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Commentary on the Psalms

Commentarii in Psalmos · Didymus the Blind · c. 360s-370s (Tura papyri) · commentary

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

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

English coverage is limited to one fragment: 'Didymus the Blind's commentary on Psalms 26:10-29:2 and 36:1-3 (P.BYU.1)' (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), whose HOLLIS record describes 'twenty-two complete pages of Greek text' with transcription, English translation and commentary, and calls these 'the last known portion' of the commentary: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22Commentary%20on%20the%20Psalms%22%20Didymus&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The bulk of the Tura Psalms commentary has no English translation; the same HOLLIS search set returns nothing further in English and 'Didymus blind Ecclesiastes' returns only the same P.BYU volume for the Psalms: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Didymus%20blind%20Ecclesiastes&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics volume of the Psalms commentary was located.

The Tura papyri preserve extensive portions of Didymus' Psalms commentary (editions in the Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen series, Greek with German); the 2019 Brepols volume translates only 22 pages recovered from P.BYU.1. Status 'partial' is therefore literal: a small translated fragment against a large untranslated corpus.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Didymus the Blind's commentary on Psalms 26:10-29:2 and 36:1-3 (P.BYU.1) · Papyrologica Leodiensia / Brepols monograph (series not verified) · unknown · 2019

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: restricted scan — 2 candidate(s). The PG route is closed: the commentary is not in Migne (it was published from the Tura papyri only from 1968), so there is no volume to point at. IA holds the Bonn/Habelt edition only as lending copies — one tome per item: psalmenkommentar0001didy = T.1 (Ps 20-21), didymosderblinde0003unse and psalmenkommentar0000didy_f9f0 = further tomes. The complete five-part set is not present as a single open scan, and rights are doubly blocked (IA loan wall plus 1968 copyright), so this is a restricted candidate: record metadata, do not harvest. Not checked in this pass: DigiVatLib (no Tura-papyrus imaging), BnF, e-rara, LOC — all recorded as unverified rather than negative.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Psalmenkommentar (Tura-Papyrus), T. 1: Kommentar zu Psalm 20-21 (Bonn: Habelt,…
internet-archive · psalmenkommentar0001didy
pdf258restrictednonehttps://archive.org/metadata/psalmenkommentar0001didy (HTTP 200): title 'Psalmenkommentar (Tura-Papyrus)', publisher 'Bonn : Habelt', date 1968, volume '1', imagecount 258, description gives the five-part contents ('T.…
Didymos der Blinde, Psalmenkommentar (Tura-Papyrus), further tome (1969)
internet-archive · didymosderblinde0003unse
pdf—restrictednonehttps://archive.org/metadata/didymosderblinde0003unse (HTTP 200): 'didymos der blinde psalmenkommentar', 1969, inlibrary/printdisabled. A third copy of the same series (psalmenkommentar0000didy_f9f0) is identical in acc…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Didymus the Blind "Commentary on the Psalms" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Didymus the Blind's commentary on Psalms 26:10-29:2 and 36:1-3 (P.BYU.1)
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398 · 2019 · eng, grc
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. "Didymus the Blind's commentary on Psalms 26:10-29:2 and 36:1-3 (P.BYU.1)." Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2019]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153752289303941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Commentary on the Psalms” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-didymus-commentarii-in-psalmos