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Elementary Instruction in the Dogmas

Institutio elementaris ad dogmata · 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. PG 95 prints 'Institutio elementaris ad dogmata' (OCR: https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_95). The critical edition is Kotter, Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos, Band 1: Institutio elementaris. Capita philosophica (Dialectica) (Patristische Texte und Studien, 1969), recorded in Crossref as DOI-bearing chapter records (e.g. 'INSTITUTIO ELEMENTARIS', Johannes von Damaskos: Die Schriften, Band 1, 1969). HOLLIS 'Institutio elementaris John of Damascus' returns only Kotter's edition (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Institutio%20elementaris%20John%20of%20Damascus&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 no English translation is recorded, and neither FOTC 37 (whose 'Philosophical Chapters' is the Dialectica, a different work) nor the Popular Patristics volumes cover it.

A short catechetical summary of the faith, distinct from the Dialectica and from the Expositio fidei; not included in FOTC 37 or in the PPS Fount of Knowledge volume.

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_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

Hollis query: John of Damascus — 1213 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
[The Siege of Damascus ..
Hughes, John, 1677-1720 · 1721 · eng
Hughes, John, 1677-1720. "[The Siege of Damascus ..." [London : printed for J. W. and sold by Samuel Chapman, 1721]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990109255410203941
The siege of Damascus
Hughes, John, 1677-1720 · 1804 · eng
Hughes, John, 1677-1720. "The siege of Damascus." 1804. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990033428130203941
The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea, and Gennesareth, &c. : A canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt, and the waters of Damascus
MacGregor, John, 1825-1892 · 1875 · eng
MacGregor, John, 1825-1892. "The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea, and Gennesareth, &c. : A canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt, and the waters of Damascus." New York : Harper & Brothers, 1875. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159903298203941
The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red sea, & Gennesareth, etc. A canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt and the waters of Damascus
MacGregor, John, 1825-1892 · 1876 · eng
MacGregor, John, 1825-1892. "The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red sea, & Gennesareth, etc. A canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt and the waters of Damascus." London, Murray, 1876. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159367321503941
The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea & Gennesareth, &c. : a canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt, and the waters of Damascus
MacGregor, John, 1825-1892 · 1869 · eng
MacGregor, John, 1825-1892. "The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea & Gennesareth, &c. : a canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt, and the waters of Damascus." London : J. Murray, 1869. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990058986580203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Elementary Instruction in the Dogmas” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-john-damascus-institutio-elementaris