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
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 221 (DIYR 00161) 1,912 CE Garshuni,Syriac
  • Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western) (Syriac)
  • Prayers (Garshuni)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00195) 1,600 CE Syriac
  • Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00210) 1,600 CE Syriac
  • Morning and evening services for weekdays
  • Service of glorifications
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00213) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Morning and evening services
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 105 (DIYR 00230) 1,857 CE Syriac
  • Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00238) 1,600 CE Garshuni
  • Evening prayers
  • Protective prayers
  • Prayers at midnight
  • Seven night and daily prayers
  • Prayers at the third hour
  • Prayer at the sixth hour
  • Prayer at the ninth hour
  • Chant to Gabriel the archangel
  • Prayers
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00257) 1,800 CE Syriac
  • Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 308 (DIYR 00285) 1,868 CE Syriac
  • Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • Service of Glorifications
  • Service of supplications
  • Hymn to our Lady
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00315) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western)
Harvard MS Syr 87 1,571 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • Šḥimto: Following the orders of service for the days of the week (the Šḥimto, approximately ff. 1-45, incomplete at the beginning), the ms. contains a collection of various genres of hymns and prayers: mawrbe, qale, genize, takšpata, qatismaʾṭaʾs and maʻnyata, madraše of Ephrem, baʻwata [in the meter of] Jacob, Ephrem, Balai, tabrata, ʻaṭre, šuḥlape, prayers for various occasions; and ends with the order for šumlaya madnḥaya (incomplete at the end). All are for the ferial services except the qatismaʾṭaʾs and maʻnyata which are for various festivals and saints' days.

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