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
Harvard Ms Syr 151 Unknown Syriac

Catalog entry

  • Canon law and admonition (3 vellum leaves, 29 cm., probably from the same ms. of the ca. 11th cent.), in 2 columns, ca. 40 lines per column, written in an old serto
  • Acrostic hymn of Elia Abuḥalim (8 paper leaves in 1 quire, written in a good E. Syriac hand, ca. 17th cent.)
  • End of a memra on the love of poverty, letter of Abgar to Jesus, beginning of the reply of Jesus (1 vellum leaf, estrangela, ca. 9th century)
  • Lectionary containing Mt 18.17-20, Lk 14.1-6, Lk 16.19-24, with a quire signature decorated in color (1 leaf, 38 cm., large bold estrangela, ca. 13th cent.)
  • W. Syriac qale for festivals, including a rubric for the evening service of Palm Sunday (2 vellum leaves in 1 bifolium, 40 cm. written in a very large estrangela script in 1 column, ca. 12th cent.)
  • Fenqitho, part of the services for a group of priests (1 vellum leaf, estrangela in 2 columns, 37 cm., ca. 13th cent.)
  • A homiliary, with a rubric for Mar Yuannis [Chrysostom] for the Monday of the Passion and the "entry into port" (part of 1 vellum leaf in 3 columns, estrangela, 37 cm. wide, ca. 12th cent.)
  • Anaphora (2 paper leaves, serto, ca. 18th cent.)
  • Hymns (2 paper leaves in 1 bifoium, poor serto, ca. 18th cent.)
  • Service book naming a number of saints (part of 1 paper leaf, good late serto)

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 

Harvard Ms Syr 176 992 CE Syriac

Catalog entry

  • ff. 2v-83r Gospel of John (Harklean Version; no lections are marked)
  • ff. 84r-87r A series of sentences from the Gospel pointed with W. Syriac vowels
  • ff. 87r Colophon 

Qarah Qūsh, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00061) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • ff. 2rb-173vb Liturgical book with prayers and Biblical readings for Easter

Qarah Qūsh, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00062) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • ff. 1va-264ra Ḥudrō (Syriac Rite, Western)

Qarah Qūsh, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00063) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • ff. 1va-332ra Liturgical book with prayers and Biblical readings for the feasts of the Mother of God

Qarah Qūsh, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00064) 1,865 CE Syriac
  • ff. 1va-226vb Liturgical book with prayers and Biblical readings for the feasts of the year

Qarah Qūsh, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00065) 1,883 CE Syriac
  • ff. 1va-237rb Liturgical book with prayers and Bibical readings for the dominical feasts

Qarah Qūsh, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00066) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • ff. 1ra-227vb Liturgical book with prayers and Bibical readings for various occasions

Qarah Qūsh, Syrian Catholic Archdiocesan Library (DSCQT 00068) 1,577 CE Syriac
  • ff. 2va-354vb Liturgical book with prayers and Bibical readings for the beginning of Lent

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