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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]

USEK Intro to the Definition of Logic 1,737 CE Garshuni

Isagoge, or Introduction to the Definition of Logic and its Composition

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

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00452) 1,705 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 104

  • f.  5r-157r Joseph II, Book of the magnet
  • f. 162r-165r Joseph II, Introduction to logic
  • f. 165v-180r Joseph II, Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge

Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00462) 1,820 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Mardin 48

  • f. 2v-297v Joseph II, Book of the magnet
  • f. 303v-311r Joseph II, Introduction to logic
  • f. 311v-342v Joseph II, Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge

Vat. sir. 36 1,597 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry from Assemani

  • f. 1-34 Missal (Jacobite Rite)
    • Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
    • Anaphora of Peter the Apostle
    • Anaphora of St. Eustathius
    • Anaphora of St. John (bishop of Haran Habura and Nisibis)
    • Anaphora of Dionysius bar Ṣalibi
  • Porphyry, Isagoge
  • The way of finding East
  • Bishop Moses, excerpts from Yaḥya ibn 'Adī
    • Against those who affirm that Christ was not truly crucified
    • Against those who maintain the Christian Gospel has been corrupted
    • The world was not from eternity
  • Bishop Moses, Excerpt from an Arabic grammar
  • Jacob of Sarug, a philosophical poem: On being, substance, and accidents
  • Baptismal Rite
  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Syriac Grammar
  • Bishop Moses, Syriac-Arabic Lexicon
  • Catalog of the works of Bar 'Ebroyo

Vat. sir. 433 1,600 CE Garshuni, Latin, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Elements of logic
  • Deposits of Syriac texts from one person
  • Fragment of Metaphysics
  • On Absolute Knowledge
  • On temporal priests
  • Treatise on unclean spirits
  • Book of the kings of Israel
  • Book of the responses of Ben Sira
  • HIstory of Susanna
  • Isagoge
  • Proverbs of wisdom