Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana in qua manuscriptos codices Syriacos, Arabicos, Persicos, Turcicos, Hebraicos, Samaritanos, Armenicos, Aethiopicos, Graecos, Aegyptiacos, Ibericos, & Malabaricos, jussu et munificentia Clementis XI. pontificis maximi, ex Oriente conquisitos, comparatos, avectos, & Bibliothecae Vaticanae addictos Una cum iis quos sanctissimus Pater Innocentius XIII. In eandem bibliothecam inferri jussit: Recensuit, digessit, & genuina scripta à spuriis secrevit, addita singulorum auctorum vita, Joseph Simonius Assemanus Syrus Maronita sacrosanctae Basilieae Vaticanae presbyter beneficiatus, sacrae theologiae doctor, atque in eadem Bibliotheca Vaticana linguarum Syriacae & Arabicae scriptor. Tomus secundus De scriptoribus Syris monophysitis.
Assemani, Giuseppe Simone
Category
Books
Date
1721
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031654.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. 2. Running number: 7818. Provenance: manuscript ownership[?] inscription on half-title, erased. Binding: eighteenth-century full parchment over boards (front cover discoloured); sewn on four sewing supports; six raised bands; gilt title and vol. number stamped directly onto spine; red mottled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Assemani, Giuseppe Simone, author Vincenzo Franceschini (1680-1744), engraver (printmaker) Pier Leone Ghezzi (Rome 1674 - Rome 1755), artist