East Syriac monastic histories

Lives and histories of the monks of the Church of the East, written in Syriac, some as prose and some as long metrical poems, about the founders and heroes of the mountain monasteries of northern Mesopotamia.

7th–13th century Syriac and the Church of the East The later Fathers 3 works

Writings

English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.

The Life of Rabban Hormizd (Budge translation) Older EnglishOCR text 3.1 h read
The Life of Rabban Bar-Idta (Budge translation) Older EnglishOCR text 2.1 h read
The Metrical Life of Rabban Hormizd (Budge translation) Older EnglishOCR text 3.5 h read

Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.