Jacob I, Patriarch of Antioch
(d. 1517)
Jacob is son of the monk Abd Allah, known as Ibn al-Muzawwiq. He was born at al-Ahmadiyya village in al-Sawr and became a monk at the Monastery of Mar Musa (Moses) in al-Nabk. He studied under the Master and Metropolitan Musa Ubayd of Sadad.601 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.602 He was installed as patriarch in 1512 under the name Ignatius Jacob.603 He died in 1517.604 He was an 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.605 He also wrote comments on some festivals and composed a few verses in the twelve syllabic meter in which he calls himself to repentance.606