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
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00011 1,900 CE Malayalam Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1r-140v Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni Lexicon
    • Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni vocabulary for Pauline and Catholic Epistles and Revelation, fol. 1rA-18r
    • Pedro Gomez, Explanations of the vocabulary of Seven Sacraments of the Church fol. 18v-31r
    • Explanations of the vocabulary of a collection of canons for clerics, fol. 31r-34v
    • Two short texts on the history of Syrians and Indians in Syriac, fol. 34v-35v
    • Texts in Malayalam Garshuni, fol. 35r-37v
    • Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni vocabulary for the books of the Old Testament, fol. 38r-140v
  • fol. 141r-167v Letters (Malayalam Garshuni, Syriac)
    • Includes twelve letters from late 18th to early 19th century, mainly between Syrian Christians of Malabar and ecclesiastical prelates such as Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd