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 00023) 1,796 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 2r-6v Miracles of the Virgin Mary (Arabic)
  • f. 7v-46v Elijah of Nisibis, Syriac Grammar (Syriac)
  • f. 55v-146r Liturgical miscellany (Garshuni, Syriac)
    • Includes parts for ordination (55v)
    • Consecration of the altar and eucharistic vessels (81v-88v)
    • Joseph II, The washing of the feet (92r)
    • Portions for the sick and dying (99v)
  • f. 146v-149r Sentences on grammar and other subjects (in verse, various meters) (Syriac)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00100) 1,759 CE Garshuni
  • f. 9v-39r Lectionary (Syriac rite, Eastern)
  • f. 39r-200r Lectionary (Syriac rite, Eastern)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00357) 1,800 CE Garshuni
  • f. 0v-85v Catechism
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00441) 1,800 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1v-108v Collection of prayers, supplications and admonitions
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 00347) 1,761 CE Garshuni
  • The Secret of Secrets
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00049) 1,697 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1v-181r Lectionary for the Old Testament and Epistles
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00010) 1,700 CE Arabic, Armenian, Garshuni, Georgian, Greek, Latin, Persian, Syriac, Turkish
  • f. 1r-8r Conjugation patterns for verbs and derived words (Syriac)
  • f. 8r Trishagion in eight languages (Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Latin, Persian, Syriac, Turkish)
  • f. 8v-21r Sayings of Pythagoras with commentary (Syriac)
  • f. 22v-31r Story of Job (Garshuni)
  • f. 31v-34v On the benefit of reading the divine books (Garshuni)
  • f. 34v-36r Ten characteristics of a dog that are necessary for a faithful servant (Garshuni)
  • f. 36r-41r Sayings of the Fathers and Saints (Garshuni)
  • f. 41v-51v Colloquy of Moses (Garshuni)
  • f. 51v-60v From the Fathers: on each person's guardian Angel (Garshuni)
  • f. 60v-67v Story of a mistreated saint (Garshuni)
  • f. 68r-79r Story of Mary the sinner, who anointed Jesus' feet with her tears (Garshuni)
  • f. 80r-87v Story of the boy whose parents wanted to slaughter him (Garshuni)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00006) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1r-7r Unidentified liturgical text, with hymns
  • f. 7v-39r Story of Yawsep I and what happened to him with the obstinate and the enemies of religion
  • f. 39v-40v Description and praise of Yawsep I by the poor ascetic
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00018) 1,610 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1v-3v On the priest and the sponsors of the bride and groom
  • f. 3v-7v Command and blessing of marriage
  • f. 7v-14v Blessings of the contract of the oath
  • f. 15r-50v Unidentified astrological-theological text
  • f. 50v-78r Story of the palace of Shād b. 'Ād
  • f. 78v-131r Story of Masrūr and Zayn al-Muwāṣif
  • f. 131v-135v Hymns to the Virgin Mary
  • f. 136r-139v Hymns
  • f. 140r-177v Unidentified hagiographic text
  • f. 178r-185r Story of the skull that conversed with Jesus Christ, said to be the head of Arsenios, the king of Egypt
  • f. 185v-196r John Chrysostom, On the commandments of Great Sunday
  • f. 196r Explanation of that which God gave Moses the prophet
  • f. 196v-197v Forbidden, defective days in the lunar months
  • f. 198r-216v Hymns
  • f. 216v-217v Reading from the Gospel of Matthew (i.e. Mark)
  • f. 218r-227v Story of Mark the Merchant, who was carried away into exile to the land of Persia, and Gaspar the Pagan
  • f. 227v-236v Hymn on the Economy of Christ

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