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 201 (SMMJ 00201) 1,903 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-8r Lamentation of Mary (Garshuni)
  • fol. 8v-33v Apocalypse of Paul (Syriac)
  • fol. 33v-144r Lives of saints (Syriac, Garshuni)
  • fol. 144r-145r Cyril of Alexandria, Demonstration of the benefits from the offerings (Syriac)
  • fol. 145v Story of John, Patriarch of Antioch
  • fol. 146r-148v Isaac of Antioch, Homily on admonition
  • fol. 148v-152r Isaac of Antioch, Homily on reproof
  • fol. 152r-156v Ephrem of Nisibis, homily on the eschaton
  • fol. 157r-161r Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the assumption of Mary
  • fol. 161r-167v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the coming of the Apostles during the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 206 (SMMJ 00206) 1,830 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-20v Story of king Armanios and his children
  • fol. 21r-27v Hymns for before Lent
  • fol. 28r-48v Story of John the Evangelist
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 226 (SMMJ 00226) 1,898 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2v-88r Yaʿqub, of Quṭurbul, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 92v On Mart Šmuni and her Sons (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 237 (SMMJ 00237) 1,800 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-118r Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim, Lives of the physicians
  • fol. 118v Mubaššir ibn Fātik Abū al-Wafā, Collection of sayings
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 249 (SMMJ 00249) 1,565 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-14v On Elijah and Elisha 
  • fol. 14v-23v On Elijah the prophet
  • fol. 23v-88r Story of Victor of Alexandria and his mother Martha
  • fol. 88r-96r Story of Mark of Jabal Tarmaq
  • fol. 96v-102r Isaac of Nineveh, Praise to Mary
  • fol. 102v-113v Story of George the Martyr
  • fol. 113v-118v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on youth and age
  • fol. 119r-126v Story of Jacob
  • fol. 127r-138r Story of Stephen the first Martyr
  • fol. 138r-147v Story of Matthew and Andrew
  • fol. 148r-150v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on the disciples's question to the Lord about his Second Coming
  • fol. 151r-168v John Chrysostom, Homily on the Ten Commandments

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