Bible/Apocrypha

Saint Mark's Monastery, Jerusalem MS 1 (SMMJ 00001)

Bibliography: Filoksinos Yohanna Dolabany, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in St. Mark’s Monastery (1994), p. 113; Arthur Vööbus, The Book of Isaiah in the Version of the Syro-Hexapla: A Facsimile Edition of MS St. Mark 1 in Jerusalem with an Introduction, CSCO 449 (1983).
Bible, Isaiah
- Lectionary based on Syro-Hexapla version; extant part of text begins in Isaiah 27:10 and ends in Isaiah 65:20

fol. 1v-140r Psalms
- Title NS: ܡܙܡܘܪ̈ܐ ܕܕܘܝܕ
- Parallel columns in Syriac and Arabic Garshuni
- Note: Includes also Psalm 151
fol. 140v-142r Odes
- Moses and the song of the Red Sea
- Isaiah the prophet
- Hannah the prophetess [Mother of Samuel]
- Jonah the Prophet
- [Mary] the God-bearer
fol. 142v-143r Nicene Creed
fol. 143r-v The praise of the angel (Gloria in excelsis) and other liturgical prayers
fol. 143v Trisagion
fol. 143v The Lord's Prayer

fol. 1r-105v Psalms

fol. 1r-50v Rules and admonitions for monks and ascetics
fol. 50v-80r John of the Thebaid, Rules and instructions for spiritual life
fol. 80r-104v Prayers of the seven hours
- Title NS: ܨܠܘ̈ܬܐ ܕܫ̈ܒܥܐ ܥܕ̈ܢܐ
fol. 105r-120v Catholic Epistles
- Epistle of James
- Epistle of Peter
- Epistle of John
fol. 121r-134v Mas'ūd (Abba), Spiritual Instructions
fol. 135r-144v Isaac of Antioch, Memrē
fol. 144v-176r Macarius the Egyptian, Exhortations to candidates for the Monastic Life