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| | British Museum----MSS. from the Egyptian Monasteries. Quarterly Review 77: Nos. 153-4 (Dec. 1845-Mar. 1846) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | It happened that Elias Assemani, the cousin of the famous Joseph Simon Assemani, had been sent by Stephen of Antioch, upon business to Rome, and having already accomplished the object of his journey, was at that moment on the point of returning to Syria. |
 | | This Jesuit revisited Nitria with J. Assemani, and afterwards accompanied him, upon his return to Egypt in the next year, 1716, in his expedition across the desert of the Thebaid to the convents of St. Anthony and St. Paul near the coast of the Red Sea. |
 | | Assemani, although he mentions that Sicard accompanied him in his expedition to the Thebaid, is altogether silent respecting his attending him to the desert of Macarius. |
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