Name

Jacob

Original name

Iakovos

Main activity

Monk

Secondary activity

Title

Name variations

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Education place

Education institution

Activity place

Mount Athos

Activity institution

Saint Panteleimon Monastery

Activity start date

1847

Activity end date

1847

Place of birth

Date of birth

Place of death

Date of death

Bibliographical references

Asterios Argyriou, “Un « Roman de Mahomet » grec inédit,” Graeco-Arabica 2 (1983): 139–190

Descriptive card

The identity of the author can be reconstructed based on the information gathered from the only manuscript he produced (cod. Pant. gr. 110, Mount Athos). His name is Jacob and he is a hieromonak (priest-monk) at the St Panteleimon Monastery of Mount Athos. He might be a refugee to Athos during the Greek War of Independence. Jacob seems to be well versed in European languages, especially French and Italian, since he used Western European polemical text to produce his work.

Entry author

Octavian Negoita