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
Borg. sir. 13 1,400 CE Syriac

Catalog entry here

  • Liturgy of st. John Chrysostom
  • Liturgy of St. Basil
  • Prayers on the grain
  • Lections from the gospel and the Epistles of St. Paul for every day of the week
  • Rite of baptism
  • Prayers for evening and morning for the Sunday feasts
  • Rite the tonsure of monks
  • Office for Burial 
  • Office for the Dominical feasts
  • Office of Holy Thursday, of Holy Saturday, and of Pentecost
  • Various prayers

Borg. sir. 33 1,400 CE Syriac

​Catalog entry here

  • f. 2-31 Poem of Gabriel Qamṣa on Sabrisho', founder of the monastery of Beth-Qoqa
  • f. 32-81 Seventeen hymns of Khamis bar Qardahe on various subjects
  • f. 82-108 Six hymns of Giwargis Warda on the rogations
  • f. 109-115 Hymns of Mari bar Mšiḥaya on the Warda and on Solomon of Bastra on penitence
  • f. 116-137 Hymns of Khamis bar Qardahe on the feasts of our Lord and on Isho'sabran
  • f. 138-146 Poem of the priest, Isḥāq Shbadnāyā, on St. George
  • f. 147ff. Various hymns, homilies, and chants of Khamis on the cross, on providence, love and wine

Borg. sir. 60 1,687 CE Syriac

East Syrian Beth Gazza

  • f. 1r General Title
  • f. 1r Feast of the Nativity of our Lord
  • f. 3r Feast of the Nativity of our Lord
  • f. 12r Feast of the Nativity of our Lord
  • f. 54v Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • f. 121v Commemoration of John the Baptist
  • f. 145v Commemoration of the apostles Peter and Paul
  • f. 168r Commemoration of the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
  • f. 188v Commemoration of the martyr STephen
  • f. 206r Commemoration of the Greek Doctors: Diodore, Theodore, and Nestorius
  • f. 235r Commemoration of the Syriac Doctors: Ephrem, Narsai, Abraham, Julian, John, and Michael
  • f. 250v Commemoration of a certain person, known to be Mar Aba the Catholicos
  • f. 302r Commemoration of the dead
  • f. 322v Commemoration of the confessors
  • f. 337r Commemoration of the martyr St. George
  • f. 365r Commemoration of the martyr Shmuni and her sons
  • f. 375b Feast of the ascension of Our Lord
  • f. 391v Commemoration of the apostle Thomas
  • f. 399r Commemoration of the martyrs Cyriacus and Dulitta <Julitta>
  • f. 410v Feast of the transfiguration of our Lord
  • f. 423r Feast of the Holy Cross
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