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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00428) 1,600 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-41r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha on Rogation of the Ninevites and penitence
  • f. 41r-64v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha on various subjects
  • f. 64v-94r Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onyatha on penitence
  • f. 95r-110r Īsḥāq Shbadnāyā, 'Onyatha
  • f. 110r-119v 'Onitha for the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 119v-157r Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 157r-164r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onitha on Isho'sabran
  • f. 164r-172r 'Onitha on the proverbs
  • f. 172r-209v  Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onitha on Sabrisho' d-Beth Qoqa
  • f. 209v-211v Khamis bar Qardahe, Selected epigrams and verses

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00429) 1,571 CE Syriac

See Scher's entry for Diyarbakir 60

  • f. 1r-35v Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 36r-93v 'Abdisho bar Brīkā, Turgame for feasts and commemorations of the liturgical year
  • f. 93v-107v Khamis bar Qardahe, Turgame on feasts of the liturgical year and other subjects

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00430) 1,574 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 88

  • f. 1r-26v Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onitha on Sabrīshō' d-Beth Qoqa
  • f. 27r-50r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for the Rogation of the Ninevites and on repentance
  • f. 50r-65r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha on penitence
  • f. 65r-83r Gewargis Wardā, 'Onyatha on various subjects related to the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 83r-110r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for the feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 110r-130r  Īsḥāq Shbadnāyā, 'Onyatha
  • f. 130r-132r Gewargis Warda, 'Onitha for the feast of Transfiguration
  • f. 132r-136r 'Onitha on repentance
  • f. 136r-141v Gewargis Warda, 'Onitha for the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 141v-145r 'Onitha on Stephen
  • f. 145r-150v 'Onitha on George the Martyr
  • f. 150v-156v 'Onitha for Sundays fo the year
  • f. 156v-160r 'Onitha for the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 160v-203r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha on repentance and Rogation of the Ninevites

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00507) 1,635 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-9r Gewargis Wardā, 'Onyatha related to the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 9r-33r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 33v-36v 'Onitha on Stephen
  • f. 36v-40r 'Onitha on George the Martyr
  • f. 40v-57v Īsḥāq Shbadnāyā, 'Onyatha
  • f. 57v-82r 'Onitha on Shmoni and her sons

Borg. sir. 33 1,400 CE Syriac

​Catalog entry here

  • f. 2-31 Poem of Gabriel Qamṣa on Sabrisho', founder of the monastery of Beth-Qoqa
  • f. 32-81 Seventeen hymns of Khamis bar Qardahe on various subjects
  • f. 82-108 Six hymns of Giwargis Warda on the rogations
  • f. 109-115 Hymns of Mari bar Mšiḥaya on the Warda and on Solomon of Bastra on penitence
  • f. 116-137 Hymns of Khamis bar Qardahe on the feasts of our Lord and on Isho'sabran
  • f. 138-146 Poem of the priest, Isḥāq Shbadnāyā, on St. George
  • f. 147ff. Various hymns, homilies, and chants of Khamis on the cross, on providence, love and wine

Vat. sir. 185 1,703 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho' the Solitary, Various works
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha

Vat. sir. 186 1,477 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Songs on divine things, on one who is perfecting his death through tireless labor of knowledge
  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Other poems 
  • Gabriel Qamṣa, Spiritual philosophy
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, short poems
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogyatha for feasts
  • Rabban Isaac, Songs

Syriac 31. Hymns 1,512 CE Syriac

Catalogs:

Contents:

  • Gabriel Qamṣa: Hymn
  • Khamis bar Qardahe: 18 hymns
  • Gewargis Warda: 7 hymns 
  • Mara: Hymn
  • Gewargis Warda: 2 hymns 
  • Isḥāq Shbadnāyā: 3 hymns
  • Gewargis Warda: hymns 
  • St. Ephrem: 2 hymns
  • Berik'isus (a.k.a Bar Eskapha): hymn
  • Hymn on the feast of the nativity
  • Rabban Simeon Sanqalbad: hymn
  • Notes on chronology
  • Explacation of certain hymns 
  • Table of hymns and variants for the office
  • Chants (ܣܘܓܝܬܐ) for Sundays and feasts
  • Chant of Narsai
  • On Penitence and on the niece of Mar Abraham of Kidon
  • Hymns on St. Stephen and St. George
  • Chants for various feasts

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