Also known as:
Thomas of Novara;
Italian: Tommaso da Novara
OBICINI, TOMMASO. - Franciscan Palestinian scholar and Arabist, b. at Noni, diocese of Novara, and therefore called Thomas of Novara, d. in Rome on 7 Nov. 1632.
Guardian of Aleppo in 1613 and 1619, he was sent by Paul IV to the Synod of the Chaldeans (Amida 1616) to negotiate their union with Rome. From 1620 to 1622 he was custos of the Holy Land and recovered from the Turks the sanctuaries of Nazareth and St. John in the Mountains. In 1622 he established at St. Peter in Montorio a college for the missionaries of the East, where they might study Arabic. He also collaborated on the new Arabic version of the Bible.
Principal works: Ordo processionis... Jerosolymis per ecclesiam S.mi Spulchri (Venice 1623; Jerusalem 1855, 1896, 1925); Processio ad praesie in Bethlehem (Venice 1623; Jerusalem 1885; Rome 1926); Pia enarratio de redemptione templi S. Ioannis Bapt. in montanis Iudae et ordo processionis (ibid. 1623, 1786; Genoa 1835; Rome 1926); Quomodo... Nazareth ecclesiam p. Th. O. recuperaverit... una cum processione (ibid. 1623 and several times); Grammatica Arabica Afrumia appellata (ibid. 1631); Thesaurus Arabico-Syra-Latinus (ibid. 1636); Jegyptiorum linguae rudimenta (ed. A. van Lantschoot, Louvain 1948).
Bibliography7 worksWadding, Annales, XXV, pp. 164-201; id., Scriptores, pp. 216-17; Sbarales, III, pp. 136-37; B. Spila, Mem. stor. della proc. riformata roman
BIBL.: Wadding, Annales, XXV, pp. 164-201; id., Scriptores, pp. 216-17; Sbarales, III, pp. 136-37; B. Spila, Mem. stor. della proc. riformata romana, I, Rome 1890, p. 601 ff.; II, Milan 1896, pp. 12 ff., 32, 48-56; A. Kleinhans, Hist. studii linguae Arabicae... Quaracchi 1930, pp. 37-72 and passim; A. van Lantschoot, Un précurseur d'Athanae Kircher: Thomas O. et la « Scalu », Vat. Copte 71, Louvain 1948.
Kleinhans, Arduino. “Obicini, tommaso.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, coll. 16–17. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/obicini-tommaso.
MLA
Kleinhans, Arduino. “Obicini, tommaso.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 16–17. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/obicini-tommaso.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec9_obicini_tommaso,
author = {Kleinhans, Arduino},
title = {Obicini, tommaso},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {16--17},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/obicini-tommaso}
}
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