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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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 219 (SMMJ 00219) 1,788 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry at CPART and in Macomber (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-12; SMC 2-12). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 30*. Macler 24.

  • f. 1v-116r Rabban Eudochos of Melitene and others, Words that people doubt about, grammatical forms that are difficult to understand, their inflections, their meaning and their presentation in the treatise of atomology (the science of word roots) (Syriac, Garshuni)
  • f. 116r-122r Words that are invariable, in alphabetical order (Syriac)
  • f. 122r Months of the Egyptians with Syrian Counterparts (Syriac)
  • f. 122v-123v Fragments of grammatical treatises (Syriac)
    • f. 122v End of a section that seems mostly concernd with words whose first syllable is vocalized with ptaha
    • f. 122v Concerning softened and hardened pronunciation. That is, concerning the letters that have both a softened and a hardened pronunciation and those that do not
    • f. 122v Concerning words whose first syllable in the singular is unvocalized but which receives the ptaha in the plural and derived words
    • f. 123v On the vocalization of the passive participles of the derived forms of the verb
  • f. 123v-124v Dawid bar Pawlos, Scholion concerning the letters that are variable in pronunciation (Syriac)
  • f. 124v-125r Scholion that shows how the correctness of diction of the Syriac language is preserved (Syriac)
  • f. 125r Concerning the number of the choirs (of angels) (Syriac)
  • f. 125rv On their names (of the angelic choirs) (Syriac)

Sachau 130; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 97 1,681 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 130

  • f. 1r-12r Grammatical inflections based on the word ܒܙ
  • f. 12v-28v A ܣܘܪܓܕܐ (timeline/guide) for calculating the Christian calendar
  • f. 28v-75v Glossary 

BSB Cod. syr. 1 1,555 CE Arabic, Latin, Syriac

See catalog record here

  • Gregory Abu l-Farāj Barhebraeus, Book of Grammar
  • Gregory Abu l-Farāj Barhebraeus, Commentary on Ezekiel
  • Moses of Mardin, Dictionary of the Syriac Language

Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00457) 1,897 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Syriac Grammar
  • Syriac/Garshuni Lexicon

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00024) 1,555 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • f. 2r-4r Poems (Mostly Syriac, some in Arabic)
  • f. 4v-109r Gregory bar Hebraeus, Metrical Grammar
  • f. 111v-112r Glosses
  • f. 112v-118v John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the Soul: The Bird
  • f. 118v-120r John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the greatness of the soul and its abasement due to transgressing the commandment, in the meter of Jacob
  • f. 120r-126r John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the way of the perfect

Sachau 72; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 69 1,600 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 72

  • f. 3-6 Philosophical poem in 7-syllable meter
  • f. 8r fragment, unidentified
  • f. 8v-13v Aesop's fables
  • f. 14r-14v fragment, About church discipline
  • f. 14v-21v The canons of the synods
  • f. 22r-31v Ephrem Syrus, Memra on his own death
  • f. 31v Fragment, Madrasha on the misery of man
  • f. 32-40v A collection of riddles
  • f. 40v-41r Deacon Ṣlībā, 12-syllable strophes
  • f. 42r-47r Grammatical inflections from ܒܙ
  • f. 47v-57r Lexical matters
  • f. 57v-61v Khamis bar Qardahe, Short poems
  • f. 62r-62v More riddles in 12-syllable meter
  • f. 63r-66v John bar Zo'bi, Philosophical text
  • f. 66v Excerpt of the book of Canons of aequilitteris of 'Endnīšo' and Ḥunain
  • f. 67r-90v various
  • f. 91r-100b John bar Zo'bi, poem

Biblioteca Medica Laurenziana: Orientali 458 1,771 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Latin, Syriac

Catalog can be found in P. VALERGA, Catalogo supplementare dei codici Orientali esistenti nella Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, [1879], cc. 9v-10v; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • George Amira, Grammar

Tur Abdin, Turkey, Churches in Enhil (CET 00044) 1,668 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Eudochus of Melitene, Rules of reading; lexicon of obscure words

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 193; 9/7 (DIYR 00176) 1,800 CE Syriac
  • Lexicon, Abridged version of Bar Bahlul, by Maphrian Basil of Tur Abdin
  • Grammatical Treatise

Vat. sir. 36 1,597 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry from Assemani

  • f. 1-34 Missal (Jacobite Rite)
    • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
    • Anaphora of Peter the Apostle
    • Anaphora of St. Eustathius
    • Anaphora of St. John (bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis)
    • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
  • Porphyry, Isagoge
  • The way of finding East
  • Bishop Moses, excerpts from Yaḥya ibn 'Adī
    • Against those who affirm that Christ was not truly crucified
    • Against those who maintain the Christian Gospel has been corrupted
    • The world was not from eternity
  • Bishop Moses, Excerpt from an Arabic grammar
  • Jacob of Sarug, a philosophical poem: On being, substance, and accidents
  • Baptismal Rite
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Syriac Grammar
  • Bishop Moses, Syriac-Arabic Lexicon
  • Catalog of the works of Bar 'Ebroyo

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