# Corpus Thomisticum puts the Latin opera and indices on a public digital site

Date: 2000

## The fact

By 2000 Roberto Busa’s long machine-index project and the Fundación Tomás de Aquino were serving a public Corpus Thomisticum. It is not a 1272 autograph.

## Context

Searchable Latin changes who can check a citation against a heresy article or a natural-law line. Digital access is the gain; the texts’ harms remain other rows.

[Thomas Aquinas](/people/thomas-aquinas) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, Holy See, or archive page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Corpus Thomisticum (https://www.corpusthomisticum.org/; Corpus Thomisticum / Fundación Tomás de Aquino).

## Significance

A public digital opera is a learning-access path.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Thomas Aquinas: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-aquinas

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.corpusthomisticum.org/
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-corpus-thomisticum