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. 202 1,682 CE Garshuni

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Lives of saints and treatises on theological topics
Vat. sir. 206 1,705 CE Garshuni

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  • Paradise of the Monks, or sayings of the fathers
Vat. sir. 208 Unknown Garshuni

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  • 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
Vat. sir. 209 1,654 CE Garshuni

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  • Alexander the Great, Epistle
  • Aristotle, Responses
Vat. sir. 211 1,719 CE Garshuni

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  • Apocryphal revelation according to St. John after the ascension of our Lord on the final judgment
  • Questions and Responses
  • Questions and Responses between a disciple and his master, on Christ the Lord
  • Questions and Responses between a disciple and his master, about the Sacrament of confession
  • Profession of the Christian faith
Vat. sir. 212 Unknown Garshuni

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  • Apocryphal Apocalypse of St. John
  • Various questions and responses
  • Ten questions and responses of a disciple and his master
  • Other questions and responses abou the sacrament of confession
  • Profession on the Christian faith, on God, three and one
Vat. sir. 213 Unknown Garshuni

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  • Apocryphal revelation according to St. John after the ascension of our Lord on the final judgment
  • Questions and Responses
  • Questions and Responses between a disciple and his master, on Christ the Lord
  • Questions and Responses between a disciple and his master, about the Sacrament of confession
  • Profession of the Christian faith

 

Vat. sir. 217 1,585 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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  • Gabriel Barclay, Maronite Bishop of Nicosa, On the Sphere
  • Daniel the sage, On the Zodiac Signs
  • Berozi the teacher, to Theo
  • Astrologia & Lunarium
  • Gabriel Barclay, Metrical exposition on the Apocalypse of John
  • Prayers, benedictions, and absolutions (Syriac and Arabic)
  • Order of the benediction for the great Sunday
  • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Joseph
  • On the discovery of the body of Joseph under Arcadius and Honorius
  • On the children of Ephesus
  • Various memre
  • Calendar
  • History of animals
  • Hunayn of Hirta, excerpt on medicine
  • Ishō' bar 'Alī, Explination of exotic words
  • Utilizing plants, planets and herbs
  • Michael the Maronite Patriarch, Epistle to the king of the Franks (dated 1575)
  • 'Abdisho' the Catholicos, syriac memre
  • 'Abdisho' the patriarch of the Chaldeans
  • Creed of St. Athanasius
  • Isho'yahb of Nisibis (Bar Malkon), profession of the faith
  • Epistle of formularies
  • Profession of the faith
  • College rules of the Maronites
  • Mass for the Nativity
  • David bar Pawlos, Syriac Memre
  • On the seven climates, Syriac memre
Vat. sir. 218 1,716 CE Garshuni

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  • Peter al-Tūlānī, Metaphysics
Vat. sir. 219 1,716 CE Garshuni

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  • Peter al-Tūlānī, Theology

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