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
Vat. sir. 296 Unknown Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Liturgy (Melkite Rite)
    • Liturgy of John Chrysostom
    • Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
    • Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
    • Prayer over 8-day old children
    • Entry into the temple
    • St. Basil the Great, Order of baptism
    • Prayer over the baptized 7-days after their baptism
    • Ordination of a reader, sub-deacon, and presbyter
    • Order of the tonsure of monastic novitiates
    • Ordination of the holy order of monk
    • Holy order of the oil
    • Prayers for the sick

Vat. sir. 303 1,608 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Book of Priests (East Syrian Rite)
    • Order of presbyters (obligations and absolutions found for the presbyter in the office)
    • Liturgy of the blessed apostles
    • Liturgy of Theodore of Mopsuestia
    • Liturgy of Nestorius
    • Order of Baptism (composed by Isho'yahb of Adiabene)
    • Order of the consecration of waters
    • Order of the renewal of the dough
    • Absolutions at the end of the mass recited at the door of the chancel (by 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā)
    • Sanctifying polluted water
    • Order of indulgences or absolutions, composed by Isho'yahb Catholicos
    • Prayers for Dominical feasts
    • Prayers for the dedication of a church by Abul-Azar
    • Absolution at the end of the Mass
    • Other absolutions at the door of the chancel, by Mar Gabriel
    • History of martyrs

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 56 (ACK 00056) 1,568 CE Syriac
  • ff. 1v-56r Consecration of altar
  • ff. 40v-56r Rite of deaconal ordination
  • ff. 56v-89v Rite of priestly ordination
  • ff. 90r-104v Calendar calculation for Lent

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 58 (ACK 00058) 1,898 CE Syriac
  • Rites of ordination

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

Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk 60 (ACK 00060) 1,919 CE Syriac
  • Rites of ordination

Zākhū, Iraq. Chaldean Archdiocese of Zākhū, MS 36 (ACZ 00036) 1,800 CE Neo-Aramaic, Syriac
  • Rites of ordination

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