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
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 58 (ASOM 00058) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 4r-5v, Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander Romance (Arabic Garshuni)
  • fol. 6r-75v Psalms
  • fol. 76r-85v Poem on the divine wisdom
    • Title NS: ܥܠ ܚܟܡܬܐ ܐܠܗܝܬܐ
  • fol. 86v-88v Memra on the Trinity
  • fol. 89v-92v Prayers
    • Includes prayers attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis and Jacob of Edessa
  • fol. 92v-96v Memre and Sogitha

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 71 (ASOM 00071) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1r-115r Psalms 
    • Parallel columns in Syriac and Arabic Garshuni

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 117 (ASOM 00117) 1,730 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-140r Psalms
    • Title NS: ܡܙܡܘܪ̈ܐ ܕܕܘܝܕ
    • Parallel columns in Syriac and Arabic Garshuni
    • Note: Includes also Psalm 151
  • fol. 140v-142r Odes
    • Moses and the song of the Red Sea
    • Isaiah the prophet
    • Hannah the prophetess [Mother of Samuel]
    • Jonah the Prophet
    • [Mary] the God-bearer
  • fol. 142v-143r Nicene Creed
  • fol. 143r-v The praise of the angel (Gloria in excelsis) and other liturgical prayers
  • fol. 143v Trisagion
  • fol. 143v The Lord's Prayer
  • fol. 143v-145r Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on doctrine
    • Title NS: ܬܘܒ ܡܐܡܪܐ ܕܩ̄ܕ ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܕܥܠ ܝܘܠܦܢܐ

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 7 (SMMJ 00007) 1,572 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 2.

  • fol. 1v-115v Psalter
  • fol. 115v-117r Homily attributed to Mar Ephrem, On humility, admonition, correction

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 9 (SMMJ 00009) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-158v Psalter

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 10 (SMMJ 00010) 1,474 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-123r Psalter

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 20 (SMMJ 00020) 1,500 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-210v Psalter
    • fol. 187v-201r Homilies by Severus of Antioch, Ephrem of Nisibis, Philoxenus of Mabbug, and Bar Hebraeus on fol. 187v-201r

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 138 (SMMJ 00138) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 1v-108v Psalter (Garshuni)
  • fol. 109r-110r Soghitha on drinking wine (Syriac)
  • fol. 110v Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, Medicine for sins
  • fol. 111r-115v On our father Adam (Garshuni)
  • fol. 115v-166v Ignatius bar Wāhib, Treatise on the letters of the Arabic Alphabet

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 139 (SMMJ 00139) 1,866 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 1r-5r Confession of faith made by the Armenians and Jacobites (Garshuni)
  • fol. 5v-140v Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffa', Precious Pearl (Garshuni)
  • fol. 140v-148r Cyril of Alexandria, Twelve Chapters (Garshuni)
  • fol. 148v-153v Interpretation of Gregory's twelve chapters of faith (Garshuni)
  • fol. 155r-229v Gīwargīs, Bishop of al-Bsheriyyeh, Theological work (Garshuni)
  • fol. 229v-248r John Chrysostom, Commentary on the ten commandments (Garshuni)
  • fol. 251v-256r Michael I, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, Confession of the faith (Garshuni)
  • fol. 257r-259r Hippocrates, On creation of man and his four natures
  • fol. 259r-261v Bible, Proverbs (selections) (Syriac)
  • fol. 261v-262v Book of Theology, part 4 (Garshuni)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 239 (SMMJ 00239) 1,500 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Garshuni and Syriac in parallel columns)

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