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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-10 1,400 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry at CPART and In Macomber ([Macomber A]; [Macomber B]; [Macomber C])

  • Part A (14/15th century)
    • f. 1r-23v Fragments of a Syrian Orthodox missal
      • f. 1r-2v, 4rv Anaphora of St. James, with the ordinary of the mass
      • f. 4v-9v Anaphora of John the Evangelist
      • f. 9v-20v Anaphora of St. Philoxenus (of Baghdad, also known as La'zar Bar Shabbta)
      • f. 20v-23v Mar Sa'wira, Rite of the signing of the chalice of holy St. Severus of Antioch. This is a rite for consecrating additional wine for communion when the communion wine that was consecrated during mass runs short
  • ​Part B (17/18th century)
    • f. 3rv A single leaf from a Syrian Orthodox missal containing the anamnesis, epiclesis, and beginnings of the intercessions of the Anaphora of St. John the Evangelist
  • Part C (15th Century)
    • f. 24v-112v Syrian Orthodox Pontifical ritual
      • f. 24v-52v, 60rv, 54rv The book for the consecration of chrism
        • f. 24v-25v Confection of the anointing oil for chrism
        • f. 25v-27v Preparation for the ceremony
        • f. 27v-52v, 60rv, 54rv The rite of the consecration of chrism
      • f. 55r-56v Prayer (recited) Over the anointing oil intended for anointing (those being baptized). Candidates for baptism have their entire bodies anointed with oil just before they are plunged into the font.
      • f. 57r-59v, 53rv, 61r-64v Rite of the ordination of deacons
      • f. 65r-70v Rite of the ordination of priests
      • f. 71r-74r End of the treatise on chrism (Garshuni)
      • f. 74r-79v Rite of the consecration of a church
      • f. 80r-82v End of the bishop's exhortation to those ordained to the priesthood (Garshuni)
      • f. 82v Prayer of the faithful for the priests and deacons who have been ordained (Garshuni)
      • f. 83r-84v Rite of the holy habit of Abba Antonius, which has been translated from the Egyptian language into Syriac
      • f. 84v-85r Rite of the prayer for the consecration of the furniture of the sanctuary and the altar and the vestments that the priest wears at Mass
      • f. 85r-98r Rite of the tonsure of monks according to the tradition of Mount Urhay
      • f. 98r Prayer recited over those who are putting on the garments of the ministry
      • f. 98r-100r Exhortation delivered by one of the saints; it is read to the monks at their clothing (Garshuni)
      • f. 100r-103v Rite of the tonsure of nuns when they are presented for the holy habit of monasticism
      • f. 103v-112v Order, that is, sequence of ceremonies of the consecration of altars, that is, of the tablets on the altar table

Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00102) 1,826 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Rite of ordination of bishops and priests

Mosul, Iraq, Mar Behnam (Monastery) (MBM 00205) 1,771 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Ignatius Ya'qub I, Patriarch of Antioch, Examination and guidance for the priesthood

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 224 (DIYR 00305) 1,933 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Ordination Rites (Including rites for patriarchs, metropolitans, bishops, priests, deacons, archdeacons, and others)
  • Prayer for the blessing of myron
  • Prayer for a new altar

Vat. sir. 49 1,559 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

Maronite Pontifical

  • Ordination of a psalmist
  • Ordination of a lector
  • Ordination of a subdeacon
  • Ordination of a Deacon
  • Ordination of an Archdeacon
  • Ordination of a Presbyter
  • Ordination of a Periodeutes
  • Ordination of a Chorbishop
  • Ordination of a Bishop
  • Ordination of a Metropolitan and Patriarch
  • Consecation of an altar

Vat. sir. 427 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Rite of the blessing of the waters for Epiphany
  • On the Ordination of presbyters and chorbishops
  • On the consecration of an archbishop and bishop
  • Rite of the great Schema of the monks, or cucullus
  • Prayers recited in confession and before the Priest celebrates the mass, with the formula of absolution (Syriac)
  • On the blessing of the cup
  • Office of St. John the Evangelist, with a Garshuni narrative of his life
  • Life of St. Marinus (Syriac)

'Aqrah, Chaldean Archdiocese of 'Aqrah (ACA 00003) 1,824 CE Garshuni, Syriac

J. - M. Vosté, “Catalogue des manuscrits syro-chaldéens conservés dans la bibliothèque épiscopale de ‘Aqra (Iraq)”, Orientalia Christiana Periodica, vol. 5, pp. 368-406, 1939., p. 381.22

  • Book of Ordination
    • ܟܬܒܐ ܕܣܝܡܝܕܐ

Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk 57 (ACK 00057) 1,854 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 2v-130r Rites of ordination

Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk 59 (ACK 00059) 1,700 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • Rites of Ordination

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 33 (ASOM 00033) 1,908 CE Syriac
  • fol. 4r-145r Rite of ordination
    • Title NS: ܛܟܣܐ ܕܟܪܘܛܘܢܝܐ

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