Guidi, Ignazio

              (CE:1186b-1187b)
GUIDI, IGNAZIO, Italian Orientalist, born at Rome in 1844; died there in 1935. He worked first in the Vatican Museums, and from 1876 he taught Hebrew and Semitic languages at the University of Rome. He published texts and monographs relating to the Arabo-Islamic, Syriac, Ethiopic, and Hebrew literatures. His main contributions to Coptic studies are the following: "Frammenti copti," Rendiconti Accademia dei Lincei IV, 3.1 (1887):47-63, 3.2 (1887):19-35, 65-81, 177-190, 251-270, 368-384, 4.1 (1888):60-70; "Gli Atti Apocrifi degli Apostoli nei testi copti arabi ed etiopici," Giornale della Societa asiatica italiana 2 (1888):1-66; "Di alcune pergamene saidiche della collezione Borgiana," Rendiconti Accademia dei Lincei V 2 (1893):513-30; "Il testo copto del Testamento di Abramo," Rendiconti Accademia dei Lincei, V, 9 (1900):157-80; "Il Testamento di Isacco e il Testamento di Giacobbe," ibid., pp. 223-64; "Vie et récits de l'abbé Daniel de Scete (VI siècle): III. Texte copte publié et traduit," Revue de l'Orient chrétien 5 (1900):535-64, 6 (1901):51-53.
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