General Information
International Initiatives
Electronically Processed Texts
Portals
General databases
Specific authors
Digitalized Printings (Scans)
Portals
Websites
Tools
NB: the symbol [P] after a link means "Paying access".
GENERAL INFORMATION
Digital Librarian: Electronic Texts and Primary Sources: "a librarian's choice of the best of the Web".
Le Médiéviste et l'Ordinateur: an online journal devoted to new technologies and Medieval history (IRHT, Paris).
Menestrel: catalog of CD-Roms relevant to medieval studies in general.
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Google book search: interesting out-of-copyright books may be fully accessible in PDF format; others are sometimes partially viewable.
Google scholar: dedicated to scholarly articles, some directly accessible, e.g. in academic repositories.
Open-Access Text Archive: library collections scanned by the Open Content Alliance, a non-profit consortium of libraries, and hosted on the Internet Archive. Still in its embryonic stage regarding medieval philosophy; but let us be patient.
ELECTRONICALLY PROCESSED TEXTS
NB: we deliberately exclude electronic versions that do not mention their provenance or the printed source from which they derive, so as to avoid reporting unreliable editions.
PORTALS
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: a collaborative project for creating a "centralized resource for locating Latin literature on the internet
EpistemeLinks - Electronic Texts
The Philological Museum: "An analytic bibliography of on-line neo-Latin texts", by D. F. Sutton (Univ. of Calif., Irvine)
Philosophy Texts Online
GENERAL DATABASES
Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo: Il progetto ALIM intende offrire alla libera consultazione, sulla rete Internet, tutti i testi composti in Italia nel corso del medioevo e scritti in latino.
Bibliotheca Augustana: created by Prof. L. Harsch (Augusburg). A most elegant website, texts from reference editions, with notices and bibliographies. No search functions.
CAMENA - Corpus Automatum Multiplex Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham Univ.): interesting selection of documents
Library of Latin Texts Online (CLCLT) [P]: a Brepolis database, created and run by the pioneer Prof. P. Tombeur; contains the entire corpus of Latin literature from Classical Antiquity up to the second century C.E./A.D, of the Patristic literature up to 735, medieval and Neo-Latin works. Sophisticated search-functions.
Past Masters [P]: by InteLex; a few major medieval authors. Search function.
Patrologia Latina [P]: electronic version of Migne's series (therefore to be used with the same precautions than Migne's non-critical editions). Search functions.
Perseus Project : Ancient Greek & Roman texts, with dictionaires & other tools. Search functions. A Tufts Univ. database.
Resources for Research in Mediaeval Philosophy: personal initiative of Prof. P. King (Toronto), ASCII files of reference editions of several authors.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae [P] : founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.
SPECIFIC AUTHORS
(Bible) Vetus Latina Database [P]: citations of the Latin Bible from the writings of the Church Fathers; a Brepolis database.
(Bible) Biblia Sacra vulgata: Fourth edition of the Biblia Sacra iuxta vulgatam versionem, 1994. Search function limited to key-words.
Anselm of Canterbury: on P. King's Resources for Research in Mediaeval Philosophy.
Aristoteles Latinus [P]: CD-ROM, by the De Wulf-Mansion Center, Leuven, with the ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’ Centre (P. Tombeur).
Augustine of Hippo: some works on J. J. O'Donnell page.
Boethius: on P. King's Resources for Research in Mediaeval Philosophy.
Boethius: Consolatio, ed. by J. J. O'Donnell (from CSEL ed.), with a concordance.
(Bonaventure of Bagnoreggio) The Internet Guide to St. Bonaventure, by the Franciscan Archive: several links to online texts & translations, including the Commentary on the Sentences (Quaracchi edition) along with an english transl. (book 1 also avalable on CD-ROM).
Cassiodorus: De anima, Institutiones and Variae on J. J. O'Donnell's site.
(Dante Alighieri) Dante online: complete works, text of the Edizione Nazionale. The Word of Dante is a beautiful site that offers multi-media tools to study the Divine Comedy, including teh searchable Italian text, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations (sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia).
Eckhardus de Hoheim: several texts in Latin and German on the Meister Eckhart und seine Zeit website.
Encyclopédies: quelques textes en lignes sur le site du Centre d'Etude des Textes Médiévaux de l'université de Rennes 2.
The Franciscan Archive: several online sources on the Franciscan order and some famous Franciscans.
Gilbert of Poitiers: on P. King's Resources for Research in Mediaeval Philosophy.
Isidorus Hispalensis: partial (but presumably in progress) transcription of his De Natura Rerum, from the ms. 83II of the Dom- und Diözesanbibliothek Köln.
Gratianus: Decretum, based on Friedberg's (1879) edition.
Ivo of Chartres: canon law texts, namely, the Collectio Tripartita, the Decretum and the Panormia.
John Buridan: on P. King's Resources for Research in Mediaeval Philosophy.
(John Duns Scotus) The Internet Guide to Bl. John Duns Scotus, by the Franciscan Archive: several links to online texts & translations.
John Duns Scotus: on P. King's Resources for Research in Mediaeval Philosophy.
John of Mirecourt: provisional edition his Commentary on Sentences, book I, by M. Parodi et al.
Nicole Oresme: Tractatus de Origine, Natura,Jure et Mutationibus Monetarum grâce au Pôle d'histoire de l'analyse et des représentations économiques de l'université de Paris I.
Peter Abaelard : an amazingly comprehensive and beautiful website, by W. Robl; contains tons of documents on Abelard, Heloisa, and their contemporaries, including online sources and texts.
Peter Abelard:
on P. King's Resources for Research in Mediaeval Philosophy.
Peter Auriol: in progress edition of the Scriptum super primum Sententiarum by R. Friedmann & al.
Peter of Candia: some questions of his Commentary on the Sentences, by C. Schabel & al.
Peter of John Olivi: some texts and related information published by S. Piron's "micro-review" Oliviana.
Rabanus Maurus: De Rerum Naturis, transcription of Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, MS Augiensis 96 and 68, by W. Schipper, with a word of caution.
Ramon Lull Database: by the Centre de Documentacio Ramon Lull, Barcelona.
Remigio dei Girolami: several texts of this author, including quodlibetal questions, by Emilio Panella. The site host is tiresome, however.
(Richard Rufus) The Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project : work in progress, with provisional editions.
Robert Alyngton: Tractatus "Juxta hunc textum", édité par Fabienne Pironet.
(Robert Grosseteste) The Electronic Grosseteste : with search functions.
(F. Suarez) Disputationes Metaphysicae, ed. by Salvador Castellote und Michael Renemann (Bochum).
Tertullianus: the complete works, processed from scans of different editions.
To be used with precaution, accordingly to the editor's warning.
(Thomas Aquinas) Corpus Thomisticum: includes the Opera Omnia (recognovit ac instruxit Enrique Alarcón; Leonine ed. text ), the Index Thomisticus by R. Busa, with multiple search functions, and other tools.
William Heytesbury: Sophismata, Tractatus "Juxta hunc textum", édités par Fabienne Pironet.
William of Ockham: on P. King's Resources for Research in Mediaeval Philosophy.
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DIGITIZED PRINTINGS (SCANS)
PORTALS
InkunabelLinks: Online Resources for Incunabula Research
Inkunabelkatalog INKA der Universität Tübingen für über 20 Bibliotheken Deutschlands.
LibWeb: a repertory of Library Servers accessible via WWW.
The Philological Museum: "An analytic bibliography of on-line neo-Latin texts", by D. F. Sutton (Univ. of Calif., Irvine)
WEBSITES
(France) Gallica: from the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
(France) Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes: numérisation et la diffusion en ligne de fonds patrimoniaux conservés en majorité dans la Région Centres. Un projet mené par Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance avec la collaboration de l'IRHT (CNRS)
(Germany) Corpus Automatum Multiplex Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum
(Germany) Max-Planck-Institut Für WissenschatsGeschichte : focused on history of science.
(Germany) Monumenta Germaniae Historica
(Germany) Münchner Digitalisierungszentrum (Bayerisches Staatbibliothek)
(Germany) Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek (Wolfenbüttel-Köln)
(Germany) Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek
(Great-Britain) The Warburg Institute Library Digital Collection, with in particular medieval texts on astrology
(Italy) Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
(Italy) Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze
(Portugal) Biblioteca Naciona Digital
(Spain) Biblioteca Universidad Complutense
(Spain) Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla
(Spain) Biblioteca Universitaria de Valencia
Durandus de Sancto Porciano: his Commentary on Sentences, in the Venise 1571 edition (repr. Gregg Press, 1964), on the website of the Thomas-Institut, Köln, as a part of a new editorial project.
Medieval Psychological Sources on the Internet: courtesy of Pekka Kärkkäinen.
Marco Forlivesi offers "a small collection of digital reproductions of classical academic works", including for instance Nicholas Bonet's philosophical works in 4 volumes, the Complutenses on dialectic and natural philosophy, or John Punch's (Poncius's) two Cursus. Extremely useful, and an example to follow!
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TOOLS
Database of Latin Dictionaries [P]: run by the Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’ (dir. Paul Tombeur), who plans to include dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages, dictionaries providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words and historical Latin dictionaries. For now, the database contains: Albert Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens; Dictionnaire latin-français de Firmin Le Ver; C. du Fresne('du Cange'), Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae latinitatis.
Lewis & Short Latin-English Dictionary: on the Perseus Project site.
L. Schütz's Thomas-Lexikon available online as part of the Corpus Thomisticum website.
COL: Latin spell checker, works with MS Word and OpenOffice; by "An Drouizig" and Marjorie Burghart.
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid, and other hints, on a webpage maintained by Kevin Cawley (Univ. of Notre-Dame).
William Whitaker's Words can help beginners translating from Latin to English (or inversely).
Albertus Magnus Online: Index zur Logik, von O. Grönemann
Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions: i.e. for making such editions
Analyser. Logiciel de génération de concordances et de lexicométrie conçu par Pascal Bonnefois.
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