Primary Sources
Guides
- Library
of Congress Subject Headings (Subdivisions Useful for Identifying Primary
Source Material)
- A guide to LC subject headings to use for locating
primary materials. These headings may be used in Orbis, Eureka and
the card catalog. A printed copy of the guide is also available for
consultation at the Reference Desk in Sterling Memorial Library. Last
updated, 1995.
- Yale
University Library Primary Sources Research Colloquium
- Created for a series of colloquia in the identification
and use of primary sources in historical research offered by the Yale
University Library, Fall 1996.
- Using
Manuscripts and Archives: A Tutorial
- The tutorial is designed to orient researchers to
the methods for locating primary source material and to answer frequently
asked questions about doing research in Yale's Manuscripts and Archives
Department.
Newspapers
- Newspaper
and Microform Reading Room
- This site contains links to various resources in news
sources in print, in microform, and on the Internet. Both the Microform
and Newspaper Reading Rooms are located in Sterling Memorial Library.
Microform Collections
- Guide
to Major Microform Collections
- This guide lists and describes major research collections
in microform, housed for the most part in the Microform Reading Room
in Sterling Memorial Library. Excluded from this listing are works
by single individuals, library catalogs, and collections too narrow
in scope to be considered major. All the microform materials described
here should be listed in the Microform Reading Room card catalog as
well as in Orbis or the Sterling public card catalog.
Full-Text Databases
- ADMYTE:
Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles (Madrid:
Micronet; Ministero de Cultura; Biblioteca Nacional, 1992- .)
SML, Center for CD-ROM Reference and Full-Text Databases, Inquire at
Reference Desk
- A searchable digital archive of manuscripts in Spanish,
focusing on texts from the medieval and early modern periods. Its diverse
holdings include dictionaries, legal texts, poetry, and other genres,
as well as some works in Catalan and Arabic.
- Archive
of Celtic-Latin Literature (Turnholt: Brepols, 1994-.)
SML
- Royal Irish Academy dictionary of medieval Latin from
Celtic sources. Compiled by Anthony Harvey, Kieran Devine, Francis
J. Smith, it contains the texts processed thus far from the corpus
of Celtic-Latin literature from the period 400-1200 as part of the
Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources
project.
- ARTFL
Access
ARTFL
- In 1957 the French government initiated the creation
of a new dictionary of the French language, the Trésor de
la Langue Française;. In order to provide access to a large
body of word samples, it was decided to transcribe an extensive selection
of French texts for use with a computer.
- In 1981, a cooperative project, the American and French
Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) was established
by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the
University of Chicago.
- At present the corpus consists of nearly 2000 texts,
ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of
non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth
and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller
selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and
Renaissance texts, and a Provençal database of 38 texts. Genres
include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence,
and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history,
economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions
were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the
data contain page references to these editions.
- Avalon Project (Yale University
Law School)
Connect to the
Avalon Project
- The Avalon Project presents digital historical documents
relevant to the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government
on the World Wide Web. In addition to making available the static text,
it adds value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly
referred to in the body of the text. Relevant to European history,
are documents relating to the Nuremberg trials, to Nazi-Soviet relations
(1939-41), to World War II, to English legal, constitutional and economic
history, and to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- CETEDOC
Library of Christian Latin Texts
(Turnholt, Belgium: Brepols, 1994)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
Divinity Library, Reserve, CDD0001
- Based primarily on the Corpus Christianorum: Series
Latina and Continuatio Mediaevalis the CETEDOC Library
of Christian Latin Texts CD-ROM strives to offer the best critical
texts of Patristic and Medieval Latin Christian authors. The second
release includes the complete works of Augustine, Gregory the Great,
and Jerome, as well as the text of the Vulgate.
- Late
Medieval Liturgical Offices: Resources For Electronic Research
(Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1994)
SML, CD-ROM Reference Center
- The Late Medieval Liturgical Offices database
enables both those interested in musicology and Christian history to
examine thousands of offices sung in medieval churches and monasteries
for the praise of holy men and women. The full text of an office, with
poetical and modal notes, is available for saints as well-known as
Anne and Francis and as obscure as Ivo and Ansegarius. Included in
the notes for each office is information such as the office's author;
the location of printed forms; dates of the saint's birth, death, canonization,
and feast day; and location of cult and relics.
- Past Masters
Access
Past Masters
- Full-text, searchable versions of classic texts in
the humanities, including selected works of such authors as Aquinas,
Anselm, Aristotle, Calvin, Dewey, Hegel, Hume, Kierkegaard, Luther,
Locke, Nietzsche, Ockham, Plato, and Wittgenstein.
- Patrologia Latina Database
(Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1992- .)
Access
Patrologia Latina
- The Patrologia Latina Database (PLD) is a comprehensive
electronic version of the Latin portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's massive
Patrologiae Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses and indexes.
The Patrologia Latina, though originally published in the 19th
century, still represents the only scholarly edition of many works.
- Thomae
Aquinatis Opera Omnia (Milan: Editoria Elettronica Editel,
1992)
Divinity Library, Reserve, CDD0036
- Thomae Aquinatis opera omnia on CD-ROM is the
result of the massive Index Thomisticus project headed by Roberto Busa.
The TACD can be used as a full text database containing the works of
St. Thomas Aquinas. However, it includes a detailed analysis of each
word that occurs in the original text, and can be utilized by linguists
as well as medieval historians and theological scholars. In addition
to the complete works of Thomas Aquinas in Latin divided into 118 writings,
the database contains an other 61 medieval Latin writings.
Collections of Texts, Editions, Historical
Documents, and Images on the Internet
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European History Guides
British
History
French History
European History Research Guide
German History
Italian
History
Portuguese
History
Spanish History
History
of Science/Science Studies
Medieval Studies
World War II
Cold War
Bibliografia Anual de História
de Portugal
(Univ. of Coimbra)
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& Chronologies
Newspapers
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Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Manuscripts and Archives Department,
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