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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
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 74; 6/10 (DIYR 00140) 1,746 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Severus of Antioch, Baptismal Rites

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 6/11; 121 (DIYR 00149) 1,922 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Severus of Antioch, Baptismal Rite

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 119; 6/13 (DIYR 00194) 1,934 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Baptismal service for men
  • Baptismal service for women
  • Abridged baptism service of Severus of Antioch
  • Baptism service according to the oriental rite of Bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Gregory bar Ebrōyō, On baptism
  • Jacob of Edessa, On Baptism
  • Service on the blessing of a woman forty days after childbirth

Vat. sir. 409 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Book of Psalms with commentary interspersed from various patristic authors (Philoxenus, Athanasius, Ephrem Syrus, Gregory, Severus, Abraham Qidonoyo)

Harvard Ms Syr 99 1,889 CE Syriac

Catalog entry

  • ff. 1v-76v Didascalia apostolorum
  • ff. 76-92v First epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
  • ff. 92v-93v Letter of James of Jerusalem to Quadratus
  • ff. 93v-96v Letters of Herod and Pilate 
  • ff. 96v-103v Hypomnemata of our Lord
  • ff. 103v-106v The teaching of Peter in Rome
  • ff. 107r-111v Letter of Dionysius of Athens to Timothy on the deaths of Peter and Paul
  • ff. 111v-117r Extracts from various Fathers
  • ff. 117r-120r Severus on the synods
  • ff. 120r-120v Letter that the Jews wrote to the emperor Marcion about the Synod of Chalcedon
  • ff. 120v-122v Short texts by Philoxenus
  • ff. 122v Creed of orthodox Christians
  • ff. 122v-124v Letter of John bar Shushan against Chalcedon
  • ff. 124v-126v Easy questions against the Chalcedonians
  • ff. 126v-128r Diagrams explaining theology and christology
  • ff. 128v-131v Disputation against the Nestorians
  • ff. 131v Cyril against anyone who keeps a book from a reader
  • ff. 132r-146v Prophecies of the pagan philosophers 
  • ff. 147r-148r 6 questions of Jacob of Edessa
  • ff. 148r-150v Riddles from the Old Testament
  • ff. 150v-151r Under which kings each of the prophets prophesied
  • ff. 151r-154r On the foundation of the true faith which we have received from the apostles etc.
  • ff. 154r On what the Jews wrote above the cross of Christ
  • ff. 154r-155r From the story of Peter the Iberian, that one should not give up hope of God's mercy
  • ff. 155r-157r Severus, from a letter to Thomas of Germanica on the Epistle of Jude
  • ff. 157r-160r Short sections on the eucharist, baptism, etc.
  • ff. 160r-162r On the prophets
  • ff. 162r-163r Jacob of Edessa on the seven spirits of Isaiah 11.2
  • ff. 163 r/v Ephrem on the dove that Noah sent out from the ark
  • ff. 163v-174r Answers to questions, including extracts from various Fathers
  • ff. 174v Diagram of the ten commandments
  • ff. 174v-178r Various other short sections on Old Testament exegesis
  • ff. 178r-181v Jacob of Edessa on the heavenly powers
  • ff. 181v-188v The orthodox teachers on the souls of human beings, and other short extracts
  • ff. 188v-190r Letter of Cyril of Jerusalem on the rebuilding of the temple by the Jews
  • ff. 190r-191r Extracts from Puman, John, Cyril and Basil
  • ff. 191r-201r Explanations of Ephrem on various matters from the Law
  • ff. 201r Colophon 

 

*Not all manuscript available
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 65 (ASOM 00065) 1,923 CE Syriac
  • fol. 3v-71v Severus of Antioch, Baptism ritual

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 20 (SMMJ 00020) 1,500 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-210v Psalter
    • fol. 187v-201r Homilies by Severus of Antioch, Ephrem of Nisibis, Philoxenus of Mabbug, and Bar Hebraeus on fol. 187v-201r

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 60 (SMMJ 00060) 1,209 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-217v Severus of Antioch, Hymns
    • fol. 165v-215v, Includes supplicatory hymns by Rabbula of Edessa

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 124 (SMMJ 00124) 900 CE Syriac

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

  • Pages 1-11 Selections from philosophers
  • Pages 11-13 Paul, the Persian (6th century), Letter to Demetrius
  • Pages 13-50 Explanation of difficult words in the writings of Dionysius, Bishop of Athens
  • Pages 51-63 Story of Severus of Antioch
  • Pages 63-106 Commentary on Severus of Antioch's treatise against the impious grammarian

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