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
Borg. sir. 91 1,869 CE Syriac

See catalog entry here

  • Discovery of St. Stephen
  • History of Behnam and Sarah, his sister, martyrs
  • Of Mar Jonah, anchorite
  • Acts of St. Jacob Intercissus
  • Of St. Ignatius of Antioch
  • Of the Himyarite Martyrs
  • History of Beth-Slokh
  • Of Daniel the doctor
  • Of Qardag
  • Of Mahdokhti and his brothers
  • Of Rabban Saba
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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 215 (SMMJ 00215) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Note on the steam-ship (Garshuni)
  • fol. 2r-35v 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Travel diary for a trip to India (Garshuni)
  • fol. 36r-38r 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, List of the Syriac Orthodox churches in Malabar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 43v-44r List of those who came to India (Syriac)