MINUTI, THÉOPHILE. - Minim friar, Orientalist and palaeographer, b. at Bras in Provence in 1592, d. at Marseilles on 8 August 1662. He entered the Minims in 1610 and specialized in the Oriental languages for the interpretation of Holy Scripture.
He made journeys to the East on the commission of his learned friend and patron Nicolas-Claude de Peiresc, bringing back to France copies of the New Testament in Syriac, a good number of Coptic and Samaritan texts, mummies, coins, medals; he also introduced the tubers of the tuberose into Europe. But what Peiresc and his friends regarded as the marvel of the collection was a trilingual codex of the Pentateuch of the 12th century, which M. found at Damascus in 1631, containing the Hebrew text in Samaritan characters, an Arabic version, in Samaritan characters, and a paraphrase in the Samaritan language (targim). Peiresc presented it to Card. Barberini in 1637 and since then the codex has been in the Vatican Library, fondo belliare que ad ostra avvelli profligiochistici, ob est re Senati rallimanti: inforare con
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Laicisi Maci, Angi legioni Duoma suorario.
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| For Ige Manila. | 16a. | 2. | From Ige Agra to Pa. in fa. 110. | In modif. Artio. III. 16a. 98. |
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| For Annis Milos. | 16a. | 3. | Conna P. I. in fa. 111. | In modif. Artio. III. 16a. 95. |
| For De Placis. | 16a. | 11. | In Carliad I. in fa. 112. | In modif. Artio. V. 16a. 95. |
| For Sylla. | 16a. | 12. | In modif. I. in fa. 113. | In modif. Artio. VI. 16a. 95. |
| From Antipoli refida. | 16a. | 23. | In modif. I. in fa. 114. | In modif. Artio. VII. 16a. 95. |
| For L. Marna. | 16a. | 27. | In modif. I. in fa. 115. | In Acc. Philip. first 16a. 97. |
| For R. folio Anonim. | 16a. | 14. | Safalil. In Cl. I. in fa. 116. | Philippica feranda. 16a. 100. |
| For L. Caroli B. folio. | 16a. | 42. | Cicorona R. folio. in fa. 117. | Philippica mela. 16a. 100. |
| For P. S. folio. | 16a. | 42. | For A. folio. in fa. 118. | Philippica quetta. 16a. 100. |
| For Amnila to Pa. 16a. | 16a. | 13. | In V. folio. in fa. 119. | Philippica fosa. 16a. 100. |
| For P. Quinta. | 16a. | 41. | To eg pidiis in 1 ed. 1 16a. 1 16a. | Philippica ferina. 16a. 100. |
| For L. Platon. | 16a. | 48. | Pa. 1 16a. 1 16a. | Philippica ferina. 16a. 100. |
| For A. Chandra. | 16a. | 74. | Suana gisa P. folio. in fa. 1 17a. | Philippica setua. 16a. 100. |
| For M. F. folio. | 16a. | 87. | For M. Colio. | Philippica nova. 16a. 100. |
| For A. Corina. | 16a. | 26. | From P. folio. in fa. 1 18a. | Philippica deima. 16a. 100. |
| For R. folio. in P. folio. | 16a. | 27. | For R. folio. in fa. 1 19a. | Philippica deima. 16a. 100. |
| For C. folio. in P. folio. | 16a. | 28. | For M. F. folio. in fa. 1 20a. | Philippica deima. 16a. 100. |
| For R. folio. in Comola. | 16a. | 10a. | For Q. legio. | Philippica deima. 16a. 100. |
| For Ige Agra. | 16a. | 10a. | In V. folio. in fa. 1 21a. | Philippica deima. 16a. 100. |
| Cicci P. Sec. R. folio. | 16a. | 10a. | In modif. Artio. III. in fa. 1 22a. | Philippica deima. 16a. 100. |
(tot. Ene. Cotti.)