Discounts and new texts from Critical Reprints

The proprietors of Critical Reprints, which produces reprints of Latin editions of important texts by Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, et al. through Lulu.com, have asked us to let our readers know about some coupons Lulu is offering through Dec. 15. Here are the coupon codes:

FREESHIP (free shipping through Dec. 15)

HOLIDAY25 (25% off through Dec. 15 on up to 14 books)

They have also forwarded us the below information about new texts and a giveaway.

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New Reprints!

Critical Reprints is pleased to bring you several reprints of important scholarly texts from Thomas Aquinas, Alexander of Hales, and Albert the Great!

In addition to the many reprints of Thomas Aquinas we already stock (like the Leonine Summa theologiae and Summa contra Gentiles), we are now offering:

• The Marietti edition of Aquinas's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (1950)
• The Marietti edition of Aquinas's Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius's On the Divine Names (1950)
• The Parma edition of the portions of Aquinas's Commentary on the Sentences of Peter the Lombard not included in the Mandonnet/Moos edition

In addition to the reprints connected with Alexander of Hales we already stock (the whole Summa fratris Alexandri), we are now offering:

• Alexander's Glossa on the Sentences of Peter the Lombard

We've also added:

• Albert the Great's Commentary on the Sentences of Peter the Lombard

Quodlibetal Giveaway (Advent 2013)

For this holiday season, we are inaugurating our first semiannual Quodlibetal Giveaway! Quodlibet means "whatever", and in the Middle Ages, magistri would hold seminannual quodlibetal questions in Advent and Easter, where anyone could ask whatever of the masters. Here at Critical Reprints, we're doing our own take on the medieval quodlibet, by giving you an opportunity to win one critical reprint from whatever we reprint every Advent and Easter.

Summa fratris Alexandri now available from Critical Reprints

Critical Reprints has just published a reprint of Alexander of Hales’s Summa theologiae. You can get it at 20% from now till the end of July. The coupon code is JULYBOOKS13.

Major Sale on Leonine Edition of the Summa and the Contra Gentiles

Critical Reprints, whom we have posted about before, is having a Black Friday sale. They are offering 30% off their hardbound reprints of the Leonine edition of the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles. This also includes their very popular reprint of the single volume edition of the Contra Gentiles. The sale is on today through Tuesday, Nov. 27.

Go here for more information on the sale.

By the way, I can say that I am very happy with my copy of vol. 14 of the Leonine edition (Prima Pars, qq. 1-49) that I have from them. Tom Osborne has also expressed his satisfaction with the single volume version of the Contra Gentiles from Critical Reprints.

If you don’t have your own copy of these volumes of the Leonine edition and you don’t like reading it off a computer screen, then you should check them out at Critical Reprints.

New reprints of St. Thomas

I just received the new reprint of the Summa Contra Gentiles, Editio Leonina Manualis, from Lulu.com.  I was looking for a copy of the SCG that I could easily fit into a briefcase or backpack, where I could read through it at odd moments.  For the ST, when travelling, I prefer the BAC edition, because the Marietti is heavier.  Although this reprinted SCG edition feels a lot more like the Marietti ones, it still is portable.  I was worried about the legibility and quality.  The binding is a lot like dissertation bindings.  The print quality is like a very good scan.  I have read the first 30 pages without a problem.  Sometimes the horizontals are slightly curved, especially in towards the binding.  The Table of Contents is very light.  It is simply a reproduction of the original printing.  It is pleasant to read and serves my purposes, especially since I can’t get used to reading directly from .pdfs or computer screens, and my German-Latin bilingual SCG is too heavy for planes, waiting rooms, etc.