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 138 (SMMJ 00138) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-108v Psalter (Garshuni)
  • fol. 109r-110r Soghitha on drinking wine (Syriac)
  • fol. 110v Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, Medicine for sins
  • fol. 111r-115v On our father Adam (Garshuni)
  • fol. 115v-166v Ignatius bar Wāhib, Treatise on the letters of the Arabic Alphabet
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 139 (SMMJ 00139) 1,866 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-5r Confession of faith made by the Armenians and Jacobites (Garshuni)
  • fol. 5v-140v Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffa', Precious Pearl (Garshuni)
  • fol. 140v-148r Cyril of Alexandria, Twelve Chapters (Garshuni)
  • fol. 148v-153v Interpretation of Gregory's twelve chapters of faith (Garshuni)
  • fol. 155r-229v Gīwargīs, Bishop of al-Bsheriyyeh, Theological work (Garshuni)
  • fol. 229v-248r John Chrysostom, Commentary on the ten commandments (Garshuni)
  • fol. 251v-256r Michael I, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, Confession of the faith (Garshuni)
  • fol. 257r-259r Hippocrates, On creation of man and his four natures
  • fol. 259r-261v Bible, Proverbs (selections) (Syriac)
  • fol. 261v-262v Book of Theology, part 4 (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 140 (SMMJ 00140) 1,866 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-132v Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffa', Precious Pearl
  • fol. 133v-138v Shem'ūn II, Mafrian of Tur 'Abdin, Weapon of religion and the shield of certainty
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 141 (SMMJ 00141) 1,900 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1v-179v Theological work
  • fol. 181v-291r Hexaemeron
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 142 (SMMJ 00142) 1,700 CE Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-139v Timothy II, On the ecclesiastical mysteries [The book of the causes of the seven ecclesiastical mysteries]
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܥ̈ܠܠܬܐ ܫܒܥ ܕܐܪ̈ܙܐ ܥܕܬ̈ܢܝܐ
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 143 (SMMJ 00143) 1,891 CE Garshuni

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

  • Pages 1-121 Ibn al-ʻAssāl al-Ṣafī Abū al-Faḍāʼ il Mājid, Truthful reply based on good counsel
  • Pages 121-391 Selection of Orthodox texts against dyophysitism
  • Pages 401-460 Ibn al-ʻAssāl al-Ṣafī Abū al-Faḍāʼ il Mājid, Truthful replay based on good counsel
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 144 (SMMJ 00144) 1,900 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1v-164r Shem'ūn II, Mafrian of Tur 'Abdin, Weapon of religion and the shield of certainty
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 145 (SMMJ 00145) 1,800 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 5v-196v Shem'ūn II, Mafrian of Tur 'Abdin, Book of Theology
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 146 (SMMJ 00146) 1,800 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-115r Shem'un II, Mafrian of Tur 'Abdin, Chariot of intellectual secrets
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 147 (SMMJ 00147) 1,857 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1v-182r Giwargis Bishop of al-Bsheriyyeh, Correct Doctrine Concerning Christ's Incarnation

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