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
Vat. sir. 584 1,899 CE Syriac
  • Binding
  • f. 1v-56v History of Rabban bar 'Idta by Abraham of Zabe
  • f. 56v Colophon by the copyist Joseph Abuna, son of Thomas, son of fire, the deacon of Sifa, son of priest Peter, residents of Alqos, who finished this transciption the 20th of Adar, 1899, in the eays of Pope Leon (XIII) and of Mar 'Abdiso, catholicos and patriarch of the east
  • f. 60v-64r varia on the Yazidi (the country on Sigar, customs and diverse prohibitions, the messiah)
  • f. 64v-96v Beliefs and customs of the Yazidi, on the form of questions and responses
  • f. 96v the same Joseph finished the manuscript the 6th year of Ayyar 1899
  • Binding
Vat. sir. 167 1,394 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Bar 'Ebroyo, The Book of the Chronogrophy (Librum Chronographie)
  • Continuators of the book of the Chronography
  • The history of Hathem, the king of Cilicia
  • History of the destruction of Amid
  • Continuation of the Syriac Chronography
Vat. sir. 232 1,685 CE Garshuni

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • History of the expeditions of Francis Piquet