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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 252 (SMMJ 00252) 1,621 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2r-49r Ḥusōyō prayers (Garshuni)
  • fol. 49v-79v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Canons (Garshuni)
  • fol. 80r-85r Feasts of the church year (Syriac)
  • fol. 85r-87v Jacob of Sarug, Selections from homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 87v-88r Ephrem of Nisibis, Selections from homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 88v-94v Anaphora of Xystus (Syriac)
  • fol. 95r-103v Unidentified liturgical text (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 255 (SMMJ 00255) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • pages 1-163 Hymns (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 277 (SMMJ 00277) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Coptic, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac

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

  • fol. 3r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the soul's departure from the body (Syriac)
  • fol. 3v-4r Lexical miscellanea (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 10r-49v Glossary of Italian, Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew (Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac)
    • Armenian alphabet with the letter names in Garshuni on fol. 12v-13r
  • fol. 50r Ge'ez syllabary transliterated in Syriac (Ge'ez, Syriac)
  • fol. 51r-56v Arabic lexicon (Arabic)
  • fol. 57v Coptic alphabet with the letter names in Arabic (Arabic, Coptic)
  • fol. 58r Chant (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 281b (SMMJ 00281b) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 5v-202v Psalter (Syriac)
  • fol. 203r-204r Names of the seventy-two translators of the Septuagint (Syriac)
  • fol. 204r-209r Conclusion to the Psalter (Syriac)
  • fol. 201r-212v Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, Ethicon. Selections (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 282 (SMMJ 00282) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-75v Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western)
    • Syriac Rite, Western
    • List of feast days and calendrical texts on fol. 64v-75v
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 290 (SMMJ 00290) 1,477 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-90v Psalter (Syriac Rite, Western; Syriac)
  • fol. 91r-100r Prayers (Syriac)
  • fol. 100r-101v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on humility and love of learning (Syriac)
  • fol. 102r-198r Treatises and letters (Syriac)
  • fol. 198r-200r Monastic and ascetic selections (Syriac)
  • fol. 200v-209v Canons (Garshuni)
  • fol. 210r-210v Homily (Garshuni)
  • fol. 211r-220v Homily for Sunday (Garshuni)
  • fol. 221r-235v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Letter on the canons (Syriac)
  • fol. 235v-236v Questions and answers between a teacher and student (Syriac)
  • fol. 237r-243v John of Ephesus, Homily on repentance, death and the judgment (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 323 (SMMJ 00323) 1,835 CE Garshuni

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

  • pages 1-206 Prayers for night and day
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 373 (SMMJ 00373) 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Anaphora (Syriac Rite, Western) [Date range: 16th-20th century]
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 475 (SMMJ 00475) 2,012 CE Garshuni, Kurdish, Syriac
  • Memre and hymns
    • Includes memre and hymns by Jacob of Serugh, Jacob ʿUrdansaya, Ignatius Marcus bar Qīqī, Ḥananyō Akhsnōyō, Shemʿūn II Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, and Ephrem of Nisibis; historical homilies by Ishaʿya of Beth Sbirina on incursion of the Turks into Mesopotamia and on Tamerlane, pages 54-72
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 476 (SMMJ 00476) 1,866 CE Garshuni

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

  • pages 1-493 Evangelion (Syriac Rite, Western)

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