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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 00425) 1,569 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 1r-1v Colloquy of Moses on Mount Sinai (Garshuni)
  • f. 2v-8v Treatise on a guardian angel (Garshuni)
  • f. 9r-38r Turgame for feasts and commemorations of the liturgical year (Syriac)
    • On Nativity
    • The Virgin Mary
    • Epiphany
    • John the Baptist
    • Peter and Paul
    • Greek Doctors
    • Rogation of the Ninevites
    • Lazarus
    • Palm Sunday
    • Passover
    • Great Saturday
    • Easter
    • Sunday of the Confessors
    • New Sunday
    • Gregory the Martyr
    • Ascension
    • Pentecost
    • Transfiguration
    • Feast of the Cross
    • Dedication of the Church
    • Some of the Turgame are attributed to Khamis
  • f. 39r-43v Turgame for Weekdays (Syriac)
  • f. 44r-46r Rite of the preparation of the leaven (malka) (Syriac)
  • f. 46r-52v Evening prayers for weekday services (Syriac)
  • f. 53v-56v Dismissal Prayers (Syriac)
  • f. 57r-68v Gewargis Wardā, 'Onyatha on repentance (Syriac)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00333) 1,602 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1v-173r Canons
    • ​Includes Ps.-apostolic texts and western councils
    • Also includes the Eastern synods from Isaac to George
  • f. 173v-177v Yohannan V bar Abgārē
    • On the fast of the Ninevites for al-'Abbās al-Fadl b. Sulaimān
    • Letter to al-Ḥasan b. Yusef on some canonical regulations about the clergy
  • Abū al-Faraj 'Abd Allāh ibn al-Tayyib, Questions on Marriage and divorce
  • Treatise on marriage and divorce
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Bishop of Amida, Penitential canons
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00402) 1,700 CE Mongolian, Syriac
  • f. 1v-55r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for the Rogation of the Ninevites and on penitence (Syriac)
  • f. 55r-56v 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Dismissal prayers in Strophes (Syriac)
  • f. 57v-66v 'Onyatha from the life of Rabban Hormizd (Syriac)
  • f. 67r-68v Service for a blessing of the months (Syriac)
  • f. 69r-74v Hymns (Syriac)
  • f. 75r-80v Hymns for New Sunday (Syriac)
  • f. 80v-86v Dismissal Prayers (Syriac)
  • f. 87r-92r Service for a blessing of the months (Syriac)
  • f. 92r-94v Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogitha on economy (Mongolian and Syriac)
  • f. 94v-98v Sogyatha on the Church and on New Sunday (Syriac)
  • f. 99r-109r Midnight service for the fifth Sunday of Lent (Syriac)
  • f. 109r-110v Hymns for the commemoration of saints (Syriac)
  • f. 110v-115v Khamis bar Qardahe, Hymns (Syriac)
  • f. 115v-117v Madrasha (Syriac)
  • f. 117v-124v Madrashe (Syriac)
  • f. 125r-132r Rite of bishop ordination (Syriac)
  • f. 132r-144v Hymns from Ḥudrā (Syriac)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00403) 1,439 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 89

  • f. 7v-47v Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onitha on Sabrisho' d-Beth Qoqa
  • f. 48r-85v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha on the Rogation of the Ninevites and penitence
  • f. 85v-107v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha
  • f. 108r-134r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha on penitence
  • f. 134v-172v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha on feasts and commemoration of the liturgical year
  • f. 173r-201v Īsḥāq Shbadnāyā, 'Onyatha
  • f. 202r-205v Gewargis Warda, 'Onitha
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00407) 1,565 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 78

  • f. 2v-58r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 58r-117r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha on various subjects related to the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 117r-254r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 254v-269v Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for commemorations of the liturgical year
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00412) 1,586 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 42

  • f. 1v-59r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 59r-122r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha on various subjects related to the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 122r-270r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 270v-294r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for commemorations of the liturgical year
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00413) 1,600 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 90

  • Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onitha on Sabrīshō' of Beth Qoqa
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for the Rogation of the Ninevites and on repentance
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00419) 1,395 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 91

  • f. 2r-34r Gregory bar Hebraeus, On perfection. With commentary by Khamis bar Qardahe
  • f. 34r-67v Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onitha on Sabrisho' of Beth Qoqa
  • f. 67v-73v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onitha on Isho'sabran
  • f. 73v-79r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onitha on the Feast of the Cross
  • f. 79r-136v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for the Rogation of the Ninevites and other subjects
  • f. 136v-171v Khamis bar Qardahe, Homilies on feasts of the liturgical year and other subjects
  • f. 171v-240r Khamis bar Qardahe, Colleciton of epigrams, verses, homilies and sogyatha
  • f. 240r-269v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha and sogyatha for feasts of the liturgical year and other subjects
  • f. 270r-271r Poems
  • f. 272v-282r Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogyatha and 'onyatha
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00420) 1,722 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 44

  • f. 1v-37v Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onitha on Sabrīshō' d-Beth Qoqa
  • f. 38r-74r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for the Rogation of the Ninevites and on repentance
  • f. 74r-95v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha on penitience
  • f. 95v-102v Gewargis Warda, 'Onitha for the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 102v-108r 'Onitha for the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 108r-150v Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 150v-157r 'Onitha on Stephen
  • f. 157r-166r 'Onitha on George the Martyr
  • f. 166r-196r Īsḥāq Shbadnāyā, 'Onyatha
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00423) 1,575 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 84

  • f. 1v-62r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha on feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 62v-122v Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha related to the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 122v-276v Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 276v-295v Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for the commemorations of the liturgical year
  • f. 295v-299v 'Onitha for all the Sundays of the year

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