Catena on the Gospel of Matthew (the 'integral' catena, from Paris, BnF Coislin gr. 23)

Catena in Matthaeum (catena integra, e cod. Paris. Coislin. gr. 23) · Anonymous (Byzantine catena compiler) · Byzantine catena (compilation date uncertain; Cramer's edition 1840) · commentary

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

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'Catena in Matthaeum' (2026-11-13) returns 8 records: no English translation of a Greek Matthew catena. The hits are Aquinas's Latin Catena aurea, Balthasar Cordier's Latin Symbolae Graecorum patrum in Matthaeum (1646-47) and modern commentaries on Matthew; the only Greek text is Cramer's 1840 edition. HOLLIS 'Cramer catenae Graecorum patrum Novum Testamentum' returns a single record, the 8-volume Oxford Greek edition (1844 imprint). A HOLLIS check of 'Fathers of the Church catena' (25 records) and 'Popular Patristics catena' (0 records) surfaced no translation of a Greek catena in those series either; the only English translations of Greek New Testament catenae identified in this survey are the Codex Zacynthius palimpsest (Gorgias, 2020) and Lamb's Catena in Marcum (Brill, 2012). Greek text: Cramer, Catenae Graecorum Patrum in Novum Testamentum, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1840).

Cramer prints the catena as a continuous Greek text with the biblical lemma; the excerpts are attributed in the margins to named Fathers. No modern critical edition or English translation exists; the 78,000-word Greek text is available in TEI from First1KGreek but has never been rendered into English as a whole.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

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 Matthew — 9 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Sources checked

• HOLLIS search — Catena in Matthaeum
• HOLLIS search — Cramer catenae Graecorum patrum Novum Testamentum
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek/master/data/tlg4102/tlg001/tlg4102.tlg001.1s…
• https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4102.tlg001.1st1K-grc1:1.1

Cite: Tergwame, “Catena on the Gospel of Matthew (the 'integral' catena, from Paris, BnF Coislin gr. 23)” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-catena-matthaeum