Patrick Young (29 August 1584 – 7 September 1652), also known asPatricius Junius, was a Scottish scholar and royal librarian to KingJames VI and I, and KingCharles I. He was a notedBiblical andpatristic scholar.
He was born atSeton,Angus, Scotland, He was a son ofPeter Young, tutor to James alongsideGeorge Buchanan, andElizabeth Gibb. He was educated at theUniversity of St. Andrews (M.A., 1603). He then became librarian and secretary toGeorge Lloyd, the futureBishop of Chester, in 1603. He was incorporated at Oxford (1605), and, taking holy orders, became a chaplain ofAll 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 BishopJohn Williams, 1624. He became rector ofLlanynys,Denbighshire, in 1623; and he was rector ofHayes, Middlesex, from 1623 to 1647.
In July 1605 King James sent his unpublished manuscriptHistorie of the Churche toRobert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury. James had composed the work atDalkeith Palace in the 1580s. This manuscript however had been written by Patrick Young following a copy made byJohn Geddie. James apologised that the language of this copy had been corrupted first by the version ofScots 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 courtierRoger Aston, who was fromCheshire.[3]
Around 1622 he made a catalogue of manuscripts inSalisbury Cathedral. In 1622 he was ordered to undertake a survey of old manuscripts in English churches and make extracts for King James.[4]
He was an eminent scholar in Greek; and he was asked to catalogue the Greek manuscripts ofGiacomo Barocci, numbering around 250, that had been donated in 1629 to theBodleian Library by their purchaserWilliam Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.[5]
He was entrusted with the revision of theCodex Alexandrinus of theSeptuagint. He made contributions toBrian Walton’sPolyglot Bible, in the annotations (Vol. VI).[1][6]
He was responsible for theeditio princeps ofClement of Rome's two “Epistles to the Corinthians” (1633 and 1637)[7][8] In 1637 he published acatena of theGreek Fathers on theBook of Job, attributed toNicetas,[9] and in 1639 a commentary onCanticles, based on that ofGilbert Foliot[10]
His book collection passed toThomas Gale.[11]
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This article incorporates text from a publication in thepublic domain: Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1912)."Young, Patrick".New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 12 (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.