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
Vat. sir. 141 700 CE Syriac

See entry in Assemani

  • Binding
  • f. ar-bv Note (copied in a modern hand on paper)
  • f. 1r-3r Jacob of Edessa, On Punctuation
  • f. 3r-5r Contents
  • f. 5r-216r Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, Cathedral Homilies (nos. 44-91) (CPG 7035)
  • Binding
Vat. sir. 30 1,714 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry in Assemani.

  • Anaphora of St. Basil of Caesarea
Vat. sir. 36 1,597 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry from Assemani

  • f. 1-34 Missal (Jacobite Rite)
    • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
    • Anaphora of Peter the Apostle
    • Anaphora of St. Eustathius
    • Anaphora of St. John (bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis)
    • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
  • Porphyry, Isagoge
  • The way of finding East
  • Bishop Moses, excerpts from Yaḥya ibn 'Adī
    • Against those who affirm that Christ was not truly crucified
    • Against those who maintain the Christian Gospel has been corrupted
    • The world was not from eternity
  • Bishop Moses, Excerpt from an Arabic grammar
  • Jacob of Sarug, a philosophical poem: On being, substance, and accidents
  • Baptismal Rite
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Syriac Grammar
  • Bishop Moses, Syriac-Arabic Lexicon
  • Catalog of the works of Bar 'Ebroyo
Vat. sir. 194 1,459 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Elijah of Nisibis, Syriac Grammar
  • John bar Zo'bi, Syriac Grammar
  • John bar Zo'bi, On seven sections  of prayer
  • Bar Malkon, Poetic grammar
  • Distinction of sounds, homonyms
  • Elijah of Nisibis, Syriac and Arabic Nomenclature
  • Ishō' bar 'Alī
Vat. sir. 465 Unknown Garshuni, Syriac
  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Syriac Grammar (ܟܬܒܐ ܕܨܡ̈ܚܐ)
Vat. sir. 503 1,757 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Vosté

  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Book of Grammar
Vat. sir. 571 Unknown Syriac
  • Grammatical treatises (uncatalogued)