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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00012) 1,705 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 1v-10r Trip to Jerusalem of 'Abd al-Aḥad the priest (Garshuni)
  • f. 10v-170v Miracles of the Virgin Mary (Garshuni)
  • f. 170v-171r Letter of the Virgin Mary to Ignatius of Antioch (Garshuni)
  • f. 171r Letter of the Virgin Mary to the people of Messina (Garshuni)
  • f. 171v Letter of the Virgin Mary to the people of Florence (Garshuni)
  • f. 172r-240v Book of the student, in which the teacher answers and explains all he is asked (Garshuni)
  • f. 241v-256r Anecdotes about priests (Garshuni)
  • f. 256r-260r Powers of the garment of Mary and the forgiveness communicated to the brothers Carmelites by its mediation (Garshuni)
  • f. 260r-264r On the Carmelites, and the scapular that the Virgin bestowed on the monks (Garshuni)
  • f. 264v-273r Al-Wardānī prayerbook (Garshuni)
  • f. 273v-289r Life of Patriarch Yawsep I, and what happened to him (Garshuni)
  • f. 289v-291v in praise of Mar Yawsep (Garshuni)
  • f. 291v-292r 'Abdīshō' of Gazarta, poems (Syriac)
  • f. 292v Poems composed in 17th century (Syriac)
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00022) 1,682 CE Garshuni, Syriac
  • f. 1v Syriac Grammar
  • f. 2r-8v Bar Qardāḥe, Khāmīs, Wine poems
  • f. 9r Liturgical notes
  • f. 9v-17v Elijah of Nisibis, Syriac Grammar (abridged)
  • f. 18r-136v Bar Zō'bī, Yōḥannān, Syriac Grammar
  • f. 137r-144v Bar Zō'bī, Yōḥannān, Brief metrical grammar
  • f. 144v-145r Bar Zō'bī, Yōḥannān, Homily on philosophy, in the meter of Jacob
  • f. 145r-146r Commentary on the previous text
  • f. 146r-146v Metrical treatise on points
  • f. 147r-152r Homily on the divisions of philosophers, in the meter of Ephrem
  • f. 152v-153r Epiphanius, Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, On weights and measures
  • f. 153r On fate
  • f. 153r On the kinds of conception
  • f. 153r-153v On one person (ܦܪܨܘܦܐ)
  • f. 153v-155v Calendrical text
  • f. 155v How to determine if a sick person will live or die
  • f. 156r-156v On the months of the Arabs, in the seven-syllable meter
  • f. 157r-158v Shlemon, Bishop of Basra, Calendrical text
  • f. 158v On the years from Adam to the present time
  • f. 158v 'Abdisho' bar Brikā, On the events of Jesus' life, from the Book of the principles of religion
  • f. 159r-162r Bar Qardaḥe, Khāmīs, Homily on the letters of the Alphabet
  • f. 162r Calculating Islamic years
  • f. 163v On barren women
  • f. 164r Cures and spells
  • f. 164v Notes on reckoning years
  • f. 164v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, short poem on a monk
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00398) 1,583 CE Arabic, Latin, Persian, Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 95

  • f. 1v-5v Homily for the blessed brethren (Syriac)
  • f. 5v-13v Homily on Repentance (Syriac)
  • f. 15v Story about a monk from Najran (Arabic)
  • f. 16v-53r Gregory bar Hebraeus, On Perfection with additions and commentaries by Khamis bar Qardahe and Īsho'yahb bar Mqaddam (Syriac)
  • f. 53v-55v Ode on the soul, with commentary by Khamis bar Qardahe (Syriac)
  • f. 56r-75r Khamis bar Qardahe, Homilies (Syriac)
  • f. 76v-77r Isho'yahb bar Malkon, Book of Instruction (Syriac) 
  • f. 78v-144v Homily on Rabban Hormizd (Syriac)
  • f. 147v-160v 'Onitha: Pearl of Knowledge (Syriac)
  • f. 172v-182v 'Onitha for the commemoration of Yuliṭa and her son (Syriac)
  • f. 183v-197v 'Abdishō' of Gazarta, Homily on the homonyms (Syriac)
  • f. 198r-203v Riddles (Syriac)
  • f. 204r-204v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Turgama of Cyriacus (Syriac)
  • f. 205r-208v Homily of Rogation (Syriac)
  • f. 208v-212v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Dismissal prayers in strophes  (Syriac)
  • f. 212v-216v 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
  • f. 216v-217v Homily about bad time (Syriac)
  • f. 218r-222r Ephrem Syrus, Sermon on Reprehension V (Syriac)
  • f. 223r-227r Jacob of Sarug, Homily on the mysteries of our Lord in the Old Testament (Syriac)
  • f. 227v-232v Credo of the true Orthodox (Syriac)
  • f. 232v-233v Credo of Isho'panaḥ, who was accused of drinking the poison of paganism (Syriac)
  • f. 234v-243r Excerprs from various canonical texts on the election of a patriarch and his rights (Syriac)
  • f. 243v-245r Khamis bar Qardahe, Brief note on heresies and on the pagan gods that were abolished through the coming of Christ (Latin, Persian, Syriac)
  • f. 245v-246v Homily that awakens and exhorts and incites penitents (Syriac)
  • f. 247r-248r Homily about a Syrian Orthodox Patriarch (Syriac)
  • f. 248r-256r 'Abdisho' of Gazarta, Poems (Syriac)
  • f. 256r-258r Riddles (Syriac)
  • f. 258r-266v Poems (Syriac)
  • f. 267r-274v Disputation between a monk of Bet Ḥale and an Arab notable (Syriac)
  • f. 274v-277v On the Trinity (in questions and answers) and other liturgical matters (Syriac)
  • f. 278r-280r Names of the prophets (Syriac)
  • f. 280r-281r On the cities of pagan kingdoms (Syriac)
  • f. 281v-299r Isho'dad of Merv, Excerpts from the Commentary on the New Testament (Syriac)
  • f. 299r-310v Questions on the Pentateuch (Syriac)
  • f. 310v-312v On the barbarious nations that do not know writing and god (Syriac)
  • f. 313r-334v Computus and other astronomical and historical reckonings (Syriac)
  • f. 335v-344v Rite of reception of an ordained bishop