Patrick Young

Patrick Young (Patricius Junius) (29 August 1584 – 7 September 1652) was a Scottish scholar and royal librarian to King James VI and I, and King Charles I. He was a noted Biblical and patristic scholar.

Life

He was born at Seaton, Haddingtonshire, His father was Peter Young, who was tutor to James alongside George Buchanan. He was educated at the University of St. Andrews (M.A., 1603). He then became librarian and secretary to George Lloyd, the future Bishop of Chester, in 1603. He was incorporated at Oxford (1605), and, taking holy orders, became a chaplain of All Souls College.[1]

He was then librarian successively to Prince Henry, James I, and Charles I; at the same time he undertook diplomatic correspondence.[2] He was Latin secretary to Bishop John Williams, 1624. He became rector of Llanynys, Denbighshire, in 1623; and he was rector of Hayes, Middlesex, from 1623 to 1647.

Works

Around 1622 he made a catalogue of manuscripts in Salisbury Cathedral. He was an eminent scholar in Greek; and he was asked to catalogue the Greek manuscripts of Giacomo Barocci, numbering around 250, that had been donated in 1629 to the Bodleian Library by their purchaser William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.[3]

He was entrusted with the revision of the Codex Alexandrinus of the Septuagint. He made contributions to Brian Walton’s Polyglot Bible, in the annotations (Vol. VI).[1][4]

He was responsible for the editio princeps of Clement of Rome's two “Epistles to the Corinthians” (1633 and 1637)[5][6] In 1637 he published a catena of the Greek Fathers on the Book of Job, attributed to Nicetas,[7] and in 1639 a commentary on Canticles, based on that of Gilbert Foliot[8]

His book collection passed to Thomas Gale.[9]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Millar 1900, p. 385.
  2. ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  3. ↑ Trevor-Roper, p. 274.
  4. ↑ Sæbø 2008, p. 783.
  5. ↑ Trahair 1994, p. 130.
  6. ↑ Jackson 1912.
  7. ↑ Tyacke 1984, p. 264.
  8. ↑ Trevor-Roper, p. 275.
  9. ↑ TCC 2014.

References

  •  Millar, Alexander Hastie (1900). "Young, Patrick". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 285–386.
  • Sæbø, Magne, ed. (2008). "Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: the history of its interpretation Volume II HBOT: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment". p. 783. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  • "The prefaces to M R James' four volume catalogue of Trinity College Manuscripts". Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts. Trinity College, Cambridge. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014.
  • Trahair, R. C. S. (1994). From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: A Dictionary of Eponyms with Biographies in the Social Sciences. p. 130.
  • Trevor-Roper, Hugh. Archbishop Laud (second ed.).
  • Tyacke, Nicholas (1984). The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford. p. 264.

Attribution:

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1912). "Young, Patrick". New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. 12 (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.

Further reading

  • Kemke, Johannes (1898). Patricius Junius (Patrick Young). Leipsic.
  • Smith, Thomas (1707). Vitæ quorundam Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum.
  • Young, Hugh (1896). Sir Peter Young of Seaton. privately printed.
  • "Significant Scots: Patrick Young". Patrick Young. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
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