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
Vat. sir. 166 pt. 2 1,496 CE Syriac

​Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Part 1: Bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicon Syriacum
  • Part 2: Bar 'Ebroyo, Ecclesiastical Chronicle
Vat. sir. 167 1,394 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Bar 'Ebroyo, The Book of the Chronogrophy (Librum Chronographie)
  • Continuators of the book of the Chronography
  • The history of Hathem, the king of Cilicia
  • History of the destruction of Amid
  • Continuation of the Syriac Chronography
Vat. sir. 383 1,288 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicles
Vat. sir. 384 1,288 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicles (from 1035 CE-1201 CE)
Vat. sir. 385 Unknown Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicles (from 1202 CE-1288 CE)
Vat. sir. 387 1,500 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicles
Vat. sir. 388 1,500 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Chronicles
Vat. sir. 433 1,600 CE Garshuni, Latin, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Elements of logic
  • Deposits of Syriac texts from one person
  • Fragment of Metaphysics
  • On Absolute Knowledge
  • On temporal priests
  • Treatise on unclean spirits
  • Book of the kings of Israel
  • Book of the responses of Ben Sira
  • HIstory of Susanna
  • Isagoge
  • Proverbs of wisdom
Syrian Orthodox Church. Archdiocese of Aleppo 00250 1,598 CE Syriac

Chronicle of Michael the Syrian

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 134 (ASCBN 00134) 1,900 CE Arabic, Syriac

Pages 11-16, 123-194, and 208-217 are blank pages; 12 additional leaves separated from manuscript.

  • pages 1-10, History of the Syriac Catholic Church in Baghdad (Arabic, Syriac)
  • pages 17-122, Letters (Arabic, Syriac)
  • 195-229, Pastoral visits (Arabic)

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