Commentary on the Gospel of John

Commentaria in Iohannis evangelium · Alcuin of York · c. 796-804 · commentary

Latin · domain: latin-carolingian-exegesis · researched 2026-11-14

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, queried 2026-11-14 for 'Alcuin commentary John' and filtered to English-language records, returns the Latin commentary only (a 1527 Strasbourg print, 'Albini diaconi Anglici In D. Ioannis Euangelion commentariorum libri septem') together with Alcuin biographies, letter collections and the rhetorical dialogue; no translation of the commentary appears. A query combining the Brepols series Corpus Christianorum in Translation with Alcuin returns a single, unrelated volume (an anonymous Cambridge Apocalypse gloss, CCT 36, 2020). The Carolingian exegetical texts Englished in the Library of Christian Classics are Alcuin's commentary on Titus and Claudius of Turin's on Galatians, not the John commentary (Early Medieval Theology, LCC 9, 1957, contents listed in HOLLIS). No complete or partial English translation was located.

Seven books on the Fourth Gospel, written at Tours in the last years of Alcuin's life and the Carolingian reform's principal exposition of John. It shaped how the Latin West read the Gospel in the ninth and tenth centuries, but without an English version its exegesis is reachable only through Latin or through quotations in modern scholarship.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 1844-1880 printing) patrologiaecur100mign

Source and licence

archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 1844-1880 printing)

patrologiaecur100mign

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Record	Citation
Commentary on the Gospel of John Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 · 2013 · eng, lat	Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Lander, Wyoming : Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990145064930203941
Commentary on the Gospel of John Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 · ©2010 · eng	Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990126472350203941
Commentary on the Gospel of John Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, approximately 350-428 or 429 · 2010 · eng	Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, approximately 350-428 or 429. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990125013220203941
Commentary on the Gospel of John Īshōʻdād, of Merv, Bishop of Ḥĕdhatha, active 9th century · 2019 · eng, syc	Īshōʻdād, of Merv, Bishop of Ḥĕdhatha, active 9th century. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Lovanii [Louvain, Belgium] : In Aedibus Peeters, 2019. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153816795403941
Commentary on the Gospel of John Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274 · 2007 · eng	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Saint Bonaventure, NY : Franciscan Institute, 2007. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990105757910203941

Record

Citation

Commentary on the Gospel of John

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 · 2013 · eng, lat

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Lander, Wyoming : Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990145064930203941

Commentary on the Gospel of John

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990126472350203941

Commentary on the Gospel of John

Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, approximately 350-428 or 429 · 2010 · eng

Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, approximately 350-428 or 429. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990125013220203941

Commentary on the Gospel of John

Īshōʻdād, of Merv, Bishop of Ḥĕdhatha, active 9th century · 2019 · eng, syc

Īshōʻdād, of Merv, Bishop of Ḥĕdhatha, active 9th century. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Lovanii [Louvain, Belgium] : In Aedibus Peeters, 2019. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153816795403941

Commentary on the Gospel of John

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274 · 2007 · eng

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. "Commentary on the Gospel of John." Saint Bonaventure, NY : Franciscan Institute, 2007. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990105757910203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Commentary on the Gospel of John” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-alcuin-commentaria-in-iohannis-evangelium