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*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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 197 (SMMJ 00197) 1,600 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-29r Homily (Garshuni)
  • fol. 29r-46r Homily (Garshuni)
  • fol. 46r-54r Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily (Garshuni)
  • fol. 54r-62v Homily on monastic life (Garshuni)
  • fol. 62v-72v John Chrysostom, Homily on poverty (Garshuni)
  • fol. 73r-82v Dorotheus of Gaza, Homily on the construction of the soul (Garshuni)
  • fol. 82v-96r Story of Jacob, bishop of Wasim (Garshuni)
  • fol. 96r-105v Story of the Holy Virgin (Garshuni)
  • fol. 105v-112r Isaac, Bishop of Nineveh, story of a monk (Garshuni)
  • fol. 112r-112v Sayings of Anthony (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113r-122r Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on humility
  • fol. 122r-122v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the bell clapper
  • fol. 123r-142v Jacob of Serugh, On the Theotokos, the Martyrs, and the departed. Selections. 
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 201 (SMMJ 00201) 1,903 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-8r Lamentation of Mary (Garshuni)
  • fol. 8v-33v Apocalypse of Paul (Syriac)
  • fol. 33v-144r Lives of saints (Syriac, Garshuni)
  • fol. 144r-145r Cyril of Alexandria, Demonstration of the benefits from the offerings (Syriac)
  • fol. 145v Story of John, Patriarch of Antioch
  • fol. 146r-148v Isaac of Antioch, Homily on admonition
  • fol. 148v-152r Isaac of Antioch, Homily on reproof
  • fol. 152r-156v Ephrem of Nisibis, homily on the eschaton
  • fol. 157r-161r Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the assumption of Mary
  • fol. 161r-167v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the coming of the Apostles during the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 215 (SMMJ 00215) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Note on the steam-ship (Garshuni)
  • fol. 2r-35v 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Travel diary for a trip to India (Garshuni)
  • fol. 36r-38r 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, List of the Syriac Orthodox churches in Malabar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 43v-44r List of those who came to India (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 222 (SMMJ 00222) 1,791 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v-60r Yūsuf al-Kaslūqīṯī, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 61v-62r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the Twelve Apostles (Syriac)
  • fol. 62v-63v Jacob of Sarug, Homilies (Syriac)
  • fol. 63v-66r Commands of the Gospel (Syriac)
  • fol. 66r-69r Philoxenus of Mabbug, Admonition to keep the Lord's commands (Syriac)
  • fol. 69r-69v Evagrius and John of Dalyatha, Collection of sayings
  • fol. 69v-72r Philoxenus of Mabbug, Creed (Syriac)
  • fol. 72r-74v Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Creed of the Syriac Orthodox Church (Syriac)
  • fol. 74v-75v Dialogue on the body of Christ (Syriac)
  • fol. 75v-91v Jacob of Edessa, Letter on the Providence of God (Syriac)
  • fol. 91v-94r Ephrem of Nisibis, Selections from a homily (Syriac)
  • fol. 94r-99r Jacob of Sarug, Homilies (Syriac)
    • Includes note on the life of Jacob of Sarug, fol. 98v-99r
  • fol. 99r-99v Jacob of Edessa, Letter on God's providence
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 225 (SMMJ 00225) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4v-59v Timothy Isaac, Metropolitan of Amid, Syriac Grammar (Syriac)
  • fol. 60v-145r Yaʿqub of Quṭurbul, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 226 (SMMJ 00226) 1,898 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2v-88r Yaʿqub, of Quṭurbul, Syriac Grammar (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 92v On Mart Šmuni and her Sons (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 227 (SMMJ 00227) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-112r Arabic Grammar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113r-113v Ink recipes (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113v Short Chronicle (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 228 (SMMJ 00228) 1,892 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 6v-382r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 382r Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn, and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 229 (SMMJ 00229) 1,789 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 4v-315r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 315v Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 231 (SMMJ 00231) 1,881 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 8v-254r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the treatises (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 254v-275v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the pupils of the eye (Syriac)
  • fol. 276r-307r Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Book of the conversation of wisdom (Syriac)

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