Bonaventure’s Complete Works Online November 20, 2009 at 10:29 pm
You may know from viewing the persons in my blog’s sidebar that I am a fan of the Seraphic Doctor, St. Bonaventure. You may not know that his complete works (his opera omnia, if you will) has been scanned by Google and placed online in Google books and on the new Hathi Trust Digital Library where you can download PDF’s of the full Quaracchi Latin edition of his works. These books are very expensive and hard to find and it is an absolute joy to me that they are now online and freely available to all. Of course, if you don’t read Latin, you’ll still have to buy a translation, but perhaps, Google translate will come out with a Latin-English function. 
We can all hope.
Bonaventure published several commentaries on Scripture. Recently, the very diligent friars at St. Bonaventure College in Pennsylvania, have been translating Bonaventure’s scripture commentaries and his other works into English. They are up to 14 volumes now!
Just a quick note–the university translating Bonaventure’s works is The Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University in western NY. Nevertheless, thanks for the link!
Hi, I am interested in reading works by St. Bonaventure, but cannot read Latin. Are there any English translations of his works that are on-line? I found Lombard’s Sentences. I wondered if the Seraphic doctor’s Commentary on the Sentences might be available somewhere?
Thanks,
JOB
Hi JOB,
Yes! The Franciscans have translated Bonaventures Commentary on the Sentences. You can get the full Latin/English text online here: http://www.franciscan-archive.org/index2.html.