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Catena on the Gospel of John (the 'integral' catena)

Catena in Joannem (catena integra, e codd. Paris. Coislin. 23 + Oxon. Bodl. Auct. T.1.4) · Anonymous (Byzantine catena compiler) · Byzantine catena (compilation date uncertain; Cramer's edition 1841) · commentary

Greek · domain: catenae · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'Catena in Joannem' (2026-11-13) returns 2 records: Balthasar Cordier's Catena patrum Graecorum in Sanctum Joannem (Antwerp, 1630, Greek text with Latin translation) and a German monograph on Aquinas. No English translation of the Greek Johannine catena was located in HOLLIS; no volume of the standard translation series (ANF, NPNF, Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers, Popular Patristics) covers it. Greek text: Cramer, Catenae Graecorum Patrum in Novum Testamentum, vol. 2 (Oxford, 1841).

The catena preserves Greek exegetical fragments on John (Origen, Chrysostom, Cyril, Theodore of Mopsuestia among them) that are not otherwise extant; the whole chain is untranslated, though individual fragments appear in English in modern fragment collections.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
First1KGreek · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4102.tlg005.1st1K-grc1

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Catena on the Gospel of John — 21 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
The catena in Marcum : a Byzantine anthology of early commentary on Mark
· 2012 · eng
"The catena in Marcum : a Byzantine anthology of early commentary on Mark." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990132960160203941
Catena aurea : commentary on the four Gospels
· 1874 · eng
"Catena aurea : commentary on the four Gospels." Oxford : J. Parker, 1874. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159478077203941
Catena aurea
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 · 1841-45 · eng
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. "Catena aurea." Oxford, John Henry Parker; London, Rivington, 1841-45. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022449690203941
Catena aurea : commentary on the four Gospels
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 · 1997 · eng
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. "Catena aurea : commentary on the four Gospels." Southampton [England] : Saint Austin Press, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990079609690203941
Catena aurea : commentary on the four Gospels
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 · 1842-1845 · eng
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. "Catena aurea : commentary on the four Gospels." Oxford : J.H. Parker, 1842-1845. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990072513130203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Catena on the Gospel of John (the 'integral' catena)” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-catena-joannem