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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00438) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • f. 2v-491r Sermons for Sundays and feasts fo the year
  • f. 491v-499r Jacob of Serugh, Homily on Kingdom and hell
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00451) 1,779 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1r-67v Sermons for feasts of liturgical year
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00461) 1,900 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-43v Book of the main events, Part 2
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00468) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Turkish
  • f. 1r-29r Dialogue between a master and his disciple on the ascetic life (Garshuni, Turkish)
  • f. 30r-39r Ignatius Shukr Allah II, sermon (Garshuni, Turkish)
  • f. 39r-56v On sun and moon eclipses according to Daniel (Garshuni, Turkish)
  • f. 56v-76v Story of Susanna (Garshuni, Turkish)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00483) 1,511 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-108r 'Onitha on Rabban Hormizd
  • f. 108v-115r 'Onitha on Mār Khodahwi
  • f. 116r-132v Ephrem Syrus, Homily on the Last Days and the accomplishment, and on Gog and Magog, and about the false Messiah
  • f. 133r-141v Homily 
  • f. 142r-153v Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the Last Judgment, the Kingdom, and Gehenna
  • f. 154r-163v Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onitha for Monday of the Rogation of the Ninevites
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00494) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1r-12v Story dealing with eschatology
  • f. 12v-30v Story on God's punishment of the sinners and evildoers
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00497) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-100v Book of 'Abdmshiḥa
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00504) 1,774 CE Syriac
  • f. 5r-74v Homilies for the celebration of the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 74v-94r Homilies on the virgins recited on Tuesday of the Rogation of the Ninevites

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