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
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00325) 1,915 CE Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish
  • Eulogy for our Lady Mary, Mother of God (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Daniel 3:24-45 Turkish
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 1/1 (DIYR 00002) 1,496 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gregory bar Hebraeus, Commentary on the Old Testament (Syriac)
  • Old Testament (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • New Testament (Syriac)
  • Pseudo Clement of Rome, Octateuch (Syriac)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 16 1/5 (DIYR 00031) 1,736 CE Garshuni
  • Old Testament Lectionary
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00078) 1,897 CE Garshuni
  • Psalter (Syriac Rite, Western)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00081) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • History of Joseph and Mary
  • Seven Psalms of repentance
  • Daily services
  • Book of devotion to Our Lady Mary. Part 2, chapter 2
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00128) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Psalter (Syriac and Garshuni translation in two columns)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 189; 3/23 (DIYR 00134) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Prayers
  • Life of John the Baptist
  • Shem'ūn II, poem
  • Shem'ūn II, poems
  • John of Sbīrīnō, poems
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Poem on wisdom
  • Lamentations
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • Ignatius Marcus bar Qīqī, Homily on himself
  • Poem on the capture of Tur Abdin
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Poems
  • Our Father
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, On the Love of Learning
  • Jacob 'Urdansaya, Homily on the disturbance of the present time
  • Shem'ūn II, Poems
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 60; 1/28 (DIYR 00136) 1,582 CE Garshuni, Syrac
  • Psalter (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • Nicene Creed
  • Prayers
  • Ephrem Syrus, Homily on learning
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily on admonition and on the deceased
  • Ignatius bar Ṭlōyō, Homily 
  • Alexander Romance
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 39; 1/32 (DIYR 00143) 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Psalter
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 101; 1/24 (DIYR 00156) 1,756 CE Garshuni
  • Book of Proverbs
  • Wisdom of Solomon
  • Book of Sirach
  • Book of Questions and Answers

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