syriac)
    • f. 11v-31r Rite of baptism (Syriac)
  • f. 32v-34v Rite of betrothal (Garshuni)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00023) 1,796 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 2r-6v Miracles of the Virgin Mary (Arabic)
  • f. 7v-46v Elijah of Nisibis, Syriac Grammar (Syriac)
  • f. 55v-146r Liturgical miscellany (Garshuni, Syriac)
    • Includes parts for ordination (55v)
    • Consecration of the altar and eucharistic vessels (81v-88v)
    • Joseph II, The washing of the feet (92r)
    • Portions for the sick and dying (99v)
  • f. 146v-149r Sentences on grammar and other subjects (in verse, various meters) (Syriac)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00118) 1,707 CE Syriac
  • f. 2v-367r Joseph II, Chaldean Gazzā: Contiains the services for the following commemorations
    • Saint Barbara
    • Saint Nicholas
    • Feast of the Nativity
    • Feast of the Virgin Mary
    • Feast of the Holy Innocents
    • Feast of the Circumcision
    • Feast of Epiphany
    • Feast of John the Baptist
    • Feast of Stephen
    • Feast of the Evangelists,
    • Feast of the Greek Doctors
    • Feast of the Syriac Doctors
    • Feast of Mar Awgen
    • Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
    • The commemoration of the Forty Martyrs
    • Feast of saint Joseph
    • Feast of the Annunciation
    • The commemoration of the confessors
    • Feast of saint George
    • Feast of Saint Pethion
    • Feast of Shmuni and her sons
    • Feast of the Virgin Mary of the Seeds
    • Feast of the Ascension
    • Feast of the Corpus Christi
    • Feast of Saint Peter and Paul
    • Feast of the Visitation
    • Feast of Saint Thomas
    • Feast of Saint Quryaqus
    • Feast of the Transfiguration
    • Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
    • Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
    • Feast of the Cross
    • Feast of Saint James Intercisus
  • ​f. 369r-378r Service for the feast of the Sacred Heart
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00332) 1,700 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 53

  • f. 1r-12v Joseph II, Catechism
  • f. 13r-191v Enlightening Lamp, which is the Synodicon
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00358) 1,816 CE Garshuni
  • f. 2r-82v Joseph II, Polished Mirror
  • f. 84v-86v Prayers
Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk 79 (ACK 00079) 1,800 CE Syriac
  • Joseph II, Patriarch of the Chaldeans. Book of Councils
    • Alternate Title: Enlightening Lamp
    • Translated from Latin into Arabic, then from Arabic into Syriac
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00013 1,900 CE Syriac
  • fol. [1]v-119v Joseph II, Gazzā
  • fol. 123r-164v Lives of Saints
    • fol. 123r-142r Story of Mar Behnam and his sister Sarah
    • fol. 142v-163v Story of Mar Yāwnān the Anchorite
    • fol. 163v-164v Story of St. James Intercissus

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