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
Vat. sir. 202 1,682 CE Garshuni

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Lives of saints and treatises on theological topics

Vat. sir. 208 Unknown Garshuni

​Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Command of Christ the Lord
  • Life of Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria
  • David bar Pawlos, Questions between a Jacobite and Melchite on the Trisagion
  • On the four synods: Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon
  • Abraham the monk, disputation

Vat. sir. 217 1,585 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gabriel Barclay, Maronite Bishop of Nicosa, On the Sphere
  • Daniel the sage, On the Zodiac Signs
  • Berozi the teacher, to Theo
  • Astrologia & Lunarium
  • Gabriel Barclay, Metrical exposition on the Apocalypse of John
  • Prayers, benedictions, and absolutions (Syriac and Arabic)
  • Order of the benediction for the great Sunday
  • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Joseph
  • On the discovery of the body of Joseph under Arcadius and Honorius
  • On the children of Ephesus
  • Various memre
  • Calendar
  • History of animals
  • Hunayn of Hirta, excerpt on medicine
  • Ishō' bar 'Alī, Explination of exotic words
  • Utilizing plants, planets and herbs
  • Michael the Maronite Patriarch, Epistle to the king of the Franks (dated 1575)
  • 'Abdisho' the Catholicos, syriac memre
  • 'Abdisho' the patriarch of the Chaldeans
  • Creed of St. Athanasius
  • Isho'yahb of Nisibis (Bar Malkon), profession of the faith
  • Epistle of formularies
  • Profession of the faith
  • College rules of the Maronites
  • Mass for the Nativity
  • David bar Pawlos, Syriac Memre
  • On the seven climates, Syriac memre

Vat. sir. 232 1,685 CE Garshuni

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • History of the expeditions of Francis Piquet

Vat. sir. 427 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Rite of the blessing of the waters for Epiphany
  • On the Ordination of presbyters and chorbishops
  • On the consecration of an archbishop and bishop
  • Rite of the great Schema of the monks, or cucullus
  • Prayers recited in confession and before the Priest celebrates the mass, with the formula of absolution (Syriac)
  • On the blessing of the cup
  • Office of St. John the Evangelist, with a Garshuni narrative of his life
  • Life of St. Marinus (Syriac)

Syriac 17. Hagiographa 1,612 CE Garshuni

Catalogs:

Contents:

  • Lives of the 40 martyrs
  • History of Prince Josaphat
  • History of Jacob the Monk
  • History of Abbot Mark
  • History of a merchant and his wife
  • History of Martyr Ina
  • History of St. Phineas
  • History of Job
  • History of the Prophet Jonah
  • History of John the Evangelist
  • History of St. Gregory
  • Funeral sermon
  • History of Emperor Zeno
  • Another funeral sermon
  • History of St. Maurice the martyr
  • History of the suffering under Diocletian
  • History of Malchus of Clysma
  • History of Eugenius (Awgin) the martyr
  • History of Rabban Hormizd
  • History of Anastasius the martyr
  • History of St. Matthias
  • History of Shmuna and her children

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul (ASOM 00022 021) Unknown Syriac
  • Lives of saints

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul (ASOM 00022 026) Unknown Syriac
  • Lives of saints

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 60 (ASOM 00060) 1,724 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 3v-30v Jacob of Edessa, Memra on Alexander the Great, Gog and Magog, and the end-times (Syriac)
  • fol. 31r-41r Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on the end-times, Gog and Magog, and the Antichrist (Syriac)
  • fol. 41v-79r Burial Rite (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 79v-81v Lamentation for Gehenna (Syriac)
  • fol. 81v-100r Story of Mar Bassus (Syriac)
  • fol. 100r-131r Story of Mar Gabriel of Qartmin (Syriac)

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 116 (ASOM 00116) 1,894 CE Arabic, Garshuni

fol. 1r-10v History of the Syrian Orthodox Church

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