The short version: the Latin is free without condition. The English is free for everything except selling.
Bonaventure died in 1274, and the Quaracchi critical edition (1882–1902) is long out of copyright — text and editorial apparatus alike. Transcribing a public-domain text faithfully creates no new copyright in it, and nothing here pretends otherwise. Take the Latin and do as you like with it. You need nothing from us.
The translation is new — littera, articuli, quaestiones, responsiones, and dubia, together with the scholia and the full critical apparatus, rendered literally rather than paraphrased. So are the apparatus labels, the translator's notes, and the explanatory text throughout this site.
So, less obviously, is the structure: the book–distinction–part–article–question addressing scheme and its slugs, the chunking and segmentation, the alignment of each English passage to its Latin, the normalized Latin, and every correction recorded in the audit and manual-review queues. That structure is what makes the Quaracchi text citable and readable rather than a wall of scanned column. It is claimed here as a compilation — the arrangement and the encoding, not the text underneath. Lifting the Latin is free. Lifting our addressing, segmentation, and alignment is not.
All of it is offered to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution‑NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Yes, freely, and there is no need to ask. Quote a quaestio in a sermon. Assign a distinction to a seminar. Post a translation to a friary or parish site. Cite it in a dissertation. Put a whole article into a study guide you give away. Translate our English into another language. Correct us and publish the correction. Mirror the entire site. Just credit the work, link the license, and note if you changed something.
Ask first.Selling it — a print or ebook edition offered for sale, a subscription or paywalled database, a commercial reference product or piece of software with the translation inside it.
Asking works. Permission is given readily, and given free for scholarly and ecclesial projects. What the license is actually for is the case this project exists against: the commercial databases that have kept the scholastics behind a login for a generation, and the reprint shops that would scrape a corpus like this one and sell it back to the people it was made for. Write to wilson@wrootlabs.com and say what you have in mind.
Anything along these lines will do:
English translation of Bonaventure's Commentary on the Sentencesby Wilson Pruitt (Wroot Press), licensed CC BY‑NC 4.0. Latin source: Quaracchi edition, public domain.
Note that this translation is a working draft; passages under review are marked as such. Cite it as a draft, and check back for revisions.
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