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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 596 1,917 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • Binding
  • f. 1r-53v Jacob of Edessa, Commentary on the Old Testament
    • f. 1r-20r Genesis
    • f. 20v-32r Exodus
    • f. 32r-39v Leviticus
    • f. 39v-42v Numbers (f. 41rv lacuna)
    • f. 42v-47r Deuteronomy
    • f. 47v-50v Job
    • f. 51r-52r Joshua
    • f. 52v-53v Judges
  • f. 53v-66r Exlanation of difficult Old Testament passages (Ephrem, Jacob, and others) 
  • f. 66r Colophon
  • f. 66v-79r Explanations of various subjects attributed to different authors
  • f. 79v-81v Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
  • f. 81v-83v The Doctrine of Addai
  • f. 83v-84r Twenty Canons of the Apostles
  • f. 84r-85r Six questions and answers of Jacob of Edessa
  • f. 85v-90r Hypomnemata of our Lord
  • f. 90v-99v Two letters of Theodore bar Wahbun
  • f. 99v-105r Prophecies of pagan philosophers
  • f. 105r-111r Chosen words of philosophers teaching wisdom
  • f. 111r Colophon
  • f. 111v-112v Eulogy of Abraham of Nathpar
  • f. 113r Anecdote of Moses bar Kepha by Mar Sawira
  • f. 113v-115r Profession of Faith by Mar Michael
  • f. 115v-116v Questions and answers on ousia
  • f. 117r-120v Legend of Mar Eli al-Hira in Arabic
  • f. 121r-130r History of Yareth the Alexandrian
  • f. 130r Colophon (other colophons found at 66r and 111r)
  • Binding
Harvard Ms Syr 118 1,753 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry

  • ff. 2v-81v Moshe bar Kepha, On the soul, in 65 chapters
  • ff. 82r-125r Moshe bar Kepha, On the resurrection of bodies, in 34 chapters but ch. 25 is white space only
  • ff. 125v-148r Moshe bar Kepha, On the creation of angels, in 54 chapters
  • ff. 148v-164v Moshe bar Kepha, On the order of angels, in 16 chapters
  • ff. 165r-174r John of Dara, Chapters on demons, in 23 chapters, but breaking off in the middle of ch. 22
  • ff. 174v-236r, 236r-253r On paradise, in 2 memre of 28 and 7 chapters
  • ff. 253r Short colophon partly in Karshuni and Arabic
Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 115 (ASCBN 00115) 1,900 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • fol. 2v-30v Moshe bar Kephō, Explanation of the Holy Mass
  • fol. 30v-38r Moshe bar Kephō, Commentary on Holy Baptism
  • fol. 38r-45v Commentary on Ordination
  • fol. 45v-47r Collection of sayings
    • Title NS: ܥܠ ܗܘ ܡܕܡ ܕܟܬܒܘ ܝܘܕ̈ܝܐ ܠܥܠ ܡܢ ܙܩܝܦܗ ܕܡܫܝܚܐ (on that which the Jews wrote above the cross of the Messiah)
  • fol. 47r-53r John of Dara, Commentary on the Creed
  • fol. 53r-55r Liturgical miscellany
  • fol. 55r-59v On the Ascension of Jesus Christ
  • fol. 59v-66v On Pentecost
  • fol. 66v-74r Moshe bar Kepha, On the Cross
  • fol. 74r-79v On the vestments of the priesthood
  • fol. 79v-90v On Holy Chrism
  • fol. 91r-106r Church calendar (Arabic, Syriac)