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.

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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul (ASOM 00022 028) Unknown Syriac
  • On the sufferings of sinners in hell
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul 31 (ASOM 00031) 1,723 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1r-136v Pentateuch
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܚܡܫܐ ܣܦܪ̈ܐ ܕܐܘܪܝܬܐ
  • fol. 137r-142v Sermon on the ascension of our Lord into heaven
    • Title NS: ܥܠ ܣܘܠܩܐ ܕܡܪܢ ܝܫܘܥ ܠܫܡܝܐ
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 58 (ASOM 00058) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 4r-5v, Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander Romance (Arabic Garshuni)
  • fol. 6r-75v Psalms
  • fol. 76r-85v Poem on the divine wisdom
    • Title NS: ܥܠ ܚܟܡܬܐ ܐܠܗܝܬܐ
  • fol. 86v-88v Memra on the Trinity
  • fol. 89v-92v Prayers
    • Includes prayers attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis and Jacob of Edessa
  • fol. 92v-96v Memre and Sogitha
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 84 (ASOM 00084) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 4v-155v Timothy Isaac, Metropolitan of Amid, Illumination of Beginners
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܢܘܗܪ ܫܪ̈ܘܝܐ
  • fol. 168v-174r Homilies
    • Title NS: ܬܪܓܐܡ
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 327 (SMMJ 00327) 1,898 CE Arabic, Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1v-8v Theological text (Arabic)
  • fol. 13v-63v Story of the Virgin Mary (Garshuni)
  • fol. 64r-80v Timothy of Gargar, Homily on the Assumption of Mary (Garshuni)

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