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
Syriac 1. Evangelion 1,679 CE Syriac

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  • Gospel Lectionary

Syriac 3. Typikon 1,614 CE Syriac

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  • Breviary (Hudra)

Syriac 4. Calendar of Holy Days 1,586 CE Syriac

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  • Breviary (Gazza). Office for feast days and commemorations of Fridays and other days

Syriac 12. Akolouthia 1,458 CE Syriac

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  • Breviary (Beth Gazzō)
    • The Nativity of our Lord
    • The Holy Virigin
    • The Epiphany
    • Saint John the Baptist
    • Saints Peter and Paul
    • Of the Evangelists 
    • Of St. Stephen

Syriac 21. Akolouthia 1,593 CE Syriac

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  • Office for cells for novices and feable monks
  • Mar Dadisho': Admonitions
  • Abraham of Nathpar: Admonitions
  • Discourse against those who love vanity
  • Psalms of Compline

Syriac 16. Euchologion 1,600 CE Syriac

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  • Kashkul: Evening Office for weekdays during the whole year

Syriac 27. Psalter 1,585 CE Syriac

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  • Psalms
  • Three Canticles of Moses and one of Isaiah
  • A hymn of Narsai and the other pieces included in codex 7

Syriac 31. Hymns 1,512 CE Syriac

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  • Gabriel Qamṣa: Hymn
  • Khamis bar Qardahe: 18 hymns
  • Gewargis Warda: 7 hymns 
  • Mara: Hymn
  • Gewargis Warda: 2 hymns 
  • Isḥāq Shbadnāyā: 3 hymns
  • Gewargis Warda: hymns 
  • St. Ephrem: 2 hymns
  • Berik'isus (a.k.a Bar Eskapha): hymn
  • Hymn on the feast of the nativity
  • Rabban Simeon Sanqalbad: hymn
  • Notes on chronology
  • Explacation of certain hymns 
  • Table of hymns and variants for the office
  • Chants (ܣܘܓܝܬܐ) for Sundays and feasts
  • Chant of Narsai
  • On Penitence and on the niece of Mar Abraham of Kidon
  • Hymns on St. Stephen and St. George
  • Chants for various feasts

Syriac 46. Diataxis 1,576 CE Syriac

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  • Qdām wa d-bātar: Book of the evening office for weekdays

Syriac 45. Diataxis 1,579 CE Syriac

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  • Qdām wa d-bātar: Book of the evening office for weekdays

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