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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mss simulata orientalia 5 Unknown Syriac
  • Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentary on Ecclesiastes
Sachau 165; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 201 1,300 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 165

  • Lives and sayings for famous ascetics and church Fathers
    • f. 1-8v Biographical notes about church fathers and Citations of their works
    • f. 8v, 13-25 fragments of a writing about the monastic call
    • f. 9r-9v, 17 fragments of a legend of St. Pior (Identified with Lausaic history ch. 87)
    • f. 9v-12v Admonition of the Apostle Peter
    • f. 12v-16v From the legend of Abba Bishoi about the Isaac who became a Jew
    • f. 16v-18v part of the life of Alexander of Rome
    • f. 18r-19r Patristic citations
    • f. 19r-22r Conversation between teachers and students
    • f. 23r-26v Legends
    • f. 27r-32v Biographical notes about the prophets of the Old Testament
    • f. 32v-36v Notes on the New Testament
Sachau 169; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 61 1,882 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 169. The Hexaemaron of Immanuel, monk and teacher of Dayrā 'ellaytā.

  • f. 15r-28r On the Judgment of Adam and Eve and the serpent
  • f. 28v-42v On the Sabbath day and on the mysteries and types which our Lord visibly depicted
  • f. 43r-62r On the mysteries and types which were depicted about the resurrection in the seven days of creation
  • f. 62v-73v On the searching of the seers about the entrance of the Messiah for the future comfort and expectation to take all the peoples into His dawn which is for our salvation
  • f. 74r-87r On the vision Moses saw on Mt. Sinai
  • f. 87v-107v On the revelation of the Messiah, our Lord, and the repayment of our debts and our freedom from sin through the his venerable governance
  • f. 108r-121r On the signs and wonders and living words of our Lord and our God, the Messiah, for the establishment of the teaching of complete life for by His entrance he was given for the human race 
  • f. 121v-136r On the rest of the living words of our Lord and our savior, Jesus the Messiah, our hope
  • f. 136v-149v On the words of the living hope of the Messiah
  • f. 165v- He shows that the confession of the Messiah is true by the briging forth of its affairs to fruition and it is fitting for the church
  • f. 180r-192r On the resurrection of the body from nature as well as the book
  • f. 192v-206v On the soul and its certainty and changing
  • f. 207r-219v On the future life and repayment which is expected by the lifegiving entrance of our savior
Sachau 309; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 62 1,600 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 309

  • f. 25r-222v Emmanuel of Dayra 'Ellayta, Hexaemeron
Sachau 311; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 81 1,883 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 311

  • Isho'dad of Merv, Commentary on the New Testament
    • f. 1v-4r Introduction
    • f. 4v-73v Matthew
    • f. 74r-85v Mark
    • f. 86r-119v Luke
    • f. 120r-163v John
    • f. 164r-187v Acts of the Apostle
    • f. 188r-188v James
    • f. 189r-v 1 Peter
    • f. 190r 1 John
    • f. 190v-205r Romans
    • f. 205v-221v 1 Corinthians
    • f. 222r-229r 2 Corinthians
    • f. 229v-233v Galatians
    • f. 234r-238v Ephesians
    • f. 239r-241v Philippians
    • f. 242r-246v Colossians
    • f. 247r-248r 1 Thessalonians
    • f. 248v-249v 2 Thessalonians
    • f. 250r-253v 1 Timothy
    • f. 254r-255r 2 Timothy
    • f. 255v Titus
    • f. 256r Philemon
    • f. 256v-269r Hebrews
  • f. 269v Colophon