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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 00432) 1,900 CE Syriac
  • pages 1-41 Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onyatha on feasts of the liturgical year
  • pages 41-90 Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onyatha on various subjects related to the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • pages 90-96 Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onyatha on feasts of the liturgical year
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00466) 1,700 CE Arabic, Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 73

  • f. 1v-9v Elijah III, Consolatory discourses (Arabic)
  • f. 10r-12r Credo of the Church of the East (Arabic)
  • f. 13v-140r Elijah of Nisibis, Book of the Translator (Arabic, Syriac)
  • f. 143v-200r Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onyatha related to the celebration of the Rogation of the Ninevites
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00480) 1,500 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-18v Marmyatha for the weekdays: Qdām wa d-batar
  • f. 18v-44r Qdām wa d-batar
  • f. 44r-45r Ḥudrā
  • f. 45r-45v Voices and verses prefixed to Psalms
  • f. 46r-47v Shubhe for the weekdays
  • f. 47v-72v 'Onyatha for martyrs
  • f. 72v-77v Morning service of Sundays
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00483) 1,511 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-108r 'Onitha on Rabban Hormizd
  • f. 108v-115r 'Onitha on Mār Khodahwi
  • f. 116r-132v Ephrem Syrus, Homily on the Last Days and the accomplishment, and on Gog and Magog, and about the false Messiah
  • f. 133r-141v Homily 
  • f. 142r-153v Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the Last Judgment, the Kingdom, and Gehenna
  • f. 154r-163v Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onitha for Monday of the Rogation of the Ninevites
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00485) 1,800 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-23v Marmyatha for weekdays: Qdām wa d-batar
  • f. 24r-70r 'Onyatha and shoraye for the weekdays
  • f. 70v-73r Shubhe for the weekdays
  • f. 73r-95r Praises
  • f. 95r-101v 'Onyatha
  • f. 101v-140v 'Onyatha for martyrs
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00486) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-10v Marmyatha for the weekdays: Qdām wa d-batar
  • f. 11r-13r Shubhe for the weekdays
  • f. 13r-28r Praises
  • f. 28r-32r Shoraye for Sundays
  • f. 32r-34v 'Onyatha for feasts
  • f. 34v-41r 'Onyatha
  • f. 41r-46v Praises for Wednesdays
  • f. 47r-62v Qale for martyrs
  • f. 63r-84v Marmyatha for the weekdays: Qdām wa d-batar
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00507) 1,635 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-9r Gewargis Wardā, 'Onyatha related to the Rogation of the Ninevites
  • f. 9r-33r Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha for feasts of the liturgical year
  • f. 33v-36v 'Onitha on Stephen
  • f. 36v-40r 'Onitha on George the Martyr
  • f. 40v-57v Īsḥāq Shbadnāyā, 'Onyatha
  • f. 57v-82r 'Onitha on Shmoni and her sons
Vat. sir. 45 1,556 CE Syriac

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Chaldean Pontifical

  • Consecration of the altar with oil
  • Instruction on the consecration of an altar when it is desecrated
  • Consecration of an altar without oil
  • Sign made over the chalice
  • Order of the ordination of deacons
  • Ordination of presbyters
  • Order of the Habit of monks
  • Order of the tonsure of monks, made by Rabban Pethion, the priest and monk
  • Order of the tonsure of nuns
  • Ordination of deaconesses
  • Ordination of Archdeacons
  • Order of installation of abbots
  • Order of the laying on of hands of a Bishop
  • Order of the perfection of a Bishop to Catholicos
  • Ordination of the Catholicos
  • The 'Onitha for Mar John Sulaqa, Catholicos Patriarch who was ordained in Rome the great by the hands of Pope Julius IV, composed by Mar 'Abdisho', Metropolitan of the tiny Gazarta
  • 'Abdisho (of Gazarta), 7-syllable poem on the Patriarch John
  • 'Abdisho (of Gazarta), A third song (7-syllable meter) mourning the death of Patr. John Sulaqa
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, canons and confessions
  • Prayer for the sick
  • Canons
  • Benedictions for when Bishops leave the city
  • Benedictions the Bishop performs which going to a monastery
  • Prayer of benediction when the Bishop leaves the monastery
  • Prayer for the Archimandrites with a benediction
  • Benediction the Bishop performs for scholars
  • Admonition for ordinations
Vat. sir. 66 1,545 CE Syriac

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Chaldean ordinal translated from Latin into Syriac

  • Ordination of the door-keepers
  • Ordination of the Lectors
  • Ordination of exorcists
  • Ordination of acolytes
  • Ordination of subdeacons
  • Ordination of Deacons
  • Ordination of Presbyters
  • Order of Absolution
  • Prayers
  • On the wood (of the table)
  • Consecration of the altar
  • Consecration when the altar was desecrated
  • Consecration of the altar without chrism
  • Blessing over the chalice
  • Diaconal ordination
  • Ordination of a presbyter
  • Service of the habit of a monk
  • Service of the tonsure of a monk
  • Service of the tonsure of holy women
  • Admonition on temporal ordination
  • 'Onyatha during the tonsure of monks
  • Benediction for when the Bishop departs a city
  • Benediction for when a Bishop enters a monastery
  • Benediction for when a bishop leaves a monastery
  • Prayer for an abbot 
  • Ḥutāmē at the end of a liturgy
  • A form of consecration for the bread and wine (from Latin into Syriac)
  • The Liturgy of the Blessed Apostles
  • The Liturgy of Theodore the commentator of the Divine Books
  • 12-syllable verses for common days during the liturgy
  • Absolution
Vat. sir. 180 1,318 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • The Apology before the Apocalypse of Paul the Apostle
  • The Apocalypse of Paul the Apostle
  • Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onyatha

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