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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00499) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-21v Burial rite for the baptized children
  • f. 22r-24v Madrasha
  • f. 24v-36v Madrasha for all the ecclesiastical degrees
  • f. 37r-40r Readings from Paul's Epistles appropriate for burial rites
  • f. 40r-48r Readings from the Gospels appropriate for burial rites
  • f. 48r-64v Consolatory prayers
  • f. 64v-75r Canonic regulations regarding the dead
  • f. 75r-76r Dismissal prayers
  • f. 76r-78r Rites of the sanctification of water

Borg. sir. 57 1,686 CE Syriac

Catalog entry here

  • Episcopal Ceremonies according to the West-Syrian Rite
    • Consecration of the oils
    • Consecration of the church
    • Renewal of a church
    • Consecration of the altar
    • Various prayers for the laying on of hands
    • Rite of the laying on of hands upon the Psalter-readers and lectors, sub-deacons, deacons, priests, archdeacons, Chorbishops, patriarchs, metropolitans and Bishops
    • Three rites of baptism
    • Order of the taking up of the monastic habit
    • Homily (Turgama) of Moses bar Kepha
    • Order of the taking up of the monastic habit for women
    • Benediction over the waters for the day of Epiphany
    • Benediction of the palms
    • Various rites to do during holy week, the week of Easter and the Sunday of Pentecost
    • Prayers to recite over the apostate
    • Benediction over sacred linens, on images, on statues, etc.
    • Rite of baptism by Bar 'Ebroyo
    • Rite of extreme unction
    • Funeral rites

Vat. sir. 41 pt. 2 Unknown Syriac

ff. 269-end; See entry in Assemani

  • Expedient baptism of a child near to death
  • Order for the holy festival of the Sunday of Pentecost
  • Order for the ordination of the monastic habit
  • A prayer of the monastic Cucullus
  • A prayer for the tonsure of men and women
  • A prayer for the Great Habit
  • Order of absolution
  • Prayer for an abbess
  • Benediction of the waters according to the Greek rite
  • Order for the blessing of a bride and groom
  • Order for the funeral according to the Greek rite
  • Order of Vespers, of Dominical feasts, and of Sundays
  • Order of Nocturns
  • Order for the liturgy of the sacred oil of the lamps
  • Various benedictions, obligations, and absolutions