Syriac Manuscript Catalog LInks
These are links to online, downloadable, pdf copies of 18th and 19th century manuscript catalogs of Syriac mss in European collections, in chronological order. Most of them have been created by a project at Brigham Young University (BYU), although they have two separate websites.
The first of the BYU websites is their Syriac Studies Reference Libary for online Syriac materials:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/cua/
For what we want, drop down to the second open window, click to the right to access a list of categories of materials, select Manuscript Catalogs, then press the Browse button.
That will take you to the following page-long link to their page of pdf copies of ms catalogs:
The manuscript catalogs given here are the great Assemani catalogs of Florence and the Vatican, plus the collection of Syriac manuscripts in Berlin.
A second BYU page includes more nineteenth century catalogs of Syriac manuscript collections, at the following URI:
http://cpart.byu.edu/?page=99&sidebar
For example, the “Smith” catalogue - the long Latin title near the bottom - is Robert Payne Smith’s catalog of the Bodleian library at Oxford. The entries are in Syriac and Latin, as was the nineteenth century custom until Zotenberg (French) and Wright (English) produced catalogs in the target language with translation into their own national language.
