Assemani, Stephanus Evodius
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
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Assemani, Stephanus Evodius

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Assemani-Stephanus-Evodius http://syriaca.org/bibl/64 55 Stephanus Evodius Assemani http://syriaca.org/person/350 [person] [Titular bp. of Apamea, Scriptor in the Vatican Library, Rome.]

(1711–1782) [Maron.]

Titular bp. of Apamea , Scriptor in the Vatican Library, Rome; nephew of J. S. Assemani , and cousin of J. A. Assemani . Among his numerous works the most important is the two-volume Acta Sanctorum Martyrum orientalium et occidentalium(1748; FT by F. Lagrange, 1852). Besides assisting his uncle in the catalogue of the Vatican mss. he was also the compiler of a number of other catalogues of oriental mss. (notably that of the Medicean-Laurentian Library in Florence, 1742); he was also responsible for the third Syriac volume (1743) of the six-volume edition of Ephrem .

Sources

G. Levi Della Vida, ‘Assemani, S. E.’, in Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, vol. 4 (1962), 441–2.
K. Rizk, ‘Assémani, Étienne-Évode’, in Encyclopédie Maronite, vol. 1 (1992), 437–39.
E. Tisserant, ‘Notes pour servir à la biographie d’Étienne-Évode Assémani’, OC 29 (1932), 264–76.

Sebastian P. Brock