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Thomas Aquinas Research Guide

Thomas Aquinas resources at the Catholic University of America

Image of Thomas Aquinas

The image shows the Virgin giving the rosary to St Dominic and St Thomas Aquinas kneeling before them at left.

Object type: drawing
Materials: paper
Techniques: drawn
Production person: Drawn by Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Date: 1611-1675
Dimensions: Height: 243 millimetres; Width: 336 millimetres
© The Trustees of the British Museum

Latin Editions

Most of disputations can be found in the Quaestiones Disputatae (Stacks, BQ 6861 .Q4 A2 1949).  It includes the following works:

•   De Anima
•   De Caritate
•   De Correctione Fraterna
•   De Malo
•   De Potentia
•   De Spe
•   De Spiritualibus Creaturis
•   De Unione Verbi Incarnati
•   De Veritate
•   De Virtutibus Cardinalibus
•   De Virtutibus in Communi

Quaestionibus de Quodlibet I - XII
Text in Latin is avalable in vol. XXV, pt. 1 - 2 of the Leonine edition of Opera Omnia.

Utrum Anima Coniuncta Cognoscat Seipsam per Essentiam
Text in Latin is avalable in L. A. Kenndy, "The Soul's Knowledge of itself: an unpublished work attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas", Vivarium, 15 (1977), pp. 31 - 45.  Please note that Vivarium is available in full text via CUA e-journals.   

English Editions

De Animae
Questions on the Soul.  Translated by James H. Robb (Stacks, B720 .M48 no.27);  The Soul.  Translated by John Patrick Rowan (Stacks, BQ 6861 .Q52 E5 1949). 

De Caritate
On Charity.  Translated by Lottie H. Kendzierski (Stacks, B720 .M48 no.10) 

De Malo
On Evil.  Translated by Jean T. Oesterle (Stacks, BQ6861 .Q54 E5 1995);  The De Malo of Thomas Aquinas.  Translated by Richard Regan.  Contains English and Latin texts (Stacks, BJ1401 .T4813 2001);  On Evil.  Translated by Richard Regan.  (Stacks, BJ225. T2 Q3413 2003).  Also translated by Ralph McInerny in Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings, pp. 552 - 564 (Stacks, BQ6831 .E5 1998 ).  

De Potentia
On the Power of God.  Literally translated by the English Dominican fathers (Stacks, BQ6861 .Q56 E5 1992). 

De Spiritualibus Creaturis
On Spiritual Creatures.  Translated by Mary C. FitzPatrick and John J. Wellmuth (Stacks B720 .M48 no.5).        

De Unione Verbi Incarnati
On the Union of the Incarnate Word. Translated by Roger W. Nutt.  (Stacks, B765.T53 Q3213 2015)

De Veritate
Truth.  Translated by Robert W. Mulligan, James V. Glynn, and Robert William Schmidt (Stacks, BQ6861 .Q64 E5 1994). 

De Virtutibus Cardinalibus
Disputed Questions on Virtue: quaestio disputata de virtutibus in commune and Quaestio disputata de virtutibus cardinalibus.  Translated by Ralph McInerny (Stacks, BVZ4630 .T473 1998).   

De Virtutibus in Communi
St. Thomas Aquinas on the Virtues, in General.  Translated by John Patrick Reid (Stacks, BQ6861 .Q66 E5 1951);  Disputed Questions on Virtue: quaestio disputata de virtutibus in commune and Quaestio disputata de virtutibus cardinalibus.  Translated by Ralph McInerny (Stacks, BVZ 4630 .T473 1998).  Also translated by Robert P. Goodwin in Selected writings of Thomas Aquinas: The Principles of nature, On being and essence, On the virtues in general, On free choice, pp. 75 - 113 (Stacks, BQ6831 .E5 1965).    

Quaestiones de Quodlibet I–II
Quodlibetal Questions 1 and 2.  Translated by Sandra Edwards (Stacks, BQ6861 .Q7E5 1983).  

Utrum Anima Coniuncta Cognoscat Seipsam per Essentiam
No translation is availabe.  A transcript is available in L. A. Kenndy, "The Soul's Knowledge of itself: an unpublished work attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas", Vivarium, 15 (1977), pp. 31 - 45.  Please note that Vivarium is available in full text via CUA e-journals.