Catena in Matthaei Evangelium

Marcus

(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.