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 187 (SMMJ 00187) 1,817 CE Garshuni

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 21*

  • fol. 1v-46v Elijah of Nisibis, Dissipation of sorrow. Selections
  • fol. 46v-78v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the dove. Selections
  • fol. 78v-141v, 330r-388v Shem'un II, Chariot of mysteries. Selections
  • fol. 142v-321v Book of chapters. Dialogue between master and disciple
  • fol. 322r-324v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Canon with comments
  • fol. 324v-325r Sixth canon from the Council of Nicea
  • fol. 390v-403v Useful lessons from wise men
  • fol. 403v-414v Pseudo-Athanasius, Questions to Antiochus
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 284 (SMMJ 00284) 1,889 CE Syriac

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

  • Includes homilies by Ephrem of Nisibis, Bihnam Hadlōyō, Shemʿūn II Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, and Jacob of Serugh
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 297 (SMMJ 00297) 1,907 CE Garshuni

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

  • pages 1-185 Shem'ūn II, Chariot of intellectual secrets
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 298 (SMMJ 00298) 1,905 CE Garshuni

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

  • pages 1-156 Shem'ūn II, Chariot of intellectual secrets
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 347 (SMMJ 00347) 1,908 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 2v-188r Shem'un II, Book of theology
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

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