The Bonaventure Opera Omnia
A New English Translation
An English translation of the Opera Omnia of St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221–1274), the Seraphic Doctor, from the Quaracchi critical edition (1882–1902). The project will eventually present all ten volumes. Volumes I through IV — the whole Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard— are complete. Volume V is now complete as well: all ten of the Opuscula, among them the Breviloquium, the Itinerarium mentis in Deum, the De reductione artium ad theologiam, the three Disputed Questions, the Collationes in Hexaemeronand the selected sermons. Volume VI — the scriptural commentaries on Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and John — is in preparation, and is being published as each part of it is finished.
Book I: On the Mystery of the Trinity
Book II: On the Creation of Things
Book III: On the Incarnation of the Word
Book IV: On the Sacraments
Book V: Opuscula Theologica
Book VI: Commentarii in Sacram Scripturam I
The Quaracchi Opera Omnia runs to ten volumes (1882–1902). Four are now complete — the commentaries on all four books of the Sentences— and the fifth, the Opuscula, is in preparation, published part by part as each is finished. The remaining five, comprising Bonaventure’s Scripture commentaries, further opuscula, sermons, and the indices, are still to come.
Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221–1274), the Seraphic Doctor, composed his Commentary on the Sentences while teaching at the University of Paris. It remains one of the most important works of medieval theology, yet no complete English translation has ever been published. This project seeks to remedy that gap.
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