95- Ignatius Jacob I,  Patriarch of Antioch (1512-1517)

Jacob is son of the monkAbd Allah, known as Ibn al­Muzawwaq. He was born at al-Ahmadiyya village in al­Sawr and became a monk at the Monastery of Mar Musa (Moses) in al-Nabk. He studied under the Master and Metropolitan Musa Ubayd ofSadad.m He became effi­cient in calligraphy. He was ordained a priest and went to the Monastery of Mar Hananya and then in 1480 to the Monastery of Mar Abhai. In 1496 he was ordained a metropolitan of Amid under the name Philoxenus.l34 He was installed as patriarch in 1512 under the name IgnatiusJacob.135He died in 1517.136Hewasan efficient writer. One of his writings is a historical tract containing some of the chronicles of the monk David of Hims which we have copied from an old manuscript in his own handwriting.137 He also wrote comments on some festivals and composed a few verses in the twelve syllabic meter in which he calls himself to repen tance

(History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem I Barsoum, Presseggiata Press, p 167)