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*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
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00291) 1,728 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Prayers, Prooemia, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's Brother
  • Selection from a Liturgical Text
  • Readings from the Gospels, prooemia, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Jacob, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Anaphora of Julius of Rome
  • Anaphora of Eustathius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of John of Nisibis
  • Anaphora of Ignatius of Antioch
  • Anaphora of Jacob Burd'oyo
  • Anaphora of Marutha of Tagrit
  • Anaphora of Philoxenus of Mabbug
  • Dismissal Prayers of Mor Jacob

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00293) 1,791 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Service before Mass; Readings; Prooemia; Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
  • Anaphora of John bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis
  • Anaphora of Xystus of Rome
  • Anaphora of Eustathius
  • Anaphora of Julius of Rome
  • Anaphora of Mushe bar Kepha
  • Readings; Prooemium, Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Lazarus bar Sabta

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00294) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Readings; Sedrē
  • Anaphora of St. James, the Lord's Brother
  • Anaphora of Philoxenus of Mabbug
  • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Readings; Sedrē
  • Anaphora of Severus of Antioch

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)).

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 61 (SMMJ 00061) 1,500 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 1r-79v Sedrē (Syriac Rite, Western)

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