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
Sinai Syr. 19 700 CE Syriac

See entry in Lewis

  • Book of Homilies on the Song of Songs

Garrett Syriac Manuscripts 7 500 CE Syriac

See Catalog entry here; See also J. T. Clemons, “A Checklist of Syriac Manuscripts in the United States and Canada”, Orientalia Christiana Periodica, vol. 32, pp. 224-251; 478–522, 1966., P. 502.

  • Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentary on the Psalms

Syriac 10. Exegesis of Old Testament 1,380 CE Syriac

Catalogs:

Contents:

  • An explanation of the difficult words of Holy Scripture written by Bishop Isho'dad of Hdatta (of Assyria)
    • Pentateuch
    • Bet-Mawtbe (Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, Proverbs, Wisdom, Qohelet, Song of Songs, Ecclesiasticus, Job)
    • Prophets (Book of the Twelve)
    • Psalms

Syriac 34. Emmanuel of Mosul: Hexaemeron 1,289 CE Syriac

Catalogs:

Contents:

  • Emmanuel bar Shahhare: Hexaemeron

Syriac 40. Ascetica 1,531 CE Syriac

Catalogs:

​Contents:

  • Same title and contents as codex 24
  • Memra made by one of the monks seeking from one of his relatives about admonition and rules of good conduct of the body and soul
  • Useful Memre composed about the words of the wisdom of Solomon
  • John of Mosul: Commands and admonitions for the priest
  • John bar Penkaye: Memra

Irbīl, Chaldean Archdiocese of Irbīl, MS 53 (ACE 00053) 1,572 CE Syriac
  • Bā‘ūtā d-nīnwāyē (Chaldean Rite)
    • ​ܟܬܒܐ ܕܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ ܕܒܥܘܬܐ (Book of the Memre of the supplication [of Nineveh])
    • Includes memre attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis

Irbīl, Chaldean Archdiocese of Irbīl, MS 54 (ACE 00054) 1,851 CE Syriac
  • Bā‘ūtā d-nīnwāyē (Chaldean Rite)
    • ​ܟܬܒܐ ܕܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ ܕܒܥܘܬܐ (Book of the Memre of the supplication [of Nineveh])
    • Includes memre attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 56 (ASCBN 00056) 1,915 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1r-33r Moshe bar Kephā, Commentary on the Book of Psalms
  • fol. 33r-217r Daniel of Ṣalaḥ, Commentary on the Book of Psalms

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 39 (ASOM 00039) 1,900 CE Syriac
  • fol. 2v-280v Dionysius bar Ṣalībī, Commentary on the Old Testament
    • Title NS: ܦܘܫܩܐ ܕܕܝܬܝܩܝ ܥܬܝܩܬܐ

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 41 (ASOM 00041) 1,921 CE Syriac
  • fol. 5r-343v, Dionysius bar Ṣalībī, Commentary on the Old Testament

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