50 ISLAND OF PATMOS. 
COMXEXUS, concerning the establishment of 
their Monastery, inscribed upon a large roll, 
and precisely corresponding, in the style of the 
manuscript, with the fragment preserved by 
Montfaucon, in his Pal<eographia\ Besides this, 
were other rolls of record, the deeds of suc- 
ceeding Emperors, with their seals affixed, 
relating to the affairs of the Convent. We cal- 
culated the number of volumes in the Library 
to be about a thousand ; and of this number, 
above two hundred were in manuscript. After 
we had left the Library, we saw, upon- a shelf in 
the Refectory, the most splendid Manuscript 
of the whole collection, in two folio volumes, 
richly adorned: it was called the THEOLOGY 
OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZVS*, and purported to 
be throughout IN THE HAND-WRITING OF THE 
(1) " IMPERATORIS GRJECI EPISTOLJE INSIGNE FRAG.MI.NTLM." See 
Montfaucon, Palavg. Grac. p. 266. Paris, 1708. This Epistle 
believed by Montfaucon (from the remains of the Signature 
****TANTiNiis) to have been written in the ninth century, 1 by 
Constantinus Copronymus, to Pepin, the French king. The style of 
the writing very much resembles that which is now lying in the 
Library at Patmos. 
(2) Cave mentions a work of Gregorius Nazianzenus under this 
title : " De Theologid Orationes V. contra Eunomianos et Macedo- 
nianos :" (see Scriptor. Ecclesiast. Hist. Lit. Saculum .trianum, 
p. 200. Land. 1688.) but the Patmos MS. being in two large folio 
volumes, in all probability contains other of Gregory', writings. 
