Commentaria in Apocalypsim
· Primasius of Hadrumetum
· c. 540-560
· commentary
Latin · domain: latin-fifth-sixth-century · 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
Migne prints the commentary at Patrologia Latina 68, 793, in the elenchus line 'Primasius. Commentaria in epistolas B. Pauli 417, Commentaria in Apocalypsim 793' (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur68mign). A library search under the author returns a German translation, 'Kommentar zur Offenbarung des Johannes' (2022), the Latin of Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 92 (1985) and the Instrumenta lexicologica Latina, but no English translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Primasius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The English Revelation commentary volumes are of other authors: 'Latin Commentaries on Revelation' (Ancient Christian Texts, 2011) prints Victorinus, Apringius, Caesarius of Arles and Bede (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Primasius%20Apocalypse%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and the Fathers of the Church volume 134 of 2017 is Tyconius, not Primasius (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Caesarius%20of%20Arles%20Exposition%20of%20the%20Apocalypse&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation of Primasius was located.
Primasius's five books are the principal Latin conduit for Tyconius's lost commentary: he follows Tyconius closely, and much of what is known of the Donatist exegesis of Revelation, including the seven rules, depends on him. For the history of western apocalyptic exegesis between Tyconius and Bede the text is central, and English readers currently reach it only in German or through quotation.
Ticonius, active 4th century. "Exposition of the Apocalypse." Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2017]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990150278600203941