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 Language Approximate Date* Contents Link to Digitized Manuscript
Sinai Syr. 92 Syriac 1,291 CE

See entry in Lewis

  • Lections from the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles
Sinai Syr. 93 Syriac 1,500 CE

Catalog entry in Lewis

  • [Liturgical]
Sinai Syr. 94 Syriac 1,300 CE

​Catalog entry in Lewis

  • Old Testament Lectionary
Sinai Syr. 95 Syriac 1,292 CE

See entry in Lewis

  • Kanonarion
Sinai Syr. 96 Syriac 1,300 CE

Catalog entry in Lewis

  • [Euchologion]
Sinai Syr. 98 Syriac 1,259 CE

Catalog entry in Lewis

  • Psalms
Sinai Syr. 99 Syriac 1,300 CE

Catalog entry in Lewis

  • Psalms
SMC 2-10 Garshuni, Syriac 1,400 CE

See entry at CPART and In Macomber ([Macomber A]; [Macomber B]; [Macomber C])

  • Part A (14/15th century)
    • f. 1r-23v Fragments of a Syrian Orthodox missal
      • f. 1r-2v, 4rv Anaphora of St. James, with the ordinary of the mass
      • f. 4v-9v Anaphora of John the Evangelist
      • f. 9v-20v Anaphora of St. Philoxenus (of Baghdad, also known as La'zar Bar Shabbta)
      • f. 20v-23v Mar Sa'wira, Rite of the signing of the chalice of holy St. Severus of Antioch. This is a rite for consecrating additional wine for communion when the communion wine that was consecrated during mass runs short
  • ​Part B (17/18th century)
    • f. 3rv A single leaf from a Syrian Orthodox missal containing the anamnesis, epiclesis, and beginnings of the intercessions of the Anaphora of St. John the Evangelist
  • Part C (15th Century)
    • f. 24v-112v Syrian Orthodox Pontifical ritual
      • f. 24v-52v, 60rv, 54rv The book for the consecration of chrism
        • f. 24v-25v Confection of the anointing oil for chrism
        • f. 25v-27v Preparation for the ceremony
        • f. 27v-52v, 60rv, 54rv The rite of the consecration of chrism
      • f. 55r-56v Prayer (recited) Over the anointing oil intended for anointing (those being baptized). Candidates for baptism have their entire bodies anointed with oil just before they are plunged into the font.
      • f. 57r-59v, 53rv, 61r-64v Rite of the ordination of deacons
      • f. 65r-70v Rite of the ordination of priests
      • f. 71r-74r End of the treatise on chrism (Garshuni)
      • f. 74r-79v Rite of the consecration of a church
      • f. 80r-82v End of the bishop's exhortation to those ordained to the priesthood (Garshuni)
      • f. 82v Prayer of the faithful for the priests and deacons who have been ordained (Garshuni)
      • f. 83r-84v Rite of the holy habit of Abba Antonius, which has been translated from the Egyptian language into Syriac
      • f. 84v-85r Rite of the prayer for the consecration of the furniture of the sanctuary and the altar and the vestments that the priest wears at Mass
      • f. 85r-98r Rite of the tonsure of monks according to the tradition of Mount Urhay
      • f. 98r Prayer recited over those who are putting on the garments of the ministry
      • f. 98r-100r Exhortation delivered by one of the saints; it is read to the monks at their clothing (Garshuni)
      • f. 100r-103v Rite of the tonsure of nuns when they are presented for the holy habit of monasticism
      • f. 103v-112v Order, that is, sequence of ceremonies of the consecration of altars, that is, of the tablets on the altar table
SMC 2-11 Syriac 1,554 CE

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  • Church of the East (Chaldean) Pontifical Ritual
    • f. 1v-137v Pontifical Ritual
      • f. 1v-2r Gospel lection for the ordination of a bishop or of a catholicos
      • f. 3r Instruction concerning the wood from the which the tablitha is made
      • f. 3v-26r Catholicos Mar Isho'yahb of Adiabene, Consecration of the altar place with oil
      • f. 26v-28r Consecration of the altar place without oil
      • f. 28v Signing of the chalice before it goes up to the altar, when they are compelled to consecrate an additional chalice) on a day of great concourse.
      • f. 29rv Instruction concerning ordinations
      • f. 29v-38r Ordinations of lectors, subdeacons, and deacons
      • f. 38v-44v Rite of the ordination of priests
      • f. 44v-46v Rite of the clothing of monks
      • f. 46v-66v Rite of the tonsure of monks
      • f. 66v-77r Rite of the tonsure of women who are nuns
      • f. 77r-78v Rite of the institution of abbots
      • f. 79v-89v Rite of the ordination of bishops
      • f. 90r-93r The rite of the perfection of bishops by catholicoi. In the Church of the East (Nestorian), a bishop could be ordained by a metropolitan, but he could not exercise his full powers until he had gone to the catholicos and been perfected
      • f. 93r-106r Rite of the ordination of catholicoi
      • f. 106r-107r Rite of the ordination of the archdeacon
      • f. 107r-108r Rite when a chorbishop is appointed for a district to act like the archdeacon, who is the visitor of the villages
      • f. 108r-109v Rite of the ordination of women deaconesses
      • f. 110r-111r Rite of the ordination of a Shaharā priest
      • f. 111r-113r Mar 'Abdisho', Catholicos, Prayer that is recited, likewise a prayer of inclination, over a bishop that is translated from one see to another see
      • f. 113rv Summary of the contents of the manuscript
      • f. 115v-137r Mar Isho'yahb of Nisibis, also known as Bar Malkon, Canons of ordination
      • f. 137rv Four prayers for the reconciliation of penitent excommunicated persons: 1) For a bishop who has been degraded, 2) for seculars, 3 and 4) For anyone
SMC 2-14 Garshuni, Syriac 1,400 CE

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  • f. 1r-199v Syrian Orthodox Missal
    • f. 1r Table of Contents
    • f. 1v-16v Lections suitable for the Mass
    • f. 16v-21r Lections of the Thursday of the Mysteries, of the Saturday of Good News and of feasts of our Lord
    • f. 21v-31r Short anaphora of St. James
    • f. 31rv Prayer of the Saturday of Good News, which is recited in place of the prayer of peace
    • f. 31v-39v Anaphora of the Twelve blessed Apostles
    • f. 39v-50r Anaphora of St. John the Evangelist
    • f. 50r-55v Anaphora of St. Dionysius of Amida, that is, Jacob Barsalibi. This is the first anaphora of Dionysius Barsalibi
    • f. 55v-61v Anaphora of St. Xystus, Patriarch of Rome
    • f. 61v-68v Anaphora of Matthew Pastor
    • f. 68v-75r Short anaphora of Simon Peter
    • f. 75r-81r Anaphora of St. Iwannis, Bishop of Harran
    • f. 81r-94v Anaphora of St. Jacob Burd'oyo (Baradaeus)
    • f. 94v-113r Anaphora of St. Jacob of Sarug
    • f. 113r-126v Liturgy of St. Cyriacus, Patriarch of Antioch
    • f. 126v-134r Anaphora of St. Eustathius, Archbishop of Antioch
    • f. 134r-148r Anaphora of St. Marutha of Tagrit
    • f. 148r-160r Anaphora of St. Moshe Bar Kepha
    • f. 160r-168v Liturgy of St. Philoxenus of Mabbug
    • f. 168v-183r Anaphora of the holy and great Severus, Patriarch of Antioch
    • f. 183r-193v Anaphora of the evangelist St. Mark
    • f. 194r-199v Huttame–Prayers of the final blessing
      • f. 194r-195r Huttama of St. Jacob of Sarug
      • f. 195r-196r Another of St. Jacob of Sarug
      • f. 196r-198r Another of St. Ephrem Syrus
      • f. 198r-199v Another in Garshuni

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