Bonaventurian
6 works · 2 authors
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Reading paths
Explore a school of thought, from its earlier voices to its later commentators. These paths grow with the library.
What you’ll find here
A reading library first. Open infrastructure for the texts behind it.
A library you can actually read
Latin transcriptions of Scholastic theology — Cajetan, Bañez, John of St. Thomas, Billuart, the Salmanticenses — typeset for the screen, citable, downloadable.
Translations beside the Latin
Read the Latin alone or open a translation column next to it. Contributors add translations over time, in whatever language they care to share.
An open corpus
Public-domain originals released under an open contributor license. Free to read, free to download, free to build on. No paywall on the texts, ever.
Explore the collection
A library for reading, not merely finding
162 works across 46 authors · Latin · Greek · English · Portuguese · Spanish
The scholastic tradition
The medieval schools and their later commentators.
Peter Damian · Anselm of Canterbury · Hugh of Saint-Victor · Bernard of Clairvaux · Peter Lombard · Alan of Lille · Bonaventure · Thomas Aquinas · John Duns Scotus · Giles of Rome · Nicholas of Cusa · Juan de Torquemada · Denis the Carthusian · Francesco Silvestri · Tommaso de Vio Cajetan · Melchor Cano · Pedro da Fonseca · Domingo Báñez · Francisco Suárez · Robert Bellarmine · Diego Álvarez · John of St. Thomas · Alonso Briceño · Gaudenzio da Brescia · Giovanni Bona · Claude Frassen · Sébastien Dupasquier · Charles René Billuart · Johannes Baptist Franzelin · Karl Joseph von Hefele · Domenico Palmieri · Christian Pesch S.J. · Francisco Marín-Sola · Benedictus Henricus Merkelbach · Hilarin Felder · José Ángel García Cuadrado
Classical foundations
Ancient and patristic sources received by the scholastics.
Plato · Aristotle · Macarius of Egypt · Augustine of Hippo · Vincent of Lérins · Prosper of Aquitaine · Boethius · Fulgentius of Ruspe
Add a text. Translate one. Make it last.
Most of the work this corpus depends on already exists — in someone’s notes, a personal blog, a half-finished file. If you’ve transcribed or translated a Scholastic text because you wanted others to be able to read it, this is a place to put that work where it stays found.