De benedictionibus patriarcharum
· Rufinus of Aquileia
· c. 407
· commentary
Latin · domain: latin-jerome-augustine · 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
No English translation was located. HOLLIS on 'Rufinus blessings of the patriarchs' returns exactly one record, the Italian version: 'Le benedizioni dei patriarchi' (Rome: Citta Nuova, 1995) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Rufinus%20blessings%20of%20the%20patriarchs&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Princeton returns the same single Italian volume and nothing in English (https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog.json?q=Rufinus+blessings+patriarchs&search_field=all_fields). The Latin text is in Migne and in Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 20. Rufinus's Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, by contrast, is translated in Ancient Christian Writers 20 (1955), so the omission is specific to this work (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Rufinus%20commentary%20on%20the%20creed&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
Rufinus expounds Jacob's blessings on the twelve patriarchs as a prophecy of the Church, and the work is a compact sample of the allegorical exegesis he learned from Origen and of his own Latin preaching style. It is short enough to be translated cheaply, which makes its absence from English the more striking given that the Creed commentary is available.