Selections on the Psalms (catena fragments)

Selecta in Psalmos [Dub.] · Origen of Alexandria · 3rd century · 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 'any,contains,"Selecta in Psalmos"' returns 0 records: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22Selecta%20in%20Psalmos%22&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The modern English Origen-on-the-Psalms volumes are translations of different works: 'Origen: Homilies on the Psalms, Codex Monacensis Graecus 314' (2020) and 'Homilies on Psalms 36-38' (2023) translate the newly recovered Greek homilies, not the catena Selecta: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Origen%20homilies%20on%20the%20psalms%20English&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 Selecta was located.

Text from Origenis Opera Omnia vol. 2 (Patrologia Graeca 12), ed. La Rue (Paris: Migne, 1862), per __cts__.xml. The TLG/F1K title carries [Dub.]; the compilation is catena-derived and its attribution is debated, but it is the largest single block of Origen's Psalm exegesis in Greek (105,109 words) and has no English translation. Distinguish from the 2020/2023 homily volumes.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

Source and licence
First1KGreek · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (encoding); Migne 1862 edition public domain urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg058.1st1K-grc1
Perseus · HTML · CC BY-SA 4.0 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg058.1st1K-grc1

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: Origen of Alexandria Selections on the Psalms — 3 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
Origen Trigg, Joseph Wilson, 1949- · 1998 · eng	Trigg, Joseph Wilson, 1949-. "Origen." London : New York : Routledge, 1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990075269310203941
Origeniana undecima : Origen and Origenism in the history of Western thought · 2016 · eng, ger, fre, ita	"Origeniana undecima : Origen and Origenism in the history of Western thought." Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2016. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990146964200203941
Zohar, the book of enlightenment · 1983 · eng	"Zohar, the book of enlightenment." New York : Paulist Press, c1983. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990004448710203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Selections on the Psalms (catena fragments)” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-origen-selecta-in-psalmos