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
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 114 (ASOM 00114) 1,900 CE Garshuni
  • fol. 1v-12v Basileios Behnam IV, Maphrian of Mosul, Homily on the ignorance of sinners
    • Title NS: ܡܘܥܛܗ̈ ܦܝ ܓܗܠ ܐܠܟܛܐܗ̈
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

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 117 (ASOM 00117) 1,730 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1v-140r Psalms
    • Title NS: ܡܙܡܘܪ̈ܐ ܕܕܘܝܕ
    • Parallel columns in Syriac and Arabic Garshuni
    • Note: Includes also Psalm 151
  • fol. 140v-142r Odes
    • Moses and the song of the Red Sea
    • Isaiah the prophet
    • Hannah the prophetess [Mother of Samuel]
    • Jonah the Prophet
    • [Mary] the God-bearer
  • fol. 142v-143r Nicene Creed
  • fol. 143r-v The praise of the angel (Gloria in excelsis) and other liturgical prayers
  • fol. 143v Trisagion
  • fol. 143v The Lord's Prayer
  • fol. 143v-145r Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on doctrine
    • Title NS: ܬܘܒ ܡܐܡܪܐ ܕܩ̄ܕ ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܕܥܠ ܝܘܠܦܢܐ
Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 118 (ASOM 00118) 1,800 CE Garshuni
  • fol. 1v-129r Gregory of Nyssa, Mental Paradise
    • Title NS: ܐܠܦܪܕܘܣ ܐܠܥܩܠܝ
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 1 (SMMJ 00001) 800 CE Syriac
  • Bibliography: Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994), p. 113; Arthur Vööbus, The Book of Isaiah in the Version of the Syro-Hexapla: A Facsimile Edition of MS St. Mark 1 in Jerusalem with an Introduction, CSCO 449 (1983).
  • Bible, Isaiah
    • ​Lectionary based on Syro-Hexapla version; extant part of text begins in Isaiah 27:10 and ends in Isaiah 65:20
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 3 (SMMJ 00003) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • See catalog entry in Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-477v Old Testament. Historical Books
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 5 (SMMJ 00005) 1,638 CE Garshuni
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1r-390v Bible, Old Testament. 
    • Isaiah
    • Jeremiah
    • Lamentations
    • Baruch
    • Ezekiel
    • Daniel
    • Hosea
    • Joel
    • Amos
    • Micah
    • Obadiah
    • Jonah
    • Nahum
    • Habakkuk
    • Zephaniah
    • Haggai
    • Zechariah
    • Malachi
    • Ezra
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 6 (SMMJ 00006) 1,645 CE Garshuni
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1r-215 Bible. Chronicles
    • Title NS: ܣܦܪ ܝܫܘܥ ܐܒܢ ܢܘܢ
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 7 (SMMJ 00007) 1,572 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 2.

  • fol. 1v-115v Psalter
  • fol. 115v-117r Homily attributed to Mar Ephrem, On humility, admonition, correction
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 9 (SMMJ 00009) 1,700 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).
  • fol. 1v-158v Psalter

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