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
STC 15(23) Syriac 1,600 CE

See entry at CPART

  • The divided Bible throughout the year
ACE 00027 Syriac 1,856 CE
  • Canon of the apostolic faith
    • ܟܬܒܐ ܕܦܘܫܩ ܩܢܘܢܐ ܕܗܝܡܢܘܬܐ ܫܠܝܚܝܬܐ
    • Text translated into Syriac from Arabic
ASOM 00030 Syriac 1,551 CE
  • fol. 3v-257r Beth gazō (Syriac Rite, Western)
Vat. sir. 59 Syriac 1,266 CE

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • f. 1v-129r Funeral service for bishops, priests, and deacons
  • f. 134r ff. Funeral service for monks
Mingana Syriac 148 Syriac 1,613 CE

See the catalog entry for Mingana 148

  • f. 1v-2v, 5, 7r-13v Moses Karkhāya (from Karkha of Pīrūz), Genealogies
  • f. 3v-4, 6r-7r A treatise containing a short history of each of the twelve Apostles and seventy disciples
  • f. 3 Names of eleven magi who brought offerings to Christ
  • f. 13v-328r New Testament (Peshitta Version, containing East Syrian Massora) 
    • f. 13v-53v Matthew
    • f. 53v-79r Mark
    • f. 79r-122v Luke
    • f. 122v-160r John
    • f. 160r-225r Acts and Catholic Epistles
    • f. 225v-327v Pauline Epistles
  • f. 328r-331v Eusebius of Caesarea, Treatise in which is the history and martyrdom of each of the twelve Apostles and each of the seventy Disciples
  • f. 332 List of the letters of the alphabet of St. Ephrem, Narsai, Simon Magus, Bardaisan, and the nine Indian letters
Sinai Syr. 157 Syriac 1,260 CE

See entry in Lewis

  • Psalter
ACZ 00037 Syriac 1,845 CE
  • Ṭaksā (Chaldean rite)
SMMJ 00203 Syriac 1,473 CE

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Macler 9.

  • fol. 1r-13v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on the fear of God and the end
  • fol. 13v-23r Isaac of Antioch, Homily on the love of learning
  • fol. 23v-37r Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on repentance and admoniton
  • fol. 37r-59r Homily on the end
  • fol. 59r-61r Acrostic homily for confession
  • fol. 61v-62v Homily on sin and temptation
  • fol. 63r-78r Story of Habib the martyr
  • fol. 78v-98v Story of the martyrs Guria and Shmona
  • fol. 99r-132r Story of Azazail
  • fol. 132v-153v Story of Sophia and her three daughters
  • fol. 154r-184r Story of Pelagia
  • fol. 184v-221v Story of Eugenia
  • fol. 222r-223v Ephrem of Nisibis, Homily on the soul's remorse
DIYR 00357 Syriac 1,963 CE
  • Service for the Sunday Eve of the Great Lent
Vat. sir. 124 Syriac 1,300 CE

See entry in Assemani

  • Binding
  • f. 1r-276r Isaac of Ninevah, Ascetical Discourses, Part 1 (1-81)
  • f. 276r-353v John of Dalyatha, Ascetical Discourses (1-27)
  • f. 353v-354v Colophon and Notes
  • Binding

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