diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/octavius/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/octavius/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f1668160df19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/octavius/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ocaml, findlib, ocamlbuild, topkg, opam }:
+
+if !stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "4.03"
+then throw "octavius is not available for OCaml ${ocaml.version}" else
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+	name = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-octavius-0.2.0";
+	src = fetchurl {
+		url = http://github.com/ocaml-doc/octavius/releases/download/v0.2.0/octavius-0.2.0.tbz;
+		sha256 = "02milzzlr4xk5aymg2fjz27f528d5pyscqvld3q0dm41zcpkz5ml";
+	};
+
+	unpackCmd = "tar xjf $src";
+
+	buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ocamlbuild topkg opam ];
+
+	inherit (topkg) buildPhase installPhase;
+
+	meta = {
+		description = "Ocamldoc comment syntax parser";
+		homepage = https://github.com/ocaml-doc/octavius;
+		license = stdenv.lib.licenses.isc;
+		maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.vbgl ];
+		inherit (ocaml.meta) platforms;
+	};
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index d330de0f267f..3a185bc0a10b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -395,6 +395,8 @@ let
 
     ocsigen-toolkit = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocsigen-toolkit { };
 
+    octavius = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/octavius { };
+
     ojquery = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ojquery { };
 
     omd = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/omd { };