Marcus
Μάρκος
(Μάρκος), literary and ecclesiastical.
1. Of ALEXANDRIA, patriarch of Alexandria.
Works
Questions on Ecclesiastical Law
early in the thirteenth century, proposed certain questions for solution on various points of ecclesiastical law or practice. Some MSS. contain two questions and solutions more than the printed copies.
Editions
Sixty-four of these questions, with the answers of Theodorus Balsamon [BALSAMO], are given in the Jus Orientale of Bonefidius, p. 237, &100.8vo., Paris, 1573, and in the Jus Graeco-Romanum of Leunclavius, vol. i. pp. 362-394, fol. Frankfort, 1596.
Possible author of a Catena in Matthaei Evangelium
Fabricius suggests that Mark of Alexandria is the Marcus cited in a MS. Catena in Matthaei Evangelium of Macarius Chrysocephalus [CHRYSOCEPHALUS], extant in the Bodleian library at Oxford.
Further Information
Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 1203, vol. ii. p. 279, ed. Oxford, 1740-42.
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