The article presents the hitherto almost unknown manuscript work of a Franciscan friar Fr. Klemen Velikonja (1752-1830). It contains what are perhaps the first Slovene translations of various long excerpts from patristic works by Augustine, Ambrose and Gregory the Great; two different commentaries on psalms and two commentaries on the Song of Songs; a commentary on the Book of Job and the Book of Revelation, and some other minor texts. Biblical interpretations are written "in the spirit" of patristic commentaries and represent a combination of translational and authorial work, which opens the field of further research.
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