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
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul (ASOM 00022 006) Unknown Syriac
  • Extract from story of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 60 (ASOM 00060) 1,724 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 3v-30v Jacob of Edessa, Memra on Alexander the Great, Gog and Magog, and the end-times (Syriac)
  • fol. 31r-41r Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on the end-times, Gog and Magog, and the Antichrist (Syriac)
  • fol. 41v-79r Burial Rite (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 79v-81v Lamentation for Gehenna (Syriac)
  • fol. 81v-100r Story of Mar Bassus (Syriac)
  • fol. 100r-131r Story of Mar Gabriel of Qartmin (Syriac)
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 76 (ASOM 00076) 1,918 CE Syriac
  • fol. 2r-107v Lives of Mar Mattai and Bar Hebraeus
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 92 (ASOM 00092) 1,900 CE Syriac
  • fol. 3v-53v Ecclesiasticus
  • fol. 53v-104v 1 Maccabees
  • fol. 104v-149v 2 Maccabees
  • fol. 149v-169v 3 Maccabees
  • fol. 169v-199v Memra on Shmuni and her seven martyred sons
  • fol. 200r-228r 1 Esdras
  • fol. 228r-244v Tobit
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 95 (ASOM 00095) 1,911 CE Syriac
  • Part 1
    • fol. 1v-21r Ignatius II, Maphrian of the east, Ascent of the Mind
    • fol. 21v-23v On the Eucharist
    • fol. 24r-29v Creeds of the Orthodox Church Fathers
    • fol. 30v-45r Life of Mar Benjamin
  • Part 2
    • Life of Mar Jacob of Edessa
  • Part 3
    • Memre (Includes memre by Ignatius Marcus bar Qiqi and Ephrem of Nisibis)
  • Part 4
    • Life of Philoxenus of Mabbug
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 101 (ASOM 00101) 1,931 CE Syriac
  • fol. 4v-48r Sayings and lives of church fathers
    • Title NS: ܡܪܬܝܢܘܬܐ ܫܦܝܪܬܐ
  • fol. 50r-61v Rites of penance, healing of the sick, and blessing of water