Assemani, Stephanus Evodius Sebastian P. Brock Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University The International Balzan Prize Foundation George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Electronic Edition Version 1.5 Published by Gorgias Press LLC, 954 River Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA www.gorgiaspress.com for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Published with the collaboration of Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Published and hosted with the collaboration of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts George A. Kiraz Lucas Van Rompay Piscataway, N.J. Gorgias Press for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute 2011 Copyright ©2011 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute ISBN: 978-1-59333-714-8
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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’, <abbr>OC</abbr> 29 (1932), 264–76.
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