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 134 (SMMJ 00134) 1,880 CE Arabic, Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1v-56r Dispute between Shubhalisho' and Moses the Jew (Garshuni)
  • fol. 56v-119v Dialogue between the monk al-Sim'ānī and the three Muslim scholars in Aleppo (Garshuni)
  • fol. 121r-144v Letter from Cyprus to Ibn Taymiyya (Garshuni)
  • fol. 145r-165v Dialogue of Abū Qurrah and Al-Ma'mūn (Garshuni)
  • fol. 170v-178v Michael I, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria (d. 767), Letter to Gregory Patriarch of Armenia (Arabic)
  • fol. 179r-180r Gregory the Illuminator, Response to letter of Michael of Alexandria (Arabic)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 139 (SMMJ 00139) 1,866 CE Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 1r-5r Confession of faith made by the Armenians and Jacobites (Garshuni)
  • fol. 5v-140v Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffa', Precious Pearl (Garshuni)
  • fol. 140v-148r Cyril of Alexandria, Twelve Chapters (Garshuni)
  • fol. 148v-153v Interpretation of Gregory's twelve chapters of faith (Garshuni)
  • fol. 155r-229v Gīwargīs, Bishop of al-Bsheriyyeh, Theological work (Garshuni)
  • fol. 229v-248r John Chrysostom, Commentary on the ten commandments (Garshuni)
  • fol. 251v-256r Michael I, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, Confession of the faith (Garshuni)
  • fol. 257r-259r Hippocrates, On creation of man and his four natures
  • fol. 259r-261v Bible, Proverbs (selections) (Syriac)
  • fol. 261v-262v Book of Theology, part 4 (Garshuni)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 178 (SMMJ 00178) 1,900 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1r-22v Homilies
  • fol. 22v-39r Instruction in Christian Doctrine
  • fol. 39r-67r John Chrysostom, Commentary on the Ten Commandments
  • fol. 67r-71r Gregory of Nyssa, Books against Eunomius. Selections
  • fol. 71r-76v John Chrysostom, Against one who does not believe that Christ is God
  • fol. 76v-78v On the Trinity
  • fol. 78v-86r Gregory Nazianzus, Twelve Chapters against heretics
  • fol. 86r-98v Cyril of Alexandria, Twelve Chapters
  • fol. 98v-106v On the bread that becomes the body of Jesus 
  • fol. 106v-110v On the faith of the Armenians and the Jacobite Syrians
  • fol. 110v-118r Michael I, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, Confession of faith
  • fol. 118r-143v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Confession of faith