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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 158 800 CE Syriac

See entry in Assemani

  • Binding
  • f. 1v Preface to Porphyrius Tyrius, Isagoge
  • f. 2r-16r Porphyrius Tyrius, Isagoge [Leaves missing between f. 1-2]
  • f. 16r Colophon
  • f. 16r-26r Visual overview of the Isagoge
  • f. 26v-27r Preface to the Works of Aristotle
  • f. 27r-27v Life of Aristotle
  • f. 27v-36v Aristotle, Categories
  • f. 36v-67v Commentary of Jacob of Edessa on Aristotle's Categories
  • f. 67v-95v Aristotle, De Interpretatione
  • f. 95v-107r Aristotle, Analytics Book 1
  • f. 107-131r Commentary on Porphyrius Tyrius's Isagoge
  • f. 131r-135r On Letters to Priests and Deacons
  • Binding

Mingana Syriac 84 1,790 CE Syriac

See catalog entry for Mingana 84

  • f. 1-10 Porphyry, Isagogy (in the form of tables only)
  • f. 11-18 Aristotle, Categories (in the form of tables only)
  • f. 19-23 [blank]
  • f. 24b-103 John bar Zo'bi, A long treatise called "The Metrical Composition" (ܙܩܘܪܐ ܡܠܚܡܐ)
    • It is a discourse on the true faith and Economy of Christ according to East Syrian doctrine, and against Monophysitism.
    • f. 53ff. Contain a long statement on the two sacraments fo baptism and Eucharist
    • f. 102-103 Contain a complete index of headings of the work
  • f. 103v-124r John bar Zo'bi, Mimra on the explanation of the liturgy of the East Syrian Church
  • f. 124v-142 Mimra explaining the liturgy of the East Syrian Church (anonymous). [Though anonymous, this has been edited under the homilies of Mar Narsai– Mingana I.257-270]

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00341) 1,686 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 27

  • f. 2r-71v 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, The Book of the Pearl
  • f. 78v-79r Shlēmōn of Basra, Prayer before meals
  • f. 79v-105v Fables of Aesop
  • f. 109v-161r Gregory bar Hebraeus, Conversation of wisdom
  • f. 161v-168r Summary of Aristotle's Categories in diagrams
  • f. 169r-189v Gregory bar Hebraeus, Book of the pupils of the eye

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 174a 1,592 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 183 and Assemani 184; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 183
    • f. 1r-18r Isagoge
    • f. 19r-26v Peri Hermeneias, first part
  • Assemani 184
    • f. 30r-60r Peri Hermeneias, second part

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 174b 1,592 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 183 and Assemani 184; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 183
    • f. 1r-18r Isagoge
    • f. 19r-26v Peri Hermeneias, first part
  • Assemani 184
    • f. 30r-60r Peri Hermeneias, second part

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 209a 1,585 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 196; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • f. 9v-20r Porphyry, Isagoge
  • f. 20v-21r List of the works of Aristotle
  • f. 21r/v Life of Aristotle
  • f. 21c-50r Aristotle, Categories (from the translation of Jacob of Edessa)
  • f. 50r-72r Commentary on the Isagoge

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 426 1,545 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 68; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Jacob of Sarug, Epistle to Samuel, the Abbot of the Monastery of St. Isaac, on the Trinity and the Incarnation of the Word
  • Syriac sermons against unleavened bread
  • Disputation on the religion of Christianity and the the Muhammadan sect 
  • Aristotle, Philosophy, Thrid book on the soul
  • Life of the holy Terbo
  • Processional rites

Vat. sir. 209 1,654 CE Garshuni

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Alexander the Great, Epistle
  • Aristotle, Responses

Vat. sir. 586 1,300 CE Syriac

​Catalog entry

  • Questions and answers on the Categories of Aristotle

Sinai Syr. 14 900 CE Syriac

See entry in Lewis

  • Patristica et Profana: Extracts from Macarius, Isaac, Gregory Nazianzus
  • Sayings of philosophers
    • Themistius, Plato, Aristotle, Life of St. Dionysius, Serapion, Julius of Rome, Justin