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ALBERT THE GREAT: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE The goal of this bibliographical essay is to indicate resources and collections of writings by and on Albertus Magnus. Students of Albert's theology as well as of other areas of his work still must go to several sources to gain some overview of Albert's writings or to :find extensive lists of books and articles on him. Just as there is no complete edition of his writings at the present moment, so there is no bibliography of writings on his thought which attempts to be complete. Editions of the Writings of Albert the Great A collection of Albert's works was published and edited by A. Borgnet in the nineteenth century in thirty-eight volumes (Paris: Vives, 1890-1897). It was based largely on an earlier edition, B. Alberti Magni, Ratisb. Ep., O.P., Opera (Lyons, 1651), ~l volumes. The Albertus Magnus Institute in Cologne began thirty years ago to publish the critical text, Opera Omnia (Aschendorff, 1951- ) . Fourteen volumes have appeared. In his bibliography for the Albertus-Festschrift (Cologne, 1980), J. Schopfer lists ten authentic or pseudonymous Albertine works which have been published separately. P.G. Meersemann published an introduction to the oeuvre of Albert in the 1930s. He discussed the authenticity and provenance , the situation of text and editions as well as the content of each work. He arranged them under the three headings of philosophy, theology and scripture: Introductio in Opera Omnia B. Alberti Magni, 0.P. (Bruges, 1931). A similar, shorter survey had been published in German: F. Pangerl " Studien iiber Albert den Grossen," Zeitschrift fiUr katholische Theologie, 36 (1912), 304-346. Bibliographies of Writings on Albert the Great Meersemann's book is a sign of the new flurry of interest in Albert which occurred at the time of his canonization. In 597 598 THOMAS F. O'MEARA, O.P. 1931, Yves Congar and M. H. Laurent published a bibliography of 583 works on Albert: " Essai de bibliographie Albertinienne ," Revue Thomiste 36 (1931), 198-238. The authors published some additions in an" Addendum," Bulletin thomiste 3 (1931), 312f., as did T. Kaeppeli in his "Bibliographia albertina ," Positio causae S. Rituum Congregationis . , .. (Rome, 1931). Over the next two decades there appeared the specialized bibliography of A. Walz and A. Pelzer in the natural sciences , "Bibliographia S. Alberti Magni indagatoris rerum naturalium," Angelicum 21 (1944), 13-40, and F. J. Catania, " A Bibliography of St. Albert the Great," Modern Schoolman, 37 (1959-1960)' 11-28. The next bibliography is one of considerable importance. l'tf. Schooyans published as a separate issue of the Brazilian periodical, Revista da Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo, 21 (1966) , a "Bibliographie philosophique de Saint Albert le Grand (1931-1960) ,"continuing the work of Congar and Laurent . Over fifty pages in length, it included a list of bibliographies , general and specialized, on Albert. Its only drawback is that this collection of close to one thousand entries included many which are only marginally about Albert, works on medieval thought in general. The present anniversary year of Albert's death in 1280 is the occasion of new bibliographies. In the Jubiliiumsschrift on Albert and natural science edited by James A. Weisheipl, Albertus Magnus a.nd Science (Toronto, 1980) , there is a bibliographical listing of all the works referred to in the essay where experts treat the broad range of Albert's contribution to science and to the philosophy of science. In Germany, Gerbert Meyer has edited a large volume of studies on Albert's philosophy and theology, Albertus-Magnus·-Festschrift (Cologne, 1980). For this work J. Schopfer has assembled a bibliography of articles and books on Albert after 1962. Having collected over two hundred titles, Schopfer's listing gives a view of the secondary literature after Schooyans and up to 1980. THOMAS F. O'MEARA, O.P. Washington, D.C. ...

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