Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

About This Table

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
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 77 (ASOM 00077) 1,859 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 3v-167r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Metrical Grammar
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܓܪܡܛܝܩܝ

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 137 (SMMJ 00137) 1,873 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4r-60v Ignatius bar Wāhib, Treatise on the Syriac alphabet (Syriac)
  • fol. 60v-102r Ignatius bar Wāhib, Treatise on the Syriac alphabet (Garshuni)
  • fol. 103r-112v Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on Isaiah (Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 222 (SMMJ 00222) 1,791 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-60r Yūsuf al-Kaslūqīṯī, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 61v-62r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the Twelve Apostles (Syriac)
  • fol. 62v-63v Jacob of Sarug, Homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 63v-66r Commands of the Gospel (Syriac)
  • fol. 66r-69r Philoxenus of Mabbug, Admonition to keep the Lord's commands (Syriac)
  • fol. 69r-69v Evagrius and John of Dalyatha, Collection of sayings
  • fol. 69v-72r Philoxenus of Mabbug, Creed (Syriac)
  • fol. 72r-74v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Creed of the Syriac Orthodox Church (Syriac)
  • fol. 74v-75v Dialogue on the body of Christ (Syriac)
  • fol. 75v-91v Jacob of Edessa, Letter on the Providence of God (Syriac)
  • fol. 91v-94r Ephrem of Nisibis, Selections from a homily (Syriac)
  • fol. 94r-99r Jacob of Sarug, Homilies (Syriac)
    • Includes note on the life of Jacob of Sarug, fol. 98v-99r
  • fol. 99r-99v Jacob of Edessa, Letter on God's providence

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 225 (SMMJ 00225) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4v-59v Timothy Isaac, Metropolitan of Amid, Syriac Grammar (Syriac)
  • fol. 60v-145r Yaʿqub of Quṭurbul, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni, Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 226 (SMMJ 00226) 1,898 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2v-88r Yaʿqub, of Quṭurbul, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 92v On Mart Šmuni and her Sons (Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 227 (SMMJ 00227) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-112r Arabic Grammar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113r-113v Ink recipes (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113v Short Chronicle (Garshuni, Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 228 (SMMJ 00228) 1,892 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 6v-382r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 382r Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn, and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 229 (SMMJ 00229) 1,789 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4v-315r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 315v Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 242 (SMMJ 00242) 1,860 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Theological Miscellany
    • Includes interpretations of Hebrew names in the Old Testament, fol. 1r-3r; interpretations of Greek words, fol. 3r-4v; unidentified grammatical texts, fol. 17v-19v; selections from Bar Hebraeus’ Lamp of the sanctuary, fol. 20r-24v; theological texts by John Maron, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom.

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 295 (SMMJ 00295) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • pages 2-269 Eudoxus of Melitene, Lexicon of obscure words (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • page 269 Egyptian months (Syriac)
  • pages 270-286 Notes on grammar and alphabets (Syriac)

Pages