Digitized Manuscripts: Sortable Search

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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 Number Languagesort descending Approximate Date* Contents Link to Digitized Manuscript
ASCBN 00061 Syriac 1,657 CE
  • fol. 2v-89v Šḥīmō (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • fol. 90r-312v Beth Gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)
  • fol. 312v-324v Mass Book
Harvard MS Syr 87 Syriac 1,571 CE

Catalog Entry

  • Šḥimto: Following the orders of service for the days of the week (the Šḥimto, approximately ff. 1-45, incomplete at the beginning), the ms. contains a collection of various genres of hymns and prayers: mawrbe, qale, genize, takšpata, qatismaʾṭaʾs and maʻnyata, madraše of Ephrem, baʻwata [in the meter of] Jacob, Ephrem, Balai, tabrata, ʻaṭre, šuḥlape, prayers for various occasions; and ends with the order for šumlaya madnḥaya (incomplete at the end). All are for the ferial services except the qatismaʾṭaʾs and maʻnyata which are for various festivals and saints' days.
Sinai Syr. 161 Syriac 1,300 CE

Catalog entry in Lewis

  • Lections from the New Testament
Sinai Syr. 248 Syriac 1,300 CE

Catalog entry in Lewis

  • Pentekostarion
Sachau 216; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 93 Syriac 1,882 CE

See entry for Sachau 216

  • f. 5v-31r Elijah of Nisibis, Grammar 
  • f. 31v-215v John Bar Zo'bi, Large Grammar
  • f. 215v-226r John Bar Zo'bi, Metrical Grammar
  • f. 226r-226v John Bar Zo'bi, Short description of Syriac punctuation points
  • f. 226v-231r A philosophical poem in seven-syllable meter
  • f. 231r-235r A riddle with the answer in seven-syllable meter
  • f. 235r-240v An overview about the whole formation of Syriac grammar from the stem ܒܙ
  • f. 240v-242v Signature
SMMJ 00069 Syriac 1,600 CE

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

  • fol. 1v-372v Beth Gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)
CPB 00121 Syriac 1,707 CE

Gospels edited here: Īšōʻdad deÌ Merv, The Commentaries of Isho'dad of Merv, Bishop of Ḥadatha (c.850 A.D.) (ed. M. Gibson, Cambridge, 1911). [Volume 1] [Volume 2] [Volume 3]

  • f. 3r-231v Isho'dad of Merv, Commentaries
    • f. 3r-161v Gospels
    • f. 161v-183r Acts
    • f. 183r-186r Pauline Epistles
  • f. 233v-242v Excerpt from the Book of the Solitaries
ACE 00040 Syriac 1,774 CE
  • Gazzā (Chaldean Rite)
    • ܟܬܒܐ ܕܓܙܐ ܕܕܘܟܪܢ̈ܐ ܟܠܗܘܢ ܘܕܥܐܕ̈ܐ ܡܪ̈ܢܝܐ
ASOM 00042 Syriac 1,700 CE
  • fol. 3r-168v Rituals for feast days
Vat. sir. 127 Syriac Unknown

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 51 titles of ecclesiastical canons
  • The ecclesiastical canons of the holy Apostles
  • Apostolic constitutions of Hippolytus
  • Canons of Nicaea
  • Canons of Ancyra
  • Canons of Neocaesarea
  • Canons of Gangra
  • Canons of Antioch
  • Canons of the Synod of Laodicea
  • Canons of the synod of Constantinople
  • Definition of the Synod of Ephesus
  • Canons of the Synod of Chalcedon
  • Timothy the Patriarch of Alexandria, Canonical questions and responses

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