Further to Alex Hourani’s work on the new Maronite Chronicle, he has also done work on a much more recent Christian Arabic manuscript:
I think you will be interested in my article, “The register of Sylvester patriarch of Antioch: Manuscript 210 of the Missionary Society of Saint Paul in Harissa”, (link here: https://archive.org/details/
the-register-of-sylvester- patriarch-of-antioch-part-2). This is the register of letters sent or received by Sylvester patriarch of Antioch 1724-1766, including many other ecclesiastical documents.
My work is an index of the manuscript, which hasn’t been described before. I also transcribed some of the documents.
There are links to my work at the pages of this manuscript here:
1) Hill Museum and Manuscript Library: https://w3id.org/
vhmml/readingRoom/view/600049 2) Pinakes: https://pinakes.irht.
cnrs.fr/notices/cote/32446/
Dr H. has itemised the letters and documents and transcribed some of them. The language varies – some are in Greek, some in Arabic, some in Ottoman Turkish, etc. This makes this material very much more accessible to everyone!
This may seem a little dry, but work on primary sources like this is invaluable to researchers. Thank you!
UPDATE: Dr H. advises that “The manuscript of patriarch Sylvester is in its majority in Greek, with some documents in Turkish, Arabic and Armenian.”