Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts
The Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts is devoted to the recovery, study, preservation, and publication of ancient religious texts. Our primary focus is upon textual research and the development of print and electronic editions and research tools which advance the study of the Bible and its context, early Christianity, and the Christian East. Since 1997 the Center has been involved in research and preservation projects relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Herculaneum papyri, Syriac manuscripts from the Vatican Library, and many other texts and collections. All of these projects are characterized by a successful collaboration between traditional textual scholarship and emerging technologies.Among the resources made publicly available by CPART are:
Syriac Books
A.M. Ceriani, Translatio syra pescitto Veteris Testamenti ex Codice Ambrosiano (London: Apud Williams et Norgate, 1876-1883. 4pts in 1v).Download PDF Here (530 MB)
A.M. Ceriani, Codex Syro-hexaplaris Ambrosianus, photolithographice editus, curante et adnotante (Monumenta sacra et profana 7) Milan 1874.Download PDF Here (380 MB)
A.S. Lewis, Catalogue of the Syriac MSS. in the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai. (Studia Sinaitica 1) London 1894.Download PDF Here (25 MB)
A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts, 3 vol. (Cambridge: Heffer and Sons Ltd., 1933).Available for download in 3 separate PDF:
Vol. I - Syriac and Garshuni Manuscripts PDF (296 MB)
Vol. II - Christian Arabic and Additional Syriac Manuscripts PDF (78.9 MB)
Vol. III - Additional Christian Arabic and Syriac Manuscripts PDF (65.8 MB)
Armalat, Catalogue des manuscrits de Charfet, Jounieh 1937.Download PDF Here (111 MB)
[New] BADGER, GEORGE PERCY, The Nestorians and their Rituals. (London: Masters, 1852).Download Volume 1 PDF Here (103 MB)
Download Volume 2 PDF Here (89 MB)
Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluss der christlich‑ palästinensischen Texte. Bonn 1922.Download PDF Here (158 MB)
[New] BEDJAN, PAUL, Ethicon, seu Moralia Gregorii Barhebraei. [Followed by] Liber columbæ, seu Directorium monachorum. Paris, Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1898.Download PDF Here (144 MB)
[New] BEDJAN, PAUL, Homiliae S. Isaaci Syri Antiocheni. 1 vol. Paris, Leipzig 1903.Download PDF Here (575 MB)
[New] BEDJAN, PAUL, Gregorii Barhebrµi Chronicon Syriacum, emendatum adnotationibusque locupletatum by P. Bedjan (Par., 1890).Download PDF Here (220 MB)
[New] BENSLY, ROBERT LUBBOCK, The four Gospels in Syriac, transcr. from the Sinaitic palimpsest by R.L. Bensly and J.R. Harris, and F.C. Burkitt. With an intr. by A.S. Lewis (Cambr., 1894).Download PDF Here (74 MB)
[New] BENSLY, ROBERT LUBBOCK, The Harklean version of the Epistle to the Hebrews, chap. XI.28-XIII.25 : now edited for the first time with introduction and notes on this version of the Epistle (Cambridge: University Press, 1889).Download PDF Here (8 MB)
[New] BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE (FRANCE). Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques. tome 43 (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1965) 341 p., [4] f. de pl. [includes: 1. La liturge attribuée à saint jean Maron; 2. Notice sur deux manuscripts contenant les oeuvres du moine Isaac de Raban Isho; 3. Version syriaque de traits médicaux].Download PDF Here (123 MB)
[New] BICKELL, GUSTAV, S. Isaaci Antiocheni, Doctoris Syrorum opera omnia : ex omnibus, quotquot exstant, codicibus manuscriptis cum varia lectione Syriace Arabiceque primus edidit, Latine vertit, prolegomenis et glossario auxit (Gissae: J. Rickeri, 1873) 2 v.Download Volume 1 PDF Here (123 MB)
Download Volume 2 PDF Here (68 MB)
[New] BUDGE, ERNEST ALFRED T. WALLIS, The book of Paradise, being the histories and sayings of the monks and ascetics of the Egyptian desert by Palladius, Hieronymus and others. The Syr. texts ed. with an Engl. tr. by E.A.W. Budge (Lady Meux MS. no. 6; Lond., 1904) 2 vols.Download Volume 1 PDF Here (305 MB)
Download Volume 2 PDF Here (266 MB)
[New] BUDGE, E. A. WALLIS, The book of governors : the Historia monastica of Thomas, bishop of Marga, A. D. 840, edited from Syriac manuscripts in the British museum and other libraries, 2 vols. (London: K. Paul Trench Trèubner & co. ltd., 1893).Download Volume 1 PDF Here (158 MB)
Download Volume 2 PDF Here (198 MB)
[New] BUDGE, E. A. WALLIS, Syrian anatomy, pathology and therapeutics; or, "The Book of Medicines." (London,: Oxford University Press, 1913) 2v.Download Volume 1 PDF Here (146 MB)
Download Volume 2 PDF Here (153 MB)
[New] BURKITT, F. CRAWFORD, Evangelion da-Mepharreshe : the Curetonian Version of the four gospels, with the readings of the Sinai palimpsest and the early Syriac patristic evidence (Cambridge England: University Press, 1904) 2 v. [vol. 2]Download PDF Here (121 MB)
[New] CARR, WILMOT EARDLY W., Commentary on the Gospels from the Horreum mysteriorum (London New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Macmillan, 1925).Download PDF Here (153 MB)
[New] CHABOT, J.-B, De S. Isaaci Ninivitae vita, scriptis et doctrina. Accedunt ejudem [sic] Isaaci tres integri sermones quos e codicibus syriacis Musaei Britannici [i.e. Add. 14633 and 14632] descripsit, Latinitate donavit, notis instruxit et, collatione ad Graecam versionem facta, nunc primum publici juris facit I. B. Chabot. (Parisiis, 1892).Download PDF Here (27 MB)
[New] CURETON, WILLIAM, The festal letters of Athanasius (London: Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1848).Download PDF Here (48 MB)
[New] CURETON, WILLIAM, Remains of a very antient recension of the four Gospels in Syriac : hitherto unknown in Europe (London: John Murray, 1858).Download PDF Here (133 MB)
[New] CURETON, WILLIAM, Spicilegium syriacum; containing remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose and Mara Bar Serapion (London,: F. and J. Rivington, 1855).Download PDF Here (41 MB)
[New] Driver, G.R. & L. Hodgson, The Bazaar of Heracleides, newly translated from the Syriac and edited with an introduction, notes & appendices. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1925.Download PDF Here (138 MB)
[New] EVELYN-WHITE, HUGH G. and HAUSER, WALTER, The monasteries of the Wâdi 'n Natrûn (New York,, 1932) 3 v. [Volume 2, includes material on the Syrian Monastery].Download PDF Here (196 MB)
[New] R.J.H. Gottheil, Bar ‘Ali (Isho‘). The Syriac-Arabic Glosses. (Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei. Classe di Scienzi morali, storiche e filologiche Ser. 5, vol.13) 2 parts, 1910 + 1928.Download Volume 1 PDF Here (147 MB)
Download Volume 2 PDF Here (62 MB)
[New] GWILLIAM, GEORGE HENRY, Biblical and patristic relics of the Palestinian Syriac literature, from MSS. in the Bodleian library and in the library of saint Catherine on mount Sinai, ed. by G.H. Gwilliam, F.C. Burkitt and J.F. Stenning (Anecdota Oxon., Sem. ser. vol.1, pt.9; Oxf, 1896).Download PDF Here (25 MB)
H. Zotenberg, Manuscrits orientaux. Catalogue des manuscrits syriaques et sabéens (mandaïtes) de la Bibliothèque nationale (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1874).Download PDF Here (136 MB)
[New] HARRIS, J. RENDEL, and ROBINSON, J. ARMITAGE, The Apology of Aristides on behalf of the Christians, from a Syriac ms. preserved on Mount Sinai (2d edn.; Cambridge Eng.: The University press, 1893).Download PDF Here (40 MB)
[New] HAYES, E. R., L'école d'Edesse (Paris: Les Presses Modernes, 1930).Download PDF Here (75 MB)
J.E. Manna, Morceaux choisis de littérature araméenne. 2 vols. (Mosul, 1901).)Download Volume I Here (91.6 MB)
)Download Volume II Here (118 MB)
J. Forshall & F. Rosen, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars prima, codices syriacos et carshunicos amplectens (London, 1838).Download PDF Here (100 MB)
[New] KEITH-FALCONER, I. G. N., Kalilah and Dimnah ; or, The Fables of Bidpai: being an account of their literary history (Cambridge,: University Press, 1885).Download PDF Here (121 MB)
[New] LABOURT, JEROME, Le christianisme dans l'empire perse sous la dynastie Sassanide (224-632) (2 edn., Bibliotheque de l'enseignement de l'histoire ecclesiastique; Paris: V. Lecoffre, 1904).Download PDF Here (143 MB)
[New] LAMY, THOMAS JOSEPH, Sancti Ephraem Syri hymni et sermones (Mechliniæ: H. Dessain Summi Pontificis S. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide et Archiepiscopatus Mechliniensis Typographus, 1882).Download Volume 1 PDF Here (144 MB)
Download Volume 2 PDF Here (128 MB)
Download Volume 3 PDF Here (182 MB)
Download Volume 4 PDF Here (168 MB)
[New] Lebon, Joseph, Le monophysisme sévérien étude historique, littéraire et théologique sur la résistance monophysite au Concile de Chalcédoine jusqu'à la constitution de l'Eglise jacobite (J. van Linthout, 1909).Download PDF Here (174 MB)
[New] LEWIS, AGNES SMITH and GIBSON, MARGARET DUNLOP, The Palestinian Syriac lectionary of the Gospels. Re-edited from two Sinai Mss. and from P. de Lagarde's edition of the "Evangeliarium Hierosolymitanum" (London,: K. Paul Trench Trübner & co., 1899).Download PDF Here (95 MB)
[New] MINGANA, ALPHONSE, Sources syriaques (Leipzig,: O. Harrassowitz, 1907) 2v.Download PDF Here (99 MB)
[New] NAU, FRANÇOIS, Histoire et sagesse d'Ahikar l'assyrien (fils d'Anael, neveu de Tobie) (Paris,: Letouzey et Ané, 1909).Download PDF Here (70 MB)
[New] Philips, George, Scholia on passages of the Old Testament (London: Williams and Norgate).Download PDF Here (20 MB)
[New] PUSEY, PHILIP EDWARD and GWILLIAM, GEORGE HENRY, Tetraeuangelium sanctum juxta simplicem Syrorum versionem ad fidem codicum, Massorae, editionum denuo recognitum (29346 Revised. edn.; Oxonii: E. Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1901).Download PDF Here (192 MB)
R. Duval, La Littérature Syriaque (Paris, 1907).Download PDF Here (93.9 MB)
[New] SACHAU, EDUARD, Syrische Rechtsbücher (Berlin,: G. Reimer, 1907) 3 v. in 2.Download Volume 1 PDF Here (75 MB)
Download Volume 2 PDF Here (77 MB)
[New] SCALIGER, JOSEPH JUSTE, DIEU, LODEWIJK DE, and OFFICINA ELZEVIRIANA, [Gelyana de-Yu*hanan *kadisha], id est, = Apocalypsis Sancti Iohannis, ex manuscripto exemplari è bibliotheca clariss. viri Josephi Scaligeri deprompto, edita charactere Syro, & Ebræo, cum versione Latina, & notis, opera & studio Ludouici de Dieu (Lugduni Batauorum,: Ex typographia Elzeviriana., 1627).Download PDF Here (37 MB)
Smith, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Bodleianae, pars VIta, Codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mandaeos, complectens (Oxford 1864).Download PDF Here (155 MB)
T. Nöldeke, Compendious Syriac grammar. With a table of characters by Julius Euting. Tr. from the 2d and improved German ed., by James A. Crichton, D.D (London : Williams & Norgate, 1904).Download PDF Here (106 MB)
W. Jennings, Lexicon to the Syriac New Testament (Peshitta): With Copious References, Dictions, Names of Persons and Places and some Various Readings found in the Curetonian, Sinaitic Palimpsest, Philoxenian & Other Mss (Oxford: 1926. 244pp).Download PDF Here (50.5 MB)
[New] WRIGHT, WILLIAM, The chronicle of Joshua the stylite : composed in Syriac A.D. 507 (Cambridge: University Pr, 1882).Download PDF Here (45 MB)
W.Wright, A Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, 2 vol (University Press: Cambridge, 1901).Download PDF Here (240 MB)
W. Wright, Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1838, 3 vols. (London, 1870-72).Available in three separate PDF: Download Volume I Here (156 MB)
Download Volume II Here (266 MB)
Download Volume III Here (147 MB)
Coptic Books[New] Wright, William, The homilies of Aphraates, the Persian sage. Vol. I. The Syriac text (London,: Williams and Norgate, 1869).
Budge, E. A. Wallis, The Earliest Known Coptic Psalter: The Text, in the dialect of Upper Egypt, edited from the unique Papyrus Codex Oriental 5000 in the British Museum (London: Kegan Paul Trench Trübner & Co., 1898).Brown Manuscripts
Download PDF here (34 MB)
Ciasca, Agostino, Sacrorum Bibliorum fragmenta copto-sahidica Musei Borgiani iussu et sumptibus S. Congregationis de propaganda fide studio… (Romae: typis eiusdem S. Congregationis, 1885-1904).
Available for download in 4 separate PDF:
Copto-Sahidica I PDF (76.6 MB)
Copto-Sahidica II PDF (124 MB)
Copto-Sahidica III PDF (111 MB)
Copto-Sahidica IV (Plates) PDF (12.6 MB)
Crum, Walter Ewing, Koptische Rechtsurkunden des Achten Jahrhunderts Aus Djeme (Theben) (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrich'sche Buchhandlung, 1912).
Download PDF here (98.5 MB)
Crum, Walter Ewingg, Theological Texts from Coptic Papyri, ed. with an appendix upon the Arabic and Coptic versions of the life of Pachomius(Oxford:The Clarendon press, 1913).
Download PDF here (39.2 MB)
Thompson, Herbert, A Coptic Palimpsest Containing Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Judith and Esther in the Sahidic Dialect (London, New York: Frowde, 1911).
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The Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem sits on the traditional site of the house of St. Mark the evangelist (cf. Acts 12:12). It is the seat of the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Jerusalem. Ignatius III lived there as Bishop in 1471, which is the earliest dated evidence for the monastery. The monastery houses a substantial collection of manuscripts (289 volumes are included in Dolabani’s catalogue). Thirty one of these manuscripts were microfilmed in 1987/88 as part of an NEH funded project under the direction of Professor S. Kent Brown. A preliminary catalogue was prepared by William Macomber in 1990.
SMC 1-1 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Old and New Testament lectionary; Language: Syriac; Folios: 185; Date: 1549 [Download Here 52MB]SMC 1-2 Principal Work: Genesis to Judges; Language: Syriac; Folios: 108; Date: 1500 [Download Here 37MB]SMC 1-3 Principal Work: Psalms; Language: Syriac / Garshuni; Folios: 117; Date: 1500 [Download Here 36MB]SMC 1-4 Principal Work: Entire New Testament; Language: Syriac; Folios: 277; Date: 1500 [Download Here 90MB]SMC 1-5 Principal Work: Anonymous, Kurasa da-shmahe w-da0qrayata d-'Attiqta w-da-Hdatta ayk mashlmanuta Qarqpayta [Volume of the names and readings of the Old and New (Testaments) according to the tradition of (the Monestary of) Qarqapta; Language: Syriac; Folios: 148; Date: 1500 [Download Here 51MB]SMC 1-6 Principal Work: Daniel of Salah, Tafsir al-Mazamir [Commentary on the Psalms]; Language: Garshuni; Folios: 365; Date: 1852 [Download Here 112MB]SMC 1-7 Principal Work: Dionysius Bar Salibi, Ktaba d-pushshaqa da-Shlihe qaddishe, 'am Gelyana d-Yohannan [Book of the commentary on the (books) of the holy Apostles, with the revelation of John]; Language: Syriac; Folios: 170; Date: 1890 [Download Here 51MB]SMC 2-1 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Hymnary for Sundays; Language: Syriac; Folios: 221; Date: 800 [Download Here 80MB]SMC 2-2 Principal Work: Entire New Testament; Language: Syriac; Folios: 274 [Download Here 88MB]SMC 2-3 Principal Work: Pauline Epistles; Language: Syriac; Folios: 99; Date: 800 [Download Here 28MB]SMC 2-4 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Pontifical ritual; Language: Syriac; Folios: 193; Date: 1300 [Download Here 46MB]SMC 2-5 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Pontifical ritual; Language: Syriac; Folios: 135; Date: 1279 [Download Here 35MB]SMC 2-6 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Missal; Language: Syriac; Folios: 220; Date: 1417 [Download Here 72MB]SMC 2-7 Principal Work: Anonymous collector, Collection of writings of Isaac of Scete and Cyriacus of Antioch; Language: Syriac; Folios: 98; Date: 806 [Download Here 37MB]SMC 2-8 Principal Work: Marqus al-Darir ibn, Pentateuch, with commentary; Language: Garshuni; Folios: 625; Date: 1505 [Download Here 193MB]SMC 2-9 Principal Work: Anonymous collector, A collection of works of biblical commentary and theology; Language: Garshuni; Folios: 222; Date: 1600 [Download Here 66MB]SMC 2-10 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Missal; Language: Syriac; Folios: 22; Date: 1300 [Download Here 40MB]SMC 2-11 Principal Work: Church of the East (Chaldean). Pontifical Ritual; Language: Syriac; Folios: 140; Date: 1554 [Download Here 36MB]SMC 2-12 Principal Work: Rabban Eudochos and others, Lexicon, with appendices; Language: Syriac; Folios: 125; Date: 1788 [Download Here 40MB]SMC 2-13 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Collection of liturgical pieces and other miscellaneous items; Language: Syriac and Garshuni; Folios: 149; Date: 1400 [Download Here 44MB]SMC 2-14 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Missal; Language: Syriac; Folios: 199; Date: 1400 [Download Here 51MB]SMC 3-1 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Lectionary for feasts; Language: Syriac; Folios: 248; Date: 1413 [Download Here 81MB]SMC 3-2 Principal Work: Anonymous collector, Collection of the lives of the saints; Language: Garshuni; Folios: 398; Date: 1734 [Download Here 142MB]SMC 3-3 Principal Work: Anonymous collector, Collection of the lives of the saints (part 2); Language: Garshuni; Folios: 353; Date: 1734 [Download Here 130MB]SMC 3-4 Principal Work: Gregorius Abu al-Faraj Barhebraeus, Ktaba d-awsar raze [The book of the storehouse of the mysteries]; Language: Syriac; Folios: 418; Date: 1474 [Download Here 131MB]SMC 3-5 Principal Work: Anonymous collector, Collection of two treatises on confession and eight lives of saints; Language: Garshuni; Folios: 221; Date: 1553 [Download Here 77MB]SMC 3-6 Principal Work: Anonymous collector, Collection of homilies and other religious treatises; Language: Garshuni, with two pieces in Syriac/Garshuni; Folios: 205 [Download Here 62MB]SMC 3-7 Principal Work: Gregorius Abu al-Faraj Barhebraeus, Kitab al-ithiqun [The book of the Ethicon]; Language: Garshuni; Folios: 176; Date: 1724 [Download Here 45MB]SMC 3-8 Principal Work: Patriarch Michael I, Kitab al-tawarikh [History Book]; Language: Garshuni; Folios: 385; Date: 1899 [Download Here 738MB]SMC 3-9 Principal Work: Gregorius Abu al-Faraj Barhebraeus, Maktbanut zabne / d-Bar 'Ebraye [Chronicle of the ages / by Barhebraeus]; Language: Syriac; Folios: 404 [Download Here 138MB]SMC 3-10 Principal Work: Syrian Orthodox Church (Jacobite). Hymnary for the ferias of the Annunciation and for the feast of the Nativity; Language: Syriac; Folios: 108; Date: 1400 [Download Here 38MB]
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