Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

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This table searches all collections of Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts that are freely available online by key terms. Click any of the categorized menu items to narrow down your search. If you would like to sort the manuscripts by shelf-mark or date, or search by general keyword, see our other table here, which includes all the same manuscript data.

*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 Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 215 (SMMJ 00215) 1,900 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1v 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Note on the steam-ship (Garshuni)
  • fol. 2r-35v 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Travel diary for a trip to India (Garshuni)
  • fol. 36r-38r 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, List of the Syriac Orthodox churches in Malabar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 43v-44r List of those who came to India (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 288 (SMMJ 00288) 1,859 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-51r 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Journey to India in 1856 (Garshuni)
  • fol. 52r-52v Story discovered in India on the early history of Christianity (Syriac)
  • fol. 53r-67r On the Fathers who went to Malabar (Garshuni)
  • fol. 67v-104r On the arrival of Thomas the Apostle to India (Syriac)
  • fol. 104r-104v Three anecdotes (Syriac)
  • fol. 105r-110r 'Abdullāh II, Names of the Syriac Orthodox churches in Malabar (Syriac)
  • fol. 110r-113v 'Abdullāh II, Conclusion to the report on the trip to India (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113v-120v Proclamation for Friday of the Crucifixion (Garshuni)
  • fol. 121r-152r Isho' Arbōyō, Homily in praise of the pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Syriac)
  • fol. 152r-161r Isho' Arbōyō, Homily on the pilgrimage to Bethlehem (Syriac)