Ethnography

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

• fol. 1v 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Note on the steam-ship (Garshuni)
• fol. 2r-35v 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, Travel diary for a trip to India (Garshuni)
• fol. 36r-38r 'Abd al-Nūr of Arbo Metropolitan of Mar Malke, List of the Syriac Orthodox churches in Malabar (Garshuni)
• fol. 43v-44r List of those who came to India (Syriac)

Catalog entry in Assemani

• History of the expeditions of Francis Piquet

Catalog entry in Assemani

• Bar 'Ebroyo, The Book of the Chronogrophy (Librum Chronographie)
• Continuators of the book of the Chronography
• The history of Hathem, the king of Cilicia
• History of the destruction of Amid
• Continuation of the Syriac Chronography

See catalog entry here

See catalog entry here

• Husoye; Sedrē
• Answer to the Armenians with testimonies from the Orthodox Fathers
  • Authors cited include: Ephrem of Nisibis, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory the Theologian, Gregory of Nyssa, Clement, John Chrysostom, Evagrius, John of Edessa, Ignatius of Antioch, Dionysius the Areopagite, Severus of Antioch, Basil the Great

• Binding
• f. 1v-56v History of Rabban bar 'Idta by Abraham of Zabe
• f. 56v Colophon by the copyist Joseph Abuna, son of Thomas, son of fire, the deacon of Sifa, son of priest Peter, residents of Alqos, who finished this transciption the 20th of Adar, 1899, in the eays of Pope Leon (XIII) and of Mar 'Abdiso, catholicos and patriarch of the east
• f. 60v-64r varia on the Yazidi (the country on Sigar, customs and diverse prohibitions, the messiah)
• f. 64v-96v Beliefs and customs of the Yazidi, on the form of questions and responses