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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.

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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00333) 1,602 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1v-173r Canons
    • ​Includes Ps.-apostolic texts and western councils
    • Also includes the Eastern synods from Isaac to George
  • f. 173v-177v Yohannan V bar Abgārē
    • On the fast of the Ninevites for al-'Abbās al-Fadl b. Sulaimān
    • Letter to al-Ḥasan b. Yusef on some canonical regulations about the clergy
  • Abū al-Faraj 'Abd Allāh ibn al-Tayyib, Questions on Marriage and divorce
  • Treatise on marriage and divorce
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Bishop of Amida, Penitential canons
Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00187) 1,640 CE Garshuni
  • Explanation of the canon laws of the Church
Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00199) 1,818 CE Garshuni
  • Explanation of the canon laws of the Church
Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00202) 1,857 CE Garshuni
  • Rabban Daniel, Canons of the faith
Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk (ACK 00020) 1,804 CE Garshuni, Turkish
  • Explanation of the canon of the Apostolic faith
Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk (ACK 00021) 1,892 CE Garshuni, Turkish
  • Explanation of the canon of the Apostolic faith
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00014) 1,600 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-12r, 151r Calendar
  • f. 13v-89r Cave of Treasures
  • f. 89v-90r Extract, on how Enoch and Elijah received the Sacrament
  • f. 90r-94v 'Onitha on the Cross
  • f. 94r-112v Questions and answers: riddles
  • f. 112v-120r Questions and answers: riddles
  • f. 120v-122v Canons on marriage
  • f. 122v-130v Canons on the altar
  • f. 130v-145r Questions and answers about the altar
  • f. 145r-150v Liturgical Questions
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00136) 1,830 CE Syriac
  • f. 2r-3r Prayers
  • f. 3v-73r Ḥudrā
  • f. 74r-86r Anaphoras
    • The Twelve Aposltes
    • Mar Addai and Mar Mari
  • f. 86v-87v Qanone for feast days
  • f. 87v-97v Kaškūl
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00356) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1v-89v On the Unity of the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church
  • f. 90r-92v Athanasius of Alexandria, Athanasian Creed
  • f. 93r-169r Answers of the faithful to the heretics
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

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