From the library
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Announcements of new translations, notes from the translator's desk, and things found along the way. Also available by RSS.
- Delrio's Investigations into Magic, Books III–IV, joins the library — Tome II of the Disquisitionum Magicarum of Martin Delrio, S.J. — harmful magic, vain observance, and divination in all its kinds — in English for the first time. announcement September 1, 2026
- A library within the library: the works of Albertus Magnus — A new wing opens at /albertus — the Opera Omnia of the Universal Doctor, translated from the Borgnet edition, beginning with twenty complete works. announcement August 30, 2026
- Cardinal Mazzella's On God the Creator joins the library — with the Latin — The De Deo Creatore of Camillo Cardinal Mazzella — six disputations on creation, man, and the angels, Woodstock 1873 — with the Latin text and English translation side by side. announcement July 30, 2026
- Cardinal Mazzella's On Religion and the Church joins the library — The De Religione et Ecclesia of Camillo Cardinal Mazzella — five disputations on religion, revelation, and the Church — in English for the first time. announcement July 30, 2026
- Granada's Introduction of the Symbol of Faith, Part One, joins the library — The First Part of Fray Luis de Granada's Introducción del Símbolo de la Fe — the theater of creation, in thirty-eight chapters — in English for the first time. announcement July 26, 2026
- Delrio's Areopagitic Vindications joins the library — The Vindiciae Areopagiticae of Martin Delrio, S.J. — the defense of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite against Joseph Scaliger — in English for the first time. announcement July 16, 2026
- Serarius's Three Sects joins the library — The Trihaeresium of Nicolaus Serarius, S.J. — the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes, in three books — in English for the first time. announcement July 16, 2026
- Sixtus's Defenses of the Old and New Testaments join the library — Books VII and VIII of the Bibliotheca Sancta — Sixtus's answer to those who assailed the volumes of Scripture — in English for the first time. announcement July 12, 2026
- Riccioli's 126 arguments on the motion of the Earth — in English — The famous double catalogue of the Almagestum Novum — the arguments for the Copernican system and the arguments against — may now be read complete, in English, in Book IX. note July 11, 2026
- Riccioli, the cannonball, and the Coriolis effect — two centuries early — In 1651 Riccioli argued that on a rotating Earth a cannonball fired north would deflect from its mark — the effect physicists now name for Coriolis. Read the argument in English. note July 11, 2026
- New tools for readers: search, a library-wide Scripture index, and e-reader editions — The library has grown new ways in — a search of every page, one Scripture index across all the works, EPUB editions, links to the Latin originals, and more. announcement July 10, 2026
- Riccioli's On the System of the World joins the library — Book IX of the Almagestum Novum — the great Jesuit examination of the systems of the world — complete in five sections, in English for the first time. announcement July 10, 2026
- Our Noah, therefore, granted us a twofold rest — Pererius on the name of Noah, the flood, and baptism — allegory done with a jeweler's care. excerpt July 9, 2026
- Rather to be concealed than to be published — Sixtus, in the Preface to his annotations, on how to treat the errors of the Fathers — with Ham, Shem, and Japheth for a parable. excerpt July 9, 2026
- That the reading of Scripture belongs to laypeople even more than to monks — Chrysostom's startling claim, at the very door of Sixtus's New Testament annotations. excerpt July 9, 2026
- Errors of the press: mending three misprints in the Bibliotheca Sancta — What a wrong number in a four-hundred-year-old book looks like, and how a living edition can finally fix it. note July 8, 2026
- The library opens — Four complete works, never before in English, free to read and to keep. announcement July 8, 2026