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
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul (ASOM 00022 027) Unknown Garshuni, Syriac
  • Syriac-Arabic Dictionary
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 105 (ASOM 00105) 1,715 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 2v-135v Syriac-Garshuni Lexicon
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 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)
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)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 356 (SMMJ 00356) 1,915 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 8r-153r Eudoxus of Melitene, Lexicon of obscure words (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 153r-162v On words that interchange (Syriac)
  • fol. 162v Coptic months (Syriac)
  • fol. 162v-163v Grammatical notes (Syriac)
  • fol. 163v-165r David bar Paulos, On letters that interchange (Syriac)
  • fol. 165r-166r On preserving the correctness of Syriac (Syriac)
  • fol. 166r-166v Poem

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