Angelos, Christophoros (d. 1638).

Ibid. Egceiridion, peri thV katastasewV twn shmeron euriskomenwn Ellhnwn (Enchiridion de institutis Graecorum). [London: W. Stansby] ex off. C. Legge acad. Cantab. typogr., 1619, 2 parts, (188 x 132mm.), [8], 59, [1]; [6], 53pp., [STC 636]
Ibid.  PonhsiV Cristoforou tou Aggelou, EllhnoV tou pollwn plhgwn. Oxford: J. Lichfield & W. Wrench, 1617, (180 x 132mm.), ff. [6], illustration: woodcut figures, [STC 638]
Ibid. [A translation of the previous] Christopher Angell, A Grecian, who tasted of many stripes inflicted by the Turkes. Oxford: J. Lichfield & J. Short, 1618, (175 x 132mm.), ff. [8], illustration: woodcut figures (that on B4r full-page), [STC 640]
Ibid. [Testimonials of good behaviour from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the Bishop of Salisbury.] [Oxford or London? 1618?], half-sheet folio (240 x 172mm.), [STC 643]



5 works in one volume, 4to, binding: contemporary limp vellum

This remarkable volume gathers together all bar one of the rare pamphlets published between 1617 and 1624 (it omits STC 637, PonoV... peri thV apostasiaV thV ekklhsiaV...), which served to highlight not only the trials and tribulations of Christopher Angel himself, but also played on the fear and dislike of the Turk in England and Western Europe at the period. It is however his brief account of the tenets and practices of the Greek church, the Encheiridion which is the most interesting work, and this was reprinted with a Latin translation and extensive annotations in Germany later in the century.

Christophorus Angelos was a Greek from the Peloponnese who came to England in the closing years of the first decade of the seventeenth century in search of liberty and learning. Landing in Yarmouth he went first Norwich where the bishop sent him to Trinity Cambridge, which is fulsomely praised at the end of the Encomion. In Cambridge he made many friends but departed for Oxford (where, foolishly, he believed the air to be better) and Balliol, the first Greek to grace that college. With Balliol he maintained links for many years and seems indeed to have taught Greek there. The seventeenth century saw many refugee scholars from Eastern Europe in England, often given small sums of money by colleges in Oxford and Cambridge (and elsewhere), and Angelos is, with his contemporary Cyril Lucaris in the 1620s, one of the first of these. He writes in Byzantine Greek in a classical manner.

One of the English acquaintances of Angelos was Samuel Purchas, who was given a copy of the Encheiridion (see Pennington, Purchas), from which he provided extracts in Pilgrimes I, i, 154-163.