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This table allows you to search all collections of Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts that are freely available online by general keywords. It is also sortable by shelf-mark, language, and approximate date. If you would like to group manuscripts by select key terms (language, author, genre), see the faceted table here, and choose the key terms in the menu.

*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 Numbersort ascending Language Approximate Date* Contents Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 7 Syriac 1,671 CE

See entry for Assemani

  • The Old Testament according to the Peshitta Version
    • Genesis
    • Exodus
    • Leviticus
    • Numbers
    • Deuteronomy
    • Joshua
    • Judges
    • Ruth
    • Samuel
    • Kings
    • Prayer of Manassah
    • 2 Esdras
    • 3 Esdras
    • Tobit
    • Judith
    • Esther
    • Job
    • Psalms of David
    • Proverbs of Solomon 
    • Qohelet
    • Song of Songs
    • Book of Wisdom
    • Sirach
    • Isaiah
    • Jeremiah
    • Lamentations
    • Prophecy of Baruch
    • Ezekiel
    • Daniel
    • Susanna
    • Bel and the Dragon
    • Hosea
    • Joel
    • Amos
    • Obadiah
    • Jonah
    • Micah
    • Nahum
    • Habakkuk
    • Zephaniah
    • Haggai
    • Zechariah
    • Malachi
    • 1 Maccabees
    • 2 Maccabees
Vat. sir. 68 Syriac 1,465 CE

Catalog entry in Assemani

East Syrian Beth Gazzā (Common Breviary)

  • f. 1v-211v Beth Gazzā
  • f. 212r-222v Deacon's Office Book
  • f. 223r-227v The Order of Expiation
  • f. 228r-235r Diverse prayers for Vespers
  • f. 235v-248r The Order of the Liturgy
  • f. 248v-251r Prayers and Psalms
  • f. 251v-252v The heavenly and ecclesiastical hierarchy
  • f. 252v-253v The procession of the cross
  • f. 254r-254v The Easter Procession
  • f. 262v-263v Calendar of Saints
  • f. 264r-265r Table of movable feasts
  • f. 265v Formulary for a pastoral epistle
  • f. 265v The Scribe Lazarus, on the year, andits weeks and days
  • f. 266r Idem, On the sign of the year
  • f. 266r-267r On the day and month of Adam's creation
  • f. 267v Names of the 24 prophets
  • f. 268v ff. The creed of Nicea and Constantinople
Vat. sir. 66 Syriac 1,545 CE

Catalog entry in Assemani

Chaldean ordinal translated from Latin into Syriac

  • Ordination of the door-keepers
  • Ordination of the Lectors
  • Ordination of exorcists
  • Ordination of acolytes
  • Ordination of subdeacons
  • Ordination of Deacons
  • Ordination of Presbyters
  • Order of Absolution
  • Prayers
  • On the wood (of the table)
  • Consecration of the altar
  • Consecration when the altar was desecrated
  • Consecration of the altar without chrism
  • Blessing over the chalice
  • Diaconal ordination
  • Ordination of a presbyter
  • Service of the habit of a monk
  • Service of the tonsure of a monk
  • Service of the tonsure of holy women
  • Admonition on temporal ordination
  • 'Onyatha during the tonsure of monks
  • Benediction for when the Bishop departs a city
  • Benediction for when a Bishop enters a monastery
  • Benediction for when a bishop leaves a monastery
  • Prayer for an abbot 
  • Ḥutāmē at the end of a liturgy
  • A form of consecration for the bread and wine (from Latin into Syriac)
  • The Liturgy of the Blessed Apostles
  • The Liturgy of Theodore the commentator of the Divine Books
  • 12-syllable verses for common days during the liturgy
  • Absolution
Vat. sir. 653 Syriac Unknown
  • Uncatalogued
Vat. sir. 647 Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac Unknown

This collection of fragments from Sinai has been published in F. Rillet, "La bibliothèque de Ste-Catherine du Sinaï et ses membra disiecta: nouveau fragments syriaques à la Bibliothèque Vaticane," in R. Lavenant (a c. di), VI Symposium Syriacum 1992 (Rome, 1994): 409-418.

  • f. 1rv Liturgical book (?) 1/1
  • f. 2rv Marian text 1/2
  • f. 3rv Gospels 1/3
  • f. 4rv Lectionary 1/4
  • f. 5rv Menaion 1/5
  • f. 6rv Liturgy (?) 1/6
  • f. 7rv ??? 1/7
  • f. 8rv ??? 1/8
  • f. 9rv ??? 1/9
  • f. 10-23v Memra on the prodigal son; Biblical text (Palimpsest) 2/1
  • f. 24r-26v Psalter; Horologion 3/1
  • f. 27r-28v Irmologion 3/2
  • f. 29r-30v ??? 3/3
  • f. 31rv [Unidentified theological text] 3/4
  • f. 32r-35v [Unidentified hagiographical text] 3/5
  • f. 36r-37v [Unidentified liturgical text] 3/6
  • f. 38r-39v [Unidentified, possibly canons for common days] 3/7
  • f. 40r-41v [Unidentified, Bible, Old testament] 3/8
  • f. 42rv [Unidentified hagiographical text] 3/9
  • f. 43rv ??? 3/10
  • f. 44r-46v Triodion, Pentakostarion 4/1
  • f. 47rv [New Testament Lectionary ?] 4/2
  • f. 48r-49v [Unidentified Liturgical Text] 5/1
  • f. 50rv Arabic note of possession 5/2
  • f. 51rv ??? 5/3
  • f. 52rv [New Testament lectionary ?] 5/4 
  • f. 53rv [Unidentified liturgical text] 5/5
  • f. 54rv Acts of the Apostles 5/6
  • f. 55rv [Acts of the Apostles ?] 5/7
  • f. 56rv [Unidentified liturgical text] 5/8
  • f. 57rv Menaion 5/9
  • f. 58rv [Unidentified liturgical text] 5/10
  • f. 59rv [Unidentified liturgical text] 5/11
  • f. 60rv [Unidentified liturgical text] 5/12
  • f. 61rv [Gospel lectionary ?] 5/13
  • f. 62rv Colophon 5/14
  • f. 63rv Bilingual note 5/15
  • f. 64r-69v [Psalter ?] 6/1
  • f. 70r-73v [New Testament Lectionary?] 6/2
  • f. 74r-79v New Testament Lectionary 6/3
  • f. 80r-83v [Sticherarion?] 6/4
  • f. 84r-85v [Unidentified liturgical text] 6/5
  • f. 86r-87v [Unidentified liturgical text] 6/6
  • f. 88r-91v [Psalter?] 6/7
  • f. 92rv Arabic and Garshuni fragment 6/8
  • f. 93r-95v Arabic 6/9
  • f. 96r-98v [Menaion?] 7/1
  • f. 99r-100v [Menaion?] 7/2
  • f. 101r-104v Old Testament Lectionary 7/3
  • f. 105r-107v [Menaion?] 7/4
  • f. 108r-109v [Gospel lectionary?] 7/5
  • f. 110rv [Gospel lectionary?] 7/6
  • f. 111r-112v [Liturgical text?] and Colophon 7/7
  • f.113rv [Menaion?] 7/8
  • f. 114rv [Kanonarion?] 7/9
  • f. 115r-116v Menaion [summary] 7/10
  • f. 117r-120v Notes in Syriac, Arabic, and Greek 7/11
  • f. 121r-128v Menaion for January 8/1
  • f. 129r-132v Oktoeikos 8/2
  • f. 133r-135v Old Testament Lectionary 8/3
  • f. 136r-138v [Triodion?] 8/4
  • f. 139r-141v [Unidentified liturgical text] 8/5
  • f. 142r-143v [Unidentified liturgical text] 8/6
  • f. 144r-147v [Unidentified liturgical text] 8/7
  • f. 148r-151v [Table of lections?] 8/8
  • f. 152r-155v [Unidentified liturgical text] 9/1
  • f. 156rv Gospel 9/2
  • f. 157rv [Acts of the Apostles?] 10/1
  • f. 158r-159v [Unidentified liturgical text] 10/2
  • f. 160r-162v [Synaxarion?] 10/3
  • f. 163rv [Acts of the Apostles?] 10/4
  • f. 164r Colophon 10/5
  • f. 165rv 10/6
  • 10/7? [Gospel?] 10/7
  • f. 166r [Unidentified liturgical text?] 10/8
  • f. 167rv Colophon [Oktoeikos?] 10/9
  • f. 168rv [Arabic and Syriac Horologion ?] 10/10
  • f. 169r-174v [Unidentified liturgical text?] 11/1
  • f. 175r-178v [Unidentified liturgical text?] 11/2
Vat. sir. 644 Syriac Unknown
  • 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Paradise of Eden [Uncatalogued]
Vat. sir. 639 Syriac Unknown
  • Fragmentary, Uncatalogued text
Vat. sir. 631 Syriac Unknown
  • Funeral service book
  • Other Liturgical texts (uncatalogued)
Vat. sir. 630 Syriac Unknown
  • Uncatalogued liturgical manuscript
Vat. sir. 629 Syriac Unknown
  • Gregory the Solitary<?>, on the monastic life and on virtuous labor

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