Against the Jacobites

Contra Iacobitas · John of Damascus · 8th century (before 749) · treatise

Greek · domain: later-byzantine · 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

Checked 2026-11-13. HOLLIS Primo search 'John of Damascus against the Jacobites' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,John%20of%20Damascus%20against%20the%20Jacobites&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns no edition or translation of the treatise (the hits are Gorgias Press essay collections of 2013 and unrelated books); 'Contra Jacobitas Damascenus' returns 0 records. The Greek is printed in Migne, PG 94-95 (the OCR text of PG 94 carries the heading 'Contra Jacobitas' repeatedly: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_94) and is re-edited in B. Kotter, Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos (Patristische Texte und Studien). The standard series do not contain it: FOTC vol. 37 translates only the three parts of the Fount of Knowledge [Philosophical Chapters, On Heresies, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith] (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Writings%20Fount%20of%20Knowledge%20John%20of%20Damascus%20Chase&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 the Popular Patristics list (68 volumes plus 3 Longer Works) carries John's Fount of Knowledge (PPS 62 / Longer Works 3) and Three Treatises on the Divine Images (PPS 24), but no volume containing the anti-Jacobite treatise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Patristics_Series); the Ancient Christian Writers series list contains no work of John of Damascus at all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Christian_Writers). NPNF series 2 vol. 9 gives only the Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf209).

Polemical treatise against the miaphysite Jacobites, printed among the Christological opuscula in PG 94-95. No modern-language translation located; English quotations appear only inside studies.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1857-1866); archive.org scan bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_94
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1857-1866); archive.org scan bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_95

Source and licence

archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1857-1866); archive.org scan

bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_94

archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1857-1866); archive.org scan

bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_95

Scanned witnesses

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

Harvard Hollis

Record	Citation
The muncher's and guzler's diary. : The wit's, the critics', the conundrumist's, the farmer's, the petit-maitre's pocket companion: The Jacobite's, the Whig's, the Freethinker's, the Methodist's Breviary: The London, the Rome, the Constantinople, the Pekin. the Cairo, the Mexican, the Brentford Calendar: The Gentleman's, The Lady's, the old Woman's, the Child's Manual: The Male, the Female, the Hermophrodite Prognosticator: The Mole's, the Salamander's, the Butterfly's, the Flying-Fish's, the Whale's, the Allegator's, the Phaenix's, in a Word, The Universal Almanack. By Noureddin Alraschin formerly of Damascus, now of Datchet-Bridge, Esq; L. L. D. M. D. D. D. A. O. P. X. Z. A. ^D!g}^D!a. Societatis Royalis Membrum, and Projector-General for the Philosopher's Stone to the Emperor of the two Indies Armstrong, John, 1709-1779 · 1749 · eng	Armstrong, John, 1709-1779. "The muncher's and guzler's diary. : The wit's, the critics', the conundrumist's, the farmer's, the petit-maitre's pocket companion: The Jacobite's, the Whig's, the Freethinker's, the Methodist's Breviary: The London, the Rome, the Constantinople, the Pekin. the Cairo, the Mexican, the Bren…
The muncher's and guzler's diary : The wit's, the critics', the conundrumist's, the farmer's, the petit-maitre's pocket companion: The Jacobite's, the Whig's, the Freethinker's, the Methodist's Breviary: The London, the Rome, the Constantinople, the Pekin. the Cairo, the Mexican, the Brentford Calendar: The Gentleman's, The Lady's, the old Woman's, the Child's Manual: The Male, the Female, the Hermophrodite Prognosticator: The Mole's, the Salamander's, the Butterfly's, the Flying-Fish's, the Whale's, the Allegator's, the Phaenix's, in a Word, The Universal Almanack. By Noureddin Alraschin formerly of Damascus, now of Datchet-Bridge, Esq; L. L. D. M. D. D. D. A. O. P. X. Z. A. ^D!g}^D!a. Societatis Royalis Membrum, and Projector-General for the Philosopher's Stone to the Emperor of the two Indies Armstrong, John, 1709-1779 · 1749 · eng	Armstrong, John, 1709-1779. "The muncher's and guzler's diary : The wit's, the critics', the conundrumist's, the farmer's, the petit-maitre's pocket companion: The Jacobite's, the Whig's, the Freethinker's, the Methodist's Breviary: The London, the Rome, the Constantinople, the Pekin. the Cairo, the Mexican, the Brent…
Patrologia pacifica tertia : selected papers presented to the Asia Pacific Early Christian Studies Society · 2013 · eng, fre, cop, ara	"Patrologia pacifica tertia : selected papers presented to the Asia Pacific Early Christian Studies Society." Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990137614450203941
Eastern Crossroads Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro · 2013 · eng	Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro. "Eastern Crossroads Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy." Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2013]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158716496403941
History of opinions on the scriptural doctrine of retribution Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895 · 1878 · eng	Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895. "History of opinions on the scriptural doctrine of retribution." New York : Appleton, 1878. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990007832590203941

Record

Citation

The muncher's and guzler's diary. : The wit's, the critics', the conundrumist's, the farmer's, the petit-maitre's pocket companion: The Jacobite's, the Whig's, the Freethinker's, the Methodist's Breviary: The London, the Rome, the Constantinople, the Pekin. the Cairo, the Mexican, the Brentford Calendar: The Gentleman's, The Lady's, the old Woman's, the Child's Manual: The Male, the Female, the Hermophrodite Prognosticator: The Mole's, the Salamander's, the Butterfly's, the Flying-Fish's, the Whale's, the Allegator's, the Phaenix's, in a Word, The Universal Almanack. By Noureddin Alraschin formerly of Damascus, now of Datchet-Bridge, Esq; L. L. D. M. D. D. D. A. O. P. X. Z. A. ^D!g}^D!a. Societatis Royalis Membrum, and Projector-General for the Philosopher's Stone to the Emperor of the two Indies

Armstrong, John, 1709-1779 · 1749 · eng

Armstrong, John, 1709-1779. "The muncher's and guzler's diary. : The wit's, the critics', the conundrumist's, the farmer's, the petit-maitre's pocket companion: The Jacobite's, the Whig's, the Freethinker's, the Methodist's Breviary: The London, the Rome, the Constantinople, the Pekin. the Cairo, the Mexican, the Bren…

The muncher's and guzler's diary : The wit's, the critics', the conundrumist's, the farmer's, the petit-maitre's pocket companion: The Jacobite's, the Whig's, the Freethinker's, the Methodist's Breviary: The London, the Rome, the Constantinople, the Pekin. the Cairo, the Mexican, the Brentford Calendar: The Gentleman's, The Lady's, the old Woman's, the Child's Manual: The Male, the Female, the Hermophrodite Prognosticator: The Mole's, the Salamander's, the Butterfly's, the Flying-Fish's, the Whale's, the Allegator's, the Phaenix's, in a Word, The Universal Almanack. By Noureddin Alraschin formerly of Damascus, now of Datchet-Bridge, Esq; L. L. D. M. D. D. D. A. O. P. X. Z. A. ^D!g}^D!a. Societatis Royalis Membrum, and Projector-General for the Philosopher's Stone to the Emperor of the two Indies

Armstrong, John, 1709-1779 · 1749 · eng

Armstrong, John, 1709-1779. "The muncher's and guzler's diary : The wit's, the critics', the conundrumist's, the farmer's, the petit-maitre's pocket companion: The Jacobite's, the Whig's, the Freethinker's, the Methodist's Breviary: The London, the Rome, the Constantinople, the Pekin. the Cairo, the Mexican, the Brent…

Patrologia pacifica tertia : selected papers presented to the Asia Pacific Early Christian Studies Society

· 2013 · eng, fre, cop, ara

"Patrologia pacifica tertia : selected papers presented to the Asia Pacific Early Christian Studies Society." Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990137614450203941

Eastern Crossroads Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy

Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro · 2013 · eng

Monferrer Sala, Juan Pedro. "Eastern Crossroads Essays on Medieval Christian Legacy." Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2013]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158716496403941

History of opinions on the scriptural doctrine of retribution

Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895 · 1878 · eng

Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895. "History of opinions on the scriptural doctrine of retribution." New York : Appleton, 1878. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990007832590203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Against the Jacobites” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-john-damascus-contra-iacobitas