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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number	Approximate Date	Language	The main body text
Vat. sir. 51 pt. 1	1,100 CE	Syriac	See entry in Assemani Binding West Syrian Pontifical of Michael the Patriarch Binding
Vat. sir. 51 pt. 2	1,100 CE	Syriac	See entry in Assemani Binding West Syrian Pontifical of Michael the Patriarch Binding
St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-11	1,554 CE	Syriac	See entry at CPART and in Macomber Church of the East (Chaldean) Pontifical Ritual f. 1v-137v Pontifical Ritual f. 1v-2r Gospel lection for the ordination of a bishop or of a catholicos f. 3r Instruction concerning the wood from the which the tablitha is made f. 3v-26r Catholicos Mar Isho'yahb of Adiabene, Consecration of the altar place with oil f. 26v-28r Consecration of the altar place without oil f. 28v Signing of the chalice before it goes up to the altar, when they are compelled to consecrate an additional chalice) on a day of great concourse. f. 29rv Instruction concerning ordinations f. 29v-38r Ordinations of lectors, subdeacons, and deacons f. 38v-44v Rite of the ordination of priests f. 44v-46v Rite of the clothing of monks f. 46v-66v Rite of the tonsure of monks f. 66v-77r Rite of the tonsure of women who are nuns f. 77r-78v Rite of the institution of abbots f. 79v-89v Rite of the ordination of bishops f. 90r-93r The rite of the perfection of bishops by catholicoi. In the Church of the East (Nestorian), a bishop could be ordained by a metropolitan, but he could not exercise his full powers until he had gone to the catholicos and been perfected f. 93r-106r Rite of the ordination of catholicoi f. 106r-107r Rite of the ordination of the archdeacon f. 107r-108r Rite when a chorbishop is appointed for a district to act like the archdeacon, who is the visitor of the villages f. 108r-109v Rite of the ordination of women deaconesses f. 110r-111r Rite of the ordination of a Shaharā priest f. 111r-113r Mar 'Abdisho', Catholicos, Prayer that is recited, likewise a prayer of inclination, over a bishop that is translated from one see to another see f. 113rv Summary of the contents of the manuscript f. 115v-137r Mar Isho'yahb of Nisibis, also known as Bar Malkon, Canons of ordination f. 137rv Four prayers for the reconciliation of penitent excommunicated persons: 1) For a bishop who has been degraded, 2) for seculars, 3 and 4) For anyone
Vat. sir. 199	1,545 CE	Garshuni	Catalog entry in Assemani Life of St. Maron Homily on Penitence Story of the three holy Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Death of Isaac the patriarch Death of Jacob the patriarch Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the thief Life of St. Alexei History of St. Abdulmasih Lives of Ss. Sergius and Bacchus Life of St. Marina Life of St. Susanna On Isaac, the son of Abraham the Patriarch Life of St. John Life of Paul On St. Abba Ammon On the Seven children of Ephesus Life of St. Cyril Life of St. Martinianus the Anchorite Life of St. Archelidos History of the Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul Homily on Penitence Life of St. Dionysius the Aereopagite Jacob of Sarug, Homily on Constantine the great Life of St. Simon Life of Ahiqar the sage Fables of Shaddad, son of 'Addi and Solomon, son of David Letter from heaven given by Athanasius Patriarch of Alexandria History of the conception and nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary by her mother Anna Narration of bribery Fable of a certain prince Homily of St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria Questions and answers History of Pontius Pilate Apostolic Constitutions Homily of St. John Chrysostom Ephrem Syrus, On wrestling with the Devil Prayer for the sick and penitential

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