Quantum Translatum Sit
How Much Is Done
The Quaracchi Opera Omnia (Vols. I–X, 1882–1902) is the critical edition of everything Bonaventure wrote. 4,593 of its printed pages are translated here — every page of the commentary on all four books of the Sentences, every one of the 557 pages of Volume V, the Opuscula, and the first 230 of the 634 pages of Volume VI, the scriptural commentaries.
That is 64.9% of the 7,078pages this project counts as text to translate — and every one of those pages is measured, not estimated. A volume’s furniture — half-titles, the blank versos facing them, an editorial table of chapter headings — is left out of both sides of the ratio once it has been identified leaf by leaf, which so far has been done for Volume V and not for the volumes after it; their denominators still carry a page or two of it. Volumes I through V are measured from the corpus itself, page by page, as is what exists of Volume VI. The volumes still untranslated have not been set in type here at all, but their extent is no longer a guess either: each was measured in September 2026 against the digitized Quaracchi volume, by finding the last leaf of its body text and reading the page number off the running head. What that replaced were round hundreds carried over from the project’s own scoping notes, which were never more than a guess and are now gone from this page.
One volume is deliberately outside that count. Volume X (277 pages, also measured) is the edition’s prolegomena, general indices and critical apparatus rather than a work of Bonaventure’s; the indices this site offers are generated from the text itself, which supersedes Quaracchi’s. It is therefore not counted as text to translate. That is a scope decision, and it is stated rather than made silently: counting it would put the figure at 62.4% instead.
The unit is the printed page of the Quaracchi edition — not the word, not the chapter, not the file. Each unit of text on this site records the printed pages it was set from, and the count above is the number of distinct pages those records cover. Distinct matters: consecutive passages share the leaf they straddle, and adding them up would count every shared leaf twice.
A page counts as translated only at what this project calls Tier 2: the Latin re-set from the edition’s own text and checked against a high-resolution image of the printed column, a fresh literal English translation rather than a paraphrase, and the full critical apparatus read off the footer of that same page. Nothing is counted as a draft to be improved later. The procedure, and why it is built the way it is, is set out on the About page.
Commentary on Book I of the Sentences — the Trinity
The commentary is complete. 17 leaves ofthis volume carry no page record: on the evidence gathered so far these are passages that were transcribed under a neighbouring page’s number rather than text that is absent, and they are left out of the count above rather than claimed.
Commentary on Book II — creation, the angels, and sin
Commentary on Book III — the Incarnation and the virtues
Commentary on Book IV — the sacraments and the last things
The commentary is complete. 4 leaves ofthis volume carry no page record: on the evidence gathered so far these are passages that were transcribed under a neighbouring page’s number rather than text that is absent, and they are left out of the count above rather than claimed.
The Breviloquium, Itinerarium, Hexaemeron, and the disputed questions
Nine of the ten works are finished; the sermons remain. Of the 0 pages still outstanding, 0 belong to the sermons and 0 are half-titles, blank versos, and the editorial tables of chapters, which carry no text to translate.
Commentaries on Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, and John
Not yet begun. Its extent is measured, not assumed: pp. 1–634 of the Quaracchi volume digitized as doctorisseraphic06bona, whose identity was confirmed from its title page and prolegomenarather than from its identifier, and whose last body page was read from the running head of the last leaf before the volume’s own index.
The full commentary on the Gospel of Luke
Not yet begun. Its extent is measured, not assumed: pp. 1–655 of the Quaracchi volume digitized as doctorisseraphic07bona, whose identity was confirmed from its title page and prolegomenarather than from its identifier, and whose last body page was read from the running head of the last leaf before the volume’s own index.
Mystical and ascetic opuscula; Franciscan-order writings
Not yet begun. Its extent is measured, not assumed: pp. 3–678 of the Quaracchi volume digitized as doctorisseraphic08bona, whose identity was confirmed from its title page and prolegomenarather than from its identifier, and whose last body page was read from the running head of the last leaf before the volume’s own index.
Sermons — de tempore, de sanctis, Marian, and diverse
Not yet begun. Its extent is measured, not assumed: pp. 3–731 of the Quaracchi volume digitized as doctorisseraphic09bona, whose identity was confirmed from its title page and prolegomenarather than from its identifier, and whose last body page was read from the running head of the last leaf before the volume’s own index.
Supplements, general indices, and editorial apparatus
Quaracchi’s prolegomena, general indices and critical apparatus — the editors’ volume about the edition, not a further work of Bonaventure’s. This site generates its own indices from the translated text, which supersedes it. Its 277 pages are measured all the same, from doctorisseraphic10bona, and they are named here rather than dropped out of sight.
Figures recomputed from the corpus each time this site is built. Corpus as of 2026-10-19.