Esaias(Ἠσαΐας), sometimes written in
Latin ISAIAS.
1. Of CYPRUS, lived probably in the reign of John VII.
(Palaeologus) about A. D. 1430.
Works
Nicolaus Comnenus mentions a work of his, described as
Oratio de
Lipsanomachis, as extant in MS. at Rome; and his
Epistle in defence of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the
Son, in reply to Nicolaus Sclengias, is given by Leo Allatius in his
Graecia Orthodoxa, both in the original Greek and in a Latin version.
Epistles to Esaias
Two epistles of Michael Glycas, addressed to the much revered (τιμιωτάτῳ) monk Esaias are published in the
Deliciae
Eruditorum of Giovanni Lami, who is disposed to identify the person addressed with
Esaias of Cyprus.
Further Information
Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 395; Wharton,
Appendix to Cave's
Hist. Litt. vol. ii.
p. 130, ed. Oxford, 1740-3 ; Lami,
Deliciae Eruditorum, vol.
viii. pp. 236-279, Florence, 1739.