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On All Kinds of Doctrine

De omnifaria doctrina (Didaskalia pantodape) · Michael Psellos · c. 1050-1075 · treatise

Greek · domain: philosophy · 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 search 'Psellos omnifaria doctrina' returns: Westerink's critical edition (Utrecht 1948), whose note states 'Text in Greek; editorial matter in English' - i.e. no translation - and an Italian translation (Mussini, Biblioteca medievale 5, Nardini 1990). No English translation appears. A scan of the series field across all 310 HOLLIS records returned for 'Psellos' shows no volume in the Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics series (checked 2026-11-13). The Notre Dame 'Michael Psellos in Translation' series was checked through HOLLIS and contains Mothers and Sons (2006), Psellos and the Patriarchs (2015) and On Literature and Art (2017), none of which translates this treatise. Status 'none' = no complete English translation located (checked 2026-11-13).

About 200 short chapters of philosophy and natural science, the closest thing Byzantium produced to a one-volume handbook of Greek learning; heavily used by later Byzantine writers. The Greek is printed in Migne, Patrologia Graeca 122 under the running head 'DE OMNIFARIA DOCTRINA' (verified by searching the OCR of that archive.org volume); Westerink 1948 supersedes it critically.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Varia dottrina (De omnifaria doctrina) · Biblioteca medievale 5 · Alessandro Mussini · 1990

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain
bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_patrologiae-cursus-completus-_1864_122

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: Michael Psellos On All Kinds of Doctrine — 2 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
The Byzantines
· 1997 · eng
"The Byzantines." Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990069480180203941
The Alexiad
Comnena, Anna, 1083- · 2009 · eng
Comnena, Anna, 1083-. "The Alexiad." London ; New York : Penguin, 2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990121072110203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “On All Kinds of Doctrine” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-psellos-de-omnifaria-doctrina