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
Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk 86 (ACK 00086) 1,780 CE Syriac
  • Ṭaksā (Syriac Rite, Eastern)
    • ​ܛܟܣܐ ܕܩܘܕܫܐ ܕܐܪ̈ܙܐ

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 33 (ASCBN 00033) 1,800 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1r-35r Book of Hymns (Syriac)
  • fol. 36v-65v Rosary and procession prayers (Arabic)
  • fol. 93v-94r Calendar of church feasts and celebrations (Garshuni)

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 44 (ASCBN 00044) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • Pages 1-35 Preparation for the Mass (Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Pages 36-67 Anaphora of Pope Sixtus (Syriac)
  • Pages 68-83 Concluding the Holy Mass (Syriac)
  • Pages 85-117 Readings from the New Testament (Arabic Garshuni)
  • Pages 121-123 Phromeon prayers for every day (Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Pages 125-160 Anaphora of Pope Sixtus (Arabic, Arabic Garshuni, Syriac)

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 52 (ASCBN 00052) 1,542 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • fol. 1r-59r Gospel of Matthew
  • fol. 59v-92r Gospel of Mark
  • fol. 92v-153v Gospel of Luke
  • fol. 154v-201v Gospel of John

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 82 (ASCBN 00082) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • pages 1-14 Preparation for the mass (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • pages 15-31 Anaphora of Saint Eustathius (Garshuni, Syriac)
  • pages 32-37 Readings from the Gospels and Saint Paul Letters (Arabic)
  • pages 38-44 Anaphora of Saint Eustathius (Syriac)

Baghdad, Iraq: Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad, N. 93 (ASCBN 00093) 1,900 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac
  • pages 1-39 Baptismal rite
  • pages 1-26 Marriage rite

Mosul, Iraq, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mosul MS 111 (ASOM 00111) 1,800 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac, Turkish
  • Homily on Christ's baptism (Garshuni)
  • Homily on the salvific act of Christ (Arabic)
  • Commentary on the New Testament (Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac)
  • Christologies of the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches (Garshuni)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 157 (SMMJ 00157) 1,865 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • fol. 2v-83v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the prophets and the devastation of Jerusalem (Syriac)
  • fol. 83v-89v Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the departed (Syriac)
  • fol. 90r-103r Gregory Nazianzus, On the soul's departure from the body (Garshuni)
  • fol. 103r-113v Homily on sinners attributed to the prophet Elijah (Garshuni)
  • fol. 113v-118r Short prayers (Garshuni)
  • fol. 118r-121r Bihnam Hadlōyō, Acrostic homily on ths oul's remorse (Syriac)
  • fol. 121r-123r Jacob of Serugh, Homily on the love of the world (Syriac)
  • fol. 124r-127r Unidentified text (Arabic)

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 159 (SMMJ 00159) 1,700 CE Arabic, Garshuni, Syriac

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

  • Theological miscellany
    • Includes Questions and answers by John Chrysostom, fol. 3v-46v; Syriac-Arabic and Greek-Syriac vocabularies, fol. 46v-55v; hymns and poems by ʻAbdīshōʻ of Gazarta, ʿAbdīshōʿ of Ātēl, Abrāhām of Bēth Slōk, and Israel of Alqosh; homily on fasting and on the Pentateuch by Ephrem of Nisibis, fol. 138v-139r

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)

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