HOLLIS searches for 'Bede On the Psalms commentary', 'Bede exposition of the Psalms' and 'Bede In psalmorum librum' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bede%20On%20the%20Psalms%20commentary&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 return no translation of this work; the only English item that surfaces is Psalms 51-150 in the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (2007), an excerpt catena drawing on many Fathers, not a rendering of Bede. The same catalogue does record complete English translations of Bede's other commentaries, e.g. On First Samuel (Translated Texts for Historians 70, 2019; 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 the Gospel of Luke commentary (TTH 85, 2023; https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bede%20commentary%20on%20the%20Gospel%20of%20Luke&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and the miscellany volume TTH 28 (1999; 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 which carries On the holy places, the Thirty questions on Kings and other opuscula. The gap is therefore specific to the Psalms and not an artefact of cataloguing. The complete Latin text is available in Migne PL 93, whose scan I fetched and checked for the psalm headings (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0093mign).
A three-book commentary running through all 150 psalms, and the longest single exegetical work Bede produced; it is the reference commentary for the psalter in the early medieval West and is quoted throughout Carolingian and later psalm exposition. No English version exists, so the whole tradition of Bede's psalm exegesis is reachable in English only through the excerpt catenae of the ACCS. Its absence is the largest single translation gap in Anglo-Latin literature.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne 1844-1864 printing) |
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| Les "Tituli Psalmorum" des manuscrits latins | Salmon, Pierre, 1896-1982. "Les "Tituli Psalmorum" des manuscrits latins." Roma, Abbaye Saint-Jérome, 1959. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990022547070203941 |
| The Song of Songs : interpreted by early Christian and Medieval commentators | "The Song of Songs : interpreted by early Christian and Medieval commentators." Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c2003. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990092182450203941 |
| Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature | "Family and Kinship in the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature." Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153875276303941 |
| A companion to Alfred the Great | "A companion to Alfred the Great." Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990142838210203941 |
| Masterpieces of Catholic literature in summary form | Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997. "Masterpieces of Catholic literature in summary form." New York, Harper & Row [1965]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990025664560203941 |