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
Sachau 39; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 223 1,777 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Sachau 39

  • f. 1-68v Timothy Isaac, Grammar
  • f. 69v-108r Bishop Rizqallāh, Elementary Grammar
  • f. 114v-121v Miscellaneous
    • f. 114v Arabic not of the writer
    • f. 115r-120v An Arabic school book for teaching elementary grammar
    • f. 120v Short excerpt of a verse-homily in Syriac
    • f. 121r Seven syllable verse for the evening of Good Friday
  • f. 122r-124r A calendar of holy days of the year according to the order of Jacob of Edessa 
Petermann 17; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 222 1,772 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Petermann 17

  • Timothy Isaac, Metropolitan of Amid, Syriac Grammar
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 58; 3/16 (DIYR 00190) 1,910 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, the Cream of Wisdom [Selections]
  • List of the Syriac and Arabic works of Bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Account of the death of bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Account of the death of bar 'Ebrōyō
  • Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, Homily
  • List of the Patriarchs of Antioch
  • John bar Ma'dani, praises and prayers
  • John bar Ma'dani, Hymns for the Lord's feast
  • Book of guidance about the ranks of deacons
  • Collection of services
  • Jacob of Edessa, List of feasts
  • John bar Ma'dani, On our God who became man on behalf of us
  • John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the seizure of Edessa
  • Daniel ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Book on the foundations of religion
  • World is a bodily behavior
  • Homily on Mar Matthew from the mountain Alfaf
  • Canon on how it is necessary to perform church prayer
  • Morning Gospel reading for Children
  • On the Assumption of our Lady Mary and how the Apostles gathered on the day of her death
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, For Priests
  • Jacob of Sarug, Commentary on Deuteronomy. Selections
  • Philoxenus of Mabbug, on the Prophets
  • Jacob of Sarug, From the homily on the love of God
  • Jacob of Sarug, From the Holy Mar Jacob
  • From the Works of the Holy Fathers
  • Daniel of Salaḥ, Commentary on Psalm 8
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On performing the sign of the cross with one finger
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the Trisagion
  • Timothy Isaac, Selections from the Holy Fathers against the Chalcedonians
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00316) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Timothy Isaac, Illumination of beginners (Syriac)
  • Readings from the Gospels and Pauline Epistles (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Shem'un II, Homily (Garshuni)
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 84 (ASOM 00084) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 4v-155v Timothy Isaac, Metropolitan of Amid, Illumination of Beginners
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܢܘܗܪ ܫܪ̈ܘܝܐ
  • fol. 168v-174r Homilies
    • Title NS: ܬܪܓܐܡ
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 225 (SMMJ 00225) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4v-59v Timothy Isaac, Metropolitan of Amid, Syriac Grammar (Syriac)
  • fol. 60v-145r Yaʿqub of Quṭurbul, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni, Syriac)