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. 23 1,100 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry in Assemani

  • Binding
  • f. 1r-142v Pauline Lectionary
  • Binding

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 arabe 6725 1,000 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • f. 2 Kaoul Yohanna al-Kiddis ibn Zebede habib Yashou' al-Masih, Nashki from the beginning of the 10th century
  • f. 3-4 Shubhalmaran of Karka of Beth Seluk, fragment of the Book of Stages [6-7th century]
  • f. 5-11 Portion of the Acts of the Apostles (Arabic) [9th century]
  • f. 12-21 Portion of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans [10th century]
  • f. 22-29 Portion of Acts fo the Apostles [9th century]

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00065) 1,300 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • f. 1r-231v Gospel lectionary, with commentary (Syriac Rite, Eastern)

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00068) 1,200 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • f. 1v-70v Gospel Lectionary (Syriac Rite, Eastern)

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00080) 1,300 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • f. 1r-244v Gospel of Luke, with Commentary
    • The Gospel is in Syriac/Arabic parallel columns with the reference to the commentary author as "the interpreter" (presumably Theodore of Mopsuestia)

Sinai Syr. 54 700 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry in Lewis

  • Gospels 
  • Pauline and Catholic Epistles

St. James 1. Evangelion 1,591 CE Arabic, Syriac

Gospel (Bilingual Arabic-Syriac)

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 44 (ASCBN 00044) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • Pages 1-35 Preparation for the Mass (Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Pages 36-67 Anaphora of Pope Sixtus (Syriac)
  • Pages 68-83 Concluding the Holy Mass (Syriac)
  • Pages 85-117 Readings from the New Testament (Arabic Garshuni)
  • Pages 121-123 Phromeon prayers for every day (Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Pages 125-160 Anaphora of Pope Sixtus (Arabic, Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 52 (ASCBN 00052) 1,542 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1r-59r Gospel of Matthew
  • fol. 59v-92r Gospel of Mark
  • fol. 92v-153v Gospel of Luke
  • fol. 154v-201v Gospel of John

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