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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 54 (SMMJ 00054) 1,675 CE Syriac

See entry at CPART and in Macomber ([Macomber A]; [Macomber B]) (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 3-10; SMC 3-10); Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • Part A Fenqitho: Syrian Orthodox Offices for the midpoint day of the Fast (1675 C.E.)
    • f. 1v-8r A hymnary for the day on which the midpoint of the Fast is celebrated
      • f. 1v-3r Vespers
      • f. 3r-6v Midnight Office
      • f. 6v-8r Matins
  • ​Part B Fenqitho: Syrian Orthodox Hymnary for the ferias of the Annunciation and for the feast of the Nativity (15/16th Century)
    • f. 10r-112v Hymnary for the derias of the Annunciation and for the feast of the Nativity
      • f. 10r-103v The order of hymns that is observed on ordinary days of the season of the Annunciation
        • f. 10r-20v First tone
        • f. 20v-30r Second tone
        • f. 30r-39v Third tone
        • f. 39v-50r Fourth tone
        • f. 50r-63v Fifth tone
        • f. 63v-76r Sixth tone
        • f. 76v-89v Seventh tone
        • f. 89v-103v Eighth tone
      • f. 103v-117v the order of hymns that is observed on the holy feast of the Nativity
        • f. 103v-105r Vespers
        • f. 105r-112v Midnight office
        • f. 113r-117r Matins
        • f. 117rv Mass

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 1 (SMMJ 00001) 800 CE Syriac
  • Bibliography: Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994), p. 113; Arthur Vööbus, The Book of Isaiah in the Version of the Syro-Hexapla: A Facsimile Edition of MS St. Mark 1 in Jerusalem with an Introduction, CSCO 449 (1983).
  • Bible, Isaiah
    • ​Lectionary based on Syro-Hexapla version; extant part of text begins in Isaiah 27:10 and ends in Isaiah 65:20

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 3 (SMMJ 00003) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • See catalog entry in Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-477v Old Testament. Historical Books

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 5 (SMMJ 00005) 1,638 CE Garshuni
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1r-390v Bible, Old Testament. 
    • Isaiah
    • Jeremiah
    • Lamentations
    • Baruch
    • Ezekiel
    • Daniel
    • Hosea
    • Joel
    • Amos
    • Micah
    • Obadiah
    • Jonah
    • Nahum
    • Habakkuk
    • Zephaniah
    • Haggai
    • Zechariah
    • Malachi
    • Ezra

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 6 (SMMJ 00006) 1,645 CE Garshuni
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1r-215 Bible. Chronicles
    • Title NS: ܣܦܪ ܝܫܘܥ ܐܒܢ ܢܘܢ

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 7 (SMMJ 00007) 1,572 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 2.

  • fol. 1v-115v Psalter
  • fol. 115v-117r Homily attributed to Mar Ephrem, On humility, admonition, correction

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 9 (SMMJ 00009) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-158v Psalter

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 10 (SMMJ 00010) 1,474 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-123r Psalter

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 11 (SMMJ 00011) 1,402 CE Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1r-31v Psalter

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 12 (SMMJ 00012) 1,300 CE Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1r-84v Psalter

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