summa.json

The Summa Theologica by St Thomas Aquinas, parsed to JSON for ease of use. The source version used is the Benziger Bros. edition, 1947.

JSON Format

All JSON can be found in the json folder.

The Summa is divided up into 7 parts, and the JSON reflects this, dividing each part up into sections, articles, and "other". Whenever the JSON refers to a part, it will use a string such as FP.

Each part follows this format:

{
  "title": "Title string",
  "questions": { 
    "1": Page,
    // The key is the ID of the question, repeat for all questions
   },
  "sections": { 
    "1": {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "Section title",
      "part": "FP",
      "questions": {
        "2": Page
        // The key is the ID of the question, repeat for all questions
      }
    }
   },
  "other": { 
    "XP-NOTE": Page
    // The key is the filename for this page, repeat for all non-question pages in this part
   }
}

Page and Question are very similar, being parsed in the same way, but Page simply lacks all of the question specific data. Page is also quite rare, only being used for Prologue and Editor note pages.

The JS parser and HTML source files can be found at summa-to-json, if you are interested in how it functions.