Harvard MS Syr 4 |
1,199 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- New Testament (Peshitta Version)
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Harvard MS Syr 36 |
1,500 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- 1. Part of the story of Bar Sauma (ff. 1-9, 82-117, the leaves being disordered)
- 2. 1 Thes. 4:12-18 and John 5:24-9, from a lectionary (f. 11)
- 3. Part of the History of the Virgin (10, 12-61r; disordered, and with one leaf missing)
- 4. Memra of Jacob on the passing, that is the obsequies, of the Virgin (61v-69r)
- 5. Another memra on Mary and Joseph and the envy of the Jews, in the meter of Mar Ephrem (69r-78v)
- 6. A wonder done by the Virgin Mary (78v-81; breaking off before the end).
- 7. F. 10v has a geometric design incorporating a prayer
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Harvard MS Syr 40 |
1,559 CE |
Arabic, Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Ps. 1-150 (f. 3r-228r)
- Ps. 151 (229r-v)
- Canticles, beatitudes, Gloria in excelsis, trishagion, Nicene creed (229v-244r)
- Memra attributed to Ephrem (ff. 244r-249v, incomplete at the end)
- Colophon (250r).
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Harvard MS Syr 42 |
1,400 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Homilies of John Saba (ff. 1r-30v)
- Chapter of knowledge by John Saba (30v-33r)
- Fifty-one letters of John Saba (33r-67v)
- Chapters of knowledge, nos. 2-6 (67v-86r)
- Maxims by John bar Penkaye (86r-87v)
- Discourse on What is man, by John bar Penkaye (87r-93v)
- "Letters not found in the monastery copy" (93v-94v)
- Selected sayings of Saba (94v-96r)
- Short section by Bar Penkaye (96r-v)
- Madrashe by the saint (96v-97v)
- Memra on the trisagion by John Bar Penkaye (98r-101v)
- Life of John bar Penkaye (101v-102v)
- Selections from Evagrius, Gregory the Monk, Simeon the Monk, Basil, Philoxenus and John Chrysostom (102v-116v)
- Apocalypse of Daniel (117r-122v)
- Discourse of John of Mount Sinai on repentance (122v-125r), with a lacuna on f. 124v
- unidentified memre (125r-v).
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Harvard MS Syr 93 |
700 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- A collection of short works including a "Gospel of the Twelve Apostles" (ff. 47r-51v)
- Apocalypses of Simon Kepha, James, John the little (51v-57v)
- A fragment of the Doctrina Addai (57v)
- Various responsa and canons (1r-46v, 59r ff.) including replies of Jacob of Edessa.
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Harvard MS Syr 121 |
1,200 CE |
Syriac |
- The so-called Bet Mawtbe books in the Peshitta Version
- Joshua
- Judges
- Samuel
- Kings
- Proverbs
- Bar Sira
- Ecclesiastes
- Ruth
- Song of Songs
- Job
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Harvard MS Syr 171 |
1,100 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- A single leaf containing readings for the 10th-12th Sundays of Sbarta (Advent).
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A second image here.
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Harvard Ms Syr 16 |
700 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry
- Matthew and Mark in the Harklean Syriac version
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Harvard Ms Syr 18 |
900 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry
- Matthew in the Harklean Syriac version
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Harvard Ms Syr 99 |
1,889 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry
- ff. 1v-76v Didascalia apostolorum
- ff. 76-92v First epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
- ff. 92v-93v Letter of James of Jerusalem to Quadratus
- ff. 93v-96v Letters of Herod and Pilate
- ff. 96v-103v Hypomnemata of our Lord
- ff. 103v-106v The teaching of Peter in Rome
- ff. 107r-111v Letter of Dionysius of Athens to Timothy on the deaths of Peter and Paul
- ff. 111v-117r Extracts from various Fathers
- ff. 117r-120r Severus on the synods
- ff. 120r-120v Letter that the Jews wrote to the emperor Marcion about the Synod of Chalcedon
- ff. 120v-122v Short texts by Philoxenus
- ff. 122v Creed of orthodox Christians
- ff. 122v-124v Letter of John bar Shushan against Chalcedon
- ff. 124v-126v Easy questions against the Chalcedonians
- ff. 126v-128r Diagrams explaining theology and christology
- ff. 128v-131v Disputation against the Nestorians
- ff. 131v Cyril against anyone who keeps a book from a reader
- ff. 132r-146v Prophecies of the pagan philosophers
- ff. 147r-148r 6 questions of Jacob of Edessa
- ff. 148r-150v Riddles from the Old Testament
- ff. 150v-151r Under which kings each of the prophets prophesied
- ff. 151r-154r On the foundation of the true faith which we have received from the apostles etc.
- ff. 154r On what the Jews wrote above the cross of Christ
- ff. 154r-155r From the story of Peter the Iberian, that one should not give up hope of God's mercy
- ff. 155r-157r Severus, from a letter to Thomas of Germanica on the Epistle of Jude
- ff. 157r-160r Short sections on the eucharist, baptism, etc.
- ff. 160r-162r On the prophets
- ff. 162r-163r Jacob of Edessa on the seven spirits of Isaiah 11.2
- ff. 163 r/v Ephrem on the dove that Noah sent out from the ark
- ff. 163v-174r Answers to questions, including extracts from various Fathers
- ff. 174v Diagram of the ten commandments
- ff. 174v-178r Various other short sections on Old Testament exegesis
- ff. 178r-181v Jacob of Edessa on the heavenly powers
- ff. 181v-188v The orthodox teachers on the souls of human beings, and other short extracts
- ff. 188v-190r Letter of Cyril of Jerusalem on the rebuilding of the temple by the Jews
- ff. 190r-191r Extracts from Puman, John, Cyril and Basil
- ff. 191r-201r Explanations of Ephrem on various matters from the Law
- ff. 201r Colophon
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*Not all manuscript available
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