HOLLIS Primo 'Balsamon English' returns 9 records, none of them a translation of the exegeses on the canons: the English items are (a) the 1868 Codex canonum ecclesiae universae, which prints 'notes selected from Zonaras, Balsamon ...' alongside the canons of the first four councils (https://archive.org/details/CodexCanonumEcclesiaeUniversae), and (b) P. Viscuso's Guide for a Church under Islam: the Sixty-Six Canonical Questions attributed to Theodōros Balsamōn (Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2014), which translates a different work, the canonical questions addressed to the Patriarchate of Alexandria (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Guide%20for%20a%20church%20under%20Islam%20Balsamon&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The other hits are duplicate issues of the 1868 Codex, the Greek/Latin Migne edition of the Opera (Paris 1865), and a volume of P. Magdalino's essays. No English translation of the exegeses on the canons was located; NPNF II-14 translates the canons without the commentaries (https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214/npnf214.toc.html). Caveat: the 1957 English 'Rudder' (Pedalion, tr. D. Cummings) renders Nicodemus the Hagiorite's early-modern Greek compilation of canons with its own interpretive notes; it is not a translation of this twelfth-century commentary, and it was not counted as coverage here.
Balsamon was chartophylax of the Great Church and titular patriarch of Antioch; his exegeses accompany the canons in Rhalles-Potles vols. 2-4 and in Beveridge's Synodicon (1672). The Greek designation 'ἐξηγήσεις' comes from the 1852 synodal letter printed in the edition ('τὰς ὑπὸ Θεοδώρου τοῦ Βαλσαμῶνος ἐξηγήσεις αὐτῶν'). The same author's commentary on the Nomocanon is a separate work (separate record).
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Oxford 1672 imprint) |
| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Athens 1852-1859) |
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| [Theodōrou tou Balsamōn Patriarchou Theoupoleōs megalēs Antiocheias ta ehyriskomena panta] = Theodori Balsamonis Patriarchæ Theopolis magnæ Antiochiæ Opera quæ reperiri potuerunt omnia, canonica, juridica, dogmatica : accedunt Joannis Zonaræ et Aristeni Commentaria in Canones SS. Apostolorum, Conciliorum et in epistolas canonicas SS. Patrum | Balsamon, Theodore, active 12th century. "[Theodōrou tou Balsamōn Patriarchou Theoupoleōs megalēs Antiocheias ta ehyriskomena panta] = Theodori Balsamonis Patriarchæ Theopolis magnæ Antiochiæ Opera quæ reperiri potuerunt omnia, canonica, juridica, dogmatica : accedunt Joannis Zonaræ et Aristeni Commentaria in Canones… |
| Guide for a church under Islām : the sixty-six canonical questions attributed to Theodōros Balsamōn : a translation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's twelfth-century guidance to the Patriarchate of Alexandria | Balsamon, Theodore, active 12th century. "Guide for a church under Islām : the sixty-six canonical questions attributed to Theodōros Balsamōn : a translation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's twelfth-century guidance to the Patriarchate of Alexandria." Brookline, Massachusetts : Holy Cross Orthodox Press, [2014]. https… |
| Christianity and family law : an introduction | "Christianity and family law : an introduction." Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press 2017. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990151892510203941 |
| The history of Byzantine and Eastern canon law to 1500 | "The history of Byzantine and Eastern canon law to 1500." Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2012. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990132376820203941 |
| Le corpus nomocanonique oriental et ses scholiastes du XIIe siècle : les commentaires sur le Concile in Trullo (691-692) | Messēs, Charēs. "Le corpus nomocanonique oriental et ses scholiastes du XIIe siècle : les commentaires sur le Concile in Trullo (691-692)." Paris : Centre d'études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européenne, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-CéSor, 2020. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink… |