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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00466) 1,700 CE Arabic, Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 73

  • f. 1v-9v Elijah III, Consolatory discourses (Arabic)
  • f. 10r-12r Credo of the Church of the East (Arabic)
  • f. 13v-140r Elijah of Nisibis, Book of the Translator (Arabic, Syriac)
  • f. 143v-200r Gewargīs Wardā, 'Onyatha related to the celebration of the Rogation of the Ninevites
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00469) 1,800 CE Arabic, English, Italian, Syriac

f. 2v-198r Collection of excerpts from texts, letters, notes

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00481) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni
  • f. 2r-85v Services for the evening celebrations of feast days and Sundays, for Great Sunday and Easter
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00482) 1,800 CE Arabic, Garshuni
  • f. 1r-118v Prayer book of the Chaldean Church
Tur Abdin, Turkey, Churches in Enhil (CET 00075) 1,988 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish
  • Miscellany
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 116 (DIYR 00062) 1,535 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • Menaion (Byzantine Rite)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi (DIYR 00083) 1,540 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • Pentekostarion (Byzantine Rite)
Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 69 (DIYR 00096) 1,600 CE Arabic, Syriac
  • Troparia
  • Cathismas and sticheras
  • Prayers
  • Polyeleion
  • Nativity Paramone
  • Great Friday Paramone
  • Easter canon of St. John Damascene
  • Liturgical texts
Harvard MS Syr 38 1,448 CE Arabic, Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • 1. Story of Mar Shaliṭa (ff. 83r-111v; beginning in the middle of chapter 4)
  • 2. The triumph, that is a small part of the story of Mar Aksenaya who is Mar Philoxenus (111v-121v)
  • 3. Story of the chosen apostle Mar Thoma who evangelized India (122r-174r)
  • 4. Triumph of Mar Yoḥanan Daylamaya whose monastery is in Persia near the city of Reʼgan (175r-186v)
  • 5. Story of Mar Eulogios of the lion (ʼAryaya) from the company of Mar Awgen (187r-236v)
  • 6. Story of Mar Yoḥanan of Kpane which is above the town of Zaʼz (236v; breaking off after this leaf).
Harvard MS Syr 40 1,559 CE Arabic, Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • Ps. 1-150 (f. 3r-228r)
  • Ps. 151 (229r-v)
  • Canticles, beatitudes, Gloria in excelsis, trishagion, Nicene creed (229v-244r)
  • Memra attributed to Ephrem (ff. 244r-249v, incomplete at the end)
  • Colophon (250r).

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