Harvard MS Syr 4 |
1,199 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- New Testament (Peshitta Version)
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Harvard MS Syr 35 |
1,500 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Histories of the Virgin Mary: The Histories of the Virgin are in five books, all but no. 4 having lacunae in their text. Ff. 135-140 (disordered) contain a memra of Mar Aprim "on Mary and Joseph and on the scorn they endured from the Jews."
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Harvard MS Syr 36 |
1,500 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- 1. Part of the story of Bar Sauma (ff. 1-9, 82-117, the leaves being disordered)
- 2. 1 Thes. 4:12-18 and John 5:24-9, from a lectionary (f. 11)
- 3. Part of the History of the Virgin (10, 12-61r; disordered, and with one leaf missing)
- 4. Memra of Jacob on the passing, that is the obsequies, of the Virgin (61v-69r)
- 5. Another memra on Mary and Joseph and the envy of the Jews, in the meter of Mar Ephrem (69r-78v)
- 6. A wonder done by the Virgin Mary (78v-81; breaking off before the end).
- 7. F. 10v has a geometric design incorporating a prayer
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Harvard MS Syr 37 |
1,554 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Bar 'Ebroyo, Book of Splendors
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Harvard MS Syr 38 |
1,448 CE |
Arabic, Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- 1. Story of Mar Shaliṭa (ff. 83r-111v; beginning in the middle of chapter 4)
- 2. The triumph, that is a small part of the story of Mar Aksenaya who is Mar Philoxenus (111v-121v)
- 3. Story of the chosen apostle Mar Thoma who evangelized India (122r-174r)
- 4. Triumph of Mar Yoḥanan Daylamaya whose monastery is in Persia near the city of Reʼgan (175r-186v)
- 5. Story of Mar Eulogios of the lion (ʼAryaya) from the company of Mar Awgen (187r-236v)
- 6. Story of Mar Yoḥanan of Kpane which is above the town of Zaʼz (236v; breaking off after this leaf).
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Harvard MS Syr 40 |
1,559 CE |
Arabic, Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Ps. 1-150 (f. 3r-228r)
- Ps. 151 (229r-v)
- Canticles, beatitudes, Gloria in excelsis, trishagion, Nicene creed (229v-244r)
- Memra attributed to Ephrem (ff. 244r-249v, incomplete at the end)
- Colophon (250r).
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Harvard MS Syr 42 |
1,400 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Homilies of John Saba (ff. 1r-30v)
- Chapter of knowledge by John Saba (30v-33r)
- Fifty-one letters of John Saba (33r-67v)
- Chapters of knowledge, nos. 2-6 (67v-86r)
- Maxims by John bar Penkaye (86r-87v)
- Discourse on What is man, by John bar Penkaye (87r-93v)
- "Letters not found in the monastery copy" (93v-94v)
- Selected sayings of Saba (94v-96r)
- Short section by Bar Penkaye (96r-v)
- Madrashe by the saint (96v-97v)
- Memra on the trisagion by John Bar Penkaye (98r-101v)
- Life of John bar Penkaye (101v-102v)
- Selections from Evagrius, Gregory the Monk, Simeon the Monk, Basil, Philoxenus and John Chrysostom (102v-116v)
- Apocalypse of Daniel (117r-122v)
- Discourse of John of Mount Sinai on repentance (122v-125r), with a lacuna on f. 124v
- unidentified memre (125r-v).
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Harvard MS Syr 46 |
800 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- St. Gregory of Nazianzus
- Table of contents (f. 1v, fragmentary)
- Oration no. 31 on moderation in speech (1v-4, 5r-8v, incomplete)
- Oration no. 32 on theology and the status of bishops (8v-12; incomplete).
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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)
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Harvard MS Syr 85 |
1,100 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog Entry
- Order for the burial of priests, including eight services, and lections and memre of Ephrem and Jacob (f. 10-59r, incomplete at the beginning)
- Order of burial for laymen (4 services), women (4), nuns (2) and children (4) (58r-114v)
- Memre in the names of Ephrem, Isaac, and Jacob (114v-146, incomplete at the end). The other leaves come from at least three mss.: two of burial services (4-5 and 6-9, all paper) and the other of unidentified services (1-3, 147-150, all vellum).
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