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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Sachau 165; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 201 1,300 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 165

  • Lives and sayings for famous ascetics and church Fathers
    • f. 1-8v Biographical notes about church fathers and Citations of their works
    • f. 8v, 13-25 fragments of a writing about the monastic call
    • f. 9r-9v, 17 fragments of a legend of St. Pior (Identified with Lausaic history ch. 87)
    • f. 9v-12v Admonition of the Apostle Peter
    • f. 12v-16v From the legend of Abba Bishoi about the Isaac who became a Jew
    • f. 16v-18v part of the life of Alexander of Rome
    • f. 18r-19r Patristic citations
    • f. 19r-22r Conversation between teachers and students
    • f. 23r-26v Legends
    • f. 27r-32v Biographical notes about the prophets of the Old Testament
    • f. 32v-36v Notes on the New Testament
Sachau 169; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 61 1,882 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 169. The Hexaemaron of Immanuel, monk and teacher of Dayrā 'ellaytā.

  • f. 15r-28r On the Judgment of Adam and Eve and the serpent
  • f. 28v-42v On the Sabbath day and on the mysteries and types which our Lord visibly depicted
  • f. 43r-62r On the mysteries and types which were depicted about the resurrection in the seven days of creation
  • f. 62v-73v On the searching of the seers about the entrance of the Messiah for the future comfort and expectation to take all the peoples into His dawn which is for our salvation
  • f. 74r-87r On the vision Moses saw on Mt. Sinai
  • f. 87v-107v On the revelation of the Messiah, our Lord, and the repayment of our debts and our freedom from sin through the his venerable governance
  • f. 108r-121r On the signs and wonders and living words of our Lord and our God, the Messiah, for the establishment of the teaching of complete life for by His entrance he was given for the human race 
  • f. 121v-136r On the rest of the living words of our Lord and our savior, Jesus the Messiah, our hope
  • f. 136v-149v On the words of the living hope of the Messiah
  • f. 165v- He shows that the confession of the Messiah is true by the briging forth of its affairs to fruition and it is fitting for the church
  • f. 180r-192r On the resurrection of the body from nature as well as the book
  • f. 192v-206v On the soul and its certainty and changing
  • f. 207r-219v On the future life and repayment which is expected by the lifegiving entrance of our savior
Sachau 311; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 81 1,883 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 311

  • Isho'dad of Merv, Commentary on the New Testament
    • f. 1v-4r Introduction
    • f. 4v-73v Matthew
    • f. 74r-85v Mark
    • f. 86r-119v Luke
    • f. 120r-163v John
    • f. 164r-187v Acts of the Apostle
    • f. 188r-188v James
    • f. 189r-v 1 Peter
    • f. 190r 1 John
    • f. 190v-205r Romans
    • f. 205v-221v 1 Corinthians
    • f. 222r-229r 2 Corinthians
    • f. 229v-233v Galatians
    • f. 234r-238v Ephesians
    • f. 239r-241v Philippians
    • f. 242r-246v Colossians
    • f. 247r-248r 1 Thessalonians
    • f. 248v-249v 2 Thessalonians
    • f. 250r-253v 1 Timothy
    • f. 254r-255r 2 Timothy
    • f. 255v Titus
    • f. 256r Philemon
    • f. 256v-269r Hebrews
  • f. 269v Colophon
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 4 1,610 CE Garshuni, Italian, Latin, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 2; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • New Testament in Syriac with translation into Garshuni
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 47 1,600 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 8; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • f. Iv-IIr Eusebius of Cesarea, Epistle to Carpianus, I
  • f. 1v-2r Eusebius of Cesarea, Genealogy of Christ I
  • f. 2v Eusebius of Cesarea, Genealogy of Christ II
  • f. 3v-4v Eusebius of Cesarea, Epistle to Carpianus II
  • f. 5v-14v Eusebian Canons
  • f. 15r-16r The doctrine which the blessed Theophilus, the virtuous child, received, which was written before the acts of the apostles
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 107c 1,584 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 40; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Order of the Mass (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • Hymns, antiphones, and responses in the daily office and feasts
  • Ecclesiastical calendar
  • Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa, 10 songs on the Virgin Mary, bearer of God
  • Dionysius bar Salibi
    • Homily on the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 230 1,277 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 26; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus, Storehouse of Mysteries
    • f. 2v title
    • f. 3r-27r Genesis
    • f. 27r-38r Exodus
    • f. 38r-43r Leviticus
    • f. 43r-50r Numbers
    • f. 50r-54v Deuteronomy
    • f. 55r/v Chronological tables of the patriarchs from Adam to Moses
    • f. 66r-59r Joshua
    • f. 59r-63v Judges
    • f. 63v-72v Samuel
    • f. 72v-73r Chronological tables of Judges from Joshua to Sau
    • f. 73v-89r Psalms (I)
    • f. 89r-101r Psalms (II)
    • f. 101r-105v Psalms (III)
    • f. 106r-109v Psalms (IV)
    • f. 109v-118r Psalms (V)
    • f. 118r-129r Kings
    • f. 129v-130r Chronological tables of the kings of Judah
    • f. 130r-134r Proverbs
    • f. 134r-136v Sirach
    • f. 136v-138r Qohelet
    • f. 138v-140v Song of Songs
    • f. 141r Wisdom of Solomon
    • f. 141r/v Ruth
    • f. 141v-142r Susanna
    • f. 142r-146v Job
    • f. 146v-154v Isaiah
    • f. 154v-163r The Twelve
    • f. 163r-167v Jeremiah
    • f. 167v-172v Ezekiel
    • f. 172r-176r Daniel
    • f. 176r/v Bel
    • f. 176v Dragon
    • f. 176v-177v Chronological tables of the seventy weeks and of the story from Nebuchadnezzar to Vespasian
    • f. 178r-200v Matthew
    • f. 200v-205r Mark
    • f. 205r-218v Luke
    • f. 218v-225v John
    • f. 225v-232r Acts
    • f. 232r-233r James
    • f. 233r-233v 1 Peter
    • f. 233v-234r 1 John
    • f. 234r-237r Romans
    • f. 237v-241r 1 Corinthians
    • f. 241r-242v 2 Corinthians
    • f. 242v-243v Galatians
    • f. 243v-244v Ephesians
    • f. 244v-245r Philippians
    • f. 245r-245v Colossians
    • f. 245v-246r 1 Thessalonians
    • f. 246r 2 Thessalonians
    • f. 246r-247r 1 Timothy
    • f. 247r-v 2 Timothy
    • f. 248r Titus
    • f. 248r Philemon
    • f. 248r-249v Hebrews
Tur Abdin, Turkey, Churches in Enhil (CET 00040) 1,756 CE Garshuni
  • Commentary on the Four Gospels
Baghdad; Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon (CPB 00121) 1,707 CE Syriac

Gospels edited here: Īšōʻdad deÌ Merv, The Commentaries of Isho'dad of Merv, Bishop of Ḥadatha (c.850 A.D.) (ed. M. Gibson, Cambridge, 1911). [Volume 1] [Volume 2] [Volume 3]

  • f. 3r-231v Isho'dad of Merv, Commentaries
    • f. 3r-161v Gospels
    • f. 161v-183r Acts
    • f. 183r-186r Pauline Epistles
  • f. 233v-242v Excerpt from the Book of the Solitaries
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 8 2/4 (DIYR 00008) 1,755 CE Garshuni
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on the Gospels

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