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 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 (DIYR 00135) 1,800 CE Garshuni
  • Ephrem Syrus, Homily
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily
  • New Testament Lectionary (Syriac Rite)
  • Prooemia and Sedrē
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 (DIYR 00137) 1,788 CE Garshuni
  • Prayers and chapters from the Gospels
  • Vespers in honor of Mary
  • Calendar calculations
  • Prayers and chapters from the Gospels
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00139) 1,889 CE Syriac
  • Services of exaltations (part of the Šḥīmō)
  • Services of supplication (part of the Šḥīmō)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 74; 6/10 (DIYR 00140) 1,746 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Severus of Antioch, Baptismal Rites
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00141) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Collection of prayers and poems
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 94 (DIYR 00142) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Anaphora
  • New Testament Lectionary (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • Shorter Anaphora of St. James
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
  • Anaphora of St. Peter
  • Anaphora of Mark the Evangelist
  • Anaphora of Ignatius the fiery (disciple of John the Apostle)
  • Anaphora of Philoxenus of Mabbug
  • Anaphora of Marutha the Catholicos of Tagrit
  • Anaphora of St. Eustathius
  • Anaphora of St. John, bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis
  • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
  • Anaphora of St. Xystus of Rome
  • Anaphora of Matthew the Shepherd 
  • Anaphora of Jacob of Sarug
  • Anaphora of John bar Wahbun
  • Anaphora of Gregory the Maphrian
  • Anaphora of Joseph (Ignatius) bar Wahib
  • Dismissal Hymns 
  • Prayer for the Altar when it is Defiled by Unbelievers
  • Prayer for the new vessels
  • Prooemion
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 39; 1/32 (DIYR 00143) 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Psalter
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00144) 1,941 CE Garshuni
  • Service in Commemoration of Mor Thomas the Apostle

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