Open Access Books from The Syriac Studies Reference Library

[First posted in AWOL 14 July 2014, updates 27 May 2020]

The Syriac Studies Reference Library
Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library

The Syriac Studies Reference Library is a collection of rare and out-of-print titles that are of vital importance for Syriac studies. It is especially rich in early manuscript catalogs, dictionaries, and grammars, and contains many of the indispensable editions of Syriac texts that were produced in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. This collection was scanned from the holdings of the Semitics/ICOR Library of The Catholic University of America. More about the project…

Abbeloos, Jean Baptiste, 1836-1896. De vita et scriptis Sancti Jacobi, Batnarum Sarugi in Mesopotamia Episcopi cum eiusdem Syriacis carminibus ac aliorum aliquot fragmentis ... : dissertation historico-theologica ... ex auctoritate rectoris magnifici Nicolai Josephi Laforet ... pro gradu doctoris in S. theologia in Universitate Catholica, in oppido Lovaniensi. (Lovanii : Apud Vanlinthout Fratres, 1867);

Analecta sacra spicilegio Solesmensi parata. (Parisiis : Ex Publico Galliarum Typographeo, 1883);

Aphraates, the Persian sage, fl. 337-345. Aphraates on penitents. (Journal of the Society of Oriental Research. v. 16, 1932);

Aphraates, the Persian sage, fl. 337-345. De caritate. (Journal of the Society of Oriental Research, v. 14, 1930);

Aphraates, the Persian sage, fl. 337-345. The homilies of Aphraates, the Persian sage. (London : Williams and Norgate, 1869);

Assemani, Stefano Evodio, 1711-1782. Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae et Palatinae codicum mms. [sic] orientalium catalogus. Florentiae. (Ex Typographio Albiziniano, MDCCXLII [1742 i.e. 1743]);

Babakhan, Jacques. Essai de vulgarisation des homelies metriques de Jacques de Saroug, eveque de Batnan en Mesopotamie, 451-521. (Revue de l'Orient chretien, ser. 2, t. 7-9 1912-1914);

Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286, Le livre des splendeurs la grande grammaire de Gregoire Barhebraeus : text syriaque. (und : C.W.K. Gleerup, 1922);

Bar Hebraeus, 1226-1286. Buch der Strahlen die groessere Grammatik des Barhebraeus : Uebersetzung nach einem kritisch berichtigten Texte mit textkritischem Apparat und einem Anhang zur Terminologie. (Leipzig : O. Harrassowitz, 1907-1913);

Baumstark, Anton, 1872-1948. Altsyrische Profandichtung in gereimten Siebensilbern. (Orientalische Literturzeitung, v. 36, 1933)

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae codicum manuscriptorum catalogus in tres partes distributus : in quarum prima Orientales, in altera Graeci in tertia Latini Italici aliorumque Europaeorum idiomatum codices. vol. 2-3. (Paris : Maisonneuve, 1926);

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Scriptorum veterum nova collectio e Vaticani codicibus. Vol. 5, (Romae : Typis Vacticanis, 1825-1838);

Burkitt, F. Crawford (Francis Crawford), 1864-1935. The mss. of "Narsai on the mysteries". (Journal of Theological Studies. vol. 13, 1912)

Catholic Church. Breviarium bjuxta ritum ecclesiae Antiochenae Syrorum. (Mausili : Typis Fratrum Praedicatorum, 1886-1896);

Catholic Church. Tsluta qanunayta d-kahne a(y)k taksa d-kaldaye Breviarium Chaldaicum;

Chabot, Jean Baptiste, 1860-1948. Narsai le docteur et les origines de l'ecole de Nisibe, d'apres la chronique de Barhadbesabba. (Journal asiatique, ser. 10, v. 6, 1905)

Clement XI, Pope, 1649-1721; Innocent XIII, Pope, 1655-1724; Assemani, Giuseppe Simone, 1687-1768. Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana : in qua manuscriptos codices Syriacos, Arabicos, Persicos, Turcicos, Hebraicos, Samaritanos, Armenicos, Aethiopicos, Graecos, Aegyptiacos, Ibericos, & Malabaricos, jussu et munificentia Clementis XI ... ex Oriente conquisitos, comparatos, avectos, & Bibliothecae Vaticanae addictos. (Romae: Typis Sacrae Congragationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728);

Clementis Romani Recognitiones syriace. (Lipsiae : F.A. Brockhaus, 1861);

Codex liturgicus ecclesiae universae in XV libros distributus in quo continentur libri rituales, missales, pontificales, officia, dypticha, etc., ecclesiarum Occidentis, et Orientia. (Romae : Komarek, 1749-1766);

Connolly, R. Hugh (Richard Hugh), 1873-1948. A homily of Mar Jacob of Serugh on the memorial of the departed and on the eucharistic loaf. (Downside Review, v. 29, N.S. 10, 1910)

Connolly, R. Hugh (Richard Hugh), 1873-1948. A homily of Mar Jacob of Serugh on the reception of the holy mysteries. (Downside Review, v. 27, N.S. 8, 1908);

Connolly, R. Hugh (Richard Hugh), 1873-1948. The Diatessaron in the Syriac Acts of John. (Journal of theological studies, v. 8, 1907);

Daniel, of Salah, 6th cent. Eine jakobitische Einleitung in den Psalter. (Giessen : J. Ricker, 1901);

Das Buch von der Erkenntniss der Wahrheit, oder, Der Ursache aller Ursachen : nach den syrischen Handschriften zu Berlin, Rom, Paris und Oxford. (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1889);

Die syrischen Kanones der Synoden von Nicaea bis Chalcedon. (Berlin : Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1908);

Dionysius bar Salibi, Bishop of Amida, d. 1171. Diyunnusyaws bar Tslibi luqbal Yudaye = The treatise of Dionysius bar Salibhi against the Jews. (Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1906);

Duval, Rubens, 1839-1911. Traite de grammaire syriaque. (Paris : F. Vieweg, 1881);

Elias I, Patriarch of the Nestorians. Turas Mamlela Suryaya, oder, Syrische Grammatik des Mar Elias von Tirhan. (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1880);

Elias, of Dara, 6th cent. Het leven van Johannes van Tella. (Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1882);

Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. Memre tre'sar da-'bidin l- tubana mar(y) 'Aprem 'al Yawsep kina tub memra 'al masaqta d-garmaw(hy) = Histoire complete de Joseph : poeme en douze livres. (Paris : O. Harrassowitz, 1891);

Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. S. Ephraemi Syri, Rabulae Episcopi Edesseni, Balaei aliorumque opera selecta : e codicibus Syriacis manuscripts in Museo Britannico et Bibliotheca Bodleiana asservatis. (Oxonii : E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1865);

Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. S. Ephraim's prose refutations of Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan: of which the greater part has been transcribed from the palimpsest B.M. add. 14623 and is now first published. (London : Published for the Text and Translation Society by Williams and Norgate, 1912-1921);

Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. Sancti Ephraem Syri, patris et scriptoris ecclesiae antiquissimi et dignissimi, Opera omnia quotquot in insignioribus Italiae bibliothecis, praecipue Romanis Graece inueniri potuerunt, in tres tomos digesta. (Coloniae : Apud Arnoldum Quentelium, MDCIII [1603]);

Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. Sancti patris nostri Ephraem Syri Opera omnia quae exstant Graece, Syriace, Latine : in sex tomos distributa : ad mss. Codices Vaticanos aliosque castigata, multis aucta, interpretatione, praefationibus, notis, variantibus lectionibus illustrata ... (Romae : Ex typographia Vaticana, Jo. Mariae Henrici Salvioni, MDCCXXXII-MDCXLVI [1732-1746]);

Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340. History of the Martyrs in Palestine : discovered in a very antient Syriac manuscript. (London : Williams and Norgate, 1861);

Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340. Ktaba d-'Ewsebyaws qesaraya d-'al denha 'alahaya = Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, on the Theophania or divine manifestation of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : a Syriac version. (London : Printed for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts : Sold by James Madden, 1842);

Funk, S. (Salomon), 1866-1928. Die haggadischen Elemente in den Homilien des Aphraates, des persischen Weisen : Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der philosophischen Doctorwuerde der hohen philosophische Facultaut der Universitaut Leipzig. (Wien : M. Knopfmacher, 1891);

Gelzer, Heinrich, 1847-1906. Patrum Nicaenorum nomina Latine, Graece, Coptice, Syriace, Arabice, Armeniace. (Lipsiae : In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1898);

George, Bishop of the Arabs, ca. 724. Georgs des Araberbischofs Gedichte und Briefe. (Leipzig : S. Hirzel, 1891);

Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint. Ktaba d-memre d-mush hata d-yambu d-qadisha Grigwariwas te'awlwagaws = S. Gregorii theologi Liber carminum iambicorum, Pars altera. Versio syriaca antiquissima e Codicibus londinensibus Musaei Britannici. (Beryti : Ex typographia catholica, 1895-1896);

Haefeli, Leo. Stilmittel bei Afrahat dem persischen Weisen. (Leipzig : J. C. Hinrichs, 1932);

Haneberg, Daniel Bonifacius von, 1816-1876. Drei nestorianische Kirchenlieder. (Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft, v. 3, 1849);

Hassan bar Bahlul, 10th cent. Lexicon Syriacum. (Parisiis : E Reipublicae typographaeo, 1901);

Hippocrates. Une version syriaque des Aphorismes d'Hippocrate. (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrich, 1903);

Inedita Syriaca : eine Sammlung syrischer Uabersetzungen von Schriften griechischer Profanliteratur : mit einem Anhang, aus den Handschriften des Brittischen [sic] Museums. (Wien : K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1870);

Isaac, Bishop of Nineveh, 7th cent. Mam(l)la mawthrana d-'al 'ur ha d-dayrayuta d-sim l-mar(y) 'Ishaq 'episqupa d-ninwe De perfectione religiosa. ( Parisiis : O. Harrossowitz, 1909);

Isaac, of Antioch. Isaac of Antioch : homily on the royal city. (Zeitschrift fuer Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete, v. 7, 1929);

Isaac, of Antioch. Isaac of Antioch : homily on the royal city. (Zeitschrift fuer Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete, v. 8, 1932);

Jacob, of Serug, 451-521. Deux homelies inedites de Jacques de Saroug. (Melanges de l'Universite Saint Joseph, v. 26, fasc. 1, 1944-1946);

Jacob, of Serug, 451-521. L'omelia di Giacomo di Sarug sul battesimo di Costantino imperatore. (Roma : R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1882);

Jacob, of Serug, 451-521. Omelia di San Giacomo di Sarugh in lode di San Simone Stilita traddota dal Siriaco. (Bessarione, ser. 3, vol. 4, Anno 12, 1908);

Jacob, of Serug, 451-521. S. Jacobi Serugensis sermo de Thamar ex codice Vaticano 117. (Oeniponti : Tipis Wagnerianis, 1871);

Jacobus Baradaeues : de stichter der Syrische monophysietische kerk . . . . (Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1882);

Jakhjakhean, Manuel. Dizionario armeno-italiano. (Venezia : Tip. Mechitaristica di S. Lazzaro, 1837);

Job, of Edessa, fl. 817-832. Encyclopaedia of philosophical and natural sciences as taught in Baghdad about A.D. 817, or, Book of treasures. (Cambridge : W. Heffer & Sons, 1935);

John, Bishop of Ephesus, ca. 507-586. The third part of the Ecclesiastical history of John, bishop of Ephesus. (Oxford : University Press, 1853);

Julian, Emperor of Rome, 331-363. Syrische Erzaehlungen. (Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1880);

Kalila und Dimna. (Berlin : G. Reimer, 1911);

Kmosko, Mihaly, 1876-1931. De apocrypha quadam dominici baptismi descriptione corollarium. (Oriens Christianus. vol. 4, 1904);

Koenigliche Bibliothek zu Berlin. Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften. Vol. 1-2, (Berlin : A. Asher, 1899);

Ktaba d-rishane da-'bid. (Parisiis : Otto Harrassowitz, 1901);

Ktava d-shapir dubare : d-'atir b-zuhare w-martyanwata d-'al hasyut znaye w-nakhput hufake w-durashe mahnayne b-ru h w-bafgar : 'am matle d-hakime d-'atikaye d-simin b-mushhayye. (Rome : Tab'a da-propagnda lwat maryatti, 1868);

Larsow, F. (Ferdinand). De dialectorum linguae Syriacae reliquiis. ([Berlin] : Formis expressum Academiae Regiae Berolinensis, 1841);

Lequien, Michel, 1661-1733. Oriens christianus, in quatuor patriarchatus digestus : quo exhibentur ecclesiae, patriarchae, caeterique praesules totius Oriemtis. (Parisiis : Ex Typographia regia, 1740);

Margoliouth, George. Descriptive list of Syriac and Karshuni manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since 1873. (London : Sold at the British Museum, 1899);

Martin, J. P. P. (Jean Pierre Paulin), 1840-1890. Un eveque-poete au Ve et au VIe si'ecles, ou, Jacques de Saroug, sa vie, son temps, ses oeuvres, ses croyances. (Revue des sciences ecclesiastiques, ser. 4, t.4 1876);

Maruthas, Saint, Bishop of Martyropolis, 5th cent. Sahdewata de-sahde kadishe madnehaye we-ma'rebaye = Acta sanctorum martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium : in duas partes distributa. Adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae. (Romae : Typis Josephi Collini, MDCCXLVIII [1748]);

Memre mgabye d-mar(y) Ya'qub d-Serug. (Parisiis : Via Dicta ; Lipsiae : O. Harrassowitz, 1905-1910);

Monumenta syriaca ex Romanis codicibus collecta. (Oeniponti [Innsbruck] : Libreria Academica Wagneriana, 1869-1878);

Moss, Cyril. Jacob of Serugh's homilies on the spectacles of the theatre. (Le Muson, v. 48, 1935);

Narsai doctoris Syri Homiliae et carmina. (Mausilii [Mosul, Iraq] : Typis Fratrum Praedicatorum, 1905);

Narsai, ca. 413-503. Das zweite Josephs-Gedicht von Narses : nach 2 Handschriften der Kšnigl. Bibliothek zu Berlin. (Berlin : M. Poppelauer, 1901);

Narsai, ca. 413-503. Die Geschichte Josefs. (Berlin : Druck von H. Itzkowski, 1889);

Narsai, ca. 413-503. Syrische Wechsellieder von Narses : ein Beitrag zur altchristlichen syrischen Hymnologie nach einer Handschrift der k?niglichen Bibliothek in Berlin. (Leipzig : O. Harrassowitz, 1896);

Narses, ca. 478-ca. 573. Homelie de Narses sur les trois docteurs nestoriens. (Journal asiatique, ser.9, v. 14, 1899; Journal asiatique, ser.9, v. 15, 1900);

Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, fl. 428. Le livre d'Heraclide de Damas. (Paris : Letouzey et Ane, 1910);

Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, fl. 428. Le livre d'Heraclide de Damas. (Paris : O. Harrassowitz, 1910);

Obizzino, Tommaso, fl. 1630. Thesaurus arabico-syro-latinus. (Romae : Sac. Congregationis de propag. fide, 1636);

Opuscula Nestoriana. (Kiliae : G. von Maack, 1880);

P. Lagardii Analecta Syriaca. (Lipsiae : B.G. Teubnerus, 1858);

Payne Smith, J. (Jessie), d. 1933. Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith. (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1927);

Philoxenus, Bp. of Hierapolis. The discourses of Philoxenus, bishop of Mabbogh, A.D. 485-519. (London : Asher & Co., [1893?]-1894);

Plutarch. A tract of Plutarch, On the advantage to be derived from one's enemies = De capienda ex inimicis utilitate : the Syriac version. (London : C.J. Clay, 1894);

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S. Cyrilli Alexandriae archiepiscopi Commentarii in Lucae Evangelium quae supersunt syriaice e manuscriptis apud Museum britannicum. (Oxonii : E Typographeo Academico, 1858);

Sahdona, Bp. of Mahoze dh' Arew an in Beth Gamdi. Syamaw(hy) d-mar(y) Marturis 'aw Sahduna S. Martyrii qui et Sahdona quae supersunt omnia. (Parisiis : O. Harrassowitz, 1902);

Sasse, C. I. Franciscus (Carolus Ioseph Franciscus), b. 1855. Prolegomena in Aphraatis sapientis Persae sermones homileticos : dissertatio inauguralis. (Lipsiae [i.e. Leipzig] : Typis G. Kreysingii, 1878);

Schwen, Paul, b. 1879. Afrahat, seine Person und sein Verstaendnis des Christentums : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kirche im Osten. (Berlin : Trowitzsch & Sohn, 1907);

Sindban, oder. Die sieben weisen Meister syrisch und deutsch. (Leipzig : Druck von Hundertstund & Pries, 1878);

Studia Syriaca, seu, Collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis. (In Monte Libano : In Seminario Scharfensi, 1904-1909);

Symbolae Syriacae. (Lugnuni Batavorum : Apud E.J. Brill, 1862-1875);

Synodicon orientale, ou, Recueil de synodes nestoriens. (Paris : Impr. nationale, 1902);

Syrisch-arabische Biographieen des Aristotles. Syrische Commentare zur Eisag og e des Porphyrios. (Leipzig : B. G. Teubner, 1900);

The book of Kalilah and Dimnah. (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1884);

The book of the Himyarites : fragments of a hitherto unknown Syriac work. (Lund : C.W.K. Gleerup, 1924);

Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, ca. 350-428 or 9. Theodori Mopsuesteni Fragmenta Syriaca : e codicibus Musei Britannici Nitriacis. (Lipsiae : Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1869);

Titus, of Bostra, Bishop of Bostra, fl. ca. 362-378. Titi Bostreni Contra manichaeos libri quator syriace. (Hannover : Orient-Buchhandlug Haines Lafaire, 1924);

Ueber und aus Reden von zwei syrischen Kirchenvaetern ueber das Leiden Jesu. (Theologische Quartalschrift. v. 52, 1870; Theologische Quartalschrift. v. 53, 1871);

Yabhal ah a III, Patriarch of the Nestorians, 1245-1317. Tash'ita d-mar(y) Ya(h)b'alaha w-da-tlata qatulike (') hrane wa-d-had qashisha w-da-treyn 'almaye nesrturyane Histoire de Mar-Jabalaha, de trois autres patriarches, d'un pretre et de deux laieques, Nestoriens. (Paris : O. Harrassowitz, 1895);

Zwei syrische Dichtungen auf das Entschlafen der allerseligsten Jungfrau.