Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

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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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 161 (SMMJ 00161) 1,700 CE Syriac

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

  • Homilies
    • Includes homilies by Jacob ʿUrdansaya, Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina, Ephrem of Nisibis, Dawīd bar Pawlōs, Jacob of Serugh, Ḥananyō Akhsnōyō, and Shemʿūn II, Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 163 (SMMJ 00163) 1,830 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Homilies and poems
    • Includes homilies and poems by Jacob ʿUrdansaya, Jacob of Serugh, Ephrem of Nisibis, Shemʿūn II Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, and Ignatius Marcus Bar Qīqī
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 475 (SMMJ 00475) 2,012 CE Garshuni, Kurdish, Syriac
  • Memre and hymns
    • Includes memre and hymns by Jacob of Serugh, Jacob ʿUrdansaya, Ignatius Marcus bar Qīqī, Ḥananyō Akhsnōyō, Shemʿūn II Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, and Ephrem of Nisibis; historical homilies by Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina on incursion of the Turks into Mesopotamia and on Tamerlane, pages 54-72