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ASSEMANI , the name of a. Syrian Maronite See also:family of famous Orientalists. I. See also:JOSEPH SPM0N, a Maronite of See also:Mount See also:Lebanon, was See also:born in 1687. When very See also:young he was sent to the Maronite See also:college in See also:Rome, and was transferred thence to the Vatican library. In 1 717 he was sent to See also:Egypt and See also:Syria to See also:search for valuable See also:MSS., and returned with about 150 very choice ones. The success of this expedition induced the See also:pope to send him again to the See also:East in r735, and he. returned with a still more valuable collection. On his return he was made titular See also:archbishop of See also:Tyre and librarian of the Vatican library. He instantly began to carry into See also:execution most extensive plans for editing and See also:publishing the most valuable MS. treasures of the Vatican. His two See also:great See also:works are the Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana rec. manuscr. codd. Syr., Arab., Pers., Turc., Hebr., Samarit., Armen., Aethiop., Graec., Aegypt., Iber., etMalab., jussu et munif. Clem. XI. (Rome, 1719-1728), 9 vols. See also:folio, and Ephraemi Syri See also:opera omnia quae extant, Gr., Syr., et See also:Lat., 6 vols. folio (Rome, 1737-1746). Of the Bibliotheca the first three vols. only were completed. The See also:work was to have been in four parts—(1) Syrian and allied MSS., orthodox, Nestorian and Jacobite; (2) Arabian MSS., See also:Christian and See also:Mahommedan; (3) Coptic, Aethiopic, See also:Persian and See also:Turkish MSS.; and (4) Syrian and Arabian MSS. not distinctively theological; only the first See also:part was completed, but extensive preparations were made for the others. There is a See also:German abridgment by A. F. See also:Pfeiffer. 2. JOSEPH ALoystus, See also:brother of Joseph See also:Simon, and See also:professor of See also:Oriental See also:languages at Rome. He died in 1782. Besides aiding his brother in his See also:literary labours, he published, in 1749-1760, Codex Liturgicus Ecclesiae Universae in xv. libris (this is incomplete), and Comment. de Catholicis sive Patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum (Rome, 1775). 3. See also:STEPHEN EVODIuS, See also:nephew of Joseph Simon and Joseph Aloysius, was the See also:chief assistant of his See also:uncle Joseph Simon in his work in the Vatican library. He was titular archbishop of See also:Apamea in Syria, and held several See also:rich prebends in See also:Italy. His literary labours were very extensive. His two most important works were a description of certain valuable MSS. in his Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae et Palatinae codd. manuscr. Orientalium Catalogus (See also:Flor. 1742), fol., and his Acta SS. Martyrum Orientalium. He made several See also:translations from the Syrian, and in See also:conjunction with his uncle he began the Bibliothecae Apostol. Vatic. codd. manusc. Catal., in tres partes distributus. Only three vols. were published, and the See also:fire in the Vatican library in 1768 consumed the See also:manuscript collections which had been prepared for the continuation of the work. 4. SIMON, grandnephew of Joseph Simon, was born at See also:Tripoli in 1752, and was professor of Oriental languages in See also:Padua. He died in 1820. He is best known by his masterly detection of the literary imposture of Vella, which claimed to be a See also:history of the See also:Saracens in Syria. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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