Arthur Blackburne Poynton (1867-1944) was a Greek scholar at Oxford. More details can be found in Who Was Who.

Fair copy by A.B. Poynton of his notes towards an edition of the Scholia of Joannes Siceliota on Hermogenes, On ideas, with (d. 5) duplicated typescript of an article by Poynton on 'Gregory of Nazianzus and the Greek rhetoricians. (A supplement to the index of Walz, Rhetores graeci, ix)'.

Given to the Library by A.B. Poynton in 1941 and (d.5) 1933.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 47283-4.

See a selective concordance by A.B. Poynton to the Opuscula of Dionysius Halicarnassensis (MS. Gr. class. d. 139); and Transcripts by A.B. Poynton of John Doxopater on Hermogenes (MS. Gr. class. d. 160).

Greek literature

Rhetoric, Ancient

Gregory | 329-389 | Saint, of Nanzianzus and Doctor of the Church, theologian

Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician

Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar