Minor Philosophical Works

Philosophica minora (I-II) · Michael Psellos · c. 1040-1078 · 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 philosophica minora' returns only the Teubner edition (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, ed. J.M. Duffy and D.J. O'Meara, Leipzig 1989-1992), described as Greek with no translation. No English volume was found, and no volume of the Notre Dame 'Michael Psellos in Translation' series covers these opuscules. 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). Individual opuscules are quoted in English in modern studies, but no complete translation was located (checked 2026-11-13).

Two Teubner volumes: I = logical and physical opuscules, II = psychological and theological opuscules. Together they are the core of Psellos's philosophical teaching. No verified public-domain e-text: the circulating archive.org upload of the Teubner text is an in-copyright scan and is not cited here.

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 — 3 candidate(s). The Teubner editions (Duffy 1989, O'Meara 1992) are in copyright and not digitised. The two per-work text PDFs reproduce the Migne PG 122 text under exactly the Teubner volume subtitles and are clean Unicode Greek; they are re-keyed digital texts, not scans of the Teubner. No manuscript witness was verified.

Scan / witness	Format	Pages	Rights	OCR	Evidence
Opuscula logica, physica, allegorica, alia — digital Greek text of PG 122 (cont… internet-archive · patrologia (file: pg/Michael Psellus_PG 122/Opuscula logica.pdf)	pdf	150	open-license	good	HTTP 200 (2,802,418 bytes), pdfinfo 150 pp; pdftotext page 1 = 'Opuscula logica, physica, allegorica, alia / De vita philosophica / Ἐρωτᾷς ποίαν αἱρεῖσθαι δεῖ τῶν ζωῶν'; middle page 75 sampled: 950/1000 chars Greek, 99/…
Opuscula psychologica, theologica, daemonologica — digital Greek text of PG 122… internet-archive · patrologia (file: pg/Michael Psellus_PG 122/Opuscula psychologica.pdf)	pdf	86	open-license	good	HTTP 200 (1,673,908 bytes), pdfinfo 86 pp; page 1 = 'Opuscula psychologica, theologica, daemonologica / Τοῦ σοφωτάτου Ψελλοῦ περὶ ψυχῆς'; middle page 43 sampled: 957/1000 chars Greek, 90/639 tokens function words. Match…
Patrologia Graeca tomus 122 — 'MICHAELIS PSELLI OPERA QUÆ REPERIRI POTUERUNT OM… internet-archive · patrologia-volumes (file 122.pdf)	pdf	800	public-domain	poor	HTTP 200; 800 leaves per 122_scandata.xml; 122_hocr_searchtext.txt.gz line 49 carries the volume title and 587 'Psell' hits; the volume's OCR has 0.0 Greek codepoints (same lat-model transliteration defect), so the page…

Scan / witness

Format

Pages

Rights

OCR

Evidence

Opuscula logica, physica, allegorica, alia — digital Greek text of PG 122 (cont…

internet-archive · patrologia (file: pg/Michael Psellus_PG 122/Opuscula logica.pdf)

pdf

150

open-license

good

HTTP 200 (2,802,418 bytes), pdfinfo 150 pp; pdftotext page 1 = 'Opuscula logica, physica, allegorica, alia / De vita philosophica / Ἐρωτᾷς ποίαν αἱρεῖσθαι δεῖ τῶν ζωῶν'; middle page 75 sampled: 950/1000 chars Greek, 99/…

Opuscula psychologica, theologica, daemonologica — digital Greek text of PG 122…

internet-archive · patrologia (file: pg/Michael Psellus_PG 122/Opuscula psychologica.pdf)

pdf

open-license

good

HTTP 200 (1,673,908 bytes), pdfinfo 86 pp; page 1 = 'Opuscula psychologica, theologica, daemonologica / Τοῦ σοφωτάτου Ψελλοῦ περὶ ψυχῆς'; middle page 43 sampled: 957/1000 chars Greek, 90/639 tokens function words. Match…

Patrologia Graeca tomus 122 — 'MICHAELIS PSELLI OPERA QUÆ REPERIRI POTUERUNT OM…

internet-archive · patrologia-volumes (file 122.pdf)

pdf

800

public-domain

poor

HTTP 200; 800 leaves per 122_scandata.xml; 122_hocr_searchtext.txt.gz line 49 carries the volume title and 587 'Psell' hits; the volume's OCR has 0.0 Greek codepoints (same lat-model transliteration defect), so the page…

Harvard Hollis

Record	Citation
Fourteen Byzantine rulers; the Chronographia Psellus, Michael · 1966 · eng	Psellus, Michael. "Fourteen Byzantine rulers; the Chronographia." Baltimore, Penguin Books [1966]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990015099180203941
Reading Proclus and the Book of causes : Western scholarly networks and debates · 2019-2022 · eng, fre, lat	"Reading Proclus and the Book of causes : Western scholarly networks and debates." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]-[2022], 2019-2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153808919903941

Record

Citation

Fourteen Byzantine rulers; the Chronographia

Psellus, Michael · 1966 · eng

Psellus, Michael. "Fourteen Byzantine rulers; the Chronographia." Baltimore, Penguin Books [1966]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990015099180203941

Reading Proclus and the Book of causes : Western scholarly networks and debates

· 2019-2022 · eng, fre, lat

"Reading Proclus and the Book of causes : Western scholarly networks and debates." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]-[2022], 2019-2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153808919903941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Minor Philosophical Works” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-psellos-philosophica-minora