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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 00001) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1r-76r Story of Jacob, the Egyptian hermit
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00006) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1r-7r Unidentified liturgical text, with hymns
  • f. 7v-39r Story of Yawsep I and what happened to him with the obstinate and the enemies of religion
  • f. 39v-40v Description and praise of Yawsep I by the poor ascetic
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00007) 1,800 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1r-12v Unidentified hagiographic text
  • f. 12v-24v Story of Matthias
  • f. 24v-38r Story of John
  • f. 38r-47v Story of Marina the monk
  • f. 47v-59v Story of Archelides
  • f. 59v-63r Story of Eugenia
  • f. 63r-64r Miracles of the Virgin Mary
  • f. 64v-74r Story of Rabban Hormizd the Persian
  • f. 74r-83r Story of Pethion
  • f. 83r-85r Story of Anahid
  • f. 85r-101r Story of Malke
  • f. 101r-108v Story of Alexius, the Man of God
  • f. 109r-115v Story of the seven sleepers of Ephesus
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00008) 1,681 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1v-22v Story of Archelides
  • f. 23r-29v Story of Eugenia
  • f. 29v-32r Miracles of the Virgin Mary
  • f. 32r-51r Story of Pethion
  • f. 51v-67r Story of Alexei, the man of God
  • f. 67r-82v Story of Marina the monk
  • f. 82v-86r Story of Anahid
  • f. 86r-101r Story of the seven Sleepers of Ephesus
  • f. 101r-109v Story of the Forty Martyrs
  • f. 110v-203v Monastic garden
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00011) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1r-7v Story of the boy whose parents wanted to sacrifice him
  • f. 7v-15r Story of a king's son
  • f. 15v-22v Story of Eugenia
  • f. 22v-33v Story of Solomon, son of David, and what happened to him with the ant, and what he saw of the marvels of laziness
  • f. 33v-36v Supplication and hymn to God
  • f. 36v-38v On divinity and deity
  • f. 38v-43r Supplication and hymn to God
  • f. 43r-48v Story of Susanna the pious
  • f. 48v-50v Narrative on the Cross of Jesus
  • f. 51r-60r Story of the Forty Martyrs
  • f. 60v-62r Eliyā of Nisibis, Hymn
  • f. 62r-64v Story of 'Āzār the poor
  • f. 64v-71r Prayer of Cyprian
  • f. 71r-93r Virtues on which Peter and Paul, the elect Apostles, agreed
  • f. 93v-94v Christmas Homily
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00018) 1,610 CE Garshuni
  • f. 1v-3v On the priest and the sponsors of the bride and groom
  • f. 3v-7v Command and blessing of marriage
  • f. 7v-14v Blessings of the contract of the oath
  • f. 15r-50v Unidentified astrological-theological text
  • f. 50v-78r Story of the palace of Shād b. 'Ād
  • f. 78v-131r Story of Masrūr and Zayn al-Muwāṣif
  • f. 131v-135v Hymns to the Virgin Mary
  • f. 136r-139v Hymns
  • f. 140r-177v Unidentified hagiographic text
  • f. 178r-185r Story of the skull that conversed with Jesus Christ, said to be the head of Arsenios, the king of Egypt
  • f. 185v-196r John Chrysostom, On the commandments of Great Sunday
  • f. 196r Explanation of that which God gave Moses the prophet
  • f. 196v-197v Forbidden, defective days in the lunar months
  • f. 198r-216v Hymns
  • f. 216v-217v Reading from the Gospel of Matthew (i.e. Mark)
  • f. 218r-227v Story of Mark the Merchant, who was carried away into exile to the land of Persia, and Gaspar the Pagan
  • f. 227v-236v Hymn on the Economy of Christ
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00344) 1,600 CE Garshuni
  • f. 2r-3v Homily
  • f. 3r-5v John Chrysostom, Homily on the denial of Peter
  • f. 6r-11r John Chrysostom, Homily on Great Lent
  • f. 11r-17v John Chrysostom, On repentance and love
  • f. 17v-22v Ephrem Syrus, Homily on repentance and the soul
  • f. 22v-31r John Chrysostom, commentary on the sixth Psalm
  • f. 31v-37r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the Holy Mysteries, Confession, and Repentance
  • f. 37v-43v John Chrysostom, On Repentance and the rebuke of the soul
  • f. 43v-48v Ephrem Syrus, Homily on the end and the punishment of the world
  • f. 48v-60v Basil, Bishop of Caesarea, Homily on repentance, on the poor Lazarus and the rich man
  • f. 60v-69r John Chrysostom, Homily on the first day of creation
  • f. 69r-75r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on repentance and baptism
  • f. 75v-79v Gregory Nazianzus, Homily on the Nativity of our Lord
  • f. 79v-95v John Chrysostom, Homily on the ten virgins
  • f. 85v-91r John Chrysostom, Homily on Abraham and Isaac, when he took his son to sacrifice him
  • f. 91r-105v John Chrysostom, Homily on Judas' betrayal of Christ
  • f. 106r-114r John Chrysostom, Homily on the Lord's words "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me"
  • f. 114v-121v Book of the paradise. Chapter 1. "On the love of the near ones"
  • f. 122v-127r Great miracle of the Virgin Mary that occured in the days of Caliph al-Mamun in Baghdad
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 426 1,545 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 68; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Jacob of Sarug, Epistle to Samuel, the Abbot of the Monastery of St. Isaac, on the Trinity and the Incarnation of the Word
  • Syriac sermons against unleavened bread
  • Disputation on the religion of Christianity and the the Muhammadan sect 
  • Aristotle, Philosophy, Thrid book on the soul
  • Life of the holy Terbo
  • Processional rites
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00443) 1,728 CE Arabic, Garshuni
  • f. 210r Shem'ūn II, Book of Sermons (Garshuni)
  • f. 212r-221r Shem'ūn II, Exposition on the last penny (Garshuni)
  • f. 222r-225v Homily (Garshuni)
  • f. 225v-230v Story of the Mandylion: The Abgar Legend
  • f. 231r-240v Homily on the compassion of Mary at Golgotha and at the tomb
  • f. 244v-276v Shem'un II, Exposition of Seraphs' acclamation as seen by Isaiah (Is 6:3)
  • f. 276r-304v Shem'un II, Exposition of the Lord's Prayer
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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