Vatican Syriac manuscripts

The following list of Syriac manuscripts was prepared by Sebastian Brock, as an appendix to an article in Hugoye 8.1. Some are available on DVD.

Biblical manuscripts 1. Vat. Syr. 1: Pentateuch, 928/9 A.D. 2. Vat. Syr. 12: Gospels, 548 3. Vat. Syr. 13: Gospels, 736 4. Vat. Syr. 14: Gospels, 956 5. Vat. Syr. 16: New Testament, 13th Cent. 6. Vat. Syr. 18: John, Harklean, + Gospel lectionary, 1481 7. Vat. Syr. 19: Christian Palestinian Aramaic Gospel lectionary, 1030 8. Vat. Syr. 20: Melkite Gospel lectionary, 1215 9. Vat. Syr. 21: Melkite Lectionary for Acts and Epistles, 1162 10. Vat. Syr. 22: Lectionary for Epistles (written in India), 1301 11. Vat. Syr. 23: Syriac-Arabic Lectionary for Epistles, 12th century 12. Vat. Syr. 24: OT lectionary, 13th century 13. Vat. Syr. 152: OT, Masora, 979/80 14. Vat. Syr. 266: NT, 7th cent. 15. Vat. Syr. 267: Harklean Gospels, 8th cent. 16. Vat. Syr. 268: Harklean Gospels, 859 17. Vat. Syr. 273: Gospels, 7th cent. 18. Vat. Syr. 274: Gospels, 10th cent. 19. Vat. Syr. 275: Acts, Epistles, 1192 20. Vat. Syr. 278: Melkite lectionary, 9th cent. 21. Vat. Syr. 279: Melkite Gospel lectionary, 1141 22. Vat. Syr. 470: NT, 12th cent. 23. Vat. Syr. 471: NT, 1224 24. Vat. Syr. 510: NT, 11th cent. 25. Vat. Syr. 525: Gospel lectionary, 7th cent. 26. Vat. Syr. 532: Acts, Epistles, 13th cent. 27. Vat. Syr. 556: Gospel lectionary, 13th cent. 28. Vat. Syr. 559: Gospel lectionary, 1220 with illuminations 29. Vat. Syr. 622: Gospels written in gold letters, 1298 30. Barbarini or. 2: Pentaglot psalter, 14th cent. 31. Barbarini or. 3: Gospel lectionary, 13th cent. 32. Borgia Syr. 14f-k: Gospel lectionary, 1254, with illuminations 33. Borgia Syr. 169: Gospel lectionary, 16th cent. With illuminations 34. Borgia Syr. 117: Masora NT, 1014

Literary Texts (* indicates manuscript contains unpublished material) 35. Vat. Syr. 37: *Lives of Saints 36. Vat. Syr. 93: *John of Apamea, 9th cent. 37. Vat. Syr. 100: *John of Dara, 19th cent. 38. Vat. Syr. 103: (*)Catena Severi 39. Vat. Syr. 104: Athanasius, 564 (*Timothy Alex.) 40. Vat. Syr. 105: Gregory of Nazianzus, Iambics, 7th cent. 41. Vat. Syr. 106: *Gregory of Nyssa, 8th cent. 42. Vat. Syr. 107: *John Chrysostom, hom. on John, 8th cent. 43. Vat. Syr. 108: Peter of Callinicum, 8th cent. 44. Vat. Syr. 109: *Abba Isaiah etc. 692 45. Vat. Syr. 110: Ephrem, Comm. Genesis, 523 46. Vat. Syr. 111: Ephrem, Hymns on Church etc. 522 47. Vat. Syr. 112: Ephrem, Hymns on Paradise, 551 48. Vat. Syr. 113: Ephrem, Hymns on Faith, 552 49. Vat. Syr. 114: *Jacob of Serugh, verse homilies, 523 50. Vat. Syr. 115: *Jacob of Serugh, verse homilies, 7th cent. 51. Vat. Syr. 116: (*)Jacob of Serugh, verse homilies, 857 52. Vat. Syr. 117: *Jacob of Serugh, verse homilies, 12th/13th cent. 53. Vat. Syr. 118: *Jacob of Serugh, verse homilies, pre-12th cent. 54. Vat. Syr. 119: *Isaac of Antioch, verse homilies, 1210 55. Vat. Syr. 120: *Isaac of Antioch, verse homilies, 6th cent. 56. Vat. Syr. 121: *Mark the Hermit 57. Vat. Syr. 122: *Mark the Hermit, Basil, 769 58. Vat. Syr. 123: *Gregory of Cyprus etc. 8th cent. 59. Vat. Syr. 124: Isaac of Nineveh, 14th cent. 60. Vat. Syr. 125: Isaac of Nineveh 61. Vat. Syr. 126: Paradise of the Fathers, 1223 62. Vat. Syr. 127: Canons of Councils 63. Vat. Syr. 135: *Philoxenos etc. 7th/8th cent. 64. Vat. Syr. 136: (*)Philoxenos 6th cent. 65. Vat. Syr. 137: Philoxenos, 564 66. Vat. Syr. 138: Philoxenos, 581 67. Vat. Syr. 139: Severus, Philalethes etc, 8th cent. 68. Vat. Syr. 140: Severus, against Julian, 528 69. Vat. Syr. 141: Severus, Cathedral homilies (tr. Jacob of Edessa) 70. Vat. Syr. 142: *Severus, Cathedral homilies (tr. Paul), 576 71. Vat. Syr. 143: *Severus, Cathedral homilies (tr. Paul), 563 72. Vat. Syr. 144: John, Arbiter etc. 73. Vat. Syr. 145: Elias, *Socrates Eccl. Hist., Zecharias Rhetor Eccl. Hist. 9th/10th cent. 74. Vat. Syr. 146: (*)John Maro, Liber Fidei, 1392 75. Vat. Syr. 147: *Moshe bar Kepha etc. 1234 76. Vat. Syr. 148: Ps. George of Arbela, Liturgical commentary, 1267 77. Vat. Syr. 151: (*)Timothy II, On Sacraments, 1613 78. Vat. Syr. 152: *Jacob of Edessa, on biblical names, 980 79. Vat. Syr. 154: *George, Com. Matthew, 10th cent. 80. Vat. Syr. 157: Isho'yahb III, Letters, 10th cent. 81. Vat. Syr. 160: Life of Symeon the Stylite, *Acts of Persian martyrs, 474, 10th cent. 82. Vat. Syr. 161: *Acts of Persian martyrs 83. Vat. Syr. 162: Ps. Dionysius of Telmahre, Chronicle, 932 84. Vat. Syr. 163: Chronicle of Edessa 85. Vat. Syr. 165: Thomas of Marga, Monastic history, 1663 86. Vat. Syr. 189: *John of Dalyatha, 11th cent. 87. Vat. Syr. 191: *Ibn Sina, Syriac tr. 88. Vat. Syr. 192: *Medical 89. Vat. Syr. 194: *Grammatical works, 1246 90. Vat. Syr. 251: *Jacob of Serugh, homilies, 7th cent. 91. Vat. Syr. 252: Jacob of Serugh, homilies 92. Vat. Syr. 253: *Homiliary, 8th cent. 93. Vat. Syr. 254: *Ps. Dionysius the Areopagite, pre-932 94. Vat. Syr. 255: Severus, pre-932 95. Vat. Syr. 256: *Severus, Cathedral homilies, 6th cent. 96. Vat. Syr. 283: *Comm. Matthew and John, 860 97. Vat. Syr. 284: *Comm. Epistles, 9th cent. 98. Vat. Syr. 367: Isaac of Nineveh, 8th cent. 99. Vat. Syr. 368: *Homiliary, 8th cent. 100. Vat. Syr. 369: *Homiliary, 7th cent. 101. Vat. Syr. 464: Ephrem, Isaac, Jacob of Serugh, 1234 102. Vat. Syr. 467: *Life of Hoseph Busnaya, 1186 103. Vat. Syr. 506: *Athanasius Abu Ghalib, 1927 (from an old MS) 104. Vat. Syr. 509: *Monastic texts, 1928 (from an old MS) 105. Vat. Syr. 560: Canon law, 8th cent. 106. Vat. Syr. 581: *John of Dara, 1917 (from an old MS) 107. Vat. Syr. 586: *Questions and answers on Aristotle, Categories, 13th cent. 108. Vat. Syr. 623: *Melkite Monastic texts, 886 109. Vat. Syr. 627: *Fragment of Homiliary, 9th/10th cent. 110. Vat. Syr. 628: *Fragment (1f) of Lifeof Abraham Qidunaya, 7th cent. 111. Vat. Syr. 629: *Gregory of Cyprus, 12th cent.

Liturgical texts 112. Vat. Syr. 42: East Syriac Euchologion, 1202 113. Vat. Syr. 51: West Syriac Pontifical of Michael the Patriarch, 12th cent. 114. Vat. Syr. 53: Melkite Euchologion 115. Vat. Syr. 59: West Syriac funeral services, 1266 116. Vat. Syr. 60: West Syriac funeral services, 13th cent. 117. Vat. Syr. 61: East Syriac funeral services, 13th cent. 118. Vat. Syr. 68: West Syriac Beth Gazza, 1465 119. Vat. Syr. 78-82: Melkite Menaia, 12th/13th cent. 120. Vat. Syr. 83: East Syriac Hudra, 1537/9 121. Vat. Syr. 92: Funeral services, 823 122. Vat. Syr. 95: Seblatha, 13th cent. 123. Vat. Syr. 539: Husoye, 10th/11th cent. 124. Borgia Syr. 13: Melkite Euchologion, 12th cent. 125. Borgia Syr. 60: East Syriac Beth Gazza 126. Borgia Syr. 133 II: Seblatha, 13th cent. 127. Borgia Syr. 159: West Syriac anaphoras, 1295 128. Vat. Syr. 527: Canticles, 6th cent. (2 folios)

Bibliography

• Kristian S. Heal, Hugoye 8.1 With a list of significant Vatican Syriac manuscripts by Sebastian Brock. According to this article, manuscript Vat. Syr. 123: contains works by Gregory of Cyprus etc. 8th cent.