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
BSB Cod. syr. 1 1,555 CE Arabic, Latin, Syriac

See catalog record here

  • Gregory Abu l-Farāj Barhebraeus, Book of Grammar
  • Gregory Abu l-Farāj Barhebraeus, Commentary on Ezekiel
  • Moses of Mardin, Dictionary of the Syriac Language
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00024) 1,555 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • f. 2r-4r Poems (Mostly Syriac, some in Arabic)
  • f. 4v-109r Gregory bar Hebraeus, Metrical Grammar
  • f. 111v-112r Glosses
  • f. 112v-118v John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the Soul: The Bird
  • f. 118v-120r John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the greatness of the soul and its abasement due to transgressing the commandment, in the meter of Jacob
  • f. 120r-126r John bar Ma'dani, Homily on the way of the perfect
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 2 1,635 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 327; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Abū 'l-Hasani Joshua bar-Bahlūl Lexicon Syriacum (First volume)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 3 1,635 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 328; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Abū 'l-Hasani Joshua bar-Bahlūl Lexicon Syriacum (Second volume)
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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00464) 1,738 CE Arabic, Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 74

  • f. 1v-189r Syriac-Arabic Lexicon
Vat. sir. 485 Unknown Arabic, Garshuni, Latin, Syriac
  • Lexicon (Syriac, Garshuni, Arabic, Latin)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 277 (SMMJ 00277) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Coptic, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac

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

  • fol. 3r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the soul's departure from the body (Syriac)
  • fol. 3v-4r Lexical miscellanea (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 10r-49v Glossary of Italian, Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew (Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac)
    • Armenian alphabet with the letter names in Garshuni on fol. 12v-13r
  • fol. 50r Ge'ez syllabary transliterated in Syriac (Ge'ez, Syriac)
  • fol. 51r-56v Arabic lexicon (Arabic)
  • fol. 57v Coptic alphabet with the letter names in Arabic (Arabic, Coptic)
  • fol. 58r Chant (Syriac)