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
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 221 (SMMJ 00221) 1,600 CE Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Baumstark 26*

  • fol. 1-85v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Metrical grammar
  • fol. 86v-121v Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Treatise on similar words
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 228 (SMMJ 00228) 1,892 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 6v-382r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 382r Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn, and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 229 (SMMJ 00229) 1,789 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 4v-315r Hasan bar Bahlūl, Lexicon (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 315v Words that occur in Syriac with Šīn and in Arabic with Sīn and vice versa (Garshuni, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 233 (SMMJ 00233) 1,860 CE Greek, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994). Macler 20.

  • fol. 1v-82r Jacob bar Shakkō, Book of Dialogues (Syriac)
  • fol. 82r-84r Differences in verb forms (Syriac)
  • fol. 84v-87v Meanings of Greek words in Syriac (Greek, Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 242 (SMMJ 00242) 1,860 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • Theological Miscellany
    • Includes interpretations of Hebrew names in the Old Testament, fol. 1r-3r; interpretations of Greek words, fol. 3r-4v; unidentified grammatical texts, fol. 17v-19v; selections from Bar Hebraeus’ Lamp of the sanctuary, fol. 20r-24v; theological texts by John Maron, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom.
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 277 (SMMJ 00277) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Coptic, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 3r Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, On the soul's departure from the body (Syriac)
  • fol. 3v-4r Lexical miscellanea (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 10r-49v Glossary of Italian, Arabic, Syriac and Hebrew (Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac)
    • Armenian alphabet with the letter names in Garshuni on fol. 12v-13r
  • fol. 50r Ge'ez syllabary transliterated in Syriac (Ge'ez, Syriac)
  • fol. 51r-56v Arabic lexicon (Arabic)
  • fol. 57v Coptic alphabet with the letter names in Arabic (Arabic, Coptic)
  • fol. 58r Chant (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 295 (SMMJ 00295) 1,800 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • pages 2-269 Eudoxus of Melitene, Lexicon of obscure words (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • page 269 Egyptian months (Syriac)
  • pages 270-286 Notes on grammar and alphabets (Syriac)
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 321 (SMMJ 00321) 1,861 CE Greek, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • pages 1-202 Gregory bar 'Ebrōyō, Metrical grammar
  • pages 213-226 Garshūn, the Stranger, Grammatical and philosophical terms
  • pages 226-232 Interpretation of Greek words in Syriac
Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 356 (SMMJ 00356) 1,915 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994).

  • fol. 8r-153r Eudoxus of Melitene, Lexicon of obscure words (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • fol. 153r-162v On words that interchange (Syriac)
  • fol. 162v Coptic months (Syriac)
  • fol. 162v-163v Grammatical notes (Syriac)
  • fol. 163v-165r David bar Paulos, On letters that interchange (Syriac)
  • fol. 165r-166r On preserving the correctness of Syriac (Syriac)
  • fol. 166r-166v Poem
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

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