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.
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HOLLIS Primo search 'Philoponus opificio mundi' returns the Greek text with a facing German translation (Fontes Christiani 23, Herder 1997, tr. Clemens Scholten, 3 vols) and no English-language record. A scan of the series field across all 344 HOLLIS records returned for 'Philoponus' shows no volume in the Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics series (checked 2026-11-13). The series that would normally carry it, Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, has no volume for this work: the HOLLIS query 'Philoponus opificio mundi English translation' returns only the unrelated Aeneas of Gaza volume. No complete published English translation was located (checked 2026-11-13).
Seven books; the Christian answer to Simplicius and the most substantial Christian cosmology of the sixth century. The 1897 Teubner text (Lipsiae: B.G. Teubner, 1897) is scanned at archive.org in Greek. A partial English rendering of isolated passages appears in studies of Philoponus, but no book-length translation exists.
Philoponus, John, active 6th century. "Against Proclus's "On the eternity of the world 1-5"." Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990096124640203941
Philoponus, John, active 6th century. "Against Proclus on the eternity of the world 1-5." London : Duckworth, 2004. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990095754630203941
Philoponus, John, active 6th century. "Against Proclus On the eternity of the world 9-11." London : Duckworth, 2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990123412760203941
Philoponus, John, active 6th century. "Against Proclus's "On the eternity of the world, 6-8"." Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990097343250203941
Philoponus, John, active 6th century · 2009-2011 · ger, grc
Philoponus, John, active 6th century. "De aeternitate mundi = Über die Ewigkeit der Welt." Turnhout : Brepols, 2009-2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990117511410203941