Various Works (Ponemata diaphora): canonical decisions, responses and letters

Πονήματα διάφορα · Demetrios Chomatenos, Archbishop of Ohrid · c. 1216-1236 · canon law

Greek · domain: canon-law · 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 'Chomatenos' returns 18 records: the critical edition, Demetrii Chomateni Ponemata diaphora, ed. G. Prinzing (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2002; CFHB 38, Series Berolinensis), which is a Greek text with German apparatus and no translation; A. G. Jameson's 1957 dissertation 'The responsa and letters of Demetrios Chomatianos ... a study in Byzantine law' (a study); and modern Greek and Bulgarian scholarship. A query for 'Chomatenos English translation' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Chomatenos%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Other records are unrelated Greek fiction (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Chomatenos&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation was located and no canon-law series carries the work.

Chomatenos governed the archbishopric of Ohrid (1216-1236), which claimed autocephaly after 1204, and his dossier is the principal source for Byzantine canon law in the exile period (marriage, ordination, jurisdictional disputes with Nicaea and with the papacy). Prinzing's CFHB edition is the only complete text; it was not accessible as open e-text, and no public-domain Greek edition was located, hence the empty e-text list. The 1957 dissertation is a study and was not verified to contain a translation.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 2 candidate(s). Migne prints only the two dossiers taken over from the Jus Graeco-Romanum tradition (De gradibus cognationis, Responsiones ad Cabasilam), not the full Ponemata; the complete text is Prinzing's 2002 CFHB edition, which has no open scan. Manuscript witnesses were not verified: DigiVatLib's manuscript search returned HTTP 403 (opac.vatlib.it/mss/search) and its index browse exposes no author search; LOC Sinai collection queries for 'Chomatenos' returned 0 hits; Pinakes was not consulted (documented as 500). The scan found is therefore a partial edition, but it is a genuine public-domain Greek witness for part of the corpus.

Scan / witness	Format	Pages	Rights	OCR	Evidence
Patrologia Graeca tomus 119 — 'DEMETRII CHOMATENI, ARCHIEPISCOPI BULGARIAE' sec… internet-archive · patrologia-volumes (file 119.pdf)	pdf	698	public-domain	none	HTTP 200; 698 leaves per 119_scandata.xml. Heading located in 119_hocr_searchtext.txt.gz line 9235 ('DEMETRII CHOMATENI *, ARCHIEPISCOPI') and in the volume's table of contents: '935 DEMETRII CHOMATENI, ARCHIEPISCOPI BU…
Demetrii Chomateni Ponemata Diaphora, recensuit Günter Prinzing (CFHB 38, Berli… bnf · ark:/12148/cb39000838h	pdf	—	restricted	none	BnF SRU query bib.anywhere all "Chomateni Ponemata" → 1 record (HTTP 200, 2026-11-13), title as above, ISBN 3110156121, date 2002; no digitised surrogate in the record.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Various Works" — 583 record(s); match basis title_only.

Record	Citation
various works Nash, David 1945-, English · ·	Nash, David 1945-, English. "various works." https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork430817/catalog
Various works sound recording Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856 · 1982 · zxx	Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856. "Various works sound recording." [The Netherlands] : Philips, [1982]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990085148180203941
Various works : piano solo Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915 · 198-? ·	Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915. "Various works : piano solo." Melville, N.Y. : Belwin Mills, [198-?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162693212403941
Annual report city surveyor on the various works executed by the Road Department · 1???- · eng	"Annual report city surveyor on the various works executed by the Road Department." [n.p.], 1???-. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99160263098303941
11 various works for the piano Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849 · 197-? · zxx	Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. "11 various works for the piano." New York, NY : Kalmus, [197-?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990019296460203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Various Works (Ponemata diaphora): canonical decisions, responses and letters” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-chomatenos-ponemata