Patrick Young (29 August 1584 – 7 September 1652), also known as Patricius Junius, was a Scottish scholar and royal librarian to King
James VI and I
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, and King
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. He was a noted
Biblical
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and
patristic
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scholar.
Life
He was born at
Seton,
Angus, Scotland
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, He was a son of
Peter Young Peter or Pete Young may refer to:
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, tutor to James alongside
George Buchanan
George Buchanan (; February 1506 – 28 September 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the most profound intellectual sixteenth-century Scotland produced." His ideology of re ...
, and
Elizabeth Gibb
Elizabeth or Elspeth Gibb (died 1595) was a Scottish courtier involved in the Queen's wardrobe.
Career
She was a daughter of Robert Gibb of Carriber and Elizabeth Schaw.
On 4 February 1577 she married Peter Young of Seaton, a tutor to James V ...
. He was educated at the
University of St. Andrews
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(M.A., 1603). He then became librarian and secretary to
George Lloyd, the future
Bishop of Chester
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The diocese extends across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the ...
, in 1603. He was incorporated at Oxford (1605), and, taking holy orders, became a chaplain of
All Souls College
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.
He was then librarian successively to Prince Henry, James I, and Charles I; at the same time he undertook diplomatic correspondence. He was Latin secretary to Bishop
John Williams
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, 1624. He became rector of
Llanynys,
Denbighshire
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, in 1623; and he was rector of
Hayes, Middlesex
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, from 1623 to 1647.
Works
In July 1605 King James sent his unpublished manuscript ''Historie of the Churche'' to
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
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. James had composed the work at
Dalkeith Palace
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in the 1580s. This manuscript however had been written by Patrick Young following a copy made by
John Geddie. James apologised that the language of this copy had been corrupted first by the version of
Scots used by Geddie, and then by Patrick Young's attempts to convert the text into English spelling. He joked that the result was like the Welsh spoken by the courtier
Roger Aston
Sir Roger Aston (died 23 May 1612) of Cranford, Middlesex, was an English courtier and favourite of James VI of Scotland.
Biography
Aston was the illegitimate son of Thomas Aston (died 1553), Thomas Aston (died 1553). Scottish sources spell his n ...
, who was from
Cheshire
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.
Around 1622 he made a catalogue of manuscripts in
Salisbury Cathedral
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. In 1622 he was ordered to undertake a survey of old manuscripts in English churches and make extracts for King James.
[Frederick Madden, ''Issues of the Exchequer: James I'' (London, 1836), p. 261.]
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
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by their purchaser
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
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.
He was entrusted with the revision of the ''
Codex Alexandrinus
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'' of the ''
Septuagint
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''. He made contributions to
Brian Walton’s
Polyglot Bible, in the annotations (Vol. VI).
He was responsible for the ''
editio princeps
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'' of
Clement of Rome
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Little is known about ...
's two “Epistles to the Corinthians” (1633 and 1637) In 1637 he published a ''
catena'' of the
Greek Fathers
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on the ''
Book of Job
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'', attributed to
Nicetas, and in 1639 a commentary on ''
Canticles
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'', based on that of
Gilbert Foliot
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His book collection passed to
Thomas Gale.
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1584 births
1652 deaths
Scottish librarians
17th-century Scottish scholars