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 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 99 |
1,889 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry
- ff. 1v-76v Didascalia apostolorum
- ff. 76-92v First epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
- ff. 92v-93v Letter of James of Jerusalem to Quadratus
- ff. 93v-96v Letters of Herod and Pilate
- ff. 96v-103v Hypomnemata of our Lord
- ff. 103v-106v The teaching of Peter in Rome
- ff. 107r-111v Letter of Dionysius of Athens to Timothy on the deaths of Peter and Paul
- ff. 111v-117r Extracts from various Fathers
- ff. 117r-120r Severus on the synods
- ff. 120r-120v Letter that the Jews wrote to the emperor Marcion about the Synod of Chalcedon
- ff. 120v-122v Short texts by Philoxenus
- ff. 122v Creed of orthodox Christians
- ff. 122v-124v Letter of John bar Shushan against Chalcedon
- ff. 124v-126v Easy questions against the Chalcedonians
- ff. 126v-128r Diagrams explaining theology and christology
- ff. 128v-131v Disputation against the Nestorians
- ff. 131v Cyril against anyone who keeps a book from a reader
- ff. 132r-146v Prophecies of the pagan philosophers
- ff. 147r-148r 6 questions of Jacob of Edessa
- ff. 148r-150v Riddles from the Old Testament
- ff. 150v-151r Under which kings each of the prophets prophesied
- ff. 151r-154r On the foundation of the true faith which we have received from the apostles etc.
- ff. 154r On what the Jews wrote above the cross of Christ
- ff. 154r-155r From the story of Peter the Iberian, that one should not give up hope of God's mercy
- ff. 155r-157r Severus, from a letter to Thomas of Germanica on the Epistle of Jude
- ff. 157r-160r Short sections on the eucharist, baptism, etc.
- ff. 160r-162r On the prophets
- ff. 162r-163r Jacob of Edessa on the seven spirits of Isaiah 11.2
- ff. 163 r/v Ephrem on the dove that Noah sent out from the ark
- ff. 163v-174r Answers to questions, including extracts from various Fathers
- ff. 174v Diagram of the ten commandments
- ff. 174v-178r Various other short sections on Old Testament exegesis
- ff. 178r-181v Jacob of Edessa on the heavenly powers
- ff. 181v-188v The orthodox teachers on the souls of human beings, and other short extracts
- ff. 188v-190r Letter of Cyril of Jerusalem on the rebuilding of the temple by the Jews
- ff. 190r-191r Extracts from Puman, John, Cyril and Basil
- ff. 191r-201r Explanations of Ephrem on various matters from the Law
- ff. 201r Colophon
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Harvard Ms Syr 122 |
1,899 CE |
Syriac |
Catalog entry
- John of Dara
- ff. 2v-18v Commentary on ps-Dionysius the Areopagite, on the celestial hierarchy, in 16 chapters
- ff. 18v-40r Commentary on ps-Dionysius, on the the ecclesiastical hierarchy, in 6 chapters
- ff. 40r-66v On priesthood, in 4 memre of 8, 18, 2 and 13 chapters
- ff. 66v-159r On the resurrection of human bodies, in 11, 15, 8 and 24 chapters
- ff. 159v-182r On the eucharist
- ff. 182v-183r Biblical scholia, lacking red headings and unfinished
- ff. 184v Colophon in Karshuni
- ff. 185r Colophon in Syriac
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