The Medieval Church · c. 840–860
The Biblical Commentaries
Haymo of Auxerre · d. c. 878
What it is
Commentaries on Paul, Isaiah, the Twelve Prophets, and Revelation, written for teaching rather than display — the fathers digested into a continuous plain exposition that a student could follow without a library behind him.
Why it lasted
Enormously copied, then attributed to Haymo of Halberstadt for a thousand years, so his own name vanished from his work. His Pauline commentary is a principal source of the Ordinary Gloss, and through it of every medieval lecture on Romans.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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