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
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 246 Unknown Syriac

See entry for Assemani 394; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Anonymous, Syriac Grammar
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 254 1,579 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 27; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Ecclesiasticus (Peshitta version found in London Polyglot)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 297 1,357 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 61; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Book of Directions, (or the summary of Ecclesiastical canons)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 298 1,488 CE Syriac

See Assemani 62; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Syriac Sermons
    • St. Ephrem Syrus
    • St. Isaac
    • John Chrysostom
    • Ignatius of Antioch
    • Gregory Thaumatugos
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
    • Severus of Antioch
    • Rabbula of Edessa
    • St. John
    • Jacob of Edessa
    • John bar Ma'dani
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Physical Tractate
    • On planets
    • On air
    • On 4-footed animals
    • On birds
    • On fish
    • On earth
    • On minerals
    • On hot water
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Grammar
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 308 1,542 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 40; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Missal from the church of Antioch (Syriac rite, western)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 311 1,569 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 41; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Maronite Offices for feast days
    • Dedication of the Church
    • Nativity of our Lord
    • Epiphany
    • Second sunday of Lent
    • Annunciation of the Virgin mother Mary
    • Sunday of Hosannas
    • Good Friday
    • The Ascension of the Lord into Heaven
    • Pentecost
    • Golden Friday (first after Pentecost)
    • The Transfiguration
    • Holy Cross
    • St. Thaddaeus the apostle
    • St. George the Martyr
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 342 1,396 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry in Assemani 200; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Philosophical works
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 344 1,716 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 43; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Maronite Missal 
    • Order of oblations
    • General rubrics
    • Anaphora of St. James
    • Anaphora of Simon Peter
    • Anaphora of St. John the apostle
    • Order of Ecclesiastical reconciliation
    • Anaphora of St. Dionysius the Areopagite
    • Anaphora of St. John Maron
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 366 1,579 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 118; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus, Ecclesiastical Chronicle
  • Bar Hebraeus, Syriac Chronicle
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 407a 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

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