Nicholas wrote a large number of works, which include: •
De auctoritate praesidendi in concilio generali (1434), a proposal for resolving the question of presidency over the deliberations of the Council of Basil. •
De concordantia catholica (
The Catholic Concordance) (1434), a synthesis of ideas on church and empire balancing hierarchy with consent. •
Reparatio kalendarii (1434/5), a plan for reforming the church's calendar. •
De Docta ignorantia (
On Learned Ignorance) (1440). •
De coniecturis (
On Conjectures) (1441-2) •
Dialogus concludens Amedistarum errorem (1441), an ecclesiological explanation of his papal advocacy. •
De Deo abscondito (
On the Hidden God) (1444/5) •
Idiota de mente (
The Layman on Mind) (1450). This is formed of four dialogues:
De Sapientia I-II,
De Mente III, and
De staticis experimentis IV. •
De visione Dei (On the Vision of God) (1453), completed at the request of the monks of the Benedictine abbey at
Tegernsee. •
De pace fidei (1453), written in response to the news of the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. •
De theologicis complementis, in which he pursued his continuing fascination with theological applications of mathematical models. •
De mathematicis complementis (1453) •
Caesarea circuli quadratura (1457) •
Excitationum ex sermonibus (1457) •
De beryllo (
On the Beryl) (1458), a brief epistemological treatise using a beryl or transparent stone as the crucial analogy. •
De aequalitate (1459) •
De principio (1459) •
Reformatio generalis, (1459) a treatise on the general reform of the church, written at the request of
Pope Pius II, but generally ignored by the Pope and cardinals. •
De possest (1460) •
Cribratio Alkorani , a Christocentric evaluation of the
Koran written at the request of
Pope Pius II, based on the twelfth-century translation of
Robert of Ketton. •
De non aliud (
On the Not-Other) (1462) •
De venatione sapientiae (1462) •
De ludo globi (1463) •
Compendium (1463) •
De apice theoriae (
On the Summit of Contemplation) (1464), his last work.
Modern editions •
Opera omnia, ed. E Hoffmann et al., (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1932–2006) [The modern critical edition, begun under the editorship of Ernst Hoffmann and
Raymond Klibansky] •
Acta Cusana, ed Erich Muethen and Hermann Hallauer, (1976–) [A series designed to publish all extant documents, letters, deeds and other materials in which Cusanus and his activities are mentioned] •
On Learned Ignorance, tr. Jasper Hopkins, (Minneapolis, MN: Banning, 1985) • Jasper Hopkins, ''Nicholas of Cusa's Dialectical Mysticism: Text, Translation, and Interpretive Study of
De Visione Dei '', (Minneapolis, MN: Banning, 1985) •
Dialectical Mysticism, tr. Jasper Hopkins, (Minneapolis, MN: Banning, 1988) •
De auctoritate praesidendi in concilio generali, tr. HL Bond et al.,
Church History 59, (1990), 19-34 •
De concordantia catholica (The Catholic Concordance), tr. P Sigmund, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, (Cambridge: CUP, 1991) •
A Miscellany on Nicholas of Cusa, tr. Jasper Hopkins, (Minneapolis, MN: Banning, 1994) •
On Wisdom and Knowledge, tr. Jasper Hopkins, (Minneapolis, MN: Banning, 1996) •
Metaphysical Speculations, tr. Jasper Hopkins, 2 vols, (Minneapolis, MN: Banning, 1997–2000) [Contains translations of: Vol 1:
De apice theoriae; Vol 2:
De Coniecturis and
De Ludo Globi] • Bond, H. Lawrence (ed.),
Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality, (New York: Paulist Press, 1997). [Contains translations of
On Learned Ignorance, Dialogue on the Hidden God, On Seeking God, On the Vision of God, and
On the Summit of Contemplation.] • Hopkins, Jasper (ed.),
Complete philosophical and theological treatises of Nicholas of Cusa, 2 vols., (Minneapolis: AJ Banning Press, 2001) • Izbicki, Thomas M., ed.,
Nicholas of Cusa, Writings on Church and Reform, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008). ==See also==