On the Marvels of Holy Scripture

De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae · Augustinus Hibernicus (Pseudo-Augustine, 'the Irish Augustine') · c. 655 · treatise

Latin · domain: latin-insular · 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 'De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,De%20mirabilibus%20sacrae%20scripturae&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns only Latin witnesses: the Brepols Archive of Celtic Latin Literature full-text record (2025), the 1473 Utrecht incunable printed under Augustine's name, a seventeenth-century collective edition of Pseudo-Augustinian works, and one volume of conference papers on Hiberno-Latin exegesis. No English translation is recorded in any Harvard holding. The Latin text is printed in Migne PL 35 among the spurious works of Augustine; I fetched that volume's scan and confirmed the presence of the 'Mirabilia' text (https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_patrologiae-cursus-completus-_1845_35). Nothing in the survey series consulted (Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers, Translated Texts for Historians, Brepols Corpus Christianorum in Translation, Oxford World's Classics) carries it.

A three-book treatise, dated internally to 655, that explains the physical anomalies of scripture - the sun standing still, the long day, the Flood - by natural causes. It is the first Western attempt at a systematic 'scientific' reading of the Bible and a key document in the history of early medieval cosmology, quoted by Bede's own teachers. It has never been translated into English.

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 PL 35) bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_patrologiae-cursus-completus-_1845_35

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: Augustinus Hibernicus — 3 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae Augustinus Hibernicus fl. c. 655 author · 2025 · lat	Augustinus Hibernicus fl. c. 655 author. "De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae." Turnhout Brepols Publishers NV 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162710166803941
King of mysteries : early Irish religious writings Carey, John, 1957- · 1998 · eng	Carey, John, 1957-. "King of mysteries : early Irish religious writings." Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990076829280203941
The scriptures and early medieval Ireland : proceedings of the 1993 Conference of the Society for Hiberno-Latin Studies on early Irish exegesis and homilectics [sic] · 1999 · eng	"The scriptures and early medieval Ireland : proceedings of the 1993 Conference of the Society for Hiberno-Latin Studies on early Irish exegesis and homilectics [sic]." Steenbrugis : in Abbatia S. Petri ; Turnhout : Brepols, c1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990081302490203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “On the Marvels of Holy Scripture” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-augustinus-hibernicus-de-mirabilibus