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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00003 1,846 CE Syriac
  • fol. 4v-90r Burial liturgy
    • Title NS: ܟܘܪܣܬܐ ܕܦܐܝܐ ܐܘܟܝܬ ܟܬܒܐ ܕܥܘܦܝܐ ܕܓܒܪܐ ܘܐܢܬܬܐ ܘܕܛܠܝܐ
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00004 1,945 CE Malayalam, Syriac
  • fol. 1r-39r Ṭaksā
    • Title NS: ܬܫܡܫܬܐ ܕܠܘܬ ܩܒܪܐ ܒܬܪ ܩܘܪܒ ܩܘܪܒܢܐ
    • fol. 1r-9v Service near the grave after offering the Qurbānā
    • fol. 10r-21r Setting down of the order of the morning meal
    • fol. 22r-39r Blessing of a new house, established by Mar Timotheus, metropolitan of Malabar and India
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00007 1,800 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1r-47r Revelation
  • fol. 47r-75v Tobit
  • Notes: The two works seem to be translated from the Latin of the Vulgate
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00008 1,828 CE Neo-Aramaic, Syriac
  • fol. [1]v-20r Book of Seven prayers (Syriac)
    • Title NS: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܫܒܥ ܨܠܘ̈ܢ
  • fol. 21v-171v Catholic Prayer Book (Neo-Aramaic, Syriac)
    • Includes chapters of prayer from the book of Gregory (ܪ̈ܫܐ ܕܨܠܘ܊ ܡ̣ܢ ܟܬܒܗ ܕܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ), fol. 21v-92r; nine prayers attributed to St. Ephrem the Syrian (ܨܠܘܬܐ ܐܦܪܡܝܬܐ), fol. 103r-121r
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00009 1,615 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1v-7r 'Abdishō bar Brīkā, The Book of the Pearl
  • fol. 7r-73v Solomon of Basra, The Book of the Bee
  • fol. 74r-212v Hagiographic works and apocrypha
    • Story of Zosimus, fol.74r-87v
    • Acts of Philip according to recension attributed to Philip of Carthage, fol.87v-97r
    • Story of a penitent demon, fol. 97r-99r
    • Story of a disciple who was killed by his teacher, fol. 99v-101v
    • Story of Yohannan Bar Malke, fol. 101v-108r
    • Story of Virgin Mary, fol. 108r-141v
    • Story of John the Baptist, fol. 141v-144r
    • Story of the translation of the head of John the Baptist, fol. 144r-149r
    • Acts of the Apostle Peter, fol. 149v-163v
    • Acts of the Apostle Paul, fol. 163v-168r
    • Acts of the Apostle John, fol. 168r-180v
    • Acts of the Apostles Andrew and Jacob, fol.180v-189
    • Acts of the Apostle Thomas, fol. 189r-212v
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00010 1,897 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1v-180v Timothy I, Letters
    • To Shlemon, bishop of Ḥdatta, on baptism, fol. 1v-11v
    • Selected stories from the letters of Timothy I concerning baptism, fol. 11v-13v
    • To Buktišo‘ the deacon, fol. 13v-29v
    • Twenty-two letters to Sargis the Metropolitan of ‘Ilam, fol. 29v-55v
    • To Maranzka, Bishop of Nineveh, fol. 55v-59r
    • Seven letters to Sargis Rabban, fol. 60v-61v
    • To the priests and believers of Baṣra and Hublat, on the incarnation of Christ, fol. 61v-81v
    • To Nāṣēr the believer, fol. 81v-106v
    • Four letters to Sargis the teacher, fol. 106v-130r
    • To the monks of Saint Maron, fol. 130r-152r
    • To the brothers of the monastery of Mar Abraham and Mar Gabriel in Mosul, fol. 152r-168r
    • To Rabban Petion, priest and teacher, fol. 168
    • To Sargis the teacher, fol. 168v-170r
    • To Rabban Buktisho‘, fol. 170
    • Four letters to Sargis, Metropolitan of ‘Ilam, fol. 170v-174v
    • To Maranzka the teacher, fol. 174v-176r
    • Four letters to Sargis, Metropolitan of ‘Ilam, fol. 176r-179r
    • To Barsahde the Bishop, fol. 179
    • Two letters to Sargis, Metropolitan of ‘Ilam, fol. 179v-180v
  • fol. 181v-223r Timothy 1, Diputation with Caliph al-Mahdī
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00011 1,900 CE Malayalam Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1r-140v Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni Lexicon
    • Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni vocabulary for Pauline and Catholic Epistles and Revelation, fol. 1rA-18r
    • Pedro Gomez, Explanations of the vocabulary of Seven Sacraments of the Church fol. 18v-31r
    • Explanations of the vocabulary of a collection of canons for clerics, fol. 31r-34v
    • Two short texts on the history of Syrians and Indians in Syriac, fol. 34v-35v
    • Texts in Malayalam Garshuni, fol. 35r-37v
    • Syriac-Malayalam Garshuni vocabulary for the books of the Old Testament, fol. 38r-140v
  • fol. 141r-167v Letters (Malayalam Garshuni, Syriac)
    • Includes twelve letters from late 18th to early 19th century, mainly between Syrian Christians of Malabar and ecclesiastical prelates such as Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan VIII Hormizd
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00013 1,900 CE Syriac
  • fol. [1]v-119v Joseph II, Gazzā
  • fol. 123r-164v Lives of Saints
    • fol. 123r-142r Story of Mar Behnam and his sister Sarah
    • fol. 142v-163v Story of Mar Yāwnān the Anchorite
    • fol. 163v-164v Story of St. James Intercissus
Trichur, India, Chaldean Syrian Church 00014 1,800 CE Syriac
  • fol. 1v-348v Joseph II, Gazzā
  • fol. 349v-364r Taksā (Chaldean Rite)