Works
Νεοφύτου πρεσβυτέρου μοναχοῦ καὶ ἐγκλειστοῦ περὶ τῶν
κατὰ χώραν Κύπρον σκαιῶν,
Neophyti Presbyteri Monachi
et Inclusi, De Calamitatibus Cypri.A short, but curious tract bears this title: Νεοφύτου
πρεσβυτέρου μοναχοῦ καὶ ἐγκλειστοῦ περὶ τῶν κατὰ χώραν Κύπρον σκαιῶν,
Neophyti Presbyteri Monachi et Inclusi, De Calamitatibus
Cypri. It gives a brief account of the usurpation of the island by Isaac Comnenus,
its conquest, and the imprisonment of Isaac by Richard Coeur de Lion, king of England, and
the sale of the island to the Latins (as the writer represents the transaction) by Richard.
The writer was contemporary with these transactions, and therefore lived about the close of
the twelfth century. He was a resident in and probably a native of Cyprus.
Editions
This was published by Cotelerius in his Ecclesiae Graecae
Monumenta, vol. ii. p. 457-462.
Orations
There are several MSS. in the different European libraries bearing the name of Neophytus.
Of these a MS. formerly in the Colbertine Library at Paris, contained thirty
Orationes, evidently by our Neophytus.
Other possible works
A
Catena in Canticum, and some others on theological
subjects, are of more dubious authorship, but are probably by our Neophytus.
Works of Neophytus Pandromus
A
Demonstratio de Plantis, and one or two chemical treatises,
are by another Neophytus, surnamed Prodromenus.
Works of a third Neophytus
Definitiones and
Divisiones Summariae
totius Aristotelis Philosophiae and
Epitome in Porphyrii
quinque voces et in Aristotelis Organon are apparently by a third writer of the
same name.
Further Information
Cotelerius, l.c. and notes in col. 678, 679; Du Cange, Glossarium Med. et Inf. Graecitatis ; Index Auctorum, p. 29; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 738, vol. 8.661, 662, vol. xi. p. 339, &c.; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad Ann. 1190, vol. ii. p. 251, ed. Oxford, 1740, 1742.