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Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana vol. 1: De Scriptoribus Syris Orthodoxis
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Joseph Simonius Assemani's 'Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana' (1719) is a monumental multi-volume Latin work documenting Syriac literature. Extensive searches across scholarly catalogs (including local catalogs, OpenAlex, and Internet Archive) have yielded no evidence of a complete or partial English translation. While the work is frequently cited in academic literature regarding Syriac studies, it remains untranslated in English.
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Joseph Simonius Assemani rescues centuries of forgotten Christian wisdom from the brink of extinction. Readers will follow his perilous search for hidden manuscripts that restore the intellectual history of the Syrian and Arabic East.