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 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

Sachau 72; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 69 1,600 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 72

  • f. 3-6 Philosophical poem in 7-syllable meter
  • f. 8r fragment, unidentified
  • f. 8v-13v Aesop's fables
  • f. 14r-14v fragment, About church discipline
  • f. 14v-21v The canons of the synods
  • f. 22r-31v Ephrem Syrus, Memra on his own death
  • f. 31v Fragment, Madrasha on the misery of man
  • f. 32-40v A collection of riddles
  • f. 40v-41r Deacon Ṣlībā, 12-syllable strophes
  • f. 42r-47r Grammatical inflections from ܒܙ
  • f. 47v-57r Lexical matters
  • f. 57v-61v Khamis bar Qardahe, Short poems
  • f. 62r-62v More riddles in 12-syllable meter
  • f. 63r-66v John bar Zo'bi, Philosophical text
  • f. 66v Excerpt of the book of Canons of aequilitteris of 'Endnīšo' and Ḥunain
  • f. 67r-90v various
  • f. 91r-100b John bar Zo'bi, poem

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 Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 28a 1,592 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 340; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Syriac-Arabic Lexicon, Part 1

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 28b 1,592 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 341; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Syriac-Arabic Lexicon, Part 2

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 28c 1,592 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 341; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Syriac-Arabic Lexicon, Part 3

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 441 1,586 CE Syriac

See Assemani 434; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Eudochius of Melitene, Syriac Vocabulary and Tractate on homonymns

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

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