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
BnF syr. 27 1,084 CE Syriac

See catalog entry here

  • f. 1r-93r 2 Kings (Syrohexapla) preceded by the commentary of John Chrysostom
  • f. 93v-149v The book of Daniel according to the revision of Jacob of Edessa

BnF syr. 11 Unknown Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

See catalog entry here

  • f. 1-117 and 128-187 Books of the Prophets
    • Isaiah
    • Jeremiah
    • Ezekiel
    • Daniel according to the Peshitta (includes a paraphrase of the visions of the four monarchies and the history of Bel and the Dragon)
    • At the end of Daniel is a treatise on astonomy/astrology in Syriac, Garshuni, and Arabic
    • Jeremiah according to the Peshitta
  • f. 188-366 Other biblical texts
    • Esther 
    • Judith
    • Esdras
    • Nehemiah
    • Ecclesiastes
    • 1-3 Maccabees
    • Josephus' account of Eleazar, Shmuna and their sons
    • 3 Esdras
    • Tobit according to the Peshitta
    • 1-2 Baruch
    • Letter of Jeremiah
    • 3 Esdras and the first part of Tobit according to the Syrohexapla

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 58 600 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 1; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Old Testament translated into Syriac from Greek
    • Genesis
    • Exodus
    • Leviticus
    • Numbers
    • Deuteronomy
    • Joshua
    • Judges
    • 1-2 Kings
    • 1-2 Chronicles
    • Psalms
    • Isaiah,
    • Jeremiah
    • Ezekiel
    • The Twelve
    • Daniel

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 1 (SMMJ 00001) 800 CE Syriac
  • Bibliography: Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994), p. 113; Arthur Vööbus, The Book of Isaiah in the Version of the Syro-Hexapla: A Facsimile Edition of MS St. Mark 1 in Jerusalem with an Introduction, CSCO 449 (1983).
  • Bible, Isaiah
    • ​Lectionary based on Syro-Hexapla version; extant part of text begins in Isaiah 27:10 and ends in Isaiah 65:20