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
Mingana Syriac 89 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See catalog entry for Mingana 89

  • f. 1-6v Barhebraeus, Geographical portion of a work entitled ܡܢܪܬ ܩܘ̈ܕܫܐ
  • f. 5 Map of the earth based upon the seven climates of Ptolemy
  • f. 6v-9r Ecclesiastical Calendar
  • f. 9v-10r [blank]
  • f. 10v-18v Dionysius Barsalibi, Commentary on the Apocalypse
  • f. 18v-28v Dionysius Barsalibi, Commentary on Acts
  • f. 29r-38v Dionysius Barsalibi, Treatise against the Jews
  • f. 39r-84v Dionysius Barsalibi, Treatise against the Muhammadans (in 39 Kephalia; the final –f. 76-84– consists entirely of Qur'anic quotations).
  • f. 85r-92v Dionysius Barsalibi, Treatise against Nestorians
  • f. 93r Grammatical note on the seyāmē
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)
St. Thomas Syrian Catholic Church 105 Unknown Garshuni

See entry at CPART

  • Al-Ajromia, Introduction on the principles of Arabic language (the perfect answers in Grammatical sources)
Sachau 39; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 223 1,777 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Sachau 39

  • f. 1-68v Timothy Isaac, Grammar
  • f. 69v-108r Bishop Rizqallāh, Elementary Grammar
  • f. 114v-121v Miscellaneous
    • f. 114v Arabic not of the writer
    • f. 115r-120v An Arabic school book for teaching elementary grammar
    • f. 120v Short excerpt of a verse-homily in Syriac
    • f. 121r Seven syllable verse for the evening of Good Friday
  • f. 122r-124r A calendar of holy days of the year according to the order of Jacob of Edessa 
Petermann 20; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 267 1,800 CE Garshuni

See entry for Petermann 20

  • Syriac Grammar written in Garshuni
Petermann 17; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 222 1,772 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Petermann 17

  • Timothy Isaac, Metropolitan of Amid, Syriac Grammar
Petermann 18; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 268 1,851 CE Garshuni

See entry for Petermann 18

  • Grammar of the Syriac language in Garshuni
USEK Syriac Grammar - 1856 1,856 CE Garshuni

Grammar of Syriac

USEK Syriac Grammar - 1867 1,867 CE Garshuni

Syriac grammar created in northern Lebanon

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

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