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
Harvard MS Syr 87 1,571 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • Šḥimto: Following the orders of service for the days of the week (the Šḥimto, approximately ff. 1-45, incomplete at the beginning), the ms. contains a collection of various genres of hymns and prayers: mawrbe, qale, genize, takšpata, qatismaʾṭaʾs and maʻnyata, madraše of Ephrem, baʻwata [in the meter of] Jacob, Ephrem, Balai, tabrata, ʻaṭre, šuḥlape, prayers for various occasions; and ends with the order for šumlaya madnḥaya (incomplete at the end). All are for the ferial services except the qatismaʾṭaʾs and maʻnyata which are for various festivals and saints' days.

Harvard MS Syr 93 700 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • A collection of short works including a "Gospel of the Twelve Apostles" (ff. 47r-51v)
  • Apocalypses of Simon Kepha, James, John the little (51v-57v)
  • A fragment of the Doctrina Addai (57v)
  • Various responsa and canons (1r-46v, 59r ff.) including replies of Jacob of Edessa.

Harvard MS Syr 102 1,200 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • Proper prayers, prooemia and sedrē for the whole church year (but the ms. is incomplete at the beginning and end. The first rubric is for the Annunciation (f. 5v) and the last for the martyrdom of Peter and Paul (288v)).

Harvard MS Syr 106 1,300 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • A fragment, including extracts from a commentary on Thessalonians, Gregory of Nazianzus on baptism and the letters of Ignatius in Syriac.

Harvard MS Syr 121 1,200 CE Syriac
  • The so-called Bet Mawtbe books in the Peshitta Version
    • Joshua
    • Judges
    • Samuel
    • Kings
    • Proverbs
    • Bar Sira
    • Ecclesiastes
    • Ruth
    • Song of Songs
    • Job

Harvard MS Syr 171 1,100 CE Syriac

Catalog Entry

  • A single leaf containing readings for the 10th-12th Sundays of Sbarta (Advent).

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Harvard MS Syr 172 1,300 CE Syriac

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  • Hymns on the Matyrs

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Harvard MS Syr 173 1,100 CE Syriac

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  • Two leaves from a liturgical manuscript, containing the heading for the feast of Dimitrios the martyr on 25 October.

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Harvard Ms Syr 16 700 CE Syriac

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  • Matthew and Mark in the Harklean Syriac version

Harvard Ms Syr 18 900 CE Syriac

Catalog entry

  • Matthew in the Harklean Syriac version

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