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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00295) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Service before the Mass; Readings; Prooemia; Sedrē
  • Small Anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of John of Ḥarran
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome
  • Anaphora of Jacob from the Monastery of Mor Ḥannanyo
  • Anaphora of Julius of Rome
  • Anaphora of Mushe bar Kepha
  • Dismissal Prayer of Mor Jacob
  • Dismissal Prayer of Mor Ephrem

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 140; 8/12; 80 (DIYR 00298) 1,746 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Prayer recited on Great Friday
  • Anaphora of St. James, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of Pope Julius
  • Collected Anaphora of John bar Ma'dani
  • Prooemium
  • Anaphora of Patriarch John Aksnoyo
  • Anaphora of Peter, the Head of the Apostles
  • Anaphora of Ignatius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of Mark the Evangelist
  • Prooemium
  • Readings, Prooemia, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Matthew the Pastor
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome
  • Anaphora of John bar Shushan

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00318) 1,579 CE Syriac
  • Prayer for the altar when it is defiled by the unbelievers or pagans
  • Service before the mass
  • Readings from the Apostle Paul Epistles and the Gospel; Prooemia
  • Small anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's brother
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Anaphora of Eustathius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome
  • Dismissal Prayer
  • Prayers

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 58 (DIYR 00331) 1,500 CE Syriac
  • Prayer for an altar defiled by pagans or heretics
  • Readings from the Gospels and Epistles, Sedrē; Prooemia
  • Small anaphora of James, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
  • Anaphora of Matthew the Pastor
  • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalībī
  • Dismissal Prayers

Harvard MS Syr 102 1,200 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • Proper prayers, prooemia and sedrē for the whole church year (but the ms. is incomplete at the beginning and end. The first rubric is for the Annunciation (f. 5v) and the last for the martyrdom of Peter and Paul (288v)).

Vat. sir. 229 Unknown Garshuni

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Song for the Virgin Mary
  • Medical secrets
  • Difficult points in the Syriac four gospels
  • Syriac-Arabic Lexicon
  • Prooemia of the Epistles
  • Names of the 12 signs of the Zodiac
  • Medical secrets

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 44 (ASCBN 00044) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • Pages 1-35 Preparation for the Mass (Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Pages 36-67 Anaphora of Pope Sixtus (Syriac)
  • Pages 68-83 Concluding the Holy Mass (Syriac)
  • Pages 85-117 Readings from the New Testament (Arabic Garshuni)
  • Pages 121-123 Phromeon prayers for every day (Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Pages 125-160 Anaphora of Pope Sixtus (Arabic, Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 51 (ASCBN 00051) 1,800 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1-36r, Anaphora of St. Jacob
  • fol. 36r-42r Anaphora of Pope Sixtus
  • fol. 43r-50r Anaphora of Saint Dionysius
  • fol. 50r-58r Anaphora of Patriarch Yūḥanōn Yeshū‘ bar Shūshan
  • fol. 58r-71v Anaphora of Basilius La'zar son of Sabto of Baghdad
  • fol. 72r-77r Prooemion of Patriarch Ignatius bar Wāhib Bādir Zakhā
  • fol. 77r-82v Anaphora of Simon Peter, head of the Apostles
  • fol. 83r-93v Anaphra of Pope Julius of Rome
  • fol. 94r-100r Anaphora of Patriarch Yūḥanōn Yeshū‘ bar Shūshan
  • fol. 101v-128v Anaphora of Patriarch Yūḥanōn Yeshū‘
  • fol. 129r-139r Anaphora of St. John the Evangelist
  • fol. 139v-151v Anaphora of Īwānnīs, bishop of Harran

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul (ASOM 00022 011) Unknown Garshuni, Syriac
  • Liturgical Prayers

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