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 00497) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-100v Book of 'Abdmshiḥa

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00504) 1,774 CE Syriac
  • f. 5r-74v Homilies for the celebration of the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 74v-94r Homilies on the virgins recited on Tuesday of the Rogation of the Ninevites

Baghdad; Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon (CPB 00121) 1,707 CE Syriac

Gospels edited here: Īšōʻdad deÌ Merv, The Commentaries of Isho'dad of Merv, Bishop of Ḥadatha (c.850 A.D.) (ed. M. Gibson, Cambridge, 1911). [Volume 1] [Volume 2] [Volume 3]

  • f. 3r-231v Isho'dad of Merv, Commentaries
    • f. 3r-161v Gospels
    • f. 161v-183r Acts
    • f. 183r-186r Pauline Epistles
  • f. 233v-242v Excerpt from the Book of the Solitaries

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 3/8 (DIYR 00029) 1,552 CE Garshuni
  • Theological discussion between a teacher and his disciple
  • Theological Treatise (Consists of chapters that contain excerpts from Basil of Caesarea, John Climacus, John Cassian, and others)

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00084) 1,722 CE Garshuni
  • Theological Treatise

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00085) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • Ascetic Treatise

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00131) 1,800 CE Garshuni
  • Theological Treatise

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 191; 3/15 (DIYR 00132) 1,766 CE Garshuni
  • On the Love of God

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 7/7; 11 (DIYR 00165) 1,909 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Life of Mor Behnam the Martyr
  • Life of Qasis the priest
  • Life of the Penitent Mary
  • On Leavened Bread
  • Commentary of Mor John the Patriarch on the mystery of salt, wine, and oil
  • Apology against disagreement with witnesses of orthodox teachers
  • Questions of the Holy Fathers
  • Short treatises on some episodes of the Old Testament
  • Ignatius Shukr Allah II, Selection from the teaching of metropolitan Shukr Alla on the Cross
  • Athanasius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Selection from the teaching of the Patriarch of Jerusalem on the Ascension of our Lord
  • Athanasius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pentekostarion
  • Selection on the Transfiguration of Our Lord
  • Selection for the feast of John the Baptist
  • Selection on repentance
  • Admonition on the Our Father
  • Selection on prayer
  • Special commandment of vigil
  • Admonitions
  • Life of the Apostle Thomas
  • Prayers on occasions of illness and pain
  • Gospel readings

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 98; 105 (DIYR 00179) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • Theological treatise (includes numerous quotations from the New Testament and from John Chrysostom)

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