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 69 (DIYR 00096) 1,600 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • Troparia
  • Cathismas and sticheras
  • Prayers
  • Polyeleion
  • Nativity Paramone
  • Great Friday Paramone
  • Easter canon of St. John Damascene
  • Liturgical texts
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 4/39; 318 (DIYR 00263) 1,949 CE Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish
  • 0Rite of absolution celebrated onthe second Sunday of Lent
  • Rite of the blessing of the water
  • Service of the hours
  • The rite of the washing of the feet celebrated on Holy Thursday
  • The rite of Good Friday
  • The rite of Easter
  • The rite of the adoration that is celebrated after Pentecost at the third hour
  • Procession of the Cross that takes place on the fourteenth day of August
  • Liturgical Rites (Turkish)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 4/38; 318 (DIYR 00271) 1,494 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Book of services for Dominical feasts
  • Prooemion for Great Friday
  • Soghita on the birth of Our Lady
  • Penitential Rite
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 140; 8/12; 80 (DIYR 00298) 1,746 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Prayer recited on Great Friday
  • Anaphora of St. James, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of Pope Julius
  • Collected Anaphora of John bar Ma'dani
  • Prooemium
  • Anaphora of Patriarch John Aksnoyo
  • Anaphora of Peter, the Head of the Apostles
  • Anaphora of Ignatius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of Mark the Evangelist
  • Prooemium
  • Readings, Prooemia, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Matthew the Pastor
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome
  • Anaphora of John bar Shushan
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00313) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • Service for the feast of Mar Cyriacus and his mother Julitta, Mar Andrew, and Mar Abhai
  • Service for the feast of Paul and Peter
  • Service for the feast of Mar Addai and Mar Abai
  • Service for Golden Friday, feast of Saints Simon and John
  • Service for the feast of Shmuni, her Sons, and Eleazer
  • Service for the Feast of Booths
  • Service for the Feast of the Cross
  • Service for the feast of Thomas the Apostle
  • Service for the Assumption of Our Lady
  • Service for glorification of Our Lady Mary
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 291; 4/22 (DIYR 00348) 1,792 CE Syriac
  • Services of the Great Week
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 287 (DIYR 00350) 1,745 CE Syriac
  • Services for the Great Lent