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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Beinecke Syriac MS 10 1,200 CE Syriac

​See catalog entry

  • Works of Moshe bar Kepha
    • pp. 1-124 On Paradise
      • pp. 1-97 First part
      • pp. 97-108 Second part
      • pp. 108-24 Third part
    • pp. 124-186 On Resurrection
    • pp. 186-205 Exegesis on Sayings of Paul on the Resurrection
    • pp. 205-209 Words of Comfort
    • pp. 209-218 On the Trinity
    • pp. 218-224 Symbolism of the Shaving of the Monks
  • Appendices
    • pp. 224-225 Biographical Notes Pertaining to Moses
    • pp. 225-end Pseudo-Methodius of Patara, On the End of Times

Diyarbakir, Turkey Meryem Ana Kilisesi 3/2 (DIYR 00037) 1,700 CE Garshuni
  • Moshe bar Kepha
    • Treatise on the Soul
    • Treatise on the Resurrection of the body
    • Treatise on the creation of the angels
    • Treatise on the hierarchy of the angels
  • John of Dara, Treatise on Devils
  • Moshe bar Kepha, Treatise on Paradise

Vat. sir. 147 1,234 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • f. 1v-90r Moshe bar Kepha, Book of the soul 
  • f. 90v-93v Moshe bar Kepha, That the faithful dead benefit from the oblations offered for them
  • f. 94r-113r Moshe bar Kepha, Commentary on the sacred chrism
  • f. 113v-116r Daniel the Monk (Rabban Daniel), wherein the chrism differs from the Eucharist
  • f. 116v-end Moshe bar Kepha, Tractate on the sacrament of Baptism to Ignatius

Harvard Ms Syr 118 1,753 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry

  • ff. 2v-81v Moshe bar Kepha, On the soul, in 65 chapters
  • ff. 82r-125r Moshe bar Kepha, On the resurrection of bodies, in 34 chapters but ch. 25 is white space only
  • ff. 125v-148r Moshe bar Kepha, On the creation of angels, in 54 chapters
  • ff. 148v-164v Moshe bar Kepha, On the order of angels, in 16 chapters
  • ff. 165r-174r John of Dara, Chapters on demons, in 23 chapters, but breaking off in the middle of ch. 22
  • ff. 174v-236r, 236r-253r On paradise, in 2 memre of 28 and 7 chapters
  • ff. 253r Short colophon partly in Karshuni and Arabic

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 130 (SMMJ 00130) 1,801 CE Garshuni

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

  • fol. 1v-82v Moshe bar Kiphō, On the Soul
  • fol. 82v-115r Moshe bar Kiphō, On the resurrection of bodies
  • fol. 115v-150r Moshe bar Kiphō, On the creation of angels and on the angelic hierarchy
  • fol. 150v-158r John of Dara, On demons
  • fol. 158r-216r Moshe bar Kiphō, On Paradise