Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

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*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
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00140) 1,608 CE Syriac

See Scher's note on Diyarbakir 49

  • f. 1r-132v Elijah III, Catholicos, Collection of prayers for the morning office of feasts
  • f. 133r-140r Prayers for the kathismas at the morning offices of Sundays
  • f. 141r-150r Ḥutāmē for the evening and morning services of Sundays and feast days
  • f. 152v-166r Prayers recited before hymns 
  • f. 166v-169v Hymns on a disposition of the months
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00141) Unknown Syriac
  • f. 1r-180r + 185v-187v Elijah III, Catholicos, Collection of prayers for the morning office of feasts
  • f. 181v-185r Ḥutāmē for the evening and morning services of Sundays and feast days
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00142) 1,548 CE Syriac
  • f. 1v-551v Ḥudrā
  • f. 553r-662r Hymns for the ordinary weekdays of the year
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00145) 1,559 CE Syriac
  • f. 3v-99v Kaškūl
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00402) 1,700 CE Mongolian, Syriac
  • f. 1v-55r Gewargis Warda, 'Onyatha for the Rogation of the Ninevites and on penitence (Syriac)
  • f. 55r-56v 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Dismissal prayers in Strophes (Syriac)
  • f. 57v-66v 'Onyatha from the life of Rabban Hormizd (Syriac)
  • f. 67r-68v Service for a blessing of the months (Syriac)
  • f. 69r-74v Hymns (Syriac)
  • f. 75r-80v Hymns for New Sunday (Syriac)
  • f. 80v-86v Dismissal Prayers (Syriac)
  • f. 87r-92r Service for a blessing of the months (Syriac)
  • f. 92r-94v Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogitha on economy (Mongolian and Syriac)
  • f. 94v-98v Sogyatha on the Church and on New Sunday (Syriac)
  • f. 99r-109r Midnight service for the fifth Sunday of Lent (Syriac)
  • f. 109r-110v Hymns for the commemoration of saints (Syriac)
  • f. 110v-115v Khamis bar Qardahe, Hymns (Syriac)
  • f. 115v-117v Madrasha (Syriac)
  • f. 117v-124v Madrashe (Syriac)
  • f. 125r-132r Rite of bishop ordination (Syriac)
  • f. 132r-144v Hymns from Ḥudrā (Syriac)
Sachau 355; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 18 1,400 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 355

  • Ḥudrā
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00473) 1,721 CE Garshuni,Syriac
  • f. 1v-20v Gospel readings (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
  • f. 23v-54v Hymns for feasts selected from Ḥudrā
  • f. 55v-91r Anaphora of the Apostles
  • f. 92r-105r Anaphora of Theodore of Mopsuestia
  • f. 106r-128v Anaphora celebrated five times per year
  • f. 129r-132r Hymns for Dominical feasts
  • f. 132v-182v 'Abdisho' bar Brīkā, Dismissal hymns for various feasts
  • f. 186r-188r Prayers
  • f. 189r-203v Turgame for feasts and commemorations of the liturgical year
  • f. 204r-209v Hymns for feasts selected from Ḥudrā
  • f. 210r-212r Rite of Veneration
  • f. 212v-223v Epistle to the Hebrews
  • f. 224r-225r Gospel of Matthew
Mardin, Turkey Chaldean Cathedral (CCM 00480) 1,500 CE Syriac
  • f. 1r-18v Marmyatha for the weekdays: Qdām wa d-batar
  • f. 18v-44r Qdām wa d-batar
  • f. 44r-45r Ḥudrā
  • f. 45r-45v Voices and verses prefixed to Psalms
  • f. 46r-47v Shubhe for the weekdays
  • f. 47v-72v 'Onyatha for martyrs
  • f. 72v-77v Morning service of Sundays
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (C9: n176) Unknown Sogdian, Syriac
  • Unidentified
Borg. sir. 85 Unknown Syriac

See catalog entry here

  • Book of the Ḥudrā

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