44 ISLAND OF PATMOS. 
CHAP, heap the volume he pretended to recognise: 
it was a copy of the Poems of Gregory of 
Nazianzus 1 , written upon vellum, evidently as old 
Theological works : these, Villa-ison, in his visit to the island, found less 
injured than the manuscripts of classical writers. The monks told 
him, that, twenty years before his arrival, they had burnt from two 
to three thousand manuscripts; duo vel tria millia circiter codicum 
combussisse. Of these reliquiae Danatfm, a copy of the LEXICON OF 
CYRILL had escaped the flames, and was preserved by the Abbot. 
" On one side of the Library is a confused heap of what appears, 
for the most part, to be manuscript, consisting both of vellum and 
paper. Here, if an accurate search were made, might be found 
probably many literary fragments of importance. Over the door of 
the Library are the following lines ; intended, doubtless, for hexameter 
verses : they were placed there, as the date informs us, in 1802. 
A'.vo, "An, xiTtrau offat QXMKI ^tieiy^et^oi /3//3A.M, 
'AJg< pa. Qtgrigut irivuriu %gvff!av ^utimrai' 
Teiur aga rrjgit <pvi.K% ft~a fici/.Xov fiivraia, 
^u touos ovitxtt os t/ tit yiio.ro Qiyyofiat.ef yt> 
isr) ireu; \uf> Mnnot Aiiyavtrrau. 
" IN THIS PLACE ARE LYING WHATEVER MANUSCRIPTS THERE ARE OF 
NOTE : MORE ESTIMABLE ARE THEY TO A WISE MAN THAN GOLD : GUARD 
THEM, THEREFORE, WATCHFULLY, MORE THAN YOUR LIFE ; FOR ON 
THEIR ACCOUNT IS THIS MONASTERY NOW BECOME CONSPICUOUS. 
IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST, THE YEAR 1802." 
Walpole MS. Journal. 
The inscription over the door of the Library has been added since 
the author's visit ; and the Lexicon of Cyrill, mentioned by Filiation, 
is the identical Codex he bought of the Superior, and brought away. 
For a more detailed account of the MSS. of Greece, the Reader is 
referred to some remarks by Mr. Wulpole, iu the beginning of this 
Section. 
(1) In the First Edition of this Part of the Author's Travels, he had 
inadvertently written the name of this city Naiianzen ; for which he 
was reproved by a writer, in the Quarterly Review, maintaining 
that 
