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 225 (SMMJ 00225) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4v-59v Timothy Isaac, Metropolitan of Amid, Syriac Grammar (Syriac)
  • fol. 60v-145r Yaʿqub of Quṭurbul, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni, Syriac)
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 227 (SMMJ 00227) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-112r Arabic Grammar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113r-113v Ink recipes (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113v Short Chronicle (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 228 (SMMJ 00228) 1,892 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 6v-382r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 382r Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn, and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 229 (SMMJ 00229) 1,789 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4v-315r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 315v Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 231 (SMMJ 00231) 1,881 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 8v-254r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the treatises (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 254v-275v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the pupils of the eye (Syriac)
  • fol. 276r-307r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the conversation of wisdom (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 239 (SMMJ 00239) 1,500 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Garshuni and Syriac in parallel columns)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 242 (SMMJ 00242) 1,860 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Theological Miscellany
    • Includes interpretations of Hebrew names in the Old Testament, fol. 1r-3r; interpretations of Greek words, fol. 3r-4v; unidentified grammatical texts, fol. 17v-19v; selections from Bar Hebraeus’ Lamp of the sanctuary, fol. 20r-24v; theological texts by John Maron, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom.
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 246 (SMMJ 00246) 1,546 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Homilies and liturgical prayers
    • Includes homily on Michael the Archangel by Athanasius Patriarch of Alexandria, fol. 33r-41v; homily for those receiving the Priesthood by Yaʿqūb al-Mafārqānī, fol. 131v-138v; acrostic poem on moving of the Gospel, fol. 166r-167r.
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 247 (SMMJ 00247) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v, 9r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Homily on the Eucharist (Garshuni)
  • fol. 9v, 3r Introduction to the Books of Solomon (Garshuni)
  • fol. 3v-9v, 2r-2v, 10r-22v Proverbs (Garshuni)
  • fol. 23r-34r Wisdom of Solomon (Garshuni)
  • fol. 34r-41r Ecclesiastes (Garshuni)
  • fol. 41v-88v Testament of the Lord (Garshuni)
    • Text attributed to Clement of Rome; divided into 8 books
  • fol. 89r-158r Book of the teacher and the disciple (Garshuni)
  • fol. 158v-161v John Chrysostom, Homily on the rich man (Garshuni)
  • fol. 161v-166v John Chrysostom, Homily on mercy and admonition (Garshuni)
  • fol. 166v-184v John Chrysostom, Homily on virginity, repentance, and admonition (Garshuni)
  • fol. 185-188v Teaching of Addai (Syriac)

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