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Prof, Everett'' s account of Greek Manuscripts, 413 



VI. A very neat and well written quarto manuscript contain- 

 ing the chronicle of Michal Glycas; who lived probably in the 

 twelfth century. Both the age and country of this writer have 

 been the subject of more controversy than the intrinsic merits of 

 his work authorize. Leo Allatius, a learned Greek himself, has 

 been followed by several European critics in the opinion, that • 



Glycas flourished in the fifteenth century, after the capture of 

 Constantinople. This opinion rests on the circumstance, that 

 among the epistles ascribed to Glycas are three addressed to . 

 Constantine Paleologus, the last of the Christian emperors, who 

 perished A. D, 1453. But as the annals of Glycas terminate at 

 the year 1118, and there is no proof that the epistles, which bear 

 his name, are not a miscellaneous collection by various authors, 

 it has been inferred with greater probability by Cave," Dtipin, 

 Fabricius and others, that Glycas flourished in the twelfth century. • 

 Whether he were a native of Sicily or Constantinople is also a 

 matter of question, and debated at length by Lami.* 



The chronicle, of which the manuscript in question is a copy, 

 relates the history of the world, from the creation down to the 

 death of Alexius Comnenus in 1118. A part of the work con- 

 taining the history from Julius C^sar to Constantine the Great, 

 was published with a Latin version by Meursius at Leyden m 



■^ Theodori Metochit^ historiae RomanJE a Juho 

 Csesare ad Constantinum liber singularis, Gr. ac L 



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I am' unacquainted with the' circumstances whicli 

 led Meursius to ascribe this work to Theodore Metochita. Leun- 

 clavius or Lowenklau published a Latin version of the whole work 

 in 1572 with a continuation down to the capture of Constantmople 



• In the delici^B Eruditor»m. Fabtlcii Biblioth. Grsec. Ed. Harlosii. Tom. 



vii. p. 468. 



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