Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 248 (SMMJ 00248) |
1,475 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
See entry at CPART and in Macomber ([Macomber A]; [Macomber B]) (St. Mark's Convent, Jerusalem 2-13; SMC 2-13). Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
- Part A (20th Century) (Garshuni, Syriac)
- Syrian Orthodox collection of miscellaneous liturgical pieces
- f. 1r-2r Rite for the reconciliation of a penitent sinner
- f. 2v-3v Order of the prayers of the hymns of the canon
- f. 3v-4v Acrostic alphabetic hymn without title
- f. 4v-5r A song on drinking; It is sung on the alphabet
- Part B (1474/5 CE) (Garshuni, Syriac)
- Syrian Orthodox collection of miscellaneous liturgical pieces
- f. 1r-42r Miscellaneous Liturgical Pieces
- f. 1r-9r Shumlaya that the deacon proclaims in the offering of the Eucharist according to the modern revision of Melitene. This is a diaconal for the Mass.
- f. 9r-10r Communion hymns for the Thursday of the Mysteries
- f. 1r-23r Prayers, proemia, sedre, 'etre, and huttame that are learned by heart by a new priest when he is ordained.
- f. 10r-11r Order of the Mother of God
- f. 11r-12r Order of the Apostles
- f. 12r-13r Order of the martyrs
- f. 13r-14r Order of the Patron Saint
- f. 14r-15r Communion order
- f. 15r-16r Order of penitance
- f. 16v-17v Order of the departed
- f. 17v-19r Oder of the Cross
- f. 19rv Order of the Resurrection
- f. 19v-20r Order of Vespers
- f. 20r-21r Order of Compline
- f. 21r-22r Order of the night office
- f. 22r-23r Order of Matins
- f. 23rv Huttame of the other offices
- f. 26r-32v Ordinary of the mass
- f. 32v-33r Prayer for blessing of bread. A table grace.
- f. 33r-39v Prayers of every kind
- f. 33r-34r Prayers of vespers
- f. 34r-35r Prayers of the "hymns of the Greek canon"
- f. 35r-38v Miscellaneous prayers
- f. 38v-39v Table prayers (Garshuni)
- f. 39v-42r Two rhymed homilies for feasts (in Garshuni)
- f. 39v-40v Homily on the feast of the Nativity
- f. 40v-42r Homily on the Epiphany
- f. 42r-45r Two questions of the Fathers
- f. 42r Question that Bishop Severus asked of Bishop Jacob of Edessa: "How is God above all and below all, inside all and outside all and in all?"
- f. 42v-45r Bishop John (?), Question concerning the dead after burial while he is doing penance (Garshuni)
- f. 45v-48v Miracle that our Lady Mary, the Mother of God, worked
- f. 48v A few epigrams
- f. 49r-58r Four more rhymed homilies
- f. 49r-52r Turjām of the blessed Fast
- f. 52r-54r A pretty homily on the venerable crucifixion
- f. 54r-56r Turjām of Ninevah and lections (?) of the prophet Jonah. A single rhymed composition
- f. 56v-58r Turjām on the Resurrection
- f. 58rv Two prayers: One for the patriarch and one for the sultan
- f. 59r-61r Another rhymed homily: Turjām on the Dormition of our Lady the Virgin Mary
- f. 61v-69r
- f. 69v-73v Homily delivered by St. Jacob which he delivered on the thief of the right hand; read on the Friday of the Crucifixion
- f. 73v-88v An abridged discouse on the true faith and on the hymns of the spiritual Church.
- f. 89r-96r The questions of St. Basil and St. Gregory
- f. 96r-112r Ten questions concerning which a certain disciple asked his master
- f. 96rv Contents
- f. 96v-112r Text
- f. 112r-118r Homily delivered by Bishop Gregory (Pseudo-Gregory Nazianzus), on the destruction of this world and the departure of the soul from the body
- f. 118v-148r The Apocalypse of Paul (Garshuni)
- f. 148v Beginning of an unidentified item
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BnF syr. 63 |
1,644 CE |
Garshuni, Syriac |
See catalog entry here
- f. 1-195 Apocalypse of Peter
- f. 195v-203 History of Sibyl
- f. 203-234 Office of Marriage (in Garshuni and Syriac)
- f. 234v-243 Prescriptions for the months of the year
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Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00500) |
1,700 CE |
Garshuni |
- f. 1r-17r Acts of Andrew
- f. 17r-36v Life of John of the Golden Gospel of Rome
- f. 36v-64r Life of Mar Malke
- f. 64r-64v Preaching of Matthias in the city of the cannibals
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Harvard MS Syr 93 |
700 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- A collection of short works including a "Gospel of the Twelve Apostles" (ff. 47r-51v)
- Apocalypses of Simon Kepha, James, John the little (51v-57v)
- A fragment of the Doctrina Addai (57v)
- Various responsa and canons (1r-46v, 59r ff.) including replies of Jacob of Edessa.
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Borg. sir. 39 |
1,600 CE |
Syriac |
See catalog entry here
- History of Daniel the doctor
- Abba Arsenius, the king of Egypt
- St. George the Martyr
- John of Daylom
- History of Isaiah of Aleppo
- Story of a penitent demon
- Story of a religious saint
- Story of Abba Moses
- Story of Paul the Simple
- Story of a child killed by its mother
- Story of a pious virgin
- Portion of Paradise of the Fathers
- Edifying history of a king in the first centuries
- Legend of the Rechabites recounted by Zosimus
- History of St. Juliana
- Wonders which were done in the great cities, on the sea and on the isles
- Certain fables of Aesop
- Apocalypse of Paul
- Riddles
- Questions of Basil to his brother
- Extracts from the Book of Isho'bokht, the metropolotan, On Creation
- History of Yareth
- On Malcus of Clysma
- On Jacob Intercissus
- On Cyprian and Justa, virgins
- On Sergius and Bacchus, martyrs
- On Mar Benjamin
- On the countries of Beith Nuhadra
- On St. Martinianus
- On St. Paphnutius
- The spiritual transaction
- History of Rabban Hormizd, composed by Rabban Simeon
- Legend of Mar Zai'a
- Assumption of the Virgin Mary
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Vat. sir. 180 |
1,318 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry in Assemani
- The Apology before the Apocalypse of Paul the Apostle
- The Apocalypse of Paul the Apostle
- Gabriel Qamṣa, 'Onyatha
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Vat. sir. 211 |
1,719 CE |
Garshuni |
Catalog entry in Assemani
- Apocryphal revelation according to St. John after the ascension of our Lord on the final judgment
- Questions and Responses
- Questions and Responses between a disciple and his master, on Christ the Lord
- Questions and Responses between a disciple and his master, about the Sacrament of confession
- Profession of the Christian faith
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Vat. sir. 212 |
Unknown |
Garshuni |
Catalog entry in Assemani
- Apocryphal Apocalypse of St. John
- Various questions and responses
- Ten questions and responses of a disciple and his master
- Other questions and responses abou the sacrament of confession
- Profession on the Christian faith, on God, three and one
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Vat. sir. 213 |
Unknown |
Garshuni |
Catalog entry in Assemani
- Apocryphal revelation according to St. John after the ascension of our Lord on the final judgment
- Questions and Responses
- Questions and Responses between a disciple and his master, on Christ the Lord
- Questions and Responses between a disciple and his master, about the Sacrament of confession
- Profession of the Christian faith
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Harvard Ms Syr 99 |
1,889 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry
- ff. 1v-76v Didascalia apostolorum
- ff. 76-92v First epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
- ff. 92v-93v Letter of James of Jerusalem to Quadratus
- ff. 93v-96v Letters of Herod and Pilate
- ff. 96v-103v Hypomnemata of our Lord
- ff. 103v-106v The teaching of Peter in Rome
- ff. 107r-111v Letter of Dionysius of Athens to Timothy on the deaths of Peter and Paul
- ff. 111v-117r Extracts from various Fathers
- ff. 117r-120r Severus on the synods
- ff. 120r-120v Letter that the Jews wrote to the emperor Marcion about the Synod of Chalcedon
- ff. 120v-122v Short texts by Philoxenus
- ff. 122v Creed of orthodox Christians
- ff. 122v-124v Letter of John bar Shushan against Chalcedon
- ff. 124v-126v Easy questions against the Chalcedonians
- ff. 126v-128r Diagrams explaining theology and christology
- ff. 128v-131v Disputation against the Nestorians
- ff. 131v Cyril against anyone who keeps a book from a reader
- ff. 132r-146v Prophecies of the pagan philosophers
- ff. 147r-148r 6 questions of Jacob of Edessa
- ff. 148r-150v Riddles from the Old Testament
- ff. 150v-151r Under which kings each of the prophets prophesied
- ff. 151r-154r On the foundation of the true faith which we have received from the apostles etc.
- ff. 154r On what the Jews wrote above the cross of Christ
- ff. 154r-155r From the story of Peter the Iberian, that one should not give up hope of God's mercy
- ff. 155r-157r Severus, from a letter to Thomas of Germanica on the Epistle of Jude
- ff. 157r-160r Short sections on the eucharist, baptism, etc.
- ff. 160r-162r On the prophets
- ff. 162r-163r Jacob of Edessa on the seven spirits of Isaiah 11.2
- ff. 163 r/v Ephrem on the dove that Noah sent out from the ark
- ff. 163v-174r Answers to questions, including extracts from various Fathers
- ff. 174v Diagram of the ten commandments
- ff. 174v-178r Various other short sections on Old Testament exegesis
- ff. 178r-181v Jacob of Edessa on the heavenly powers
- ff. 181v-188v The orthodox teachers on the souls of human beings, and other short extracts
- ff. 188v-190r Letter of Cyril of Jerusalem on the rebuilding of the temple by the Jews
- ff. 190r-191r Extracts from Puman, John, Cyril and Basil
- ff. 191r-201r Explanations of Ephrem on various matters from the Law
- ff. 201r Colophon
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