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 Numbersort descending Language Approximate Date* Contents Link to Digitized Manuscript
Beinecke Syriac MS 13 Syriac 1,687 CE

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  • On the Matter of Faith
  • Interpretation of the Eucharist

Beinecke Syriac MS 5 Syriac 1,888 CE

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  • History of Ss. Matthew and Andrew the Apostles
  • History of St. Abba Marcus of Mount Tharmaka
  • History of St. Cyriacus and Julitta

Beinecke Syriac MS 7 Syriac Unknown

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  • Barhebraeus, Ktābā da-Mnārat Qudšē (Book of the Lamp of Holiness)
  • Appendix: Three short works including a Sugitha by Jacob of Sarug

Beinecke Syriac MS 8 Syriac 1,225 CE

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  • f. 1r Pauline Epistles (fragment)
  • f. 1v-2v Questions by Queen Sheba to King Solomon
  • f. 3ra-4va Philoxenus of Mabbug, Letter to Patrikios of Edessa
  • f. 4vb Sayings, 2 by ? (Philoxenus?), 4 by Evagrius, 1 by Abba Isaiah
  • f. 4vb-7vb Philoxenus of Mabbug, Confessions of Faith
  • f. 7vb-9ra John of Lycopolis (or of Amapea), also the solitary, or "seer, and prophet", The Holy Commandments of the Gospel
  • f. 9ra-29va Commandments (from the gospels, the Pauline and Catholic Epistles, and the prophets
  • f. 29va-end anonymous, about the Sacraments

Beinecke Syriac MS 9 Armenian, Syriac Unknown

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  • Syriac-Armenian Lexicon

C14: n179-n189 Sogdian, Syriac 1,895 CE
  • Discovery of the True Cross
  • The Legend of Barshabbā
  • Prayer text; Beginning of the Discovery of the True Cross
  • Martyrdom of Sergius and Bacchus
  • Unidentified

C17: n 190 Sogdian Unknown
  • r/v - Luke 2:10-20; Matthew 2:1-3

C18: n 191 Sogdan, Syriac Unknown
  • r/v - Unidentified

C19: n192 Sogdian, Chinese Unknown
  • r: Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra
  • v: Gloria in excelsis Deo

C1: n1-11 Sogdian, Syriac Unknown
  • The Martyrdom of St. George

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