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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
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 407b 1,715 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See Assemani 50 and Assemani 51; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 50–Maronite Missal
    • Daily Liturgy
    • Sunday Liturgy
    • Liturgy of the Blessed Mother
    • Liturgy of the Angels
    • Liturgy of the Prophets
    • Liturgy of the 12 apostles
    • Liturgy of the doctors
    • Liturgy of the confessors
    • Liturgy of the Holy Virgin
    • Liturgy for the commemoration of the departed faithful
    • Liturgy for departed priests
    • Liturgy for the commemoration of departed monks
    • Liturgy for the feast of the incarnation
    • Liturgy for the Annunciation of Zechariah
    • Liturgy for the Annunciation of the mother
    • Liturgy for the feast fo the visitation of the mother
    • Liturgy of the nativity of St. John the Baptist
    • Liturgy for the Nativity of the Lord
    • Liturgy for the forty-day fast
    • Liturgy for the Great Sunday of the Resurrection
  • Assemani 51
    • Liturgy of the Lamps with the rite of the administration of oil to the sick

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409a 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46, Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409b 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46, Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409c 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46, Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 426 1,545 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 68; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Jacob of Sarug, Epistle to Samuel, the Abbot of the Monastery of St. Isaac, on the Trinity and the Incarnation of the Word
  • Syriac sermons against unleavened bread
  • Disputation on the religion of Christianity and the the Muhammadan sect 
  • Aristotle, Philosophy, Thrid book on the soul
  • Life of the holy Terbo
  • Processional rites

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 436 1,547 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 54; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Maronite Daily Office
  • Maronite: Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
  • Index of the Psalms of David, King and Prophet
  • Ecclesiastical Calendar

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 437 Unknown Syriac

See entry for Assemani 44; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Rite of Baptism (Syrian Orthodox)
  • Shorter Baptismal rite of Philoxenus of Mabbug

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 439 Unknown Garshuni, Syriac

See Assemani 49; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Maronite Sunday Office

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 441 1,586 CE Syriac

See Assemani 434; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Eudochius of Melitene, Syriac Vocabulary and Tractate on homonymns

Biblioteca Medica Laurenziana: Orientali 457 1,771 CE Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Turkish

[Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]; Catalog can be found in P. VALERGA, Catalogo supplementare dei codici Orientali esistenti nella Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, [1879], cc. 8r-9v; P., pp. 96-98

  • Fragments of Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish

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