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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00425) 1,569 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 1r-1v Colloquy of Moses on Mount Sinai (Garshuni)
  • f. 2v-8v Treatise on a guardian angel (Garshuni)
  • f. 9r-38r Turgame for feasts and commemorations of the liturgical year (Syriac)
    • On Nativity
    • The Virgin Mary
    • Epiphany
    • John the Baptist
    • Peter and Paul
    • Greek Doctors
    • Rogation of the Ninevites
    • Lazarus
    • Palm Sunday
    • Passover
    • Great Saturday
    • Easter
    • Sunday of the Confessors
    • New Sunday
    • Gregory the Martyr
    • Ascension
    • Pentecost
    • Transfiguration
    • Feast of the Cross
    • Dedication of the Church
    • Some of the Turgame are attributed to Khamis
  • f. 39r-43v Turgame for Weekdays (Syriac)
  • f. 44r-46r Rite of the preparation of the leaven (malka) (Syriac)
  • f. 46r-52v Evening prayers for weekday services (Syriac)
  • f. 53v-56v Dismissal Prayers (Syriac)
  • f. 57r-68v Gewargis Wardā, 'Onyatha on repentance (Syriac)
Vat. sir. 97 1,518 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Homilies of John bar Ma'dani
    • On the Nativity of our Lord
    • On the Epiphany of our Lord
    • On the presentation of our Lord in  the Temple
    • On the fast of the Ninevites and Jonah the Prophet
    • On the 40-day Fast
    • On the Feast of Hosannas
    • On the Saturday of the crucifixion
    • On the Saturday of the crucifixion
    • On the Resurrection of our Lord
    • On the Ascension of our Lord
    • On Pentecost
    • On the holy Apostles
    • On the Transfiguration of the Lord
    • On the translation of His Mother
    • On the Holy Cross
    • Paraenetic homilies before whatsoever day
    • Older paraenetic homilies
    • Ten homilies on the end and on humility
  • Elijah ibn al-Hadit, Prayer according to Ma'ari who lived in Nisibis
  • St. Cyril, Homily X on Virginity
  • Syriac epigram
  • On the creation of man
  • Homily on the Saints
  • Syriac song in 7-syllable meter
  • 'Abdisho' of Sobin, Syriac song in 12-syllable meter
  • 'Abdisho' of Sobin, Syriac song in 12-syllable meter
  • Prayer 
  • Benediction of the table
  • Coronation of the betrothed
  • Names of kings which king Mahir-Shapur sent, said to have adored Christ
  • Noah of Lebanon, Syriac Jacobite Patriarch, Brief Chronicle
  • Calendar
  • Homilies by Noah the Patriarch
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 57 (SMMJ 00057) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-32v Rogation of the Ninevites (Syriac)
  • fol. 33r-38v Prayers
  • fol. 41v-48r Prayers