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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 ascending Approximate Date* Contents Link to Digitized Manuscript
APSTCH THRI 00004 Malayalam, Syriac 1,945 CE
  • fol. 1r-39r Ṭaksā
    • Title NS: ܬܫܡܫܬܐ ܕܠܘܬ ܩܒܪܐ ܒܬܪ ܩܘܪܒ ܩܘܪܒܢܐ
    • fol. 1r-9v Service near the grave after offering the Qurbānā
    • fol. 10r-21r Setting down of the order of the morning meal
    • fol. 22r-39r Blessing of a new house, established by Mar Timotheus, metropolitan of Malabar and India

APSTCH THRI 00011 Malayalam Garshuni, Syriac 1,900 CE
  • fol. 1r-140v Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni Lexicon
    • Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni vocabulary for Pauline and Catholic Epistles and Revelation, fol. 1rA-18r
    • Pedro Gomez, Explanations of the vocabulary of Seven Sacraments of the Church fol. 18v-31r
    • Explanations of the vocabulary of a collection of canons for clerics, fol. 31r-34v
    • Two short texts on the history of Syrians and Indians in Syriac, fol. 34v-35v
    • Texts in Malayalam Garshuni, fol. 35r-37v
    • Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni vocabulary for the books of the Old Testament, fol. 38r-140v
  • fol. 141r-167v Letters (Malayalam Garshuni, Syriac)
    • Includes twelve letters from late 18th to early 19th century, mainly between Syrian Christians of Malabar and ecclesiastical prelates such as Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd

Vat. sir. 228 Latin, Syriac Unknown

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Syriac-Latin lexicon

CCM 00476 Italian, Syriac 1,800 CE
  • f. 4r Merchant's journal: Baghdad 1795 (Italian)
  • f. 9r-98v Register of Masses celebrated in between 1830-1848 (Syriac)

Biblioteca Medica Laurenziana: Plutei 1.52 Hebrew, Syriac (in Hebrew script) 1,300 CE

See entry for Biscioni 52 and Biscioni II. [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Book of Job, Esdras, and the history of Antioch

Vat. sir. 495 Greek, Syriac Unknown
  • Binding
  • f. 1r-7r Documentation surrounding the signers of the Council of Nicaea
  • f. 7r-11r The canons of Nicaea
  • f. 11r-12v A letter written to the Church of Alexandria
  • f. 12v-13r A Letter of Emperor Constantine about Arius
  • f. 14r-19r The signers and canons of the Council of Constantinople
  • f. 19r Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
  • f. 19r-19v Note about an anaphora of the Constantinopolitan Fathers sent to Emperor Theodosius
  • f. 19v-20r Scribal Notes
  • Binding

Sinai Syr. 30 Greek, Syriac 778 CE
  • See entry in Lewis
  • Palimpsest. Underwriting:
    • ff. 1-21 On the Holy Lady, Thecla
    • ff. 21-52 On the Blessed Eugenia and her father, Philip
    • ff.53-69 Acts of the discipleship of Pelagia
    • ff. 69-76 The Blessedy Mary [Marinus]
    • ff. 76-84 The story of Euphrosyne of Alexandria
    • ff. 84-92 The story of Onesimus
    • ff. 92-95 Martyrdom of St. Drusius and those with her at Antioch
    • ff. 95-100 Story of St. Barbara in Heliopolis
    • ff. 100-105 The martyrdom of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • ff. 105-137 The Story of St. Irene
    • ff. 137-149 The Martyrdom of the Blessed Euphemia
    • ff. 150-161 The martyrdom of St. Sophia and her three daughters
    • ff. 161-163 The martyrdom of Theodotia the harlot
    • ff. 163-165 An apology for the faith
    • ff. 165-170 The story of Susanna
    • ff. 170-180 The Martyrdom of Cyprian the Wizard and Justa the Virgin
    • ff. 180-181 Ephrem Syrus, a metrical homily on the Mansions of Paradise
  • Lower Text
    • ff. 1-140, 143, 148 The Four Gospels in Old Syriac
    • ff. 141, 145, 146, 150, 170 Syriac Apocrypha: Acts of Thomas and the Repose of Mary
    • ff. 142, 144, 147, 149 Text of the Gospel in Greek Uncials
    • ff. 171-182 A Greek text in sloping Uncials

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

SMMJ 00233 Greek, Syriac 1,860 CE

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Macler 20.

  • fol. 1v-82r Jacob bar Shakkō, Book of Dialogues (Syriac)
  • fol. 82r-84r Differences in verb forms (Syriac)
  • fol. 84v-87v Meanings of Greek words in Syriac (Greek, Syriac)

SMMJ 00321 Greek, Syriac 1,861 CE

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

  • pages 1-202 Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, Metrical grammar
  • pages 213-226 Garshūn, the Stranger, Grammatical and philosophical terms
  • pages 226-232 Interpretation of Greek words in Syriac

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