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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Harvard Ms Syr 166 1,885 CE Syriac

Catalog entry

  • Pp. 1-15, Story of Moses
  • 15-27, The letter of holy Sunday that descended from heaven
  • 27-49, Story of Mar Giwargis the martyr
  • 49-55, Story of Arsanis king of Egypt, how our Lord resurrected him
  • 55-58 Qanone for festivals and saints' days
  • 58-60, Divination concerning the sick
  • 60-62, Other prayers
  • 62, Colophon 

Sinai Syr. 16 600 CE Syriac

See entry in Lewis

  • ff. 1-86 Lives of the Egyptian Fathers
  • ff. 87-93 Life of the Holy Nilus the Anchorite
  • ff. 93-105 The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians
  • ff. 105-112 A discourse of Plutarch on the advantage to be derived from one's enemies
  • ff. 112-121 A discourse of Pythagoras
  • ff. 121-126 A discourse of Plutarch about asceticism
  • ff. 126-132 A discourse of Plutarch about anger
  • ff. 132-140 A discourse of Lucian that we should not readily believe slander against our friends
  • ff. 140-143 Discourse of a Philosopher about the Soul
  • ff. 151-214 Mar John the Anchorite, Commentary on Ecclesiastes
  • ff. 214 ad finem; John Chrysostom, Commentaries on Matthew

Sinai Syr. 24 900 CE Syriac

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  • The works of Mar Isaac
  • Extracts from stories of the Desert Fathers

Sinai Syr. 26 800 CE Syriac

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  • Works for Mar Isaiah followed by an extract from John Chrysostom and a short life of the Apostle John

Sinai Syr. 27 1,300 CE Syriac

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  • Troparion followed by a few leaves of St. Ephrem and a life of St. Barbara

Sinai Syr. 30 778 CE Greek, Syriac
  • See entry in Lewis
  • Palimpsest. Underwriting:
    • ff. 1-21 On the Holy Lady, Thecla
    • ff. 21-52 On the Blessed Eugenia and her father, Philip
    • ff.53-69 Acts of the discipleship of Pelagia
    • ff. 69-76 The Blessedy Mary [Marinus]
    • ff. 76-84 The story of Euphrosyne of Alexandria
    • ff. 84-92 The story of Onesimus
    • ff. 92-95 Martyrdom of St. Drusius and those with her at Antioch
    • ff. 95-100 Story of St. Barbara in Heliopolis
    • ff. 100-105 The martyrdom of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • ff. 105-137 The Story of St. Irene
    • ff. 137-149 The Martyrdom of the Blessed Euphemia
    • ff. 150-161 The martyrdom of St. Sophia and her three daughters
    • ff. 161-163 The martyrdom of Theodotia the harlot
    • ff. 163-165 An apology for the faith
    • ff. 165-170 The story of Susanna
    • ff. 170-180 The Martyrdom of Cyprian the Wizard and Justa the Virgin
    • ff. 180-181 Ephrem Syrus, a metrical homily on the Mansions of Paradise
  • Lower Text
    • ff. 1-140, 143, 148 The Four Gospels in Old Syriac
    • ff. 141, 145, 146, 150, 170 Syriac Apocrypha: Acts of Thomas and the Repose of Mary
    • ff. 142, 144, 147, 149 Text of the Gospel in Greek Uncials
    • ff. 171-182 A Greek text in sloping Uncials

Sinai Syr. 82 1,200 CE Syriac

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  • Acts of Pilate
  • Anaphora of Pilate and a correspondence between Pilate and Herod
  • The story of Euphemia
  • The story of the 40 martyrs
  • The acts of Matthew and Andrew
  • Questions and Responses

Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk 74 (ACK 00074) 1,600 CE Syriac
  • Life of Ezekiel of Daqoq

Zākhū, Iraq. Chaldean Archdiocese of Zākhū, MS 49 (ACZ 00049) 1,982 CE Arabic, Neo-Aramaic, Syriac
  • On the life of Sāhdonā of Māhoze

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 85 (ASCBN 00085) 1,900 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1r-2r Sugitho on the niece of Saint Abraham the hermit
  • fol. 2r-5r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Poem on wisdom (On the divine love, which is compared with wine)
  • fol. 5v-6v Yusef 'Abyō of al-Qush, Poem on the hermitical life

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