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
Vat. sir. 68 1,465 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

East Syrian Beth Gazzā (Common Breviary)

  • f. 1v-211v Beth Gazzā
  • f. 212r-222v Deacon's Office Book
  • f. 223r-227v The Order of Expiation
  • f. 228r-235r Diverse prayers for Vespers
  • f. 235v-248r The Order of the Liturgy
  • f. 248v-251r Prayers and Psalms
  • f. 251v-252v The heavenly and ecclesiastical hierarchy
  • f. 252v-253v The procession of the cross
  • f. 254r-254v The Easter Procession
  • f. 262v-263v Calendar of Saints
  • f. 264r-265r Table of movable feasts
  • f. 265v Formulary for a pastoral epistle
  • f. 265v The Scribe Lazarus, on the year, andits weeks and days
  • f. 266r Idem, On the sign of the year
  • f. 266r-267r On the day and month of Adam's creation
  • f. 267v Names of the 24 prophets
  • f. 268v ff. The creed of Nicea and Constantinople
Vat. sir. 325 Unknown Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Octoechos (Syriac Rite, Western)
Vat. sir. 328 1,400 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Octoechos (Melkite Rite)
Syriac 12. Akolouthia 1,458 CE Syriac

Catalogs:

Contents:

  • Breviary (Beth Gazzō)
    • The Nativity of our Lord
    • The Holy Virigin
    • The Epiphany
    • Saint John the Baptist
    • Saints Peter and Paul
    • Of the Evangelists 
    • Of St. Stephen
Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 5 (ASCBN 00005) 1,846 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • Beth Gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)
Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 35 (ASCBN 00035) 1,903 CE Syriac
  • pp. 1-295 Beth Gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܩܝܢ̄ܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ
    • Incipit: ܩܘܡ ܝܡܠܝܟܐ ܥܘܠ ܠܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܙܒܢ ܠܢ ܠܚܡܐ
Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 53 (ASCBN 00053) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • pages 1-91 Beth gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • pages 92-167 Hymns
Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 54 (ASCBN 00054) 1,500 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-312v Beth Gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)
Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 55 (ASCBN 00055) 1,944 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1r-62r Beth Gazō
  • fol. 62v-71r Collection of prayers and chants
Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 61 (ASCBN 00061) 1,657 CE Syriac
  • fol. 2v-89v Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • fol. 90r-312v Beth Gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • fol. 312v-324v Mass Book

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