D.P. Curtin

D.P. Curtin is an Irish-American antiquarian and translator. He is the son of an civil engineer and a school teacher, and grew up with six siblings in Richboro, Penna. There he attended a local parochial grade school in Southampton, and later Archbishop Wood Catholic High School in Warminster, Penna.

He has obtained his BA from Villanova University in 2007 in Theological Studies, a Masters degree from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA in 2014, and a doctoral degree from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA in 2024. His doctoral thesis can be found here. He is also involved with the 3rd Order of the Order of St. Augustine via Villanova University.

To date he has translated over seven hundred texts relating to the development of the Western World between the 5th and 15th centuries. These works make-up the majority of texts in the Scriptorium Project's collection. The various manuscripts which he has handled are of sundry cultural provenance, including: Celtic, Gallic, Visigothic, Punic, Nubian, Nordic, Slavic, Ethiopian, Coptic, Celtic, German, Armenian, Arabic, Byzantine, Syriac, Anglo-Saxon, and Georgian. This work began as an undergraduate student at Villanova University, within the special collections at the (Old) Falvey Memorial Library, which then housed a considerable Latin & Greek patristics collection. Originally under the tutelage of Fr. Thomas Martin OSA, the collection began as a small smattering of sundry works from Latin texts, then largely unavailable, but has subsequently expanded to a large library of texts. Many works are derived from the archival manuscripts pioneered by the Italian philologist Giovanni Mansi and the scholar Jacques-Paul Migne, SJ.