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Archive of Celtic Latin Literature (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1994)
This full-text database, realized by the Royal Irish Academy is a supplement to the Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts. It contains the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe, together with the Latin works of the "peregrini" on mainland Europe during the period 400-1200 A.D. It draws on over 100 known and unknown authors and includes more than 400 Latin works not to be found in CLCLT. These texts span the fields of theology, liturgy, computation, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography and includes legal texts, charters, inscriptions and so forth.
CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts
Texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted.
The Bible in English (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1996)
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The Chadwyck-Healey The Bible in English database contains 21 different versions of the English Bible. In addition to 13 complete Bibles, there are 5 texts that comprise New Testament only, two that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translation of the Pentateuch, Jonah and New Testament. Also available at the Yale Divinity Library.
Handpress Books
Records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830)
Late Medieval Liturgical Offices (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, c1996)
Covers nearly 1500 liturgical offices, 50,000 poems and 2,000 liturgical manuscripts, as well as thousands of chants and plainsong. A comprehensive two volume printed guide offers comprehensive guidance on strategies for using the data.
Lettres Pontificales / Papal Letters
Ut per litteras apostolicas The series of papal registers and letters of the 13th and 14th centuries preserved in the Vatican Secret Archives in Rome.
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online
The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)
CLCLT, a database for Latin texts, including CETEDOC, contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and other editions.
Editoria Italiana Online
A collection of full text Italian research publications in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage includes monographic works, periodicals and conference proceedings in subjects including art and architecture, sociology, economics, Italian studies, Italian language and literature, philosophy, archaeology and history.
English Poetry Database (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healy, 1993-.)
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The Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database offers a comprehensive, searchable anthology of English poetry from 600 to 1900. Both well-known and lesser-known poets are represented.

GUIDE: English poetry: a bibliography of the English poetry full-text database.
SML Reference Z2014 P7 +E54 1995 (LC)
SML Stacks Z2014 P7 +E54 1995 (LC)

English Prose Drama (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey)
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English Prose Drama contains 509 works written by 184 different authors. The database includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas.
English Verse Drama: The Full-Text Database (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1995-)
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Brings together more than 1,800 works by over 500 named authors and over 300 anonymous works, from the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Masques and short dramatic pieces written in verse, selected translations, and works written for children are included. The entire text of each drama is included, as well as epigraphs, footnotes, endnotes, and dramatis personae.
ES Europa Sacra
Coverage of medieval Church prelates, information on all 1300 medieval bishoprics, archdioceses and patriarchates under obedience to Rome, prosopographical information on bishops, archbishops and patriarchs, and gradually more recent prosopographical works on members of religious orders and data on secular clergy supplied by nationally-based prosopographical project.
Index of Christian Art (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1991- )
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Produced at Princeton University, the Index of Christian Art currently provides access to complex information on approximately 200,000 photographic reproductions of Christian art in the east and west from early apostolic times up to 1400 A.D. The term Christian is broadly construed and by no means restricted to art produced within ecclesiastical contexts or theological in theme. Classical Gods, crocodiles and comets are all included in the Index if found in a Christian context.
In Principio: incipit index of Latin texts (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, c1993- .)
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This database contains more than 400,000 incipits (the first words of a work) taken from the card files of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (Paris) and the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. The incipit collection covers all Latin texts that have been transmitted in manuscript since the origins of Latin literature up to about 1500. All literary genres are included: theology, history, medicine, liturgy, law, occult sciences, sermons, etc.
International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
A supplement to the Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA).
International Medieval Biblography (IMB)
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IMB has been the most important resource for those conducting research in the European Middle Ages (400-1500 A.D.). The online version (from Brepols publishers) now contains 300,000 articles, reviews, scholarly notes and similar literature on major aspects of medieval studies. Furthermore, IMB is international in scope, covering 4500 periodicals worldwide in more than 30 languages. Online version of IMB becomes available 6 months ahead of print.
Iter Italicum (Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 2002)
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A finding list for previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. It is a tool for scholars working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online
The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
Middle English Compendium (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1998- )
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This database combines an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary with two related resources: a HyperBibliography of Middle English writing that includes all the Middle English materials cited in the MED, and a searchable Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
Medieval Realms. Britain 1066-1500 (The British Library, 1994)
This database is a comprehensive collection of original source material for the Middle Ages in Britain. It contains images of manuscripts, artifacts and buildings together with transcripts and translations into modern English of key written sources. In addition there are sound clips of medieval music and spoken Middle English. Also available at the Divinity Library.
Patrologia Latina Database (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1992- )
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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.

Print version: Migne, J.-P. Patrologiae cursus completus, sive biblioteca universalis, integra, uniformis, commoda, oeconomica, omnium SS. Patrum, doctorum scriptorumque eccelesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad usque Innocentii III tempora floruerunt ... [Series Latina, in qua prodeunt Patres, doctores scriptoresque Ecclesiae Latinae, a Tertulliano ad Innocentium III]. Paris: Migne, 1844-64. 221v.
SML, L&B, Historical Texts BR60 +M54 (LC)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a reputation as one of the most well-respected reference works. Just like any good paper encyclopedia, the onlin edition contained "signed" entries. THe advantage of this subscription database is that it has 90 brand new artilces. The online version offers three ways to find information on your topic: using a subject guide, browsing by topic or philosopher's name or by performing an advanced search. Each entry contains a short biographical note on the philosopher mentioned and has linked relevant quotations and references.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Irvine: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, UC Irvine, 1987- )
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The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) database is the work-in-progress of an ambitious project housed at the University of California, Irvine. The TLG aims to produce a data bank of all ancient Greek authors and texts extant from the period between Homer and 600 C.E., including New Testament authors. TLG contains nearly 2,900 authors and more than 8,000 individual pieces of extant writing in Greek. The current release is virtually complete through 200 C.E. For more information, connect to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Web site. Also available at the Divinity Library.
VLD Vetus Latina Bible Versions of the latin fathers
Latin biblical texts which were in existence and use from the second century AD/CE until the time when the Vulgate became predominant are known under the common rubric of the Vetus Latina, or the Old Latin, Bible. The term Vetus Latina refers to all those biblical texts translated into Latin which are not found in the Vulgate. The textual tradition of the Vetus Latina is complex and incomplete. Because there are a limited number of extant manuscripts that haphazardly cover the biblical text the basic sources are biblical citations or allusions that are found within the writings of the Latin Fathers or Greek patristic authors who were translated at an early date into Latin. This database contains every citation, listed by book, chapter and verse of the Bible.
Ut per litteras apostolicas: papal letters = lettres pontificales (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001- )
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The collection Ut per litteras apostolicas is the electronic version of the series of papal registers and letters of the 13th and 14th centuries preserved in the Vatican Secret Archives in Rome. This series, edited since 1883 by the École française de Rome lately with the support of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), now numbers some 80 printed volumes that reproduce the papal letters either by complete or partial transcriptions or by synopsis.

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