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Theophilus Presbyter (fl. c. 1070–1125) is the pseudonymous author or compiler of a Latin text containing detailed descriptions of various medieval arts, a text commonly known as the Schedula diversarum artium ("List of various arts") or De diversis artibus ("On various arts"), probably first compiled between 1100 and 1120.
Theophilus (Greek: Θεόφιλος) is the name or honorary title of the person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed (Luke 1:3, Acts 1:1). It is thought that both works are by the same author, and often argued that the two were originally a single unified work . [ 1 ]
The Patrologia Graeca is an edited collection of writings by the Church Fathers and various secular writers, in the Greek language.It consists of 161 volumes produced in 1857–1866 by J. P. Migne's Imprimerie Catholique, Paris.
Theophilus (Greek: Θεόφιλος) was the 23rd Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Seat of Saint Mark. He became pope at a time of conflict between the newly dominant Christians and the pagan establishment in Alexandria , each of which was supported by a segment of the Alexandrian populace.
Theophilus Presbyter gave a long recipe in his book, the Schedula diversarum artium, for creating a compound to convert copper into "Spanish gold" (De auro hyspanico). The compound was formed by combining powdered basilisk blood, powdered human blood, red copper, and a special kind of vinegar.
Isidore of Pelusium lived during the fourth and fifth centuries. He was a native of Alexandria, and a relative of Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria. [3] He was an only child. His parents taught him the books of the church and the Greek language, in which he excelled. He was also ascetic and humble.
Theophilus Protospatharius, holding a blue-gray uroscopy flask, depicted in a 13th-century manuscript. Theophilus Protospatharius (Greek: Θεόφιλος Πρωτοσπαθάριος; ca. 7th century) was the author of several extant Greek medical works. Nothing is known of his life or the time when he lived.
Known as a grammarist, humanist, and mathematician, Leonard of Chios says of him that Theophilus was 'of noble linage and deep scholarship'. The Greek historian and near contemporary of the fall of Constantinople Laonikos Chalkokondyles describes in book eight of his Histories Theophilos 'fighting in a manly way to the end', choosing to die ...