Joannes or Joannes Sapiens
48. CYPARISSIOTA (Κυπαρισσιώτης), surnamed SAPIENS or the WISE, an ecclesiastical writer, who lived in the latter half of the fourteenth century, not in the middle of the twelfth, as erroneously stated by Labbe in his Chronologia Brevis Ecclesiusticorum Scriptorum.
Works
From indications in his own works they were, some of them at least, written after the year 1359. Cyparissiota was an opponent of Gregory Palamas [PALAMAS] and his followers (the believers in the light of Mount Thabor), and his principal publications had reference to that controversy.
Treatises
His principal publications compose a series of five treatises; but only the first and fourth books of the first treatise of the series, Palamiticarum Transgressionum Libri IV, have been published.
Editions
They appeared, with a Latin version, in the Auctarium Novissimum of Combéfis (Pars ii. pp. 68-105), and the Latin version was given in the Bibliotheca Patrum (vol. xxi. p. 476, &c., ed. Lyon. 1677).
title xml:lang="la">Expositio Materiarum eorum quue de Deo a Theologis dicuntur
Cyparissiota wrote also Ἔκθεσις στοιχειώδης ῥήσεων Θεολογικῶν, Expositio Materiarum eorum quue de Deo a Theologis dicuntur. The work is divided into a hundred chapters, which are arranged in ten Decades or portions of ten chapters each, from which arrangement the work is sometimes referred to by the simple title of Decades.
Editions
Latin Editions
A Latin version of it by Franciscus Turrianus was published at Rome in 4to, 1581; and was reprinted in the Bibliocheca Patrum (vol. 21.377, &c).
Further Information
Combéfis, Auctar. Novissim. pars ii. p. 105; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xi. p. 507; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. Appendix by Gery and Wharton, p. 65; Oudin, De Scriptoribus et Scriptis Ecclesiaslicis, vol. iii. col. 1062.
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