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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Sachau 165; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 201 1,300 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 165

  • Lives and sayings for famous ascetics and church Fathers
    • f. 1-8v Biographical notes about church fathers and Citations of their works
    • f. 8v, 13-25 fragments of a writing about the monastic call
    • f. 9r-9v, 17 fragments of a legend of St. Pior (Identified with Lausaic history ch. 87)
    • f. 9v-12v Admonition of the Apostle Peter
    • f. 12v-16v From the legend of Abba Bishoi about the Isaac who became a Jew
    • f. 16v-18v part of the life of Alexander of Rome
    • f. 18r-19r Patristic citations
    • f. 19r-22r Conversation between teachers and students
    • f. 23r-26v Legends
    • f. 27r-32v Biographical notes about the prophets of the Old Testament
    • f. 32v-36v Notes on the New Testament
Sachau 167; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 38 1,496 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 167

  • f. 1-34r Prayers of Catholicos Elijah III
  • f. 34r-106v Liturgies for feast days by Elijah of Nisibis
    • f. 34r-76 various feasts
    • f. 77-106r Liturgical text including Anaphora of the apostles
  • f. 106v Order of Baptism, by Isho'yahb III
  • f. 121r Order of absolution, by Isho'yahb III
  • f. 123v Order of the consecration of the waters
  • f. 125r Order of exorcisms
  • f. 126v Order of the renewal of the leaven
  • f. 127v Order of the consecration of the altar without oil
  • f. 133r-138v Prayers at the table
  • f. 139r Colophon
  • f. 139v-140v Blessing
  • f. 140v-150r Ordinal
  • f. 150v Order of consecration of the altar with oil
  • f. 182v Order of the service of Pentecost
Sachau 169; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 61 1,882 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 169. The Hexaemaron of Immanuel, monk and teacher of Dayrā 'ellaytā.

  • f. 15r-28r On the Judgment of Adam and Eve and the serpent
  • f. 28v-42v On the Sabbath day and on the mysteries and types which our Lord visibly depicted
  • f. 43r-62r On the mysteries and types which were depicted about the resurrection in the seven days of creation
  • f. 62v-73v On the searching of the seers about the entrance of the Messiah for the future comfort and expectation to take all the peoples into His dawn which is for our salvation
  • f. 74r-87r On the vision Moses saw on Mt. Sinai
  • f. 87v-107v On the revelation of the Messiah, our Lord, and the repayment of our debts and our freedom from sin through the his venerable governance
  • f. 108r-121r On the signs and wonders and living words of our Lord and our God, the Messiah, for the establishment of the teaching of complete life for by His entrance he was given for the human race 
  • f. 121v-136r On the rest of the living words of our Lord and our savior, Jesus the Messiah, our hope
  • f. 136v-149v On the words of the living hope of the Messiah
  • f. 165v- He shows that the confession of the Messiah is true by the briging forth of its affairs to fruition and it is fitting for the church
  • f. 180r-192r On the resurrection of the body from nature as well as the book
  • f. 192v-206v On the soul and its certainty and changing
  • f. 207r-219v On the future life and repayment which is expected by the lifegiving entrance of our savior
Sachau 174; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 57 1,881 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 174

  • f. 3v-19v Narsai, The first memra for the Sunday of Hope: On the divine revelations which were for Abraham
  • f. 20r-36v Narsai, Another memra for the [Sunday] of Hope
  • f. 37r-48r Narsai, Memra on the birth of our Lord
    • f. 37r-46r Memra
    • f. 46v-48r Sogitha of Mary and the Magi
  • f. 48v-60v Narsai, Memra of the remembrance of Lady Mary the blessed
    • f. 48v-58v Memra
    • f. 59r-60v Sogitha of the Angel and Mary
  • f. 61r-72v Narsai, Memra of the festival of the Epiphany of our Lord
    • f. 61r-70v Memra
    • f. 71r-72v Sogitha between John the Baptist and Christ
  • f. 73r-85r Narsai, Memra of Mar John the Baptist [This manuscript ends at f. 79v and continues with Sachau 175]
    • f. 73r-83r Memra
    • f. 83v-85r Sogitha of the synagogue, John, the church, and Herod
sachau 175; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 57 1,881 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 175; Continuation of Sachau 174

  • f. 73r-85r Narsai, Memra of Mar John the Baptist [This manuscript begins at f. 81r]
    • f. 73r-83r Memra
    • f. 83v-85r Sogitha of the synagogue, John, the church, and Herod
  • f. 85v-98r Narsai, Memra of Peter and Paul
  • f. 98v-107r Narsai, Memra on the apostolic Evangelists
  • f. 107v-112v Narsai, Commemoration of Mar Stephen
  • f. 113r-129r Narsai, Memra of the Fathers, Doctors Diodore, Theodore and Nestorius
    • f. 113r-127v Memra
    • f. 128r-129r Sogitha between Cyril and Nestorius
  • f. 129v-137v Narsai, Memra for the 40-day fast
  • f. 138r-149v Narsai, Memra on the generation of our Lord
    • f. 138r-147v Memra
    • f. 148r-149v Sogitha between Cain and Abel
  • f. 150r-159v Narsai, Memra of Hosannas [Palm Sunday]
  • f. 160r-168r Narsai, Another memra of Hosannas [Palm Sunday]
  • f. 168v-175r Narsai, Another memra of Hosannas [Palm Sunday]
    • f. 168v-173r Memra
    • f. 173v-175r Sogitha between Christ and the Pharisees
  • f. 175v-182v Narsai, Memra for Holy Thursday [Continues on Sachau 176]
Sachau 176; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 57 1,881 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 176; Continuation of Sachau 175

  • f. 175v-182v Narsai, Memra for Holy Thursday [Continued from Sachau 175]
  • f. 183r-190r Narsai, Another memra on the administration of the Messiah which is in body and on His passion and crucifixion
  • f. 190v-198v Narsai, Another memra on the thief and it is said on Holy Week
  • f. 199r-208r Narsai, Memra on the mysteries of the church and on Baptism
  • f. 208v-217r Narsai, Memra on the Great Sunday of the Resurrection
    • f. 208v-215r Memra
    • f. 215v-217r Sogitha between the Cherub and Thief
  • f. 217v-230r Narsai, Memra on the Friday of the confessors
    • f. 217v-228r Memra
    • f. 228v-230r Sogitha between the kings and martyrs
  • f. 230v-239r Narsai, Memra on Hannaniah, and Azariah, and Mishael
  • f. 239v-246v Narsai, Memra on the day of the Ascension o four Lord to heaven
  • f. 247r-255r Narsai, Memra on the feast day of pentecost
  • f. 255v-261v David Scholasticus, Memra on the discovery of the cross
  • f. 263r-269r David Scholasticus [?], Memra for the consecration of the church
  • f. 269r-270r Colophon
Sachau 220; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 28 800 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 220

  • Syrian Orthodox Homiliary; For an ordered breakdown, see the Sachau entry above
    • Basil, f. 9
    • Gregory Nazianzus, f. 3, 4, 26, 28
    • Gregory of Nyssa, f. 6
    • Epiphanius, f. 17
    • John Chrysostom, f. 8, 9, 12, 13, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 41, 43, 47
    • Cyril of Alexandria, f. 13, 15, 17, 49, 50
    • Proclus of Constantinople, f. 40, 41
    • Jacob of Sarug, f. 10, 11, 29
    • Severus of Antioch, f. 10-12, 24, 26, 35, 43, 48
    • Pantoleon Presbyter Byzantinus, f. 48
    • Theodotus the bishop of Ancyra, f. 6
    • Antipater of Bostra, f. 29
Sachau 222; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 75 1,881 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 222

  • Saints' Lives and Martyrdoms
Sachau 302; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 27 600 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 27

  • f. 1-9r Selections of the work of Mark the Monk (Includes the tractate against the Melchizedekians)
  • f. 9r-11v Another work of Mark the Monk, on Malchus
  • f. 11v-13v Letter of St. Anthony to the monks of all the East
  • f. 13v-16r Letter of John of Thebes
  • f. 16r-19v Letter of Jacob the Seer
  • f. 19v-21v Memra of John Chrysostom on Repentance
  • f. 21v-22r Ephrem Syrus, from the Memra against Bardaisan
  • f. 22r-29v Evagrius Ponticus, Teaching and correction for the solitary brothers in the wilderness
  • f. 30r-41v Evagrius Ponticus, On the perfection of Disciplines
  • f. 41v-42v Evagrius Ponticus, Asceticon
  • f. 42v-54v Evagrius Ponticus, Antirhetikos
Sachau 309; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 62 1,600 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 309

  • f. 25r-222v Emmanuel of Dayra 'Ellayta, Hexaemeron

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