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 157 (SMMJ 00157) 1,865 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2v-83v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the prophets and the devastation of Jerusalem (Syriac)
  • fol. 83v-89v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the departed (Syriac)
  • fol. 90r-103r Gregory Nazianzus, On the soul's departure from the body (Garshuni)
  • fol. 103r-113v Homily on sinners attributed to the prophet Elijah (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113v-118r Short prayers (Garshuni)
  • fol. 118r-121r Bihnam Hadlōyō, Acrostic homily on ths oul's remorse (Syriac)
  • fol. 121r-123r Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the love of the world (Syriac)
  • fol. 124r-127r Unidentified text (Arabic)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 159 (SMMJ 00159) 1,700 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Theological miscellany
    • Includes Questions and answers by John Chrysostom, fol. 3v-46v; Syriac-Arabic and Greek-Syriac vocabularies, fol. 46v-55v; hymns and poems by ʻAbdīshōʻ of Gazarta, ʿAbdīshōʿ of Ātēl, Abrāhām of Bēth Slōk, and Israel of Alqosh; homily on fasting and on the Pentateuch by Ephrem of Nisibis, fol. 138v-139r
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)