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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 2 (SMMJ 00002) |
1,549 CE |
Syriac |
See entry in CPART and Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 1-1; SMC 1-1). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- f. 1v-217r Lectionary of the Sundays and feasts of the cycle of the entire year [Syrian Orthodox Church]
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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 8 (SMMJ 00008) |
1,600 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 1-3; SMC 1-3); Baumstark 1 and Baumstark 1*; Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- f. 1v-116v Psalms (Syriac/Garshuni) (Syriac is the Peshitta)
- f. 116b Our Father in Syriac and Garshuni
- f. 116v-117r The Creed of the three hundred, i.e. the Nicene Creed (Syriac and Garshuni)
- f. 117r A special Psalm of David. Psalm 151 (Syriac and Garshuni)
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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 51 (SMMJ 00051) |
900 CE |
Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-1; SMC 2-1). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- f. 1r-222v [Fenqitho] Hymnary for Sundays and feasts, for the Fast and for commemorations
- f. 1r-4v Nativity
- f. 4v-11v Mother of God
- f. 11v-17r (Mt. 2:16-18)
- f. 17r-20v Saints Basil and Gregory
- f. 20b-27b Epiphany
- f. 27v-42v Sundays after Epiphany
- f. 42v-47v Beheading of John the Baptist
- f. 47v-52r St. Stephen
- f. 52r-58r [Presentation of Christ in the Temple]
- f. 58v-61v St. Barsauma
- f. 61v-66r St. Severus of Antioch
- f. 66r-69r Sunday before the Fast, the Sunday of the Priests
- f. 69r-127r Sundays and weekdays of the Fast.
- f. 77r-78r St. Ephrem
- f. 115v-124v Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
- f. 124v-127r Raising of Lazarus
- f. 127r-131r Palm Sunday
- f. 131r-135v Monday through Wednesday of Passion Week
- f. 135v-145r Thursday of Passion Week, including ff. 144r-145r, the service of footwashing
- f. 145r-148v Friday of Passion Week
- f. 148v-151r Saturday of Good Titings
- f. 151r-155v Easter Sunday [Pascha]
- f. 155v-180v Eastertie liturgy in the other seven tones
- f. 180v-184r New Sunday
- f. 184r-187v Ascension Thursday
- f. 187v-191v Pentecost
- f. 191v-194r Holy Cross
- f. 194r-195v The Prophet Elijah
- f. 195v-197v The Apostle Thomas
- f. 197v-198r The Apostles in common
- f. 198r-201r St. Jacob of Sarug
- f. 201r-203r Saints Sergius and Bacchus
- f. 203r-205r St. Barbara
- f. 205r-207v St. George
- f. 207v-210r Patron Saint
- f. 210r-213v Common office of the Mother of God, the Saints and the departed
- f. 213v-222v Common offices in the other seven tones
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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 36 (SMMJ 00036) |
1,800 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber (Macomber 2-2B) (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-2; SMC 2-2)
- Part A (1800)
- f. 1v-4r Syrian Orthodox Lections for the feast of the Nativity
- f. 1v-2r At vespers of the Nativity of our Lord in the flesh. John 1:1-17
- f. 2r-3r At matins of the Nativity of our Lord in the flesh. Matthew 2:1-12
- f. 3r-4r The Nativity of our Lord. From the Apostle Paul. Galatians 4:1-18
- Part B (12th Century)
- f. 1v-273r New Testament Peshitta (unless otherwise indicated)
- f. 1v-32v Matthew
- f. 32v-52v Mark
- f. 52v-87r Luke
- f. 87r-114r John
- f. 115r-142v Harklean lections of the Great (i.e. Passion) week
- f. 142v-178v Acts
- f. 178v-182r James
- f. 182r-186r 1 Peter
- f. 186r-189v 1 John
- f. 189v-190r 2 John (Harklean)
- f. 190rv 3 John (Harklean)
- f. 190v-192v 2 Peter (Harklean)
- f. 192v-193v Jude (Harklean)
- f. 193v-207v Romans
- f. 207v-222r 1 Corinthians
- f. 222r-232v 2 Corinthians
- f. 232v-237r Galatians
- f. 237r-242v Ephesians
- f. 242v-246r Philippians
- f. 246r-249r Colossians
- f. 249r-252r 1 Thessalonians
- f. 252r-254r 2 Thessalonians
- f. 254r-258r 1 Timothy
- f. 258r-260v 2 Timothy
- f. 260v-262r Titus
- f. 262rv Philemon
- f. 262v-273r Hebrews
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St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-4 |
1,300 CE |
Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber. Baumstark 18.
- f. 9v-192r Syrian Orthodox Pontifical Ritual
- f. 9v-15v The Harangue (?) decreed by St. Jacob, Metropolitan of Mayāfāqīn, the city of the martyrs of Mesopotamia
- f. 17v-22r Exhortation or instructions to priests and deacons, which the Patriarch or Metropolitan delivers before ordaining them
- f. 22v-49v Rite of ordinations of priests and deacons
- f. 50r-52v The rite of consecration of the oil with which those being baptized are anointed before their descent into the baptismal font
- f. 53v-91r The consecration of altars, altar stones and sanctuaries, after the office of matins
- f. 91v-127r The rite of ordination of high priests, or metropolitans, and bishops
- f. 127v-169v The rite of consecration of chrism
- f. 170r-182v Explanation of the consecration of chrism
- f. 183r-186r Prayers of every sort
- f. 183r When visiting the sick
- f. 183r When the priest enters a monastery
- f. 183v When the priest enters the houses of the faithful
- f. 183v For youths
- f. 183v-184r For someone who is baptized by heretics and returns
- f. 184r For someone who is possessed by demons
- f. 184rv That a person prays for himself when he is possessed by a demon or by any person
- f. 184v for someone who is setting out on a journey and asks for prayer
- f. 184v-185r what the person who is setting forth recites for himself
- f. 185r For someone who violates his oaths repents
- f. 185rv For the ordination of an abbot or visitor
- f. 185v-186r For an altar place that a pagan, or barbarian, or heretic has entered and defiled
- f. 186v-190r Prayers (of blessing recited) over the people
- f. 186v-187v In the meter of Mar Ephrem
- f. 187v-190r In the meter of Mar Jacob of Sarug
- f. 191v-192r Prayer for someone who returns from captivity and has violated his profession of faith
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St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-5 |
1,279 CE |
Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber
- f. 1v-134r Syrian Orthodox Pontifical Ritual
- f. 1v-2r Preface
- f. 2r-47v The rite of the consecration of chrism
- f. 47v-49v The prayers over the ointment of oil that is used for anointing (in baptism)
- f. 49v-51v Other prayers over the ointment fo prayer, that is, of healing
- f. 51v-83v The rite of the consecration of the church
- f. 84r-98v Sequence, that is, the order of ceremonies and rite of the consecration of altars, that is, or the tablets on the altar table
- f. 99r-134r Oder of ceremonies of all sacerdotal and holy ordinations
- f. 99r-105v Harangue which the high priest ought to read out to those who wish to be ordained
- f. 105v-110v Admonition of the bishop to those being ordained
- f. 110v-112r Responses that are chanted in the ordination of deacons, priests and bishops, that is, in every ordination
- f. 112v-122r The rite of ordination of deacons
- f. 122v-132r The rite of ordination of priests
- f. 132r-134r And when the circumstances compel the bishop to ordain deacons and priests together, the custom is that there should be this common sedro
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St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-6 |
1,417 CE |
Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber. Baumstark 10.
- f. 1r-220v Syrian Orthodox Missal (Fenqitho of anaphoras, that is, liturgies, of all the orthodox doctors that are well approved and faithful)
- f. 1r-3r Lections for evening mass (of the Saturday) of Good News
- f. 3v Index of anaphoras
- f. 4rv Prayer of offertory (ܩܘܪܒܐ)
- f. 4v-5v Prayer of final blessing (ܚܘܬܡܐ)
- f. 5v-7r Another final blessing in the meter of St. Ephrem
- f. 7r-8v Another of Mar Jacob of Sarug
- f. 8v Prayer of the Saturday of Good News that is substituted for that of peace of the anaphora
- f. 9r Hymn that is chanted at the time when the divine mysteries are distributed
- f. 9v-21v The Sedros of Entry (Solemn prayers of incense that are said at the beginning of the mass of the faithful, where formerly there was the entry procession of the gifts) before the anaphora, with the lections of the Apostle and Gospel.
- f. 21v-28r Lections for the Thursday of the Mysteries
- f. 28v-197v The anaphoras
- f. 28v-32v Anaphora of St. James, the brother of our Lord
- f. 32v-35v Anaphora of St. John the Evangelist
- f. 35v-39r Anaphora of St. Mark the Evangelist
- f. 39r-44r Anaphora of St. Clement, disciple of the Apostle Peter
- f. 44v-50v Anaphora of St. Ignatius, disciple of the Evangelist John
- f. 50v-56r Anaphora of St. Dionysius of Athens, disciple of Paul
- f. 56v-63v Anaphora of Athanasius of Alexandria
- f. 63v-71r Anaphora of St. Basil of Caesarea
- f. 71v-79r Anaphora of St. Gregory the Theologian
- f. 79r-84v Anaphora of St. John Chrysostom
- f. 84v-89v Anaphora of St. Celestine, Pope of Rome
- f. 89v-95v Anaphora of St. Cyril, Pope of Alexandria
- f. 95v-101r Liturgy of St. Dioscorus the Great, Pope of Alexandria
- f. 101v-108v Anaphora of St. Timothy of Alexandria
- f. 108v-114v Liturgy of St. Severus of Antioch
- f. 114v-123r Anaphora of St. John of Bostra
- f. 123r-129b Anaphora of St. Jacob of Sarug
- f. 129v-138r Another Liturgy of the same St. Jacob of Sarug
- f. 138r-143r Anaphora of Philoxenus of Mabbug
- f. 143r-148v Anaphora of St. Jacob of Edessa
- f. 148v-153r Liturgy of St. Peter, Patriarch of Antioch
- f. 153r-158r Anaphora of St. Cyriacus, Patriarch of Antioch
- f. 158v-162r Anaphora of St. Julius, Pope of Rome
- f. 162r-163v Anaphora of St. Xystus, Pope of Rome
- f. 164r-166v Liturgy of St. Matthew Pastor
- f. 167r-170v Anaphora of St. Eustathius, Patriarch of Antioch
- f. 170v-173v Another Anaphora of St. Eustathius
- f. 174r-177v Liturgy of St. Philoxenus of Mabbug
- f. 177r-180v Third liturgy of the same Philoxenus
- f. 180v-185v Liturgy of St. Philoxenus, Bishop of Baghdad, who is known as La'zar Bar Shabbta
- f. 185v-188r Liturgy of St. Thomas, Bishop of Germanicia (in other mss, Thomas of Harkel or even the apostle Thomas)
- f. 188r-193r Liturgy of St. Marutha of Tagrit
- f. 193r-197v Liturgy of St. Severus of Mosul, known as Moshe bar Kepha
- f. 197r-199r Two additional sedros of entry
- f. 199r Another huttamo prayer of blessing
- f. 200v-217r Anaphora of St. Yohannan, Patriarch of Syria, who is also Bar Ma'dani
- f. 217r-220v Another sedro of entry
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Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 49 (SMMJ 00049) |
1,600 CE |
Garshuni |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-9; SMC 2-9); Catalog entry in Baumstark 18*. Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- f. 1v-139v Anonymous, Lections gathered from the four gospels with commentaries.
- f. 140r-171v Pragsha, that is, a book that is a sort of collection of commentaries and discourses and canons of the Fathers
- f. 140r-144r Chapter 1, That God is eternal, pre-existent, invisible and omnipotent
- f. 144rv Chapter 2, On the construction of the earthly church
- f. 144v-145r Chapter 3, Concerning the eucharistic bread and wine
- f. 145r-156r Chapter 4, Explanation of the office and the mass
- f. 156r-157v Chapter 5, Concerning the priesthood
- f. 157v-162r Chapter 6, On priests, deacons and penance
- f. 162r-164r Chapter 7, concerning prayer
- f. 164r-170r Translation of what has been mentioned in this chapter from Syriac and Arabic. A translation of the Sanctus and Trisagion, with commentary of the Fathers
- f. 170r-171r On first fruits, votive offerings and tithes
- f. 171r-197r A miscellany of stories, homilies, and short treatises
- f. 171r-172v The story of a merchant. This is an edifying tale of a God-fearing merchant who had a very beautiful wife.
- f. 172v-174v A delightful portrayal from one of the authorities
- f. 174v-177v A parable that the doctors of the Church set forth on the interpretation of the gospel. It is a story about a certain jeweler
- f. 177v-183v St. Jacob of Sarug, Homily on charity
- f. 183v-192v Anonymous, Discourse on Sunday
- f. 193r-195v The commandments that our Lord ordered in his holy Gospel, there are 99
- f. 195v-197r Seven prayers that are prescribed for us
- f. 197r-222r Book of homilies delivered by Severus, more commonly known as Moshe bar Kepha
- f. 197r-201r First homily, on the consecration of the Church and her renewal
- f. 201r-207r Second homily, On when the angel brought the good news to the priest Zechariah about the birth of John (the Baptist)
- f. 207r-212r Third homily, On the annunciation of the angel Gabriel to the holy and pure St. Mary
- f. 212r-217v Homily on the temptation by Satan of our Lord Jesus Christ
- f. 217v-221r Homily on the leper whom our Lord cured of the affliction of leprosy
- f. 221r-222r Homily read on the first Sunday of the blessed Fast
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St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-10 |
1,400 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
See entry at CPART and In Macomber ([Macomber A]; [Macomber B]; [Macomber C])
- Part A (14/15th century)
- f. 1r-23v Fragments of a Syrian Orthodox missal
- f. 1r-2v, 4rv Anaphora of St. James, with the ordinary of the mass
- f. 4v-9v Anaphora of John the Evangelist
- f. 9v-20v Anaphora of St. Philoxenus (of Baghdad, also known as La'zar Bar Shabbta)
- f. 20v-23v Mar Sa'wira, Rite of the signing of the chalice of holy St. Severus of Antioch. This is a rite for consecrating additional wine for communion when the communion wine that was consecrated during mass runs short
- Part B (17/18th century)
- f. 3rv A single leaf from a Syrian Orthodox missal containing the anamnesis, epiclesis, and beginnings of the intercessions of the Anaphora of St. John the Evangelist
- Part C (15th Century)
- f. 24v-112v Syrian Orthodox Pontifical ritual
- f. 24v-52v, 60rv, 54rv The book for the consecration of chrism
- f. 24v-25v Confection of the anointing oil for chrism
- f. 25v-27v Preparation for the ceremony
- f. 27v-52v, 60rv, 54rv The rite of the consecration of chrism
- f. 55r-56v Prayer (recited) Over the anointing oil intended for anointing (those being baptized). Candidates for baptism have their entire bodies anointed with oil just before they are plunged into the font.
- f. 57r-59v, 53rv, 61r-64v Rite of the ordination of deacons
- f. 65r-70v Rite of the ordination of priests
- f. 71r-74r End of the treatise on chrism (Garshuni)
- f. 74r-79v Rite of the consecration of a church
- f. 80r-82v End of the bishop's exhortation to those ordained to the priesthood (Garshuni)
- f. 82v Prayer of the faithful for the priests and deacons who have been ordained (Garshuni)
- f. 83r-84v Rite of the holy habit of Abba Antonius, which has been translated from the Egyptian language into Syriac
- f. 84v-85r Rite of the prayer for the consecration of the furniture of the sanctuary and the altar and the vestments that the priest wears at Mass
- f. 85r-98r Rite of the tonsure of monks according to the tradition of Mount Urhay
- f. 98r Prayer recited over those who are putting on the garments of the ministry
- f. 98r-100r Exhortation delivered by one of the saints; it is read to the monks at their clothing (Garshuni)
- f. 100r-103v Rite of the tonsure of nuns when they are presented for the holy habit of monasticism
- f. 103v-112v Order, that is, sequence of ceremonies of the consecration of altars, that is, of the tablets on the altar table
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St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-11 |
1,554 CE |
Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber
- Church of the East (Chaldean) Pontifical Ritual
- f. 1v-137v Pontifical Ritual
- f. 1v-2r Gospel lection for the ordination of a bishop or of a catholicos
- f. 3r Instruction concerning the wood from the which the tablitha is made
- f. 3v-26r Catholicos Mar Isho'yahb of Adiabene, Consecration of the altar place with oil
- f. 26v-28r Consecration of the altar place without oil
- f. 28v Signing of the chalice before it goes up to the altar, when they are compelled to consecrate an additional chalice) on a day of great concourse.
- f. 29rv Instruction concerning ordinations
- f. 29v-38r Ordinations of lectors, subdeacons, and deacons
- f. 38v-44v Rite of the ordination of priests
- f. 44v-46v Rite of the clothing of monks
- f. 46v-66v Rite of the tonsure of monks
- f. 66v-77r Rite of the tonsure of women who are nuns
- f. 77r-78v Rite of the institution of abbots
- f. 79v-89v Rite of the ordination of bishops
- f. 90r-93r The rite of the perfection of bishops by catholicoi. In the Church of the East (Nestorian), a bishop could be ordained by a metropolitan, but he could not exercise his full powers until he had gone to the catholicos and been perfected
- f. 93r-106r Rite of the ordination of catholicoi
- f. 106r-107r Rite of the ordination of the archdeacon
- f. 107r-108r Rite when a chorbishop is appointed for a district to act like the archdeacon, who is the visitor of the villages
- f. 108r-109v Rite of the ordination of women deaconesses
- f. 110r-111r Rite of the ordination of a Shaharā priest
- f. 111r-113r Mar 'Abdisho', Catholicos, Prayer that is recited, likewise a prayer of inclination, over a bishop that is translated from one see to another see
- f. 113rv Summary of the contents of the manuscript
- f. 115v-137r Mar Isho'yahb of Nisibis, also known as Bar Malkon, Canons of ordination
- f. 137rv Four prayers for the reconciliation of penitent excommunicated persons: 1) For a bishop who has been degraded, 2) for seculars, 3 and 4) For anyone
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