Jacob of Edessa

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

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

• Homilies
  • Includes homilies by Jacob of Serugh, Shemʿūn II, Mafrian of Ṭur ʻAbdin, Jacob of Edessa, Dīonīsīūs bar Ṣalībī, Ephrem of Nisibis, Yuḥannōn Sabrīnoyō, Īsḥāq of Antioch, Bihnam Hadlōyō, and John Chrysostom

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Macler 21.

• fol. 2v-73v Selected Memrē
  • Title NS: ܡܐܡܪ̈ܐ ܡܓܒܝ̈ܐ
  • A Memra in the meter of Mar Jacob <of Sarug>
  • Jacob of Sarug, On the chariot which Ezekiel saw
  • Isaac of Nineveh, Memra in the meter of Mar Ephrem
  • Isaac of Nineveh, On Silence and Stillness, and on Love
  • Isaac the Teacher <of Antioch>, On the Perfection of the Brethren
  • Isaac the Teacher <of Antioch>, On solitaries and guides and the humble and the Nazirites and the poor and the mourners and the aliens  and the perfect and those like them

• fol. 3v-30v Jacob of Edessa, Memra on Alexander the Great, Gog and Magog, and the end-times (Syriac)
• fol. 31r-41r Ephrem of Nisibis, Memra on the end-times, Gog and Magog, and the Antichrist (Syriac)
• fol. 41v-79r Burial Rite (Garshuni, Syriac)
• fol. 79v-81v Lamentation for Gehenna (Syriac)
• fol. 81v-100r Story of Mar Bassus (Syriac)
• fol. 100r-131r Story of Mar Gabriel of Qartmin (Syriac)

• fol. 4r-5v, Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander Romance (Arabic Garshuni)
• fol. 6r-75v Psalms
• fol. 76r-85v Poem on the divine wisdom
  • Title NS: ܥܠ ܚܟܡܬܐ ܐܠܗܝܬܐ
• fol. 86v-88v Memra on the Trinity
• fol. 89v-92v Prayers
  • Includes prayers attributed to Ephrem of Nisibis and Jacob of Edessa
• fol. 92v-96v Memre and Sogitha