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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 111 (ASOM 00111) 1,800 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish
  • Homily on Christ's baptism (Garshuni)
  • Homily on the salvific act of Christ (Arabic)
  • Commentary on the New Testament (Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Christologies of the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 43 (SMMJ 00043) 1,552 CE Garshuni
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-276r Pentateuch with Commentary
    • fol. 275v-276r Questions and answers on the Bible
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 45 (SMMJ 00045) 1,900 CE Garshuni
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-152r Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on the Pentateuch
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 137 (SMMJ 00137) 1,873 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4r-60v Ignatius bar Wāhib, Treatise on the Syriac alphabet (Syriac)
  • fol. 60v-102r Ignatius bar Wāhib, Treatise on the Syriac alphabet (Garshuni)
  • fol. 103r-112v Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on Isaiah (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 141 (SMMJ 00141) 1,900 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1v-179v Theological work
  • fol. 181v-291r Hexaemeron
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 172 (SMMJ 00172) 1,905 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 6r-8r Priest's homilies. Chapter 16 (Garshuni)
  • fol. 8v-73r Shukr Allah of Aleppo, Maphrian of Malabar, Homilies (Syriac, Garshuni)
  • fol. 73-78v Abba Macarius, Discovery of how the soul departs from the body (Garshuni)
  • fol. 78v-82v John Chrysostom, Homily (Garshuni)
  • fol. 82v-103 John Chrysostom, Homily on repentance and receiving the divine mysteries (Garshuni)
  • fol. 103v-105v Story of the merchant and his wife (Garshuni)
  • fol. 105v-107r Parables to be read in the Church (Garshuni)
  • fol. 107r-112r Commentary on the Lord's Prayer (Garshuni)
  • fol. 112v-124r Readings on the Sufferings of the Lord (Garshuni)
  • fol. 124r-132r Homily on a widower (Garshuni)
  • fol. 132r-134v On the Jewel (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 178 (SMMJ 00178) 1,900 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-22v Homilies
  • fol. 22v-39r Instruction in Christian Doctrine
  • fol. 39r-67r John Chrysostom, Commentary on the Ten Commandments
  • fol. 67r-71r Gregory of Nyssa, Books against Eunomius. Selections
  • fol. 71r-76v John Chrysostom, Against one who does not believe that Christ is God
  • fol. 76v-78v On the Trinity
  • fol. 78v-86r Gregory Nazianzus, Twelve Chapters against heretics
  • fol. 86r-98v Cyril of Alexandria, Twelve Chapters
  • fol. 98v-106v On the bread that becomes the body of Jesus 
  • fol. 106v-110v On the faith of the Armenians and the Jacobite Syrians
  • fol. 110v-118r Michael I, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, Confession of faith
  • fol. 118r-143v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Confession of faith
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 179 (SMMJ 00179) 1,800 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 3r-180r Homilies
  • fol. 182r-201r Problems and solutions from the Gospels
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 186 (SMMJ 00186) 1,869 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-144v Book of chapters. Dialogue between master and disciple
  • fol. 145r-162r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, confession of faith
  • fol. 162v-167r Commentary on Psalm 51
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 222 (SMMJ 00222) 1,791 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-60r Yūsuf al-Kaslūqīṯī, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 61v-62r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the Twelve Apostles (Syriac)
  • fol. 62v-63v Jacob of Sarug, Homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 63v-66r Commands of the Gospel (Syriac)
  • fol. 66r-69r Philoxenus of Mabbug, Admonition to keep the Lord's commands (Syriac)
  • fol. 69r-69v Evagrius and John of Dalyatha, Collection of sayings
  • fol. 69v-72r Philoxenus of Mabbug, Creed (Syriac)
  • fol. 72r-74v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Creed of the Syriac Orthodox Church (Syriac)
  • fol. 74v-75v Dialogue on the body of Christ (Syriac)
  • fol. 75v-91v Jacob of Edessa, Letter on the Providence of God (Syriac)
  • fol. 91v-94r Ephrem of Nisibis, Selections from a homily (Syriac)
  • fol. 94r-99r Jacob of Sarug, Homilies (Syriac)
    • Includes note on the life of Jacob of Sarug, fol. 98v-99r
  • fol. 99r-99v Jacob of Edessa, Letter on God's providence

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