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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 66 1,545 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

Chaldean ordinal translated from Latin into Syriac

  • Ordination of the door-keepers
  • Ordination of the Lectors
  • Ordination of exorcists
  • Ordination of acolytes
  • Ordination of subdeacons
  • Ordination of Deacons
  • Ordination of Presbyters
  • Order of Absolution
  • Prayers
  • On the wood (of the table)
  • Consecration of the altar
  • Consecration when the altar was desecrated
  • Consecration of the altar without chrism
  • Blessing over the chalice
  • Diaconal ordination
  • Ordination of a presbyter
  • Service of the habit of a monk
  • Service of the tonsure of a monk
  • Service of the tonsure of holy women
  • Admonition on temporal ordination
  • 'Onyatha during the tonsure of monks
  • Benediction for when the Bishop departs a city
  • Benediction for when a Bishop enters a monastery
  • Benediction for when a bishop leaves a monastery
  • Prayer for an abbot 
  • Ḥutāmē at the end of a liturgy
  • A form of consecration for the bread and wine (from Latin into Syriac)
  • The Liturgy of the Blessed Apostles
  • The Liturgy of Theodore the commentator of the Divine Books
  • 12-syllable verses for common days during the liturgy
  • Absolution
Vat. sir. 291 1,766 CE Syriac

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  • Liturgy of the Holy Apostles (Chaldean Rite)
Vat. sir. 294 Unknown Garshuni, Syriac

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  • Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Melkite Rite)
Vat. sir. 297 Unknown Syriac

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  • Syriac Liturgy (Maronite Rite)
    • St. James the Apostle
    • Shorter anaphora of St. James
    • St. Peter the Apostle
    • Second anaphora of St. Peter the Apostle
    • Third anaphora of St. Peter the Apostle
    • St. John the Evangelist
    • The Twelve Apostles
    • St. Mark the Evangelist
    • St. Clement, Pope of Rome
    • St. Ignatius 
    • Eustathius of Antioch
    • St. Xystus, Pope of Rome
    • St. Juius, Pope of Rome,
    • St. Athanasius of Alexandria
    • St. Celestine of Rome
    • St. Basil the Great
    • St. Gregory Nazianzus
    • St. John Chrysostom
    • St. Jacob of Sarug
    • St. John of Antioch (John Maron)
Vat. sir. 303 1,608 CE Syriac

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  • Book of Priests (East Syrian Rite)
    • Order of presbyters (obligations and absolutions found for the presbyter in the office)
    • Liturgy of the blessed apostles
    • Liturgy of Theodore of Mopsuestia
    • Liturgy of Nestorius
    • Order of Baptism (composed by Isho'yahb of Adiabene)
    • Order of the consecration of waters
    • Order of the renewal of the dough
    • Absolutions at the end of the mass recited at the door of the chancel (by 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā)
    • Sanctifying polluted water
    • Order of indulgences or absolutions, composed by Isho'yahb Catholicos
    • Prayers for Dominical feasts
    • Prayers for the dedication of a church by Abul-Azar
    • Absolution at the end of the Mass
    • Other absolutions at the door of the chancel, by Mar Gabriel
    • History of martyrs
Vat. sir. 414 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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  • Collection of anaphoras
    • St. John the Evangelist
    • St. Hermes, from the 70 disciples of Christ
    • St. Clement, disciple of St. Peter
    • St. Ignatius the fiery
    • St. Dionysius the Aereopagite
    • St. Eustathius
    • Twelve Apostles
    • St. Basil the Great
    • St. Gregory the Great
    • St. Marutha of Tagrit
    • St. John Chrysostom
    • St. Jacob of Haran and Nisibis
    • St. Cyril of Alexandria
    • St. Callistus of Rome
    • St. Jacob of Sarug
    • St. John Maron
Vat. sir. 431 1,700 CE Syriac

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  • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles

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