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. 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)
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 53 (ASOM 00053) 1,907 CE Syriac
  • fol. 4r-180r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Ecclesiastical History
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܐܩܠܣܝܣܛܝܩܝ
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 116 (ASOM 00116) 1,894 CE Arabic, Garshuni

fol. 1r-10v History of the Syrian Orthodox Church

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 6 (SMMJ 00006) 1,645 CE Garshuni
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1r-215 Bible. Chronicles
    • Title NS: ܣܦܪ ܝܫܘܥ ܐܒܢ ܢܘܢ
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 125 (SMMJ 00125) 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r Sergius of Resh'ayna, Introduction to the Dionysian corpus
  • fol. 1v-2r List of books at the church of Mary
    • Title NS: ܡܢܝܢܐ ܟܬ̈ܒܐ ܕܥܕܬܐ ܕܝܠܕܬ ܐܠܗܐ ܡܪܝܡ ܕܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ
  • fol. 2v-7v Apology for the Dionysian Corpus (Attributed to George of Scythopolis)
  • fol. 8r-65r Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Ecclesiastical hierarchy
    • Title NS: ܡܐܡܪܐ ܕܬܪܝܢ ܠܘܬ ܛܝܡܘܬܐܘܣ ܐܦܝܣ̄ ܕܐܦܣܘܣ ܥܠ ܪܝܫܘܬ ܟܗܢܘܬܐ ܥܕܬܢܝܬܐ ܕܐܝܬ ܒܗ ܩ̈ܦܠܐܐ ܫܒܥܐܐ
  • fol. 65r-87v Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Epistles
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 132 (SMMJ 00132) 1,850 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2v-106r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on the liturgy (Garshuni)
  • fol. 106v-109r Homily on receiving the Eucharist (Garshuni)
  • fol. 109v-120r On the Lord's Prayer (Garshuni)
  • fol. 120v-187v Five Homilies (Garshuni)
  • fol. 188r-192r Parable of the apple (Garshuni)
  • fol. 192v David the Phoenician (Dawid Puniqoyo), On Biblical Chronology (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 206 (SMMJ 00206) 1,830 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-20v Story of king Armanios and his children
  • fol. 21r-27v Hymns for before Lent
  • fol. 28r-48v Story of John the Evangelist
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 213 (SMMJ 00213) 1,894 CE Garshuni

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

  • pages 1-254 History of Jerusalem and its monasteries

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