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Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Commentarius in Ecclesiasten · Didymus the Blind · c. 370s (Tura papyri, 4th c.) · commentary

Greek · domain: alexandrian · 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 'Didymus blind Ecclesiastes' returns eight records: the Greek/German Tura edition ('Kommentar zum Ecclesiastes', Bonn: Habelt, 1969-, Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen), two German dissertations on the Tura leaves, two Spanish studies from the 1990s, an English monograph on late-antique Alexandrian scholarship, and the unrelated 2019 P.BYU volume: 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 'Didymus the Blind commentary Ecclesiastes English translation' returns only the 2019 Psalms papyrus volume and the 2016 Commentary on Genesis: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Didymus%20the%20Blind%20commentary%20Ecclesiastes%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics translation was located; FC does carry Didymus on Genesis and Zechariah, so the absence is specific.

One of the Tura papyri recovered in 1941; the standard edition is the Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen series (Bonn: Habelt) with German translation. No English version, complete or partial, was located.

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: restricted scan — 2 candidate(s). The commentary survives only in the 1941 Tura papyrus, so there is no Migne text (PG 39 has Didymus' De Trinitate, not this work) and no public-domain edition. Both located scans are the same 1969 Bonn edition (PTA 9) under IA lending terms: usable as a rights-cleared witness only, not as a text source. The papyrus itself (Cairo) is not digitised in any named source; DigiVatLib holds no Tura material.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Kommentar zum Ecclesiastes <Tura-Papyrus> (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlunge…
internet-archive · kommentarzumeccl0001_pt1didy
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Kommentar zum Ecclesiastes <Tura-Papyrus> (Bonn: Habelt, 1969), shorter copy
internet-archive · kommentarzumeccl0000didy_l4d7
pdf134restrictednoneMetadata: imagecount 134, language ['ger','grc'], access-restricted-item true; a djvu.txt is listed (311 KB) but downloads are gated; search-inside 403.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Didymus the Blind Commentary on Ecclesiastes — 4 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

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
Commentary on Genesis
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398 · 2016 · eng
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. "Commentary on Genesis." Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, 2016. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990146781670203941
Kommentar zum Ecclesiastes. <Tura-Papyrus.>
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398 · 1969-<1983 > · ger, grc
Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. "Kommentar zum Ecclesiastes. <Tura-Papyrus.>." Bonn, Habelt, 1969-<1983 >. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990008370400203941
Christian reading : language, ethics, and the order of things
Stefaniw, Blossom · 2019 · eng
Stefaniw, Blossom. "Christian reading : language, ethics, and the order of things." Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153808301103941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Commentary on Ecclesiastes” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-didymus-commentarius-in-ecclesiasten