Aquinas's Summa
Read the Prima Pars as a foundational text in the scholastic account of God and creation.
Ways into the collection
Reading paths
There is no single starting point. Follow a text, its commentators, or a later Thomist treatment.
The commentary tradition
Read separate commentaries on the Prima Pars, each as its own work.
Modern Thomist digitization
Follow Marín-Sola's treatment of doctrinal development in Spanish, with a Schola-created English translation alongside it.
Availability varies as the corpus grows. English translations are candidate texts and may need further review.
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
119 works across 33 authors · Latin · Greek · English · Portuguese · Spanish
The scholastic tradition
The medieval schools and their later commentators.
Saint Peter Damian · Anselm of Canterbury · Bl. Hugh of Saint Victor · Saint Bernard of Clairvaux · Alain de Lille · Bonaventure · Bonaventure · Sanctus Thomas Aquinas · Bl. John Duns Scotus · Denis the Carthusian · Franciscus de Sylvestris Ferrariensis · Cardinal Tommaso De Vio Cajetan · Pedro da Fonseca, S.J. · Dominicus Banez · John of Saint Thomas · Gaudenzio Bontempi · Claudius Frassen · Sebastian Dupasquier O.F.M. · Carolus Renatus Billuart · Ioannes Baptista Franzelin S.J. · Karl Josef von Hefele · Dominicus Palmieri S.J. · Francisco Marín-Sola, O.P. · Benedictus Henricus Merkelbach O.P. · Hilarin Felder O.M.Cap.
Classical foundations
Ancient and patristic sources received by the scholastics.
Plato · Aristotle · Augustine of Hippo · Saint Vincent of Lérins · Saint Prosper of Aquitaine · Boethius · Saint 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.