From the library
Notes
Announcements of new translations, notes from the translator's desk, and things found along the way.
- Serarius on Joshua: the latter volume, on the wars — The tomus posterior of 1610 — Jericho's fall, the sun standing still over Gabaon, and the dividing of the land — in English for the first time. announcement October 10, 2026
- Father Laurent on the Cosmogony of Moses — The Capuchin provincial of France, himself a geologist, against the systems that turn the six days of Genesis into ages — Paris, 1863, in English for the first time. announcement October 6, 2026
- St. Antoninus of Florence: the Chronicles, Part One — The first part of the great chronicle of St. Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence — the history of the world from Adam to the persecution of Diocletian — in English for the first time, with the author's own register. announcement September 23, 2026
- The Holy Library complete: all eight books of the Bibliotheca Sancta — Books I–IV of Sixtus of Siena's Bibliotheca Sancta join the library, completing the whole eight-book work in English for the first time — the canon of Scripture, its books and writers, the art of expounding it, and the catalogue of all its Catholic expositors. announcement September 20, 2026
- Make a picture of any passage — Select any passage in any work and the site will draw a shareable picture of it, with the author's portrait or the book's own title page, and the exact citation. note September 16, 2026
- Sibylla's Mirror of Unusual Questions joins the library — The Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum of Bartholomaeus Sibylla, O.P., on the soul and its last end, the angels and the demons, complete in English for the first time. announcement September 15, 2026
- Adam Contzen's Ten Books of Politics joins the library — The Politicorum libri decem of Adam Contzen, S.J., the great Catholic treatise on the commonwealth in ten books and 338 chapters, complete in English for the first time. announcement September 13, 2026
- Two works of Carlo Passaglia join the library — Passaglia's Commentaries on the Eternity of Punishments and on the Fire of Hell (Rome, 1855) and the third part of his Theological Commentaries, on the first and second will of God (Rome, 1851), in English for the first time. announcement September 13, 2026
- 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