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Simone de Magistris

B. in 1728; d. October 6, 1802

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Magistris, SIMONE DE, b. in 1728; d. October 6, 1802; a priest of the Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri, at Rome, whom Pius VI created titular Bishop of Cyrene and provost of the Congregation for the correction of the liturgical books of Oriental Rites. He was very well versed in Oriental languages, and often received from Clement XIV and Pius VI commissions of research on points of ecclesiastical antiquity. He was, more especially devoted to the study of the Sacred Scriptures, and among his publications on. that subject are (I)”Daniel secundum Septuaginta ex tetraplis Origenis nunc primum editus” (Rome, 1772), from the sole codex in the Chigi library, accompanied by five dissertations (one of them on the chronology of Daniel), by the commentary of St. Hippolytus, by a comparison between the version of the Septuagint and that of Theodotion, a few pieces from the Book of Esther, in Chaldean, a fragment of Papias on the canon of the Sacred Scripture, etc. (2)”Acta Martyrum ad stia Tiberina” (Rome, 1795). (3)”S. Dionysii Alexandrini episcopi. opera” (Rome, 1796), with a learned introduction on the life and writings of the saint. (4)”Gli atti di cinque martin’ della Corea”, with a notice on the origin of the Faith in that country (Rome, 1801), etc.

U. BENIGNI


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