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. 266 600 CE Syriac

See note in Assemani

  • Binding
  • f. 1r-5v Index of the readings for the year
  • f. 6r-216v Peshitta New Testament
    • f. 6r-34r Matthew
    • f. 34r-53r Mark
    • f. 53r-86r Luke
    • f. 86r-111v John
    • f. 111v-146v Acts of the Apostles
    • f. 146v-150r James
    • f. 150r-154r 1 Peter
    • f. 154r-157v 1 John
    • f. 157v-171r Romans
    • f. 171r-184r 1 Corinthians
    • f. 184r-192v 2 Corinthians
    • f. 193r-197r Galatians
    • f. 197r-201r Ephesians
    • f. 201r-204r Philippians
    • f. 204r-206v Colossians
    • f. 207r-209r 1 Thessalonians
    • f. 209r-210v 2 Thessalonians
    • f. 210v-213v 1 Timothy
    • f. 213v-216v 2 Timothy
  • Binding

Vat. sir. 278 800 CE Syriac

See entry in Assemani

  • Binding
  • f. 1r-153v Melkite Old Testament Lectionary
  • Binding

Vat. sir. 279 1,141 CE Syriac

See entry in Assemani

  • Binding
  • f. 1r-171r Melkite Gospel Lectionary
  • f. 171r-172v Colophons and Notes
  • Binding

Vat. sir. 540 1,500 CE Syriac
  • Binding
  • f. 1v-8v Table of Liturgical Readings
  • f. 9r-10r Decorative front spaces
  • f. 10v-290r Peshitta Gospels
    • f. 10v-86v Matthew
    • f. 86v-131v Mark
    • f. 132v-222v Luke
    • f. 223v-290r John
  • Binding

Vat. sir. 556 1,729 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Binding
  • f. 1v-2v Dedication
  • f. 2v-253r Gospel Lectionary
  • f. 253r-254v In memory of John of the monastery of Busnaya
  • f. 254v-255r Burial of the deacons
  • f. 255r-255v burial of men and children
  • f. 255v-256r Item for women
  • f. 256r-256v Lists of feasts and circumstances, and references to pericope to read at this occasion
  • f. 256v Note, dated to 1729
  • f. 257 Garshuni, prayer
  • Binding

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. 41 pt. 1 Unknown Syriac

ff. 1-269; See entry in Assemani

  • Liturgicon with Euchologion, translated from Greek into Syriac (Melkite rite)
    • Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
    • Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
    • Pre-sanctified liturgy
    • Lections from the Gospels and Apostles
    • Readings for common days
    • Lections of Gospels and Apostles for the 40-day fast according to the Greek rite
    • Lections from the Acts of the Apostles and Gospels
  • Imposition of hands for the ordination of the priesthood
  • Prayer for a subdeacon
  • Service for the ordination of a deacon
  • The ordination of a presbyter
  • Prayer for an 8-day-old child
  • Presentation of children in the temple
  • Order of Baptism according Bishop Basil the Great, translated from Greek into Syriac
  • Prayer of the blessing of a baptismal crown after seven days

Vat. sir. 44 1,691 CE Garshuni, Syriac

​Catalog entry in Assemani

Liturgy (Chaldean Rite)

  • Order of Holy Baptism 
  • Liturgy of the apostles
  • Gospel lections

Vat. sir. 280 1,661 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gospel lections for the yearly cycle (Melkite rite)

Vat. sir. 445 1,564 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gospel lections recited on feast days

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