As far as I’ve seen, Garshuni MSS in …

Comment posted Nazrani Christians and the Social Processes of Kerala, 800-1500 by John Mathew.

As far as I’ve seen, Garshuni MSS in India (i.e., Syriac letters being used to write Malayalam, mainly for the benefit of West Asian clerics who had to communicate, deliver sermons, etc., with Indian laity) are very late.

If you want to find a wealth of info on this, you can read the various catalogues of Syriac MSS (available online for free: google books, the BYU/CUA Syriac Studies pages, etc.) to see descriptions of Garshuni MSS from Malabar. Perzcel’s SRITE project must have digitized images … but that is not open. I think they are disseminating their results via (… the infamous cabal of parasitical profiteers known as…) Gorgias Press.

I was interested in this a while ago for similar reasons as what you described (i.e., trying to attest the relationship between India and West Asian Churches) and I came to the realization that Garshuni is not the way to go — everything I saw was of a late (i.e., post 16th c) date.

Perhaps (hopefully?!) someone else here has seen earlier MSS?

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