Select Syriac Manuscripts from the Vatican Library

In 1999 Mar Bawai Soro, a bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East, began discussions with the Vatican Library to make their Syriac collections more accessible both to scholars as well as to the communities who produced these texts. Mar Bawai approached Brigham Young University to be a partner in the project, a proposal that was eagerly received. The scope of the first phase of the project was formulated by the parties and a contract between BYU and the Vatican Library was signed in early 2000. The manuscript photography was undertaken in two stages, one in June 2000 and another in April 2002. Reproductions of the thirty-three manuscripts photographed during these sessions were all published on a single DVD in an accessible and usable form. The manuscripts are accompanied by copies of their original catalogue descriptions and by a new description with updated bibliographical details.

Manuscript Descriptions

Vatican Syriac 59
Vatican Syriac 68
Vatican Syriac 83
Vatican Syriac 92
Vatican Syriac 93
Vatican Syriac 110
Vatican Syriac 111
Vatican Syriac 112
Vatican Syriac 113
Vatican Syriac 114
Vatican Syriac 117
Vatican Syriac 120
Vatican Syriac 124
Vatican Syriac 125
Vatican Syriac 135
Vatican Syriac 140
Vatican Syriac 141
Vatican Syriac 147
Vatican Syriac 151
Vatican Syriac 157
Vatican Syriac 161
Vatican Syriac 163
Vatican Syriac 165
Vatican Syriac 189
Vatican Syriac 191
Vatican Syriac 252
Vatican Syriac 283
Vatican Syriac 367
Vatican Syriac 586