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*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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 219 (SMMJ 00219) 1,788 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-12; SMC 2-12). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 30*. Macler 24.

  • f. 1v-116r Rabban Eudochos of Melitene and others, Words that people doubt about, grammatical forms that are difficult to understand, their inflections, their meaning and their presentation in the treatise of atomology (the science of word roots) (Syriac, Garshuni)
  • f. 116r-122r Words that are invariable, in alphabetical order (Syriac)
  • f. 122r Months of the Egyptians with Syrian Counterparts (Syriac)
  • f. 122v-123v Fragments of grammatical treatises (Syriac)
    • f. 122v End of a section that seems mostly concernd with words whose first syllable is vocalized with ptaha
    • f. 122v Concerning softened and hardened pronunciation. That is, concerning the letters that have both a softened and a hardened pronunciation and those that do not
    • f. 122v Concerning words whose first syllable in the singular is unvocalized but which receives the ptaha in the plural and derived words
    • f. 123v On the vocalization of the passive participles of the derived forms of the verb
  • f. 123v-124v Dawid bar Pawlos, Scholion concerning the letters that are variable in pronunciation (Syriac)
  • f. 124v-125r Scholion that shows how the correctness of diction of the Syriac language is preserved (Syriac)
  • f. 125r Concerning the number of the choirs (of angels) (Syriac)
  • f. 125rv On their names (of the angelic choirs) (Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 124 (SMMJ 00124) 900 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • Pages 1-11 Selections from philosophers
  • Pages 11-13 Paul, the Persian (6th century), Letter to Demetrius
  • Pages 13-50 Explanation of difficult words in the writings of Dionysius, Bishop of Athens
  • Pages 51-63 Story of Severus of Antioch
  • Pages 63-106 Commentary on Severus of Antioch's treatise against the impious grammarian

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 220 (SMMJ 00220) 1,700 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 27*

  • fol. 1-147 Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Metrical Grammar
  • fol. 147-228 Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Treatise on similar words

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 221 (SMMJ 00221) 1,600 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 26*

  • fol. 1-85v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Metrical grammar
  • fol. 86v-121v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Treatise on similar words

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 228 (SMMJ 00228) 1,892 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 6v-382r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 382r Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn, and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 229 (SMMJ 00229) 1,789 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 4v-315r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 315v Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 233 (SMMJ 00233) 1,860 CE Greek, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Macler 20.

  • fol. 1v-82r Jacob bar Shakkō, Book of Dialogues (Syriac)
  • fol. 82r-84r Differences in verb forms (Syriac)
  • fol. 84v-87v Meanings of Greek words in Syriac (Greek, Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 242 (SMMJ 00242) 1,860 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • Theological Miscellany
    • Includes interpretations of Hebrew names in the Old Testament, fol. 1r-3r; interpretations of Greek words, fol. 3r-4v; unidentified grammatical texts, fol. 17v-19v; selections from Bar Hebraeus’ Lamp of the sanctuary, fol. 20r-24v; theological texts by John Maron, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom.

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 277 (SMMJ 00277) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Coptic, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 3r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the soul's departure from the body (Syriac)
  • fol. 3v-4r Lexical miscellanea (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 10r-49v Glossary of Italian, Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew (Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac)
    • Armenian alphabet with the letter names in Garshuni on fol. 12v-13r
  • fol. 50r Ge'ez syllabary transliterated in Syriac (Ge'ez, Syriac)
  • fol. 51r-56v Arabic lexicon (Arabic)
  • fol. 57v Coptic alphabet with the letter names in Arabic (Arabic, Coptic)
  • fol. 58r Chant (Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 295 (SMMJ 00295) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • pages 2-269 Eudoxus of Melitene, Lexicon of obscure words (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • page 269 Egyptian months (Syriac)
  • pages 270-286 Notes on grammar and alphabets (Syriac)

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