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Texts and Sources: Full-Text
Databases & CD-ROMs
All of the resources listed below can be found
online, in print, and/or on CD-ROM at the Sterling Memorial Library
Center for CD-ROM Reference. Inquire at the Reference Desk. Locations
of the corresponding print versions of these resources are given
where applicable.
- Abbreviationes
Online:
- Abbreviationes is a dictionary of medieval Latin
abbreviations, designed for use in both learning and teaching of
medieval Latin paleography and as a reference and research tool.
The Main Dictionary is based on manuscripts from libraries throughout
Europe including Catania, Uppsala, Coimbra, and St. Petersburg.
It includes large collections such as the manuscripts held by the
Vatican Library or the libraries at Paris as well as many smaller
collections. Major collections in the United States, such as the
manuscripts held by the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York City,
New York) and the Huntington Library (San Marino, California), are
also included. The entries in the Main Dictionary cover the period
from the 8th century up to and including the 15th century.
- ADMYTE:
Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles
(Madrid: Ministero de Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional, Micronet, 1992
-)
- A searchable CD-ROM 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.
- Analecta Hymnica Online
- An online searchable version of the 19th century Dreves edition, the most comprehensive published source for medieval and Renaissance Latin Hymnody available today. The massive 55 volume work lays the foundation for the history and appreciation of Latin hymns. It includes previously unedited and scattered materials as well as published hymn collections. The Analecta hymnica treats hymn texts principally and includes some material on melodies for the texts.
- 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.
- Bibliographie
de Civilisation Médiévale
- A bibliography of monographs worldwide and listings
of miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections
or Festschriften) focusing on the Central Middle Ages, but the coverage
will be expanded in stages to cover both the Early and Late Middle
Ages.
- 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.
- Chaucer:
Life And Times (Reading, England; Woodbridge, CT:
Primary Source Media, 1995)
- An interdisciplinary CD-ROM containing Chaucer's
works and his life. Includes the complete original texts from the
Riverside Chaucer, as well as modern translations, critical essays,
images, maps, a glossary, and a host of other tools to contextualize
this important writer.
- Ductus
- A d igital program designed for the teaching of Latin paleography. Based on 60 manuscript facsimiles from the period 150-1500 A.D., including folios from The Book of Kells. Includes videos depicting a modern scribe at work; a 14-session course in paleography and codicology; and extensive glossaries, bibliographies, and support documentation.
- 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.
Handpress
Books
- Records for European printing of the hand-press period
(c. 1455-1830)
- In
Principio: incipit index of Latin texts (Institut
de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS). Turnhout, Belgium:
Brepols, c1993- .)
- Available online
to the Yale community.
- 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
Directory of Medievalists IDM
- The IDM-RIM database is the directory compiled by
means of international collaboration in the context of work undertaken
by the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes
Médiévales (F.I.D.E.M.).
- IEMA
International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
- A supplement to the Lexikon
des Mittelalters (LexMA).
- International Medieval Biblography (IMB)
Access IMB
- 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 (New York, NY: E.J.Brill, 1995)
- A database of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued
humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries.
Offers numerous search options. Print version: Kristeller, Paul
Oskar. Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely
catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian
and other libraries. London: Warburg Institute, 1963-1997.
Reference Z6611 H8 K65 (LC)
- Judaic
Classics Library (Chicago: Institute for Computers in Jewish
Life, Davka Corporation, 1993)
- A complement to the Responsa Project, the Library
includes the Talmud Yerushalmi, the Zohar, Midrash Rabbah, and the
Mishnah Berurah.
- 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.
- LIZ:
Letteratura Italiana Zanichelli: Il CD Della Letteratura Italiana
(Bologna, Italy: Zanichelli, 1993)
- A CD-ROM database offering a chronological and thematic
survey of Italian literature from the medieval and early modern
periods. It features primary source works by 106 noted authors including
Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarch, Macchiavelli, and Cellini. NYU has an
online
bibliography of the contents of LIZ.
- 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.
- Medioevo
Latino
(Florence: Sismel, 1998)
- Medioevo Latino is an annual bibliography of work
done on medieval studies, relevant primarily to Latin texts written
between 475 C.E. and the beginnnings of the 16th Century. Included
on this digital bibliography are volumes I - X (1980-1989) and volume
XVII (1996).
- Des
Minnesangs Frühling, EDV-Text (Kummerle
Verlag, 1993)
- This database is a collection of Middle High German
courtly love poems or lyrics available in full-text, based on the
38th edition of the German classics Des Minnesangs Fruhling. It
can be read and processed with Word Cruncher or any word processing
software.
Print version: Des Minnesangs Fruhling. 36th revised and
expanded edition. Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 1977- .
SML Stacks PT1421 M5 1977
- Monumenta
Germaniae Historica (Munich: Brepols, Turnhout, 1996)
- This database comprises a selection of texts from
all five divisions of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores,
Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates.) It is planned to expand
the content of the CD-Rom annually so that the entire body of MGH
editions will be available in this format within 10 to 15 years.
MGH
Online
Print version: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Berlin and
elsewhwere: 1826- . In progress.
SML, L&B, Historical Texts DD3 M8 (LC)
- New
Bible Library (Oklahoma City, OK: Ellis Enterprises, 1993)
- This CD-ROM offers scholars a range of approaches
to Biblical studies, including over a dozen versions of the Bible
itself, as well as maps, dictionaries, and commentaries, in an interlinked
format.
- POESIS
(Bologna, Italy: Zanichelli, 1993)
- A CD-ROM database offering survey of classic and
Christian Latin poetry.
- Portraits
of Byzantium (Lambrakis Research Foundation, 1997)
- This Multimedia CD-ROM presents Europe's longest-lived
empire: Byzantium, an intriguing link between ancient Greece and
Rome and the modern world, between East and West - a veritable mosaic
of peoples and traditions unified by the medieval Greek cultural
tradition. The story of Byzantium is presented here through a series
of 13 PORTRAITS of prominent Byzantines in order to introduce the
user to the major themes, events and aspects of Byzantine history
and culture. Portraits interact with a series of 12 subjects which
throw light on themes such as economic and social life, art and
architecture, monasticism, the empires neighbours, the imperial
court and associated topics.
- The
Responsa Project: The Global Jewish Database
(Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar Ilan University, 1992)
- This CD-ROM database, compiled by Bar Ilan University,
brings together over a thousand years of Jewish scholarship: Tanach,
Midrashim, the Babylonian Talmud, Rashi, Rambam, and 253 books of
rabinnical responsa.
- The
Sagas of Icelanders with lemmatized concordance (Iceland:
Mal og menning, 1996)
- The Sagas of Icelanders are now for the first time
available to scholars and other interested people in computerised
form. All these unique Icelandic medieval narratives, a total of
40, exist on this CD-ROM, and are easily searchable. The CD-ROM
also contains a lemmatized concordance, as well as a detailed thesaurus
and dictionary. These sagas are printed with modern spelling to
make it easier for the contemporary reader.
- Thesaurus
Linguae Graecae (Irvine: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, UC Irvine,
1987- )
- Available online
to the Yale community.
- 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.
- The
Utrecht Psalter (Utrecht: Utrecht University Library,
1996).
- Multimedia CD-ROM showing the text and images of
a ninth-century Latin psalter of the Psalms of David. Translation
of text, with commentary relating it to the images, available in
Latin, English, Dutch, and French. Beautiful portrayal and use of
images.
- 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.
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3/28/07
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