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
Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk 81 (ACK 00081) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1r-28r Khamis bar Qardahe, Poems
    • Commentary on the Gospels
    • Glossary of Biblical terms and homily on marriage regulations between the poems
  • fol. 28r-54r Apocalypse of Paul
  • fol. 55r-90v Works on grammar
    • Homily on grammar and various paradigms

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

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 115 (ASCBN 00115) 1,900 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • fol. 2v-30v Moshe bar Kephō, Explanation of the Holy Mass
  • fol. 30v-38r Moshe bar Kephō, Commentary on Holy Baptism
  • fol. 38r-45v Commentary on Ordination
  • fol. 45v-47r Collection of sayings
    • Title NS: ܥܠ ܗܘ ܡܕܡ ܕܟܬܒܘ ܝܘܕ̈ܝܐ ܠܥܠ ܡܢ ܙܩܝܦܗ ܕܡܫܝܚܐ (on that which the Jews wrote above the cross of the Messiah)
  • fol. 47r-53r John of Dara, Commentary on the Creed
  • fol. 53r-55r Liturgical miscellany
  • fol. 55r-59v On the Ascension of Jesus Christ
  • fol. 59v-66v On Pentecost
  • fol. 66v-74r Moshe bar Kepha, On the Cross
  • fol. 74r-79v On the vestments of the priesthood
  • fol. 79v-90v On Holy Chrism
  • fol. 91r-106r Church calendar (Arabic, Syriac)

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

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 106 (ASOM 00106) 1,781 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-75r Memre
    • Includes memre by Ephrem of Nisibis and Isaac of Antioch
  • fol. 76r-99r Commentary on Revelation
  • fol. 99r-106r Isaac of Antioch, Memra on the love of learning
  • fol. 106v-135v On the sacrament of penance and reconciliation
    • Title NS: ܣܪ ܐܠܬܘܒܗ̈

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 47 (SMMJ 00047) 1,843 CE Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-187v Commentary on the Psalms
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܡܙܡܘܪ̈ܐ ܕܕܘܝܕ̰܆ ܕܡܦܫܩ ܠܐܒܗ̈ܬܐ ܩ̈ܕ̄

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 48 (SMMJ 00048) 1,271 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1v-587r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on the Gospels
     

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)

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