Stefano Evodio Assemani, (1707 - circa 1782), Lebanese

Lebanon

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 orientalist

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, nephew of Giuseppe Simone Assemani

Giuseppe Simone Assemani

Giuseppe Simone Assemani , 1687–1768, was a Lebanese Maronite orientalist.-Life:Giuseppe Simone Assemani was born on August 27, 1687 in Hasroun, Mount Lebanon. When very young he was sent to the Maronite College in Rome, and was transferred thence to the Vatican library. He was ordained priest on...

 and Giuseppe Luigi Assemani

Giuseppe Luigi Assemani

Giuseppe Luigi Assemani was a Lebanese orientalist and a Professor of Oriental languages at Rome.Assemani came from a well known family of Lebanese Maronites that included several notable Orientalists...

, was the chief assistant of his uncle Giuseppe Simone in his work in the Vatican library

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He was titular archbishop

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 of Apamea

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 in Syria

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, and held several rich prebends

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 in Italy

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. His literary labours were very extensive. His two most important works were a description of certain valuable manuscripts in his Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae et Palatinae codd. manuscr. Orientalium Catalogus (Flor. 1742), fol., and his Acta SS. Martyrum Orientalium.

He made several translations from the Syriac

Syriac language

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, and in conjunction with his uncle he began the Bibliothecae Apostol. Vatic. codd. manusc. Catal., in tres partes distributus. Only three volumes were published, and the fire in the Vatican library in 1768 consumed the manuscript collections which had been prepared for the continuation of the work.