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
St. Thomas Syrian Catholic Church 15(23) 1,600 CE Syriac

See entry at CPART

  • The divided Bible throughout the year
St. Thomas Syrian Catholic Church 114 Unknown Garshuni

See entry at CPART

  • The Gospel according to the Syriac liturgical year cycle
BnF syr. 40 1,190 CE Syriac

See catalog entry here

  • Four Gospels (Peshitta) preceded by an index of lessons
BnF arabe 53 1,724 CE Arabic, Georgian, Syriac
  • Syrian Rite, Liturgy; New Testament
  • f. 1r-1v Georgian text
  • f. 2-9v Table of Pericopes
  • f. 10v-65v Gospel of St. Matthew
  • f. 66-102 Gospel of St. Mark
  • f. 103-165v Gospel of St. Luke
  • f. 167-220 Gospel of St. John
BnF syr. 25 1,700 CE Syriac

See catalog entry here; Chaldean Liturgical text

  • f. 1-99r Psalms (Peshitta)
  • f. 99v-103r The first song of Moses, the song of Isaiah, and the second and third songs of Moses (Peshitta)
  • f. 103v-217r Order of the Hudra for the days of the week.
  • f. 217v-226r Office for the feast of St. Thomas
  • f. 226v-249r General office for the day of the Commemoration of the venerable Mary, Mother of God
  • f. 249v-250 On the governance of the Holy Church
  • f. 251 On the chastity of priests
  • f. 252-273r Order and canons which one recites on the feast of the Nativity
  • f. 273v-276r Order for the consecration of the scapular of the Carmelites
  • f. 276v-277 Ecclesiastical calendar
  • f. 278 ff. Manual of priests with all the prayers used in ecclesiastical functions
Beinecke Syriac MS 8 1,225 CE Syriac

See catalog entry

  • f. 1r Pauline Epistles (fragment)
  • f. 1v-2v Questions by Queen Sheba to King Solomon
  • f. 3ra-4va Philoxenus of Mabbug, Letter to Patrikios of Edessa
  • f. 4vb Sayings, 2 by ? (Philoxenus?), 4 by Evagrius, 1 by Abba Isaiah
  • f. 4vb-7vb Philoxenus of Mabbug, Confessions of Faith
  • f. 7vb-9ra John of Lycopolis (or of Amapea), also the solitary, or "seer, and prophet", The Holy Commandments of the Gospel
  • f. 9ra-29va Commandments (from the gospels, the Pauline and Catholic Epistles, and the prophets
  • f. 29va-end anonymous, about the Sacraments
Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo: Gospel Lectionary 1,588 CE Syriac

West Syrian Gospel lectionary

USEK The Four Gospels 1,687 CE Garshuni

The four Gospels according to the church calendar lections

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00079) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Gospel Lectionary (Garshuni), Syriac Rite, Western
  • Liturgical Service (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Qūrbōnō: Anaphora of James, the brother of our Lord (Syriac)
  • Qūrbōnō: Anaphora of St. John the Evangelist (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Qūrbōnō: Anaphora of Proclus of Byzantium (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Qūrbōnō: Collected Anaphora from the Holy Fathers (Garshuni)
  • Qūrbōnō: Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles (Garshuni)
  • Qūrbōnō: Anaphora of Xystus of Rome (Syriac)
  • Qūrbōnō: Anaphora of John of Haran (Syriac)
  • Vespers and Prayers (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Gospel Lectionary (Garshuni)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00135) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 2v-46v Joseph II, Patriarch of the Chaldeans, Chaldean Gazzā (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
    • Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
    • Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
    • Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
    • Feast of the Circumcision
  • f. 48r-49r Supplication read at the time of confession
  • f. 50r-96r Psalter (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
  • f. 96r-115v Hudra (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
    • Prayers attributed to Ephrem Syrus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Yazdin, Timothy I, Abraham of Beth Rabban, Thomas of Edessa, Abimalk, John of Beth Rabban, Babai the Great, Babai of Nisibis, George of Nisibis, and others

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