(John Baptist), fellow of the Sorbonne, and king's Greek professor, was born at Nimes in Languedoc in 1627. He made a collection of the fathers who lived in the apostolic age, which he published at Paris in two volumes folio in 1672; all reviewed and corrected from several MSS. with a Latin translation and notes. He also published Monumenta Ecclesiae Graecae, in 3 vols; being a collection of Greek tracts out of the king's and M. Colbert's libraries, and which had never been published before: to these he added a Latin translation and notes. He intended a farther prosecution of this work; but his intense studies broke his constitution, and deprived him of life in 1686. Besides his great skill in languages and ecclesiastical antiquities, Cotelerius was remarkable for his probity and candour.