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.

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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 500 1,700 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Vosté

  • Isho'dad of Merv, Commentary on the New Testament

Harvard Ms Syr 131 1,904 CE Syriac

Catalog entry

  • Isho'dad of Merv, commentaries
    • 1-8, Introduction
    • 8-145, Matthew
    • 145-158, Mark
    • 158-225, Luke
    • 225-312, John
    • 312-349, Acts
    • 349-353, Three catholic epistles
    • 353-479 Letters of Paul
    • 479, Colophon 

Sinai Syr. 16 600 CE Syriac

See entry in Lewis

  • ff. 1-86 Lives of the Egyptian Fathers
  • ff. 87-93 Life of the Holy Nilus the Anchorite
  • ff. 93-105 The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians
  • ff. 105-112 A discourse of Plutarch on the advantage to be derived from one's enemies
  • ff. 112-121 A discourse of Pythagoras
  • ff. 121-126 A discourse of Plutarch about asceticism
  • ff. 126-132 A discourse of Plutarch about anger
  • ff. 132-140 A discourse of Lucian that we should not readily believe slander against our friends
  • ff. 140-143 Discourse of a Philosopher about the Soul
  • ff. 151-214 Mar John the Anchorite, Commentary on Ecclesiastes
  • ff. 214 ad finem; John Chrysostom, Commentaries on Matthew

Sinai Syr. 172 1,300 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Lewis

  • Four Gospels (with harmony references)

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. 42 (ASCBN 00042) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-24r Baptismal rite
  • fol. 24r-26v Engagement rite
  • fol. 26v-51r Marriage rite
  • fol. 51v-56r Prayers and readings from the New Testament
  • fol. 56v-81r Prayers for the dying

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 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 48 (SMMJ 00048) 1,271 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1v-587r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on the Gospels
     

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