Syriac and Garshuni Manuscripts from the Kiraz Collection
The series provides facsimile editions of the Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts held at the George A. Kiraz private library, or from photocopied or digital images of manuscripts currently in other collections but inaccessible. Whenever color images are available, the editions are produced here in color as well.
The Book of Conversation of Wisdom is a compendium of Aristotelian philosophy by Barhebraeus in four chapters: logic, the natural sciences, metaphysics and religious matters. This facsimile edition reproduces a manuscript transcribed in 1902.
The Book of the Pupils of the Eye is a short compendium of Aristotelian logic by Barhebraeus. This facsimile edition reproduces a manuscript of the work copied by Ya‘qub b. Buṭrus Sākā in 1896. Ignatius Ephrem Barṣaum made corrections to the text on the basis of another manuscript in 1904.