Cusanus Chronology


Nicholas of Cusa
St. Nicholas Hospital in Kues

 Chronology of the Works of Nicholas of Cusa

  1430s   1440s   1450s    1460s    Sermons

1430s
 

   De usu communionis(ca. 1432)

Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, tr. T. M. Izbicki (Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp. 2-85.

  Utrum auctoritas sacrorum conciliorum sit major quam papae (ca. 1432)

Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 86-135.

   De concordantia catholica (1433)
 
The Catholic Concordance, tr. P.E. Sigmund (Cambridge, 1991).
 
   De auctoritate praesidendi (1434)
 
H.L. Bond, T.M. Izbicki & G. Christianson, "Nicholas of Cusa: On Presidential Authority in a General Council," Church History 59 (1990): 19-34;Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 136-161.
 
1440s
 
   De docta ignorantia (1440)
 
Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Works, tr. H.L. Bond (New York, 1997), pp. 85-206; Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, tr. Jasper Hopkins, 2 vols. (Minneapolis: Arthur J. Banning Press, 2001), vol. 1, pp. .1-159.
 
   Epistola ad Rodericum Sancium de Arevalo (1442)
 
T.M. Izbicki, "The Church in the Light of Learned Ignorance," Medieval Philosophy and Theology 3 (1993): 186-214; Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 430-449

  Oratio coram Dieta Francofordiensi (1442)

Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 162-259.

  Quod recedere de neutralitate seu tralitate sit necessarium & Cuntra suspensione animorum (ca. 1442)

Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 260-271.

  Dialogus concludens Amedeistarum errorem ex gestis et doctrinis concilii Basiliensis (ca. 1443)

Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 272-333.
 
   De coniecturis (1443)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 162-297.
 
   De deo abscondito (1444/1445)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 300-311.
 
   De quarendo deum (1445)
 
Bond, Nicholas of Cusa:  Selected Spiritual Works, pp. 215-231; Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 314-338. 
 
   De filiatione dei (1445)
 
H. Lawrence Bond, Nicholas of Cusa, On Divine Filiation; Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 341-369.

   De dato patris luminum (1446)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 372-390.
 
   De genesi (1447)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 393-422.
 
   Apologia doctae ignorantiae (1449)
 
Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 459-492.

1450s
 

   Idiota (1450)
 
The Layman about Mind, tr. C.L. Miller (New York, 1979). The Layman on Wisdom and the Mind, tr. M.L. Fuhrer (Ottawa, 1989);Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 497-630.

  Contra Bohemos (1452)

Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 356-429.
 
   De pace fidei (1453)
 
Nicholas of Cusa on Interreligious Harmony: Text, Concordance and Translation of De pace fidei, ed. J.E. Biechler & H.L. Bond (Lewiston, NY, 1990); Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 1, pp. 633-676.

   De visione dei (1453)
 
Bond, Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Works, pp. 233-289; Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 679-743.
 
   Complementum theologicum (1453)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 746-788.
 
   De beryllo (1458)

 
Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 791-838.
 
   De aequalitate (1459)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 841-876.
 
   De principio (1459)
 
Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 879-911.
 
1450s
 

   Trialogus de possest (1460)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 914-962.
 
   Reformatio generalis (1460 ca.)
 
M. Watanabe and T.M. Izbicki, "Nicholas of Cusa, A General Reform of the Church," in Nicholas of Cusa on Christ and the Church, ed. G. Christianson & T.M. Izbicki (Leiden, 1996), pp. 175-202; Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 550-591.
 
   Cribratio Alcorani (1461)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 965-1105.
 
   Directio speculantis, seu De non aliud (1462)

Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 1108-1178.
 
   De venatione sapientiae (1463)
 
Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 1277-1381.
 
   De ludo globi (1463)
 
The Game of Spheres, tr. P.M. Watts (New York, 1986), pp.251-319; Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 1181-1274.

   Compendium (1463)
 
Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 1385-1419.
 
   De apice theoriae (1464)
 
Bond, Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Works, pp. 291-303; Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, vol. 2, pp. 1422-1442.  

Sermons:

Nicholas of Cusa's Early Sermons, 1430-1441, tr. Jasper Hopkins (Loveland, CO, 2003). [nos. 1-26]

Nicholas of Cusa's Didactic Sermons: A Selection, tr. Jasper Hopkins (Loveland, CO, 2008).

Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, pp. 334-355 (no. 8), 451-549 (nos, 126, 144, 160, 287, 280, 290)


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