Catecheses
· Symeon the New Theologian
· c. 980-998
· other
Greek · domain: monastic · researched 2026-11-13
partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
The Greek corpus comprises 34 catecheses plus two thanksgiving pieces: the Sources chretiennes edition's HOLLIS table of contents reads 'tome 1. 1-5; tome 2. 6-22; tome 3. 23-34, actions de graces 1-2'. The English volume Symeon the New Theologian: The Discourses (trans. C. J. de Catanzaro, Classics of Western Spirituality, 1980) has a HOLLIS table of contents listing 31 discourses and no thanksgiving pieces. No complete English translation was located in HOLLIS.
Partial English also in The Philokalia vol. 4 (153 practical and theological texts) and in the Ethical Discourses (trans. A. Golitzin, SVS Press, 1995-1997); neither covers the catechetical corpus as a whole.
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: restricted scan — 2 candidate(s). Key negative established by sampling: Migne PG 120 does NOT print the Greek Catecheses. Its own elenchus (djvu.txt lines 210-330) offers 'Orationes XXXIII, Latine, ex editione Jacobi Pontani' - a Latin-only Pontanus selection - and the volume's Greek text is other Symeon Junior material. Grepping the PG 120 text for 'ΚΑΤΗΧ'/'ΚΑΤΕΧ'/'Cateches' returns a single incidental 'Κατηχήσας'. So the only Greek witnesses are the Krivocheine SC edition (in copyright, lending-restricted on IA) and the manuscripts (Ott.gr.245 verified; Ott.gr.220 also returned by the title search but not content-checked). For ingestion, Ott.gr.245 is a transcription job, not an OCR job, and the SC text is not redistributable.
DigiVatLib title search 'Catecheses' and 'Κατηχήσεις' (k_f=3, with Referer -> 200) both return Ott.gr.86, Ott.gr.220, Ott.gr.245 (plus Latin/Syriac items). Detail record https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Ott.gr.245 -> 2…
advancedsearch title:'Catéchèses' + creator Symeon returned catchses0096syme and catchses1965syme. GET https://archive.org/metadata/catchses0096syme -> 200: title 'Catéchèses', creator 'Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint…
Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint, 949-1022 · 1980 · eng
Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint, 949-1022. "Symeon the New Theologian : the discourses." New York : Paulist Press, c1980. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990009179560203941
Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint, 949-1022 · 1963-1965 · fre
Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint, 949-1022. "Catéchèses." Paris, Editions du Cerf, 1963-1965. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022362740203941
Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint, 949-1022 · 2006- · fre, grc
Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint, 949-1022. "Catéchèses." Paris : Editions du Cerf, 2006-. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990101742080203941
Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint, 949-1022 · 2024 · ita, grc
Symeon, the New Theologian, Saint, 949-1022. "Catechesi." Bologna : Edizioni San Clemente : Edizioni Studio domenicano, 2024. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158634037403941