# John Servopoulos

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'''John Servopoulos''' ([fl.](/source/floruit) 1484–1500) was a [Greek](/source/Greeks) scribe and scholar. Few details are known about of his life. He was originally from [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople) but from at least 1484 he was living in England where he copied Greek manuscripts for a living. From 1489 he was apparently working from the abbey of [Reading](/source/Reading%2C_Berkshire) and he was active there until at least 1500. Some of his manuscripts may have been destined for students or teachers at the nearby University of [Oxford](/source/Oxford). [William Grocyn](/source/William_Grocyn), who worked as an English scholar, owned several of his manuscripts and so was probably one of his patrons.

== Known works ==
* Translation of ''A Grammar'' by Theodore Gazes.

== References ==
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== See also ==
* [Greek scholars in the Renaissance](/source/Greek_scholars_in_the_Renaissance)
* Harris, Jonathan, ''Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400–1520'' (Camberley: Porphyrogenitus, 1995)
* Harris, Jonathan, 'Greek scribes in England: the evidence of episcopal registers', in ''Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes'', ed. Robin Cormack and Elizabeth Jeffreys(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 121–6. {{ISBN|0-86078-667-6}}.
* Weiss, Roberto, ''Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century'' (Oxford, 1957, 2nd ed.)

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