Chigiana [1]: but the manuscript is mutilated at the beginning and the end, and still exists in the library of Augsburg. In the Imperial Library, the second volume is preserved, containing the commentary [on the *Ladder of Paradise*] from the 8th to the 182nd step. In the Coislin manuscript 87, this is referred to Photius. See Montfaucon’s *Catalogus mss.*, p. 141. He did not publish this Exegesis, but Raderus, in his *Climacus*, provided a few excerpts from it, mixed with other anonymous scholia, in Greek and Latin. (FABRIC. *loc. cit.*, vol. XI, 615.)
Elias of Crete, in his book *On the Customs of the Heathen*, is cited by Nic. Comnenus, p. 213, and in his responses to the Ascetic monks, p. 188; and to the Corinthian monks, p. 251. In his fourth response to the solitary monks, p. 190, 220. The same Comnenus, p. 258, praises his exposition on the letter of Nazianzen to Cledonius. The responses to Dionysius the monk concerning seven of his various questions exist in Greek and Latin in book V of the *Juris Græco-Romani*, p. 335-341 [2].
ELIAS OF CRETE, METROPOLITAN COMMENTARIES ON NINETEEN ORATIONS OF SAINT GREGORY NAZIANZEN
(These exist among the works of St. Gregory Nazianzen, in volume XXXVI of this *Patrologia*, cols. 737-902.)ANNO DOMINI DCCLXX.
THEODORUS ABUCARA BISHOP OF CARAE.
NOTITIA
I. From FABRIC., *Biblioth. Græc. ed. Harles*, vol. X, p. 365.Theodorus Abucara, that is to say “the father,” Bishop of Carae [3]—it is uncertain whether Carae in Palestine [4], or indeed whether it existed in Palestine across the Jordan, which would have been subject to the metropolitan of Rabbatha. Why might Theodorus not have been the prelate of this city, who, as we learn from chapter V of his works, was the writer of Arabic letters for Thomas, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, writing his letter to the Armenians in Arabic, just as Michael, a presbyter and syncellus of this same patriarch, wrote in Greek? This is from Lequien, in his notes on [John of] Damascus, vol. I, p. 391, though I do not dare to agree with him on this point.