Valentinus

A priest in Rome named Valentinus (aka Valentine) defied Claudius’ order and secretly married couples.

Also known as codex valentinus, it is the oldest manuscript of the codices with maps of Ptolemy with the donis projections.

Footnote from Page 264 1. From this point to the end of ch.12 Plotinus is attacking a Gnostic myth known to us best at present in the form it took in the system of Valentinus.

In the 15th century, Basilius Valentinus showed that ammonia could be obtained by the action of alkalis on sal ammoniac.

Irenaeus states (iii. 3) that on Polycarp's visit to Rome, his testimony converted many disciples of Marcion and Valentinus.

It is her assertion that Valentinus represented a moderation of the anti-Judaism of the earlier Hellenized teachers; the demiurge, widely regarded as a mythological depiction of the Old Testament God of the Hebrews, is depicted as more ignorant than evil.

It was purported to be written by a Benedictine monk, writing under the name Basilius Valentinus in the 15th century; if it were authentic, which it is not, it would predate Biringuccio.

J. M. Robinson, "Jesus: From Easter to Valentinus (Or to the Apostles' Creed)," Journal of Biblical Literature, 101 (1982), p.5.

The heretics Valentinus, Cerdon, and Marcion visited Rome during that period.

The term derives from the use of the Greek adjective gnostikos ("learned", "intellectual", Greek γνωστικός) by St. Irenaeus (c. 185 AD) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike haeresis "the heresy called Learned (gnostic)".

This movement was named after its founder Valentinus (c. 100 – 180 AD).

Valentinus Otho oversaw the hand computation of approximately 100,000 ratios to at least ten decimal places.

When it is employed by other Gnostics either it is not used in a technical sense, or its use has been borrowed from Valentinus.