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
Harvard MS Syr 47 1,400 CE Syriac

​Catalog Entry

  • Bound at an early date with a manuscript of theological texts (ff. 1-160)
  • Canons by Mar Yoḥanan the bishop on the holy mysteries (ff.161r-162r)
  • Scholion of Jacob of Edessa on the communion (162r-163v)
  • Commentary on the creed and baptism by Dionysius bar Ṣalibi (163v-168v)
  • An account of the faith and the cross and the other mysteries one by one (168v-177r)
  • The holy and life-giving mysteries of the holy chrism (177r-187r)
  • The hidden mystery concerning baptism (187r-203v)
  • On the making of olive oil for chrism (203v-204v)
  • Various short sections in different hands (205-207)
Harvard Ms Syr 130 1,888 CE Syriac

Catalog entry

  • ff. 1r/v Table of contents
  • ff. 2r Cross design
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi​
    • ff. 2v-23v Commentaries on Genesis
    • ff. 23v-37r Exodus
    • ff. 37r-45v Leviticus
    • ff. 45v-57r Numbers
    • ff. 57r-67r Deuteronomy
    • ff. 67v-79v Job
    • ff. 79v-81v Joshua
    • ff. 81v-84r Judges
    • ff. 84v-88r Samuel
    • ff. 88v-95r Kings
    • ff. 95r-103r-166r Psalms (introduction in 32 chapters by Moses bar Kepha, 95r-103r; commentary 103r-166r)
    • ff. 166v-179v Proverbs
    • ff. 179v-193r Ecclesiastes
    • ff. 193r-201r Song of Songs
    • ff. 201r/v A section on chronology entitled ʻAl qadimut nbiye ḥad men ḥabreh
    • ff. 201v-234r Isaiah
    • ff. 234v-250r Jeremiah
    • ff. 250r-271v Ezekiel
    • ff. 272r-282v Daniel
    • ff. 282v-286r Hippolytus on Susanna
    • ff. 286r-309r Twelve Prophets
    • ff. 309r-315v Bar Asira
    • ff. 315v-316v Colophons
    • ff. 316v Prayer
    • ff. 317r-318v Ephrem on Malachi (317r-v) and Joel (317v-318v)