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Library of Latin Texts (BTL & CLCLT) This link opens in a new window
Available within the Cross Database Searchtool
Database contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council. Covers all the works from the classical period up to the 2nd century C.E./A.D; the most important patristic works starting around 200 C.E./A.D. with Tertullian, ending with the death of Venerable Bede in 735; a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas - texts taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions; and, Neo-Latin literature (1501-1962) including decrees from the modern ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II, and translations into Latin of important sixteenth-century works.
Cross Database Searchtool This link opens in a new window
Including Library of Latin Texts (A & B), Monument Germaniae Historica, Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature, and Aristoteles Latinus Database.
Perseus under PhiloLogic This link opens in a new window
Including Greek texts, Latin texts, commentaries, encyclopedias, dictionaries, grammars and grammar lookup, dictionary lookup, commentary finder, and parser.
Corpus Augustinianum Gissense This link opens in a new window
CAG 3 offers a fully searchable rendering of the Corpus Augustinianum Gissense (CAG) edition of Augustine's works in Latin. Editor of the CAG-online is the famous Augustinian researcher and founder of the Augustinus-Lexikon, Cornelius Petrus Mayer.
From their website
Patrologia Latina Database This link opens in a new window
An electronic version of the Latin portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses, and indexes. Although originally published in the 19th century, it still represents the only scholarly edition of many works.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts This link opens in a new window
Offers an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Includes theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation This link opens in a new window
A uniquely valuable resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.

Latin

Acta Sanctorum This link opens in a new window
The Acta Sanctorum Database contains the entire text of Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.
APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) This link opens in a new window
APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains physical descriptions and bibliographic information about the papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts. When possible, links are also provided to the original language texts. Participating Institutions
Analecta Hymnica This link opens in a new window
The Analecta hymnica medii aevi digitalia is derived from a 55 volume print set, originally published from 1886-1922, and is the largest collection of medieval Latin liturgical poetry in existence. In general, hymns texts are found in one group of 13 volumes, while sequence texts are found in another group of 13 volumes. Included in the remaining 19 volumes are tropes, rhymed offices, religious songs, motet texts, rhymed prayers, and rhymed psalter texts. The searchable index contains alphabetized incipits for all texts and indices for genre and liturgical function.
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL) This link opens in a new window
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.
Aristoteles Latinus Database This link opens in a new window
The complete corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of Aristotle as published in the printed work, Aristoteles Latinus. Limit of 1 simultaneous user(s).
Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance This link opens in a new window
A collection of 14th- through 17th-century treatises on art and architecture, structured around Vasari's Lives of the Artists. Includes complete texts, illustrations, and notes by editors

Augustine of Hippo (J.J. O'Donnell)
BibleWorks 7
Call number: CDRom BS420.B6 2006 Mansueto
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Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Latin & Syriac biblical and original language exegesis software.
Bibliotheca Latina
Bibliotheca Latina IntraText

Corpus Augustinianum Gissense This link opens in a new window
CAG 3 offers a fully searchable rendering of the Corpus Augustinianum Gissense (CAG) edition of Augustine's works in Latin. Editor of the CAG-online is the famous Augustinian researcher and founder of the Augustinus-Lexikon, Cornelius Petrus Mayer.
From their website
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Archivum Corporis Electronicum This link opens in a new window
The database Archivum Corporis Electronicum allows access to the collection of squeezes, photographs and bibliographical references maintained by the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum research centre, sorted by inscription-number. Digital images of inscriptions and squeezes (when available) can be viewed at different resolutions. Additions are made to the database continuously.
Corpus Thomisticum This link opens in a new window
The Corpus Thomisticum project includes an edition of the complete works of St. Thomas according to the best critical texts, a bibliography on Aquinas, an index of the main tools of Thomistic research, and digitized manuscripts of Aquinas' work.
Cross Database Searchtool This link opens in a new window
Including Library of Latin Texts (A & B), Monument Germaniae Historica, Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature, and Aristoteles Latinus Database.
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts This link opens in a new window
Offers an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Includes theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors.
Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation This link opens in a new window
A uniquely valuable resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.

Digital Library of Late-Antique Latin Texts—DigilibLT
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"The Digital Library of Late-Antique Latin Texts—DigilibLT—publishes secular prose texts written in Latin in late antiquity (from the second to the seventh century AD)."
Epigraph: A Database of Roman Inscriptions (CIL VI)
Call number: CN520.E65 1992 Mansueto

Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby This link opens in a new window
The Epigrafik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby (EDCS) is a searchable resource providing texts and bibliographic citations (lemmata of editions) for nearly all Latin inscriptions.
"On this site you find a data base that records almost all Latin inscriptions. The texts are presented without abbreviations and completed where possible. The presentation of the texts is kept as simple as possible. Beside the commonly used indications for resolution, completions and erasures as few special characters as possible have been used. The abbreviations give the references for the publications used. The statistical data indicates which volumes (with how many texts per volume as far as the Latin inscriptions are concerned) are recorded completely in the data base."
From their Website
Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg This link opens in a new window

Guide to Early Church Documents (ICLNet)
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The hypertext document contains pointers to Internet-accessible files relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history.

Hispania Epigraphica Online Database This link opens in a new window
Roman inscriptions from the Iberian Peninsula.

IusRomanum : Roman Law
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offers a number of Latin legal sources in hypertext
LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)

Library of Latin Texts (BTL & CLCLT) This link opens in a new window
Available within the Cross Database Searchtool
Database contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council. Covers all the works from the classical period up to the 2nd century C.E./A.D; the most important patristic works starting around 200 C.E./A.D. with Tertullian, ending with the death of Venerable Bede in 735; a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas - texts taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions; and, Neo-Latin literature (1501-1962) including decrees from the modern ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II, and translations into Latin of important sixteenth-century works.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica This link opens in a new window
A database of medieval historical texts in five major series, namely the Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, and Antiquitates.
Musisque Deoque. A digital archive of Latin poetry, from its origins to the Italian Renaissance This link opens in a new window
The Musisque Deoque. A digital archive of Latin poetry, from its origins to the Italian Renaissance Research Project, was established at the end of 2005. It aims to create a singular Latin poetrys database, supplemented and updated with critical apparatus and exegetical equipments.
Objective of the traditional critical edition (or Lachmannian according to the classical philological terminology) is to revisit the archetype with the recensio, and then eventually improve it with emendatio, until the reconstruction closest to the lost original is reached. For centuries, printed book has been the publication form, containing rigid, immutable texts that are definitively determined by editors. This tiring and precious work has since offered, and still does, great incisive results in philological studies. However its limitation lies in the fact that a tradition that is intrinsically dynamic has been immobilized.
From their Website
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to over 1,700 editions covering over 2000 years of history, showcasing their authoritative editorial notes directly alongside the text and enabling advanced search within and between editions.
Papyrological Navigator This link opens in a new window
The Papyrological Navigator currently retrieves and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis (HGV).
Patrologia Latina Database This link opens in a new window
An electronic version of the Latin portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses, and indexes. Although originally published in the 19th century, it still represents the only scholarly edition of many works.
Perseus under PhiloLogic This link opens in a new window
Including Greek texts, Latin texts, commentaries, encyclopedias, dictionaries, grammars and grammar lookup, dictionary lookup, commentary finder, and parser.

PHI (Packard Humanities Institute) CD-ROM #5.3 Latin Texts
CD-ROM: PA6116.P55 1991 Mansueto. Diogenes Software for searching the data.
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The CD may be used in RR4Cla, Room 470 on the old Mac workstation. Open Pandora in the "Items for Users" folder. A Pandora helpsheet is available.
PoetriaNova 2.0: A CD-ROM of Latin Medieval Poetry (650-1250 A. D.)
Call number: CDRom PA8122.P638 2010 Mansueto.
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POETRIANOVA 2 is a collection of medieval Latin poetry produced in Italy and Europe between the 7th and the 13th centuries. An archive of the great Roman poetical tradition (archaic, classical, and late ancient). Both archives cover the extensive literary domain that goes from the Saliari Verses to the Carmina Burana, from Livius Andronicus' Odusia to Albert of Stade's Troilus, from Plautus and Terentius to the XIII Century elegiac Comedies for a total of 485 authors. A uniquely easy, intuitive query system, that now, in this second edition, makes also use of a semi-automatic identification of many graphic variants, allows for maximum flexibility in consulting and adapting access to the most varied needs. The program is available in Italian, English, French, German, and Spanish. An Italian and English language manual in hard copy accompanies the CD-ROM. In comparison to the first edition, POETRIANOVA 2 includes 110 new authors, 138 new works and 168,000 new verses; it makes use of a metric typology recognition, new search options, including comparison between keys, and new results display options. The transition to a multi-platform environment (Mac, Windows, GNU/Linux) is an important technical innovation.
From their Website

Sources Chrétiennes Online This link opens in a new window
“Sources Chrétiennes Online” forms the digital, searchable counterpart to the well-known “Sources Chrétiennes” series, based in Lyon and published by Éditions du Cerf, Paris. By 2025, the database will incorporate the source texts from the more than 600 printed volumes, in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian, sided by French translations and allowing for targeted and filtered searches.
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum This link opens in a new window
The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) is an evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Indiana University.
The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum is a database seeking to represent the entire corpus of Latin music theory works written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Ut per litteras apostalicas... Lettres Pontificales / Papal Letters

Vetus Latina This link opens in a new window
Collection of Latin translations of the Bible that pre-date the Vulgate. This resource contains Latin translations of biblical texts that were in existence and use from the second century AD/CE until the widespread adoption of the Vugate. Although the interface is in German, the resource is relatively easy to navigate because citations are listed by book, chapter, and verse of the Bible. Search results are displayed as images of archival cards showing Latin texts as held in the Vetus Latina Institute in Beuron.

Dictionaries: Greek & Latin

Autenrieth A Homeric Dictionary This link opens in a new window
From Perseus, but loaded locally under PhiloLogic.
Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (Montanari) This link opens in a new window
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With 140,000 entries, new entries are being added (online) on a regular basis.
Cambridge Greek Lexicon This link opens in a new window
Entries are organised according to meaning, with a view to showing the developing senses of words and the relationships between those senses. Other contextual and explanatory information, all expressed in contemporary English, is included, such as the typical circumstances in which a word may be used.
Database of Latin Dictionaries This link opens in a new window
Click "Enter Databases."
The database will continue to grow gradually and will comprise three kinds of dictionaries: dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages, dictionaries providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words, and historical Latin dictionaries. A live link between the Library of Latin Texts and the Database of Latin Dictionaries is available. This link enables the user who has conducted a search on a word in a dictionary within DLD to export this word automatically to its sister-database and thereby identify actual occurrences of the particular word in CLCLT in its actual context. Likewise, a user can select a word found in a text of CLCLT and automatically find entries on the word in the constituent dictionaries of the DLD.
DGE (Diccionario Griego-Espaol) Online This link opens in a new window
DGE online is the digital edition of the seven published volumes of the Diccionario Griego-Espaol, that cover the alphabetical section ? - ??????. Although still in progress, the DGE is currently becoming the largest bilingual dictionary of ancient Greek: it already includes about 60,000 entries and 370,000 quotations of ancient authors and texts.
From their Website.
Frisk, Griechisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch This link opens in a new window
The database represents the text of Hjalmar Frisk's "Griechisches etymologisches Woerterbuch" (Heidelberg 1960-1972).
Frisk's text is given practically unchanged (only a few obvious typos have been corrected), except for some rearrangement of the material. The Latin transcription has been added for easier alphabetisation and search.
Frisk does not always grammatically label the words. In the case of verbs and adjectives, these labels are systematically absent. For searching purposes, we have added the label "v." for the verbs.
From their Web site.
Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new window
Online edition includes the following dictionaries:
Etymological Dictionary of Latin
Etymological Dictionary of Greek
Etymological Dictionary of Slavic
Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic forthcoming
Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic
Etymological Dictionary of Old-Frisian
Etymological Dictionary of Armenian
Etymological Dictionary of Hittite
Etymological Dictionary of Luvian
Etymological Dictionary of Persian forthcoming
Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb
Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Nostratic

The Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online (IEDO) reconstructs the lexicon for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European. It is a rich and voluminous online reference source for historical and general linguists. Dictionaries can be cross-searched, with an advance search for each individual dictionary enabling the user to perform more complex research queries. Each entry is accompanied by grammatical info, meaning(s), etymological commentary, reconstructions, cognates and often extensive bibliographical information. New content will be added on an annual basis.
Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary, 1879 This link opens in a new window
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names - Online (LGPN) This link opens in a new window
Print: Call number: CS2349.L48 1987 RR4Cla
The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names was established in 1972 as a Major Research Project of the British Academy to collect and publish with documentation all known ancient Greek personal names (including non-Greek names recorded in Greek, and Greek names in Latin), drawn from all available sources (literature, inscriptions, graffiti, papyri, coins, vases and other artefacts), within the period from the earliest Greek written records down to, approximately, the sixth century A.D.

Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect (Cunliffe)

Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität This link opens in a new window
The LBG is the foremost lexicographical resource in Byzantine Studies mainly covering the period from the 4th to the 15th century A.D. taken from more than 3,000 texts. Seven fascicles have appeared to date, with one more scheduled to appear in 2016. When completed the dictionary will consist of more than 2,000 printed pages, containing approx. 80,000 lemmata.
From their website
Lexique de la prose de la Renaissance This link opens in a new window
= Dictionary of Renaissance Latin from prose sources / Rene? Hoven ; assisted by Laurent Grailet ; English translation by Coen Maas ; revised by Karin Renard-Jadoul
2nd ed. Brill 2006
Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, 1940 This link opens in a new window
Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1940.
Liddell and Scott's Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon This link opens in a new window
From Perseus, but loaded locally under PhiloLogic.
Logeion This link opens in a new window
Logeion was developed to provide simultaneous lookup of entries in many Greek and Latin dictionaries. Dictionaries include the Perseus Classical collection (Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (1940); Liddell and Scott's Intermediate Greek Lexicon (1889); Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary (1891); Lewis and Short's Latin-English Lexicon (1879); Lewis's Elementary Latin Dictionary (1890)) as well as The Diccionario Griego-Espaol Project, Du Cange, et al., Glossarium medi et infim latinitatis (1883-1887), Basiswoordenlijst Latijn (1975), and Pinksters Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands (2011).
Medieval Latin Dictionary This link opens in a new window
By Franz Blatt (1903-1979) & Reimer Hemmingsen (1922-1998) from Hans Christophersen, in Denmark.
Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek (PAWAG) This link opens in a new window
The project Poorly Attested Words in Ancient Greek (PAWAG) has the aim of setting up a database in the form of an electronic dictionary that gathers together words of Ancient Greek that are either only scantily attested (i.e. with one or few occurrences), inadequately (i.e.characterized by some sort of uncertainty) or in any case problematically, both from a formal and semantic point of view.

The project is open to international collaboration and the archive will be drawn up through progressive expansion both in the number of entries and their contents, with gradual correction and updating and elimination of any ghost-word.

The database is available free and offers a scientific tool for scholars in the research on classical world as well as a supplement to the existing dictionaries of ancient Greek (in which satisfactory attention can hardly be paid to the complex field of Poorly Attested Words), in order to make a contribution to future improvement of Greek lexicography.
From their website
Suda On Line: Byzantine Lexicography This link opens in a new window
The Suda is a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, derived from the scholia to critical editions of canonical works and from compilations by yet earlier authors. The purpose of the Suda On Line is to open up this stronghold of information by means of a freely accessible, keyword-searchable, XML-encoded database with translations, annotations, bibliography, and automatically generated links to a number of other important electronic resources. (From their Web site.)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) This link opens in a new window
Also available Open access PDFs (not searchable)
Kommission fr die Herausgabe des Thesaurus linguae Latinae :The TLL, when complete, will be the first comprehensive scholarly dictionary of ancient Latin from the earliest times down to AD 600.
Woodhouse's English-Greek Dictionary, 1910 This link opens in a new window
From the University of Chicago Library.

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