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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Sachau 167; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 38 1,496 CE Syriac

See entry for Sachau 167

  • f. 1-34r Prayers of Catholicos Elijah III
  • f. 34r-106v Liturgies for feast days by Elijah of Nisibis
    • f. 34r-76 various feasts
    • f. 77-106r Liturgical text including Anaphora of the apostles
  • f. 106v Order of Baptism, by Isho'yahb III
  • f. 121r Order of absolution, by Isho'yahb III
  • f. 123v Order of the consecration of the waters
  • f. 125r Order of exorcisms
  • f. 126v Order of the renewal of the leaven
  • f. 127v Order of the consecration of the altar without oil
  • f. 133r-138v Prayers at the table
  • f. 139r Colophon
  • f. 139v-140v Blessing
  • f. 140v-150r Ordinal
  • f. 150v Order of consecration of the altar with oil
  • f. 182v Order of the service of Pentecost
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 308 1,542 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 40; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Missal from the church of Antioch (Syriac rite, western)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 311 1,569 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 41; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Maronite Offices for feast days
    • Dedication of the Church
    • Nativity of our Lord
    • Epiphany
    • Second sunday of Lent
    • Annunciation of the Virgin mother Mary
    • Sunday of Hosannas
    • Good Friday
    • The Ascension of the Lord into Heaven
    • Pentecost
    • Golden Friday (first after Pentecost)
    • The Transfiguration
    • Holy Cross
    • St. Thaddaeus the apostle
    • St. George the Martyr
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 344 1,716 CE Syriac

See entry for Assemani 43; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Maronite Missal 
    • Order of oblations
    • General rubrics
    • Anaphora of St. James
    • Anaphora of Simon Peter
    • Anaphora of St. John the apostle
    • Order of Ecclesiastical reconciliation
    • Anaphora of St. Dionysius the Areopagite
    • Anaphora of St. John Maron
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 407a 1,715 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See Assemani 50 and Assemani 51; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 50–Maronite Missal
    • Daily Liturgy
    • Sunday Liturgy
    • Liturgy of the Blessed Mother
    • Liturgy of the Angels
    • Liturgy of the Prophets
    • Liturgy of the 12 apostles
    • Liturgy of the doctors
    • Liturgy of the confessors
    • Liturgy of the Holy Virgin
    • Liturgy for the commemoration of the departed faithful
    • Liturgy for departed priests
    • Liturgy for the commemoration of departed monks
    • Liturgy for the feast of the incarnation
    • Liturgy for the Annunciation of Zechariah
    • Liturgy for the Annunciation of the mother
    • Liturgy for the feast fo the visitation of the mother
    • Liturgy of the nativity of St. John the Baptist
    • Liturgy for the Nativity of the Lord
    • Liturgy for the forty-day fast
    • Liturgy for the Great Sunday of the Resurrection
  • Assemani 51
    • Liturgy of the Lamps with the rite of the administration of oil to the sick
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 407b 1,715 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See Assemani 50 and Assemani 51; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 50–Maronite Missal
    • Daily Liturgy
    • Sunday Liturgy
    • Liturgy of the Blessed Mother
    • Liturgy of the Angels
    • Liturgy of the Prophets
    • Liturgy of the 12 apostles
    • Liturgy of the doctors
    • Liturgy of the confessors
    • Liturgy of the Holy Virgin
    • Liturgy for the commemoration of the departed faithful
    • Liturgy for departed priests
    • Liturgy for the commemoration of departed monks
    • Liturgy for the feast of the incarnation
    • Liturgy for the Annunciation of Zechariah
    • Liturgy for the Annunciation of the mother
    • Liturgy for the feast fo the visitation of the mother
    • Liturgy of the nativity of St. John the Baptist
    • Liturgy for the Nativity of the Lord
    • Liturgy for the forty-day fast
    • Liturgy for the Great Sunday of the Resurrection
  • Assemani 51
    • Liturgy of the Lamps with the rite of the administration of oil to the sick
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409a 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46, Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409b 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 409c 1,656 CE Arabic, Syriac

See entries for Assemani 46Assemani 47, and Assemani 48; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Assemani 46
    • Georgio Amirae, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
      • Calendar for the Ecclesiastical year
      • Rules for finding Pascha
    • Ananias Xenaia, song about himself
  • Assemani 47
    • Maronite Missal
    • Anaphora of John the Evangelist
  • Assemani 48
    • Jacobite Ecclesiastical calendar
    • John Chrysostom, Exposition on Psalm 6
    • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi, Commentary on Luke
    • Jacob of Sarug, Memra on Constantine the Faithful Emperor
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Orientali 436 1,547 CE Garshuni, Syriac

See entry for Assemani 54; [Bibliographic Record]; [Data Record]

  • Maronite Daily Office
  • Maronite: Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles
  • Index of the Psalms of David, King and Prophet
  • Ecclesiastical Calendar

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