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
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 28b 1,592 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 341; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Syriac-Arabic Lexicon, Part 2

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 28c 1,592 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 341; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Syriac-Arabic Lexicon, Part 3

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 30b 700 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 71 and Assemani 73; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 71 (XVI century)
    • f. 11v-28v- Assemani 71: Homilies of Jacob of Sarug (Garshuni)
      •  On the angel guarding paradise
      • On the explusion of Adam from Paradise
      • On Adam, whether he was created in a state of mortality or immortality
      • On the Thief on the Right
    • f. 29r-49r Ephrem Syrus, Ascetical sermon on penitence and contrition
  • Assemani 73 (VIII century)
    • The letters of Severus of Antioch translated into Syriac from Greek by Anastasius of Nisibis (A.D. 669)
      • f. 1r To the monks of the great monastery
      • f. 2r To Bishop Eleusinius
      • f. 3v To Archelaus of Tyre
      • f. 4r About Monks and monasteries, to Valeriana the deaconness and abbess
      • f. 5r To Iannia the deaconness and abbess
      • f. 6v Letter to Simeon, the abbot of the great monastery
      • f. 7r Letter to Nonnus, the Bishop of Seleucia
      • f. 9r Letter to Victor, the Bishop of Philadelphia
      • f. 9v Letter to Stephen, Bishop of Apamea
      • f. 10r Letter to the wife of Calliopius, the Patriarch with a diptych

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 37 1,612 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 176; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus, The Cream of Wisdom
    • f. 4-32r Isagoge
    • f. 32r-57v Categories
    • f. 57v-108v Peri Hermeneias
    • f. 109r-179v first book of Analytics

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 47 1,600 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 8; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • f. Iv-IIr Eusebius of Cesarea, Epistle to Carpianus, I
  • f. 1v-2r Eusebius of Cesarea, Genealogy of Christ I
  • f. 2v Eusebius of Cesarea, Genealogy of Christ II
  • f. 3v-4v Eusebius of Cesarea, Epistle to Carpianus II
  • f. 5v-14v Eusebian Canons
  • f. 15r-16r The doctrine which the blessed Theophilus, the virtuous child, received, which was written before the acts of the apostles

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 58 600 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 1; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Old Testament translated into Syriac from Greek
    • Genesis
    • Exodus
    • Leviticus
    • Numbers
    • Deuteronomy
    • Joshua
    • Judges
    • 1-2 Kings
    • 1-2 Chronicles
    • Psalms
    • Isaiah,
    • Jeremiah
    • Ezekiel
    • The Twelve
    • Daniel

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 68 1,696 CE Syriac

​See entry for Assemani 36; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Daily Office (Syriac Rite, Western)

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 69 1,340 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 186; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Bar Hebraeus, The Cream of Wisdom
    • Isagoge
    • Categories
    • Perihermenias
    • Analytics, Book 1
    • Analytics, Book 2
    • Dialectics
    • The Sophstical book
    • Book of Rhetoric
    • book of Poetics

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 71 1,340 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 36; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Offices for feast days
  • Jacob of Sarug, hymns
  • Ephrem Syrus, hymn 49, on the saints and the departed
  • Order of the blessing of the waters
  • Order of the blessing of the oil
  • Order of the entrance
  • Order of the washing of the feet
  • Order of the commemoration of the cross
  • Order of forgiveness and pardon
  • Order of the mass and rubrics
  • Order of the reception of heretics and apostates
  • Order of confession
  • Order of the reception of public sinners
  • Prayers and absolutions for all general sins
  • Prayers and benedictions

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 83 1,340 CE Syriac

See Assemani 187; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • On physical hearing
  • On heaven and the earth
  • On meteors
  • On generation and corruption
  • On fossils
  • On plants
  • On animals
  • On the soul

Tw tracts on metaphysics

  • Tract 1
    • On the origin and authors of philosophy
    • On theology or metaphysics
  • Tract 2
    • On Ethnicities
    • On Economics
    • On politics

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