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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 103 pt. 2 861 CE Syriac

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  • Binding
  • f. 135r-136r Hosea continued (Attributed to Ephrem) (Continued from Vat. sir. 103. pt. 1)
  • f. 136v-139v Amos (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 139v-143v Micah (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 143v-145r Joel (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 145r-145v Obadiah (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 146r-153v Zachariah (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 153v-155r Malachi (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 155r-166r Ezekiel (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 166r-175v Jeremiah (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 175v-176r Lamentations (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 176v-181v Song of Songs (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 181v-190v Daniel (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 190v-217v Isaiah (Attributed to Ephrem)
  • f. 218r-238v Isaiah (Attributed to Cyril of Alexandria)
  • f. 238v-240r Proverbs of Solomon
  • f. 240r-247v Kohelet (Ecclesiastes)
  • f. 247r Colophon
  • f. 247 Romans (Continued in Vat. sir. 103 pt. 3)
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Vat. sir. 103 pt. 3 861 CE Syriac

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  • f. 248r-255r Romans (continued from Vat. sir. 103 pt. 2)
  • f. 255r-262v 1 Corinthians
  • f. 262v-269r 2 Corinthians
  • f. 269r-272v Galatians
  • f. 272v-275v Ephesians
  • f. 275v-277v Philippians
  • f. 277v-280r Colossians
  • f. 280v-283r 1 Thessalonians
  • f. 283r-284r 2 Thessalonians
  • f. 284r-288r 1 Timothy
  • f. 288r-290v 2 Timothy
  • f. 290v-291v Titus
  • f. 291v-292r Philemon
  • f. 292v-301v Hebrews
  • f. 302r-336r Matthew
  • f. 336v-370v John
  • f. 371r Colophon
  • f. 371v Notes
  • f. 372r-372v Displaced leaf (?)
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Vat. sir. 152 980 CE Syriac

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  • f. 1r-1v Notes on paper front paper
  • f. 2r Frontpiece
  • f. 2v-9v Genesis
  • f. 9v-14r Exodus
  • f. 14r-17v Leviticus
  • f. 17v-22v Numbers
  • f. 22v-27v Deuteronomy
  • f. 27v-32r Joshua
  • f. 32r-36r Judges
  • f. 36r-41v Job
  • f. 41v-50r 1-2 Samuel
  • f. 50r-59r Psalms
  • f. 59r-66v 1-2 Kings
  • f. 66v-75r Isaiah
  • f. 75r-83r Minor Prophets
  • f. 83r-92v Jeremiah
  • f. 92v-99r Ezekiel
  • f. 99r-101v Daniel
  • f. 101v-102r Susanna
  • f. 102r-106r Proverbs
  • f. 106r-110r Wisdom
  • f. 110r-111v Ecclesiastes
  • f. 111v-112v Song of Songs
  • f. 112v Ruth
  • f. 112v-113r Esther
  • f. 113r Judith
  • f. 113r-118v Ben Sira
  • f. 118v-125r Acts of the Apostles
  • f. 125r-125v Epistle of James
  • f. 125v-126r 1 Peter
  • f. 126r-126v 1 John
  • f. 126v-128v Romans
  • f. 128v-130v 1 Corinthians
  • f. 130v-132r 2 Corinthians
  • f. 132r-133r Galatians
  • f. 133r-133v Ephesians
  • f. 133v-134r Philippians
  • f. 134r-134v Colossians
  • f. 134v-135r 1 Thessalonians
  • f. 134r-135v 2 Thessalonians
  • f. 135v-136r 1 Timothy
  • f. 136r-136v 2 Timothy
  • f. 136v-137r Titus
  • f. 137r Philemon
  • f. 137r-139r Hebrews
  • f. 139r-145r Matthew
  • f. 145r-147v Mark
  • f. 147v-153r Luke
  • f. 153r-156v John
  • f. 156v-168r Additional Masora for Harklean version
  • f. 168r-173r Masora for Severus
  • f. 173r-182r Masora for the works of Gregory the Theologian
  • f. 182r-183v Masora for the letters of Saints Gregory the Theologian and Basil the Great
  • f. 183v-185r Tractate of Severus 
  • f. 185r-188v Letter of Jacob of Edessa
  • f. 191v-193r Masora of Thomas the deacon
  • f. 193r-194r Masora and Extracts of Epiphanius
  • f. 194r-194v Books of the Old and New Testament
  • f. 194v-196r On the Death of the Prophets
  • f. 196r On the Death of the Apostles
  • f. 196r-198r Vocalization and pointing of homographs
  • f. 198r-202v Translations from Hebrew and other languages
  • f. 202v-204v Poem of Philoponus in the meter of Ephrem
  • f. 204-205r Ephrem, on the Formation of Man
  • f. 205r-205v On the Union of the Body of Christ
  • f. 206r-207r On the Union of the Body of Christ
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Mingana Syriac 10 1,300 CE Syriac

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  • Gospels according to the Harklean Version
    • f. 1v-30v Matthew
    • f. 31r-75r Mark
    • f. 75v-136r Luke
Mingana Syriac 11 1,702 CE Syriac

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  • f. 1v-58r I-II Chronicles
  • f. 58r-58v Susanna
  • f. 58v-61v Judith
  • f. 62v-98v The Cave of Treasures
  • f. 98v-102r The book of the questions of St. Peter or Simon Cephas on the Sacraments (Baptism and Eucharist)
  • f. 102r-104v The prayer of Ezra to God, and his vision, while in the desert with his disciple Carpus
  • f. 104v-105r Short treatise (anonymous) giving the number of years that elapsed from Adam to Christ, and from Christ to the beginning of the Kingdom of the Arabs
  • f. 105r-108r The history of the Indian Mission to the Nestorian Patriarch in the town of Jazīrat b. 'Umar, and the letter sent to him from Indian by the bishops whom he had dispatched to that country
Mingana Syriac 124 1,665 CE Syriac

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  • f. 1-12r List of lections from the Gospels to be read in the West Syrian Church liturgy
  • f. 12r-13v The letter of Eusebius to Carpianus concerning the Canons of the Gospels and the Ammonian sections
  • f. 14r-18v The list of the Canons of Eusebius
  • f. 19r-261v The four gospels (Harklean version)
    • f.19r-89r Gospel of Matthew (Harklean version)
    • f. 89v-141v Gospel of Mark (Harklean version)
    • f. 142r-220r Gospel of Luke (Harklean version)
    • f. 220v-261v Gospel of John (Harklean version)
Mingana Syriac 148 1,613 CE Syriac

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  • f. 1v-2v, 5, 7r-13v Moses Karkhāya (from Karkha of Pīrūz), Genealogies
  • f. 3v-4, 6r-7r A treatise containing a short history of each of the twelve Apostles and seventy disciples
  • f. 3 Names of eleven magi who brought offerings to Christ
  • f. 13v-328r New Testament (Peshitta Version, containing East Syrian Massora) 
    • f. 13v-53v Matthew
    • f. 53v-79r Mark
    • f. 79r-122v Luke
    • f. 122v-160r John
    • f. 160r-225r Acts and Catholic Epistles
    • f. 225v-327v Pauline Epistles
  • f. 328r-331v Eusebius of Caesarea, Treatise in which is the history and martyrdom of each of the twelve Apostles and each of the seventy Disciples
  • f. 332 List of the letters of the alphabet of St. Ephrem, Narsai, Simon Magus, Bardaisan, and the nine Indian letters
Mingana Syriac 42 835 CE Syriac

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  • f. 1-6r Index of lessons from the New Testament to be recited on some specified festivals
  • f. 6v-7r Additional lessons for the commemoration of the dead from 1 Thessalonians 4:13-23
  • f. 7v A spheric diagram showing the day and month of a given year of the Greeks
  • f. 8r An inscription by an owner
  • f. 8v-52r Matthew (Harklean version)
  • f. 52v-80r Mark (Harklean version)
  • f. 80v-133r Luke (Harklean version)
  • f. 133v-173v John (Harklean version)
  • f. 174r Picture of an unidentified saint
  • f. 174v-178v Epistle of St. James (Harklean version)
  • f. 178v-182r 2 Timothy (Harklean version)
  • f. 182v A quotation from the Epistle of Hebrews (Harklean version)
Mingana Syriac 525 1,898 CE Syriac

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  • Dionysius Bar Salibi​
    • f. 1v-22v Commentary on Acts
    • f. 23r-27r Commentary on James
    • f. 27r-30v Commentary on 1 Peter (According to the Harklean version)
    • f. 30v-34v Commentary on 2 Peter (According to the Harklean version)
    • f. 32r-34v Commentary on 1 John 
    • f. 34v Commentary on 2 John
    • f. 34v-36r Commentary on Jude
    • f. 36r-146r Commentary on the Pauline Epistles
Mingana Syriac 89 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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  • f. 1-6v Barhebraeus, Geographical portion of a work entitled ܡܢܪܬ ܩܘ̈ܕܫܐ
  • f. 5 Map of the earth based upon the seven climates of Ptolemy
  • f. 6v-9r Ecclesiastical Calendar
  • f. 9v-10r [blank]
  • f. 10v-18v Dionysius Barsalibi, Commentary on the Apocalypse
  • f. 18v-28v Dionysius Barsalibi, Commentary on Acts
  • f. 29r-38v Dionysius Barsalibi, Treatise against the Jews
  • f. 39r-84v Dionysius Barsalibi, Treatise against the Muhammadans (in 39 Kephalia; the final –f. 76-84– consists entirely of Qur'anic quotations).
  • f. 85r-92v Dionysius Barsalibi, Treatise against Nestorians
  • f. 93r Grammatical note on the seyāmē

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