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. 151 1,613 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Mysteries by the East Syriac Catholicos Timothy II
    • f. 1v-4r Proem addressed to the Priest and Monk Barsauma
    • f. 4v-27v Chapter 1: On the Priesthood
    • f. 28r-45v Chapter 2: On the Consecration of the Church
    • f. 46r-72v Chapter 3: On Baptism
    • f. 73r-123v Chapter 4: On the Eucharist
    • f. 124r-128r Chapter 5: On the Monastic Profession
    • f. 128v-139r Chapter 6: On Funeral Rites
    • f. 139v-end Chapter 7: On Betrothal and Marriage Rites

Vat. sir. 173 1,333 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Poems (12-syllable meter) on executing proper duties of the Priest and Deacon
  • Order of the consecration of Chrism
  • On the Fast and the calendar
  • On ten Fathers
  • St. Cyril of Alexandria, Twelve Chapters
  • Priest Aitallaha
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, excerpt from Chronicon Syriacum
  • Jacob of Edessa, 12-syllable meter poems on faith against Nestorianism
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, The mystery of his confession of faith
  • Syriac Calendar
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of histories

Vat. sir. 180 1,318 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • The Apology before the Apocalypse of Paul the Apostle
  • The Apocalypse of Paul the Apostle
  • Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onyatha

Vat. sir. 185 1,703 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho' the Solitary, Various works
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha

Vat. sir. 186 1,477 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Songs on divine things, on one who is perfecting his death through tireless labor of knowledge
  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Other poems 
  • Gabriel Qamṣa, Spiritual philosophy
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, short poems
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogyatha for feasts
  • Rabban Isaac, Songs

Vat. sir. 187 1,669 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho' of Nisibis, Interpretation of the 'Onyatha of Simeon of Sancalabar
  • Exposition of the obscure places in the Gospels
  • Exposition on certain places in Genesis and Exodus
  • Etymologies of Syriac words
  • A question of Macarius the Solitary and answer of Joshua bar Nun, Patriarch of the Chaldeans
  • Questions and answers from the Scriptures from Theodore of Mopsuestia

Vat. sir. 191 1,700 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • f. 1r-87v Ibn Sina, Introduction to logic
  • f. 88r-v Table of Movable Feasts
  • f. 89r-end From the book,The Cause of All Causes

Vat. sir. 199 1,545 CE Garshuni

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Life of St. Maron
  • Homily on Penitence
  • Story of the three holy Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
  • Death of Isaac the patriarch
  • Death of Jacob the patriarch
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the thief
  • Life of St. Alexei
  • History of St. Abdulmasih
  • Lives of Ss. Sergius and Bacchus
  • Life of St. Marina
  • Life of St. Susanna
  • On Isaac, the son of Abraham the Patriarch
  • Life of St. John
  • Life of Paul
  • On St. Abba Ammon
  • On the Seven children of Ephesus
  • Life of St. Cyril
  • Life of St. Martinianus the Anchorite
  • Life of St. Archelidos
  • History of the Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul
  • Homily on Penitence
  • Life of St. Dionysius the Aereopagite
  • Jacob of Sarug, Homily on Constantine the great
  • Life of St. Simon
  • Life of Ahiqar the sage
  • Fables of Shaddad, son of 'Addi and Solomon, son of David
  • Letter from heaven given by Athanasius Patriarch of Alexandria
  • History of the conception and nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary by her mother Anna
  • Narration of bribery
  • Fable of a certain prince
  • Homily of St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Questions and answers
  • History of Pontius Pilate
  • Apostolic Constitutions
  • Homily of St. John Chrysostom
  • Ephrem Syrus, On wrestling with the Devil
  • Prayer for the sick and penitential

Vat. sir. 200 1,584 CE Garshuni

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Caspar of Cyprus, Maronite, Book of the Ecclesiatical Sacraments

Vat. sir. 208 Unknown Garshuni

​Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Command of Christ the Lord
  • Life of Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria
  • David bar Pawlos, Questions between a Jacobite and Melchite on the Trisagion
  • On the four synods: Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon
  • Abraham the monk, disputation

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