Assemani, Stephanus Evodius (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.