Bonaventurian
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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
137 works across 35 authors · Latin · Greek · English · Portuguese · Spanish
The scholastic tradition
The medieval schools and their later commentators.
Saint Peter Damian · St. Anselm of Canterbury · Bl. Hugh of Saint Victor · Saint Bernard of Clairvaux · Alain de Lille · St. Bonaventure · St. Thomas Aquinas · Bl. John Duns Scotus · Nicholas of Cusa · Denis the Carthusian · Franciscus de Sylvestris Ferrariensis · Cardinal Tommaso De Vio Cajetan · Pedro da Fonseca, S.J. · Dominicus Banez · St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J. · 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 · Francisco Marín-Sola · Benedictus Henricus Merkelbach O.P. · Hilarin Felder O.M.Cap.
Classical foundations
Ancient and patristic sources received by the scholastics.
Plato · Aristotle · St. 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.