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
St. Thomas Syrian Catholic Church 99 1,881 CE Syriac

See entry at CPART

  • The daily, Husayat
St. Thomas Syrian Catholic Church 111 Unknown Syriac

See entry at CPART

  • The Holy Office
St. Thomas Syrian Catholic Church 115 1,849 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry at CPART

  • Office of the dead and varied consolations
BnF arabe 111 1,673 CE Arabic, Syriac

Melkite Liturgical Text

  • Office of the Akathite for the 5th Saturday of Lent
  • Horologion
  • Canons for matins on certain days
  • Prayers in Syriac
  • Octateuch of the resurrection
Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00211) 1,764 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Prayer book

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00025) 1,731 CE Syriac
  • f. 2v-49r Elijah of Nisibis, Syriac Grammar
  • f. 51v-78r Liturgical miscellany
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00105) 1,816 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-87v Chants for ordinary weekdays of the year
  • f. 88v-175v Hymns for the ordinary weekdays fo the year
  • f. 177r-178v Hymns for Wednesdays of the year
  • f. 178v-180v Hymns for the deceased
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00106) 1,826 CE Syriac
  • f. 2v-87v Chants for ordinary weekdays of the year
  • f. 88v-155v Hymns for the ordinary weekdays of the year
  • f. 156v-170v Hymns
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00113) 1,553 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-51r Elijah III, Catholicos of the Church of the East, Collection of prayers for the morning office throughout the liturgical year
  • f. 51v-94r Gabriel Qamṣa, Metropolitan of Mossul, Hymn in commemoration of Saint Sabrīshō' of Beth Qoqa
  • f. 94r-106r Īsḥāq Shbadnāyā, Hymn in commemoration of St. George the Martyr
  • f. 106v-111v, Hymn in commemoration of St. Stephen
  • f. 112r-121r Khamis bar Qardahe, Epigrams on various subjects in strophic form 
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00127) 1,757 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-159r Elijah III, Catholicos, Collection of the prayers for the morning office of the liturgical year
  • f. 159v-169r Ḥutāmē for the evening and morning services of Sundays and feast days
  • f. 171r-179r Prayers

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