Enoch of Ascoli (c. 1400 – c. 1457) was a humanist and agent of Nicholas V^[1] in charge of collecting manuscripts around Europe for the newly founded library of the pope.

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He is notably responsible for the finding and retrieval, from a German monastery, of the only existing manuscript of Tacitus's minor books.

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