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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00284) 1,942 CE Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish
  • Anaphora (Syriac)
  • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi (Syriac)
  • Anaphora of John (bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis) (Syriac)
  • Anaphora of St. John the Evangelist (Syriac) 
  • Anaphora of Matthew the Pastor (Syriac) 
  • Anaphora of Eustathius of Antioch (Syriac) 
  • Anaphora of Julius of Rome (Syriac) 
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome (Syriac; Prooemia and Sedrē)
  • Anaphora of James, the Lord's Brother (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of John (bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis) (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Matthew the Pastor (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles  (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Simon Kepha (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Mark the Evangelist (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Philoxenus of Mabbug (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Abraham Naḥshirtana (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of John bar Shushan (Syriac)
  • Small anaphora of Peter, head of the Apostles (Syriac)
  • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles (Garshuni)
  • Service of the signing of a cup of Severus of Antioch
  • Prayers
  • Readings from the Gospels and Epistles (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Mar Jacob (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Abraham Naḥshirtana (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Readings from the Gospels and Epistles (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Peter (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Readings from the Gospels and Epistles (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Anaphora of Matthew the Pastor (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Anaphora of John (bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis) (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Husoye; Prayers; Sedrē (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Proclus of Byzantium (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Julius of Rome (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Eustathius of Antioch (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of St. Peter (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Philoxenus of Mabbug (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Dionysius (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Husoye; Sedrē (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of John bar Shushan (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
  • Anaphora of Moshe bar Kepha (Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 41; 65; 3/6 (DIYR 00290) 1,893 CE Garshuni
  • A Dispute between a monk, George al-Sim'ani and the Muslim scholars of Aleppo
  • Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffa', Precious Pearl
  • Pauline Epistles
  • Treatise on Christian Denominations
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00291) 1,728 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Prayers, Prooemia, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's Brother
  • Selection from a Liturgical Text
  • Readings from the Gospels, prooemia, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Anaphora of Julius of Rome
  • Anaphora of Eustathius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of John of Nisibis
  • Anaphora of Ignatius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of Jacob Burd'oyo
  • Anaphora of Marutha of Tagrit
  • Anaphora of Philoxenus of Mabbug
  • Dismissal Prayers of Mor Jacob
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 302; 97; 1/29 (DIYR 00302) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • Psalter
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00316) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Timothy Isaac, Illumination of beginners (Syriac)
  • Readings from the Gospels and Pauline Epistles (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Shem'un II, Homily (Garshuni)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 332; 3/9; 194 (DIYR 00332) 1,697 CE Garshuni
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Nomocanon
  • Sibylline Oracles
Qarah Qūsh, Iraq, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00032) 1,800 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 2v-149r Liturgical book with prayers and Biblical readings for various occasions
Qarah Qūsh, Iraq, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00034) 1,800 CE Arabic, Garshuni
  • f. 1ra-193vb Liturgical book with prayers and Biblical readings for various occasions
Vat. sir. 36 1,597 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry from Assemani

  • f. 1-34 Missal (Jacobite Rite)
    • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
    • Anaphora of Peter the Apostle
    • Anaphora of St. Eustathius
    • Anaphora of St. John (bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis)
    • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
  • Porphyry, Isagoge
  • The way of finding East
  • Bishop Moses, excerpts from Yaḥya ibn 'Adī
    • Against those who affirm that Christ was not truly crucified
    • Against those who maintain the Christian Gospel has been corrupted
    • The world was not from eternity
  • Bishop Moses, Excerpt from an Arabic grammar
  • Jacob of Sarug, a philosophical poem: On being, substance, and accidents
  • Baptismal Rite
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Syriac Grammar
  • Bishop Moses, Syriac-Arabic Lexicon
  • Catalog of the works of Bar 'Ebroyo
Vat. sir. 44 1,691 CE Garshuni, Syriac

​Catalog entry in Assemani

Liturgy (Chaldean Rite)

  • Order of Holy Baptism 
  • Liturgy of the apostles
  • Gospel lections

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