Giuseppe Bianchini (1704 in
Verona
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– 1764 in
Rome
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) was an Italian
Oratorian, biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar.
Clement XII and
Benedict XIV
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, who highly appreciated his learning, entrusted him with several scientific labors. Bianchini had contemplated a large work on the texts of the Bible, ''Vindiciæ Canonicarum Scripturarum Vulgatæ latinæ editionis'', which was to comprise several volumes, but only the first, in which, among other things, are to be found fragments of the ''
Hexapla
''Hexapla'' (), also called ''Origenis Hexaplorum'', is a Textual criticism, critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in six versions, four of them translated into Ancient Greek, Greek, preserved only in fragments. It was an immense and complex wor ...
'' (
Codex Chisianus
Codex Chisianus 45
(also ''Codex Chigianus 45'';
Vatican Library, Chigi R. VII 45;
numbered 88 in Rahlfs Septuagint manuscripts, 87 in Frederick Field (scholar), Field's ''Hexapla''
) is a biblical manuscript variably dated to the 10th centur ...
), was published (Rome, 1740). Much more important is his ''Evangeliarium quadruplex latinæ versionis antiquæ'', etc., 2 vols. (Rome, 1749). Among his historical works may be mentioned the fourth volume which Bianchini added to the publication of his uncle,
Francesco Bianchini, ''Anastasii bibliothecarii Vitæ Rom. Pontif.'' (Rome, 1735); he also published the ''Demonstratio historiæ ecclesiasticæ quadripartitæ'' (Rome, 1752–54). The chief liturgical work of Bianchini is ''Liturgia antiqua hispanica, gothica, isidoriana, mozarabica, toletana mixta'' (Rome, 1746). He also undertook the edition of the works of B. Thomasius (Tomasi), but only one volume was issued (Rome, 1741).
In addition he investigated and wrote an account of the reported
spontaneous human combustion of the Countess
Cornelia Zangheri Bandi (Verona, 1731, later republished at Rome).
[Bianchini, G. (1743) ''Parere sopra la Cagione della morte della Comtessa Cornelia Zangari, ne' Bandi Casenate''; 3a ediz. Roma: Ottavio Puccinelli]
Bianchini examined and described many of biblical manuscripts housed in Italy, such as:
Minuscule 145,
169,
170,
171,
173,
174,
175,
176
Year 176 ( CLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Aper (or, less frequently, year 929 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 176 for this year ha ...
,
178,
179,
180,
196
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this yea ...
,
394,
397,
450,
627,
632
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,
Lectionary 35,
Lectionary 46,
Lectionary 123,
Lectionary 124,
Lectionary 125,
Lectionary 126,
Lectionary 127,
Codex Cyprius,
Codex Angelicus,
Codex Campianus
Codex Campianus is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, written on parchment. It is designated as "M" or "021" in the Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland, Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε 72 in the Bib ...
,
Codex Vaticanus 2066,
Codex Curiensis,
Codex Corbeiensis I,
Codex Corbeiensis II,
Codex Sangermanensis I.
Works
* ''Evangeliarium quadruplex latinæ versionis antiquæ seu veteris italicæ'' (Rome, 1749)
Footnotes
References
*Carlantonio de Rosa, Marquis of Villarosa, (Naples, 1837)
*Eugène Mangenot, (Amiens, 1892)
*
Hurter, Hugo von, , III, 71 sqq.
*
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1704 births
1764 deaths
18th-century Italian male writers
Italian biblical scholars
18th-century Italian historians
Liturgists
Writers from Verona