Links

Bibliographical Tools

• Archive.org
• Bibliotheques virtuelles humanistes
• Comprehensive Bibliography of Syriac Studies: Housed at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• CUA Library Guide
• Digital Public Library of America
• eBeth Arke
• e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha
• e-rara: Early Swiss printed books
• Europeana
• Goussen Library Collection
• Hathi Trust
• The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
• BIBLIA ARABICA: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians, and Muslims
• John Lamoreaux (for Christian Arabic resources)
• Kristian Heal’s guide to online resources
• North American Society for Christian Arabic Studies
• Roger Pearse
• Staatsbibliothek, Munich
• Syriac Tools and Resources
• Syriaca.org
• ULB Halle

 Centers for Syriac Studies

• Oxford
• Leiden
• SEERI
• Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies: A very useful collection of links, in Russian
• Catholic University of America
• Brigham Young/CPART
• Paris:
  • Societe des etudes Syriaques
  • Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes
• e-ktobe : manuscrits syriaques
• Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton
• Hugoye
• Syriac Reference Portal
• Canadian Society for Syriac Studies
• Latin and Syriac Commentary Project

Individual Scholars’ Websites (with helpful bibliographies)

• Andre Binggeli (CV) 
• Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet
• Sebastian Brock
• J.F. Coakley
• Ricardo Contini
• Muriel Debié
• Alain Desreumaux
• Sidney Griffith
• Kristian Heal
• John Healey 
• Geoffrey Khan
• Daniel King
• Lucas van Rompay 
• Alison Salvesen
• Andrea Schmidt
• David Taylor
• Herman Teule
• Robert Thomson
• John Watt

Important Library Collections

• Harvard: Hollis Classic is the best library catalog for a single institution. If you are interested in searching for books published in a certain city or place, it allows you to do even that; an interesting way to look for works one is unaware of. Searching for “Jounieh”, for example, will give you a number of books dealing with Christian Arabic.
• Oxford
• Catholic University, ICOR Library: Best collection of Syriac materials in the Western hemisphere. Rivaled perhaps only by Harvard.
• Princeton Theological Seminary: Excellent location, all open stacks, and all in a very compact setting. One can find a lot of things, often very rare, very quickly here.
• Princeton University: Superb for Arabic and Islamic, but the library interface is not so great. It is often easier to find the book in Princeton via WorldCat.
• New York Public Library: Strong collection of rare 19th century works printed by missionaries.
• Library of Congress
• Schoyen Collection
• Bibliotheque National
• Gallica
• WorldCat
• Bibliotheca Ambrosiana
• Ambrosiana at Notre Dame
• St. Louis University Vatican Film Library.
• IDEO, Cairo: Has a good online catalog, al-Kindi 

Manuscripts Available Online

• Start with our Digitized Manuscripts page.
• VHMML is the online home for over 3700 Syriac manuscripts, digitized and catalogued.
• Archimedes Palimpsest
• Syriac manuscripts from St Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai: NB: Arabic, Georgian, and Greek mss from St Catherine’s are also available. These were all manuscripts which were microfilmed during the Library of Congress’s expedition to the Sinai in the middle of the twentieth century.
• The Schoyen Collection also has a number of mss from St Catherine’s.  
• Manuscripts from St Mark’s Syrian Orthodox Monastery in Jerusalem
• Syriac manuscripts from the Mingana Collection in Birmingham, England. Christian Arabic and other manuscripts are also available.
• Yale has placed some Syriac manuscripts online.
• The British Library has digitized a few Syriac manuscripts.
• One can view the Met’s Syriac mss collections here. 
• Incantation bowls in the British Museum can also be seen.
• One can also find the odd Syriac ms online at the BNF.
• Steven Ring has a site which has collected various Syriac manuscripts available online.
• BYU has digitized a number of important manuscripts in the Vatican and a DVD with these mss on them can be purchased at a reasonable cost.
• Index of Medieval Medical Images
• It’s not in Syriac, but how can you not love Codex Sinaiticus? 
• e-Corpus 
• Manuscripts photographed by Arthur Vööbus are being digitized and catalogued by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, continuing the work begun by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
• Manuscripts photographed by Peshitta Institute (originally Leiden, now Amsterdam) are being digitized and catalogued by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library.
• Many of the Vatican Syriac Manuscripts have been digitized here (either in the Vat.sir. collection or in the Borg.sir. collection). 

Related Resources

• Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexicon
• Princeton has put a number of its Islamic manuscripts online.
• The Princeton Geniza Project has a searchable database of documentary texts from the Geniza. An invaluable resource for work in Middle Arabic.
• Vienna Arabic papyri
• The Quran online
• Fluegel’s edition of the Quran
  • Many old Orientalist works will cite the Quran according to Fluegel’s versification rather than according to the versification found in the 1925 Cairo edition, which has become the de facto standard Quran for much of the world.
  • Fluegel’s concordance to the Quran.
  • Fluegel’s edition of the Kashf al-Zunun. Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3.
  • Fluegel’s edition of the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim.
• Bedrossian’s Armenian-English Dictionary: The standard Armenian dictionary for English speakers. 
• Socino Translation of the Talmud
• Prosopography of the Byzantine World
• Al-Warraq: An Arabic site that allows you to do TLG-style searches of large amounts of classical Arabic literature. This is just one example of a number of similar Arabic sites.
• Wikipedia in Arabic can often be an extremely useful resource: for entries on medieval figures, editors will often cut and paste information from medieval sources on these individuals and thus a particular entry can be a digest of sorts of a number of different medieval works.