Module: Giuseppe Simone Assemani

IntroductionFurther Reading
  • Assemani’s Legacy in launching Oriental studies: How did Assemani forever impact the field?
    • Syriac
      • How does Wright use Assemani’s work in his catalogues of the British Museum manuscripts (now in the British Library, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) and of the Cambridge University Library (Vol. 1, Vol. 2)?
    • Arabic
      • Not mentioned by: Johann Fück, Die Arabische Studien in Europa bis in den Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig (Otto Harrassowitz) 1955, esp. 124–126.
    • Christian Palestinian Aramaic
    • Hebrew
    • Samaritan

Conclusion: There was hardly any reception of Assemani in Arabic and Hebrew studies.

Works Cited and Further Reading

Assemani, Giuseppe Simone, and Stefano Evodio Assemani. 1756. Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae Codicum Manuscriptorum Catalogus in tres Partes distributus: in quarum prima Orientales, in altera Graeci in tertia Latini Italici aliorumque Europaeorum Idiomatum Codices: Partis Primae, Tomus Primus, Codices Ebraicos et Samaritanos. Vol. 1. 3 vols. Rome: Ex typographia linguarum orientalium. https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.manuscripthunters.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bibliothecae_apostolicae_vaticanae_codic.pdf. Cite
Assemani, Giuseppe Simone, and Stefano Evodio Assemani. 1758. Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae Codicum Manuscriptorum Catalogus in tres Partes distributus: in quarum prima Orientales, in altera Graeci in tertia Latini Italici aliorumque Europaeorum Idiomatum Codices: Partis Primae, Tomus Secundus, Codices Chaldaicos Sive Syriacos. Vol. 2. 3 vols. Rome: Ex typographia linguarum orientalium. https://via.hypothes.is/https://ia803207.us.archive.org/5/items/AssemaniBAVI2/Assemani_BAV_I-2_text.pdf. Cite
Beit-Arié, Malachi, and Nurit Pasternak. 2008. Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library Catalogue: Compiled by the Staff of the Instititute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. Edited by Benjamin Richler. Studi e Testi 438. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/reference/catalogues/Richler-2008-Vaticaan/Cat-Vatican-vaticanhebmss.pdf. Cite
Fück, Johann. 1955. Die Arabischen Studien in Europa bis in den Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz. http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/reference/books/Fuck-1955-Arabische-Studien.pdf. Cite
Vollandt, Ronny. 2017. “Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756–1834) and His Books.” In Jewish Manuscript Cultures: New Perspectives, edited by Irina Wandrey, 275–306. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 13. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110546422-011. Cite
Wright, William. 1870. Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838. Vol. 1. 3 vols. London: British Museum. https://archive.org/details/cataloguesyriac01wriggoog. Cite
Wright, William. 1871. Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838. Vol. 2. 3 vols. London: British Museum. https://archive.org/details/catalogueofsyria02brituoft. Cite
Wright, William. 1901. A Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Vol. 2. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://archive.org/details/catalogueofsyria02camb. Cite
Wright, William. 1901. A Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Vol. 1. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://archive.org/details/catalogueofsyria01camb. Cite
Wright, William, and William Wright. 1872. Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1838. Vol. 3. 3 vols. London: British Museum. https://via.hypothes.is/https://ia600301.us.archive.org/1/items/catalogueofsyria03brituoft/catalogueofsyria03brituoft.pdf. Cite

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