Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon

In Proverbia Salomonis · Bede (Beda Venerabilis) · c. 720-730 · commentary

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 'Bede Commentary on the Proverbs' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bede%20Commentary%20on%20the%20Proverbs&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns nine records, none of them a translation of Bede: the Latin Corpus Christianorum edition In Tobiam, In proverbia, In cantica canticorum (SL 119B, 1983), a Bodleian manuscript of the commentary, and John Mayer's 1653 English commentary on Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs, which is Mayer's own work. Among the Bede translation volumes the catalogue does hold (TTH 28 at https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bede%20a%20biblical%20miscellany&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 TTH 70 at https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,On%20First%20Samuel%20Bede%20DeGregorio&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 none contains the Proverbs commentary. The Latin text was checked in Migne PL 91, where the Proverbs and Song of Songs commentaries are printed together (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0091mign).

Bede's exposition of Proverbs is among the earliest Latin commentaries devoted to the book and the source of most later medieval reading of it in the West; it is also one of the main channels through which the sapiential ethics of insular monasticism entered the schools. Aside from Tobias and the Song of Songs, which travel with it in the same Corpus Christianorum volume, English has nothing.

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 printing) patrologiaecursu0091mign

Source and licence

archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne printing)

patrologiaecursu0091mign

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
In Tobiam, In proverbia, In cantica canticorum Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 · 1983 · lat	Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. "In Tobiam, In proverbia, In cantica canticorum." Turnholti : Brepols, 1983. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990010883390203941
A commentary upon the holy vvritings of Job, David, and Solomon : that is, these five, Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, being part of those which by the antients were called Hagiographa : wherein the diverse translations and expositions, both literall and mysticall, of all the most famous commentators, both ancient and modern, are propounded, examined and censured, and the texts from the originall much illustrated, for the singular benefit of all that bee studious of the Holy Scriptures Mayer, John, 1583-1664 · MDCLIII 1653 · eng	Mayer, John, 1583-1664. "A commentary upon the holy vvritings of Job, David, and Solomon : that is, these five, Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, being part of those which by the antients were called Hagiographa : wherein the diverse translations and expositions, both literall and mysticall,…
A commentary upon the holy vvritings of Job, David, and Solomon : that is, these five, Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, being part of those which by the antients were called Hagiographa : wherein the diverse translations and expositions, both literall and mysticall, of all the most famous commentators, both ancient and modern, are propounded, examined and censured, and the texts from the originall much illustrated, for the singular benefit of all that bee studious of the Holy Scriptures Mayer, John, 1583-1664 · MDCLIII 1653 · eng	Mayer, John, 1583-1664. "A commentary upon the holy vvritings of Job, David, and Solomon : that is, these five, Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, being part of those which by the antients were called Hagiographa : wherein the diverse translations and expositions, both literall and mysticall,…

Record

Citation

In Tobiam, In proverbia, In cantica canticorum

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 · 1983 · lat

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. "In Tobiam, In proverbia, In cantica canticorum." Turnholti : Brepols, 1983. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990010883390203941

A commentary upon the holy vvritings of Job, David, and Solomon : that is, these five, Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, being part of those which by the antients were called Hagiographa : wherein the diverse translations and expositions, both literall and mysticall, of all the most famous commentators, both ancient and modern, are propounded, examined and censured, and the texts from the originall much illustrated, for the singular benefit of all that bee studious of the Holy Scriptures

Mayer, John, 1583-1664 · MDCLIII 1653 · eng

Mayer, John, 1583-1664. "A commentary upon the holy vvritings of Job, David, and Solomon : that is, these five, Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, being part of those which by the antients were called Hagiographa : wherein the diverse translations and expositions, both literall and mysticall,…

Mayer, John, 1583-1664 · MDCLIII 1653 · eng

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-bede-in-proverbia