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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00023) 1,796 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 2r-6v Miracles of the Virgin Mary (Arabic)
  • f. 7v-46v Elijah of Nisibis, Syriac Grammar (Syriac)
  • f. 55v-146r Liturgical miscellany (Garshuni, Syriac)
    • Includes parts for ordination (55v)
    • Consecration of the altar and eucharistic vessels (81v-88v)
    • Joseph II, The washing of the feet (92r)
    • Portions for the sick and dying (99v)
  • f. 146v-149r Sentences on grammar and other subjects (in verse, various meters) (Syriac)

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00010) 1,700 CE Arabic, Armenian, Garshuni, Georgian, Greek, Latin, Persian, Syriac, Turkish
  • f. 1r-8r Conjugation patterns for verbs and derived words (Syriac)
  • f. 8r Trishagion in eight languages (Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Latin, Persian, Syriac, Turkish)
  • f. 8v-21r Sayings of Pythagoras with commentary (Syriac)
  • f. 22v-31r Story of Job (Garshuni)
  • f. 31v-34v On the benefit of reading the divine books (Garshuni)
  • f. 34v-36r Ten characteristics of a dog that are necessary for a faithful servant (Garshuni)
  • f. 36r-41r Sayings of the Fathers and Saints (Garshuni)
  • f. 41v-51v Colloquy of Moses (Garshuni)
  • f. 51v-60v From the Fathers: on each person's guardian Angel (Garshuni)
  • f. 60v-67v Story of a mistreated saint (Garshuni)
  • f. 68r-79r Story of Mary the sinner, who anointed Jesus' feet with her tears (Garshuni)
  • f. 80r-87v Story of the boy whose parents wanted to slaughter him (Garshuni)

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

Vat. sir. 30 1,714 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry in Assemani.

  • Anaphora of St. Basil of Caesarea

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

Vat. sir. 465 Unknown Garshuni, Syriac
  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Syriac Grammar (ܟܬܒܐ ܕܨܡ̈ܚܐ)

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 38 (ASCBN 00038) 1,860 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Fol. 1r-186v Mīḫāyīl ibn Aylō Ṣabāgh, Syriac Grammar (ܐܠܓܪܐܡܛܝܩܝ)
  • Fol. 186v-200v Antoniyūs Nakuzī, Syriac Grammar (ܡܥܐܢܝ ܒܕܘܠ)

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 48 (ASOM 00048) 1,866 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 3v-107v Syriac verb paradigms
    • Title NS: ܣܘܪܥܦܐ
  • Notes: List of Muslim caliphs, calendar tables of festivals on back flyleaves

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 63 (ASOM 00063) 1,662 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 2v-59v Marriage rite (Garshuni)
  • fol. 60r-99v Ignatius bar Wāhib, Patriarch of Mardin, Exposition of the Arabic Letters (Garshuni)
  • fol. 100r-144v Ḥudrō (Syriac Rite, Western)

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