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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Numbersort descending Language Approximate Date* Contents Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 598 Syriac 1,871 CE
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  • Synodicon Orientale
    • f. 1r Note about manuscript
    • f. 1v-14r Synod of Mar Isaac 
    • f. 14r-18r Synod of Mar Yahballaha 
    • f. 18r- 25v Synod of Mar Dadisho' 
    • f. 25v-31v Synod of Mar Acacius [Aqaq] 
    • f. 31v-34v The four letters of Barsawma of Nisibis
    • f. 34v-39r Synod of Mar Babai
    • f. 39r-55v Synod of Mar Aba
    • f. 56r-66v Synod of Mar Joseph
    • f. 66v-82v Synod of Mar Ezekiel
    • f. 82v-132v Synod of Mar Isho'yahb
    • f. 132v-135r Synod of Mar Sabrisho'
    • f. 135r-137v Stipulations and canons of the solitary brethren who are named who are in Raqiti (ܪܩܝܛܝ)
    • f. 137v-141r Letter of Mar Sabrisho' the Catholicos to the solitarties who are named who are in Raqiti (ܪܩܝܛܝ)
    • f. 141r-146r Synod of Mar Gewargis the Patriarch
    • f. 146r-157v Document of faith brought to king Khosrau
    • f. 157v-165r Synod of Mar Gewargis the Patriarch
    • f. 165r-179v Letter of Mar Gewargis
    • f. 179v-185r Synod of Mar Hannanisho'
    • f. 185r Table of Contents
    • f. 186r Table of Contents (different hand)
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Vat. sir. 599 Syriac 1,871 CE
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  • Copyists Note
  • f. 1r-1v Table of contents
  • f. 1v-11r Letter of Mar Aba, Catholicos Patriarch of the East to those in the Episcopal city of Seleucia 
  • f. 11r-19v  Another letter of Mar Abba on the boundary of joining of marriage
  • f. 19v-33v The Letter of Mar Isho'yahb of Gedalaya the Patriarch to Rabban Abraham
  • f. 33v-44r Letter of St. Atticus, Bishop of Constantinople to the priest, Eupesicos
  • f. 44r-50v Letter of Bishop Andrew of Samosata to Rabbula, Bishop of Urhoy [Edessa] 
  • f. 50v-51v Demonstrations from the teachers of the Church
  • f. 51v-54v St. Athanasius, From the Homily against Apollonarius; Against Theopaschites
  • f. 54v-58v A letter translated from Greek to Syriac containing the history of Mar Nestorius
  • f. 58v-63r Excerpted words from the Holy Gregory the Theologian against the heretics, the Theopaschites and those who deny the duality of the natures of the Messiah, our Lord, and our God
  • f. 63r-66r St. John Chrysostom, On the Passion
  • f. 66r-78v Histories of the death of Hormizd, the son of Khosrau and unto the end of the kingdom of the Persians
  • f. 78v-79v The statement of faith the Bishops of Persia brought to king Khosrau
  • f. 80r-80v Two letters of Barsawma of Nisibis to Acacius
  • f. 80v-83v The canons written by Rabban Mar Abraham the Abbot of the brethren of the monastery on the mountain of Izla
  • f. 83v-87r The canons of Rabban Dadisho' about the monaster of 'Ahid
  • f. 87r-97v The canons of the holy school of the city of Nisibis
  • f. 97v-111r The decisions which were made by the blessed of God, Mar Hannanisho' the Catholicos, Patriarch of the East
  • f. 111r-136r The arrangements of ecclesiastical decisions of Mar Timothy I, Catholicos
  • f. 136r-155v The canons and decisions of Mar Isho' bar Nun
  • f.155v-175v The laws and canons of marriage and inheritances of the excellent Mar 'Abdisho', magistrate of Assyria
  • f. 175v-190r Various chapters of the ecclesiastical decisions of the excellent Simon, the magistrate of Revardashir
  • f. 190r-250v The book about the decisions of Mar Isho'bokht, the Metropolitan of Persia  
  • f. 250v-262v Laws and decisions set down by Christian kings
  • f. 262v-294r Canon of the judgments of Constantine, Theodosius, and Leo: another translation outside of the writings above, and also the canons which are beyond these and chapters of oath 
  • f. 294r-305r Secular laws of the Romans of Ambrosius the confessor
  • f. 305v-306r Table of Contents (Syriac)
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Vat. sir. 6 Syriac 1,200 CE

See entry in Assemani

  • Ecclesiasticus (Wisdom of ben Sira)

Vat. sir. 601 Greek, Syriac Unknown
  • Bar Bahlul, Lexicon (Syriac-Greek)

Vat. sir. 602 Syriac Unknown
  • Bar Bahlul, Second Chapter of the lexicon

Vat. sir. 605 Syriac Unknown
  • Letters of Timothy I

Vat. sir. 608 Garshuni Unknown
  • Uncatalogued
Vat. sir. 609 Garshuni Unknown
  • Uncatalogued

Vat. sir. 610 Syriac Unknown
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Biblical Commentary [Uncatalogued]

Vat. sir. 611 Syriac Unknown
  • Uncatalogued Liturgy manuscript

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