Commentaries on the Letters of Paul

Commentaria in epistolas beati Pauli · Primasius of Hadrumetum · 6th century · commentary

Latin · domain: latin-fifth-sixth-century · researched 2026-11-14

Why this is in the register

The commentaries open Migne's Primasius volume at Patrologia Latina 68, 417, listed in the elenchus as 'Primasius. Commentaria in epistolas B. Pauli 417' before the Apocalypse commentary at 793 (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur68mign). Library holdings of the work are the sixteenth-century Latin printings, 'In omnes D. Pauli epistolas commentarii perbreves ac docti' (1537, 1543), and an early modern French rendering of Romans and Hebrews, 'Briefve et fructueuse exposition sus les epistres sainct Paul aux Romains et Hebreux' (1540) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Primasius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No modern critical edition or English translation appeared in the search results, and no English translation was located.

These are the Pauline commentaries of the African bishop who also commented on Revelation, and with the loss of much North African exegesis after the Vandal period they are one of the few continuous Latin readings of Paul from the sixth-century African church. The absence of a modern edition is part of the gap: even the Latin has to be read in Migne or a sixteenth-century folio.

Existing translations recorded

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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: Primasius of Hadrumetum — 11 record(s); match basis author_only.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur68mign
• HOLLIS search — Primasius

Cite: Tergwame, “Commentaries on the Letters of Paul” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-primasius-commentaria-in-epistolas-pauli