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 290 (SMMJ 00290) 1,477 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-90v Psalter (Syriac Rite, Western; Syriac)
  • fol. 91r-100r Prayers (Syriac)
  • fol. 100r-101v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on humility and love of learning (Syriac)
  • fol. 102r-198r Treatises and letters (Syriac)
  • fol. 198r-200r Monastic and ascetic selections (Syriac)
  • fol. 200v-209v Canons (Garshuni)
  • fol. 210r-210v Homily (Garshuni)
  • fol. 211r-220v Homily for Sunday (Garshuni)
  • fol. 221r-235v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Letter on the canons (Syriac)
  • fol. 235v-236v Questions and answers between a teacher and student (Syriac)
  • fol. 237r-243v John of Ephesus, Homily on repentance, death and the judgment (Garshuni)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 291 (SMMJ 00291) 1,435 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-263v Beth gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 294 (SMMJ 00294) 1,734 CE Syriac

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

  • Rites of ordination and consecration (Ṭekso; Syriac Rite, Western)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 296 (SMMJ 00296) 1,883 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Macler 23.

  • fol. 4v-190r Psalter (Syriac Rite, Western)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 323 (SMMJ 00323) 1,835 CE Garshuni

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

  • pages 1-206 Prayers for night and day

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 330 (SMMJ 00330) 1,600 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 7r-282v Fenqīthō (Syriac Rite, Western)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 346 (SMMJ 00346) 1,894 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 12r-56r Secure foundation
  • fol. 59r Names of the bishops and patriarchs of Antioch
  • fol. 60r-60v Prayer over a woman that has given birth
  • fol. 61r Petition of Mār Ephrem
  • fol. 65r-67v Iwannīs of Birtha, Homily
  • fol. 68r-70v Denḥā I, Response to the letter of Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō
  • fol. 74r-74v Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the hour of death of the good and evil
  • fol. 74v-75v Ephrem of Nisibis, homily
  • fol. 75v-76v Homily in the meter of Mar Ephrem
  • fol. 76v Ephrem of Nisibis, Soghitha on himself
  • fol. 77r-77v On the death of Patriarch Peter
  • fol. 78r-78v Homily in praise of Patriarch Peter
  • fol. 79r-79v Homily on the death of Patriarch Peter

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 373 (SMMJ 00373) 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Anaphora (Syriac Rite, Western) [Date range: 16th-20th century]

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 399 (SMMJ 00399) 1,923 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 2r-19r Hymns, petitions and prayers

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 400 (SMMJ 00400) 1,923 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 2r-18v Weekly prayers

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