Epitome in Canticum canticorum
· Procopius of Gaza
· c. 520s-530s (Procopius fl. c. 475-528)
· commentary
Greek · domain: catenae · 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 'Procopii Gazaei Epitome in Canticum canticorum' (2026-11-13) returns the critical edition: Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca 67 (Brepols, 2011), edited by J.-M. Auwers and Marie-Gabrielle Guérard, cxxvi + 586 pp. The record's language note reads 'Text in Greek; introduction in French', i.e. the volume is an edition, not a translation. A wider HOLLIS search for 'Procope de Gaza' returns 39 records - rhetorical works in French and Italian, the Genesis and Canticle editions - and no English version of the Canticle epitome. The 390 pericopes are drawn from Gregory of Nyssa, Nilus, Origen, Cyril of Alexandria, Philo of Carpasia and Apollinaris of Laodicea; the edition is the only modern text.
The epitome is the sole source for Cyril of Alexandria's and Apollinaris's exegesis of the Song and preserves c. 60 Greek fragments of Origen's great commentary, so the absence of an English translation blocks access to material that exists nowhere else in Greek. CCSG 67 has no facing translation in any language.
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: open scan — 2 candidate(s). Greek text exists only in the Migne reprint of the Montchal manuscript edition; the modern critical edition (CCSG 67, Auwers/Guérard, Brepols 2011) is in copyright and not digitised. The bulk scan's OCR is unusable for Greek and would need column cropping + tesseract -l grc. IMPORTANT for future passes: the container item's https://archive.org/download/patrologia-volumes/page/n<leaf>.jpg serves the FIRST file's pages only — leaf 487 was verified to be PG 1 printed p. 976, not PG 119 — so per-volume page images are not addressable; use the volume PDF.
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