A new wing of the library opens today: the works of Albertus Magnus — Saint Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church, master of Saint Thomas, and the most universal mind of his century — translated from the thirty-eight-volume Borgnet edition of his Opera Omnia (Paris, 1890–1899).
It begins with twenty complete works, the whole contents of five Borgnet volumes: the logic — On the Predicables through the Sophistical Refutations — the sermons for the seasons, on the saints, and on the Eucharist; the Marian and spiritual works, among them the great Mariale and On Cleaving to God; the treatises on the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrament of the Eucharist; and the commentary on the Apocalypse.
Every section can be read in English, in the transcribed Latin, side by side, or beside photographs of the printed Borgnet pages themselves — with its page citation, its footnotes linked in place, and cross-references that jump where they point. The new wing keeps its own search and its own Scripture index, some nine thousand citations across the works.
A word of candor, which the new library states plainly on its own pages: these translations are produced by a different, largely automated, workflow than those behind every other translation associated with our work, which has intensive human oversight — and it is still in its testing period. We cannot yet promise the library is free of errors, even serious ones. Please report any errors you come across — every correction makes it better.
The remaining volumes will follow, work by work. Totum scibile scivit — he knew everything that could be known; now, page by page, he may be read.