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
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 68 1,696 CE Syriac

​See entry for Assemani 36; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Daily Office (Syriac Rite, Western)

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 71 1,340 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 36; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Offices for feast days
  • Jacob of Sarug, hymns
  • Ephrem Syrus, hymn 49, on the saints and the departed
  • Order of the blessing of the waters
  • Order of the blessing of the oil
  • Order of the entrance
  • Order of the washing of the feet
  • Order of the commemoration of the cross
  • Order of forgiveness and pardon
  • Order of the mass and rubrics
  • Order of the reception of heretics and apostates
  • Order of confession
  • Order of the reception of public sinners
  • Prayers and absolutions for all general sins
  • Prayers and benedictions

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 107c 1,584 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 40; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Order of the Mass (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • Hymns, antiphones, and responses in the daily office and feasts
  • Ecclesiastical calendar
  • Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa, 10 songs on the Virgin Mary, bearer of God
  • Dionysius bar Salibi
    • Homily on the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 311 1,569 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 41; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Maronite Offices for feast days
    • Dedication of the Church
    • Nativity of our Lord
    • Epiphany
    • Second sunday of Lent
    • Annunciation of the Virgin mother Mary
    • Sunday of Hosannas
    • Good Friday
    • The Ascension of the Lord into Heaven
    • Pentecost
    • Golden Friday (first after Pentecost)
    • The Transfiguration
    • Holy Cross
    • St. Thaddaeus the apostle
    • St. George the Martyr

Vat. sir. 425 1,558 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Fenqīthō (Syriac Rite, Western), collected by Dionysius bar Ṣalibi