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Most important databases
Thesaurus linguae Latinae | TLL open access Index librorum TLL online Database at De Gruyter |
Thesaurus linguae Graecae | Not open access |
Library of Latin Texts | Best and most comprehensive database of Latin texts at Brepols; not open access. |
Digital library of late-antique latin texts | “The digilibLT project is planning to offer a complete database of late-antique Latin authors and works, as well as an exhaustive canon.” open access |
Diogenes | Diogenes is an environment for reading and searching through texts in Latin and Ancient Greek. |
Latin texts
Perseus | Latin and greek texts with translations; open access |
Library of Latin Texts A, B und Cross Database Search Tool | Best and most comprehensive database of Latin texts; not open access (Brepols). “LLT-A forms a continuation of the CLCLT and incorporates 3,854 texts. A slightly different approach has been chosen for LLT-B, an approach which makes it possible to capture new texts on a significantly larger scale and in a much shorter time than has previously been the case. The Cross Database Searchtool (CDS) enables users to consult and search the different full-text Latin databases of Brepols Latin: the Library Of Latin Texts (LLT, Series A and B), the electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH), the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL), and the Aristoteles Latinus Database (ALD) simultaneously.” |
Teubner | Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina, De Gruyter; not open access |
Patrologia Latina | Migne volumes; not open access |
Monumenta Germaniae Historica | open access; also avaible at Brepols databases |
Tesserae | “The Tesserae project aims to provide a flexible and robust web interface for exploring intertextual parallels. The texts used in this project were gathered from many electronic text databases, including The Latin Library, The Perseus Project, DigilibLT, Open Greek and Latin Project, Musisque Deoque, and Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum.” |
Digital library of late-antique latin texts | “The digilibLT project is planning to offer a complete database of late-antique Latin authors and works, as well as an exhaustive canon.” open access |
The Digital Latin Library | Mission: “To publish and curate critical editions of Latin texts, of all types, from all eras, and to facilitate an ongoing scholarly conversation about these texts through open collaboration and annotation.” open access |
Corpus corporum | texts from late antiquity, mostly from Patrologia Latina, Perseus, digiglibLT and CSEL1-67; open access |
The Latin Text Archive | combines Corpus Corporum and MGH; Currently, the LTA focuses on Medieval Latin Texts in post-Roman Europe (after 400) until the 15th century. In the long run, it aims at widening its chronological coverage up to modern times. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
Open Greek and Latin | Patrologia Latin and CSEL 1-67 |
The Latin Library | latin texts copyrightfree ; open access |
Bibliotheca Augustana | latin texts copyrightfree; open access |
Labyrinth Latin Library | latin texts copyrightfree ; open access |
Packard Humanities | latin texts copyrightfree ; open access |
CSEL | Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Vol. 1-67 are free: http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/Corpus-Scriptorum-Ecclesiasticorum-Latinorum.html |
Links Galore | Links Galore is an ever-growing list of links to digital copies of some collections of books of interest to classicists, medievalists etc. in the public domain published by Google Books, archive.org and others. |
Antike Texte | Here you will find links to (Christian and pagan) authors and texts from antiquity and late antiquity. An attempt is made to compile pages with biographical information, (original) texts, translations, bibliographies and secondary literature for each relevant author. (link currently not available) |
CASSIOD. Ios. antiq. | “This site will offer a transcription of the Latin versions of Flavius Josephus’ two largest works, the Jewish War and the Antiquities. The Latin has been made to align with the Greek text (from Niese), which is then aligned with the English translation produced by Whiston in 1737. This project will supersede the editions of both Blatt and the Frobenius: it will eventually provide a complete, searchable text of the Latin versions of Josephus’ two largest works (Blatt is incomplete), based on an early manuscript. As of Jan. 21, 2014, the site provides Antiquities I-V, equalling the coverage of Blatt.” |
Catullus online | “This website offers a critical edition of the poems of Catullus, a repertory of conjectures on the text, an overview of the ancient quotations from Catullus that have independent source value, and high-quality images of some of the most important manuscripts. “ |
DON. Ter. | edition, translation and footnotes in French of Donatus’ commentaries on Terence |
Horaz online | Repertory of Conjectures on Horace |
GLOSS.L Ansil. | Digital edition of this glossarium with search function. |
NOT. dig. | Notitia dignitatum |
PS. RVFIN. Ios. bell. Iud. | text ed. Gelenii 1635 |
Musisque deoque | database of Latin poetry, supported by a critical and exegetical electronic apparatus. |
Testi della poesia latina | latin poetry |
Digital Humanities
Computational Historical Semantics | Analysing Latin Texts Semantically |
LiLa: Linking Latin | Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin |
Github resources: | https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin : The Open Greek and Latin Project produces machine-corrected XML versions of Greek and Latin works and translations. http://opengreekandlatin.github.io/patrologia_latina-dev/ : Machine-corrected versions of selections of the Patrologia Latina. http://opengreekandlatin.github.io/csel-dev/ : This repository hosts digital versions of the public-domain volumes of the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL 1-67). |
LatinISE corpus on Sketch Engine | Latin text corpus collected from the following historical sources: LacusCurtius, Intratext and Musisque Deoque. Thes texts are lemmatized and POS-tagged. |
LASLA: Opera Latina | “Since 1961 the Laboratory for statistical analysis of ancient languages (LASLA) at the University of Liège has recorded a high number of ancient Latin texts in a computer format. For each of the approximately 1,800,000 words of the corpus lexicological, morphological and syntactical information has been entered.” |
WoPoss: A World of Possibilities | “The SNSF-funded project A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language (WoPoss) aims at reconstructing the evolution of modal meanings from the prehistory of the Latin language up to the 7th century CE. The WoPoss team is working on the linguistic annotation of a selection of modal markers in a diachronic corpus of Latin literary and documentary texts.” |
Translations
Perseus | English translations of greek and latin texts; open access |
Loeb |
Loeb Classical Library translations; not open access |
Forum Romanum | Links to translations, ordered according to author |
Early Church Fathers Early Church Fathers additional | “Christian Classics Ethereal Library”, christian authors in English translations |
Guide to early church documents | “Internet Christian Library” |
New Advent Fathers of the Church | english translations |
Fathers of the Church | english translations |
Early Christian Writings | english translations |
Patristique | french translations |
Sources littéraires | french translations |
Documenta Catholica Omnia | “Omnium Paparum, Conciliorum, Ss Patrum, Doctorum Scriptorumque Ecclesiae qui ab Aevo Apostolico ad usque Benedicti XVI Tempora Floruerunt” |
Kirchenväter | german, english and french translations |
Theoi | collection of works from ancient Greek and Roman literature in translation |
Arranged according to author (TLL abbreviations v. index) | |
ALC. AVIT. | The poems of Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, translation Shea (1997), archive.org |
PS. APVL. herb. | translation and comm. in French (PDF) |
Augustinus | Zentrum für Augustinusforschung Würzburg. links to translations in various languages |
Boethius | |
CAES. AREL. serm. | Google books: english translation |
with comm. | |
CASSIOD. epist. | english translation from 1886 |
Dictys Cretensis | english translation |
DIONYS. EXIG. pasch. | |
Ennodius | Ennodius Portal |
ENNOD. epist. | French translation |
FIRM. err. | German translation |
FVLG. | Eng. translation from 1971 |
HEGES. | Eng. translation |
GREG. M. | moral. Eng. translation |
PS. PAVL. NOL. carm. 32 | comm. |
PS. PROSP. vocat. gent. | |
SOL. | French translation |
Tertullianus | “The Tertullian Project” |
VICTRIC. | Victricius, S. & Clark, G. “Victricius of Rouen: Praising the Saints.” Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 7 no. 3, 1999, pp. 365-399. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.1999.0071 |
Nederlandse vertalingen van Vincent Hunink | Dutch translations of Vincent Hunink |
Thematically
Ancient Grammarians | |
Latin Grammarians Collection | The database gathers data coming from the three following projects: Pages, TAL, ThDS |
CGL und als Blog | CGL – Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum |
Ancient Glossaries | |
Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum Online | The Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum Online (CGLO) provides digital access to the Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum (CGL, 1888–1923) and relevant archival material at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL). |
GLOSS.L Ansil. | Digital edition of this glossarium with search function. |
Roman Law | |
Amanuensis | Amanuensis is a search tool for the juristic sources of Latin Antiquity, including the Corpus Iuris Civilis, the Codex Theodosianus, many pre-Justinianic authors and several Germanic law codes. open access; installment required |
Leges Populi Romani | Datenbank LEPOR (LEges POpuli Romani) soll Rotondi 1922 ersetzen (alle Entscheidungen der röm. Volksversammlungen incl. Plebiszite). |
Volterra | Datenbank Volterra: Kaiserkonstitutionen seit der Severerzeit. |
Roman Law Library | latin texts |
Roman Law Resources | |
DIGESTE DE JUSTINIEN (dit en grec « Pandectes » ) | French translation of Henri Hulot (1803 ) |
Digesto | Italian translation of book 1-32 of the Digests |
Digest of Justinian. Corrections and Comments | The purpose of this page is to collect and publish corrections to and comments on the English translation of Justinian’s Digest published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
Medical texts | |
CMG/CML | “Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum”, Berlin-brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, latin texts |
Bible | |
Vetus Latina Database | Brepols |
Bibelindex | “Index of Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Early Christian Literature” free of charge |
Bibelübersetzungen | translations of the bible in various languages (u. a. Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling, Good News Bible, King James Bible, Luther-Bibel, Vulgata) |
Bibelübersetzungen | german translations |
Bible Suite | online bible study suite, concordances, translations |
Willibrordbijbel | Dutch translation |
Studybible | Hebraic texts with interlinear translation in English (King James Version) + dictionary |
Tanakh Hebrew Bible Project | “Tanakh.Info is a Polyglot Online Bible that contains the Hebrew Bible and its ancient versions in parallel – Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Aramaic Targums, Syriac Peshitta, Greek Septuagint, Old Latin, and Latin Vulgate, and also the Greek versions of Aquila of Sinope, Theodotion, and Symmachus.” |
Septuaginta | This online edition of the Septuagint is based on the Septuagint, edited by Alfred Rahlfs, Second Revised Edition, edited by Robert Hanhart, © 2006 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart. |
Septuaginta Project | “Septuaginta LXX Project aims to produce an online edition of the Septuagint with a comprehensive critical apparatus, and a new English translation. We seek to collate all extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint and make them available at this website.” |
Septuagint | translation of the Septuagint |
VET. LAT. Ioh. | all manuscripts of VET. LAT. Ioh. in transcription |
Godvine | old biblecomments |
Bijbelaantekeningen | commentary on the bible in Dutch |
Hagiography | |
BHL | Index analytique des Catalogues de manuscrits hagiographiques latins publiés par les Bollandistes |
Inscriptions | |
CIL | Homepage of CIL |
Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH) | |
http://www.manfredclauss.de/ | Umfangreich (CIL und AE vollständig); gute Möglichkeit, neuere Editionen zu finden; Texte können aber Fehler enthalten. |
Epigraphic Database Bari | Database of epigraphic documents by Christians of Rome between III-rd and VIII-th cent. CE. EDB plains to update ICVR and to collect also the other Christian inscriptions from Rome and its suburbium published elsewhere. Mit Datierungen! |
EDR | “Epigraphic Database Roma” |
EAGLE | The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Wird alle andere epigraphische Datenbanken inkorporieren! |
Archivum Corporis Electronicum | Archive des CIL im Internet, speziell zu den Versinschriften der afrikanischen Provinzen |
Searchable Greek Inscriptions | |
Curse Tablets of Roman Britain | |
Roman inscriptions from Britain | |
Thesaurus Defixionum | database of curse tablets |
CLaSSES: Corpus for Latin Sociolinguistic Studies on Epigraphic TextS | “CLaSSES is a digital resource which gathers non-literary Latin texts (epigraph, writing tablets, letters) of different periods and provinces of the Roman Empire. This corpus has been tagged with linguistic and extra-linguistic information that allows to analyze the spelling variations in Latin epigraphic sources in the light of the sociolinguistic context of the Roman world.” |
Papyri | |
Papyri Info | Combination of APIS, Duke, Heidelberg |
DCLP | “DCLP offers information about and transcriptions of Greek and Latin literary and subliterary papyri preserved on papyri, ceramic sherds (ostraka), wooden tablets, and other portable media. It is built on the model of papyri.info, relying on its own versions of the Papyrological Navigator (PN) for searching and browsing and Papyrological Editor (PE) for peer-reviewed curation of texts. The site aims to do for ancient literature preserved on papyri what papyri.info does for Greek and Latin documents..” |
Uni Heidelberg | |
Deutsche Papyri | |
Numismatics | |
Online Coins of the Roman Empire | “Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE), a joint project of the American Numismatic Society and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, is a revolutionary new tool designed to help in the identification, cataloging, and research of the rich and varied coinage of the Roman Empire. The project records every published type of Roman Imperial Coinage from Augustus in 31 BC, until the death of Zeno in AD 491. This is an easy to use digital corpus, with downloadable catalog entries, incorporating over 43,000 types of coins.” |
Coinage of the Roman Republic Online | “Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO) aims to provide in effect an online version of Michael Crawford’s 1974 publication Roman Republican Coinage (RRC), which is still the primary typology used for the identification of Roman Republican coin types.” |
Cohen | Online-Version of Cohens “Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l’Empire Romain” |
Grueber | Online-Version of “Catalogus of the Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum” II |
Forum of Ancient Coins | |
Manuscripts | |
Cappelli Online | The standard work “Lexicon abbreviaturarum”, named after its author Adriano Cappelli, contains Latin and Italian abbreviations of medieval texts. Lexicon abbreviaturarum. Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane. Milan 6th ed. 1961. |
GLOSS.L Ansil. | Digital edition of this glossarium with search function. |
PASSIM | Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: “The PASSIM project is currently compiling a metadata database of medieval manuscripts that contain collections of patristic sermons. This database will go beyond a central repository for currently dispersed information. The manuscripts will be integrated in a digital network, which will allow for complex queries and network visualizations of the data.” |
Medieval Manuscripts Online | Links to websites with digitalized manuscripts |
Monastic Manuscript Project | database of descriptions of manuscripts that contain texts relevant for the study of early medieval monasticism |
Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Österreich | |
Vatican Library | Digitalized manuscripts from Vatican |
Leuven Database of Ancient Books | |
E. A. Lowe’s Codices Latini Antiquiores | “(The) database is founded on E. A. Lowe’s Codices Latini Antiquiores and thus focuses on non-documentary texts written before the year 800. All of the manuscripts in Lowe’s corpus and its supplements will be found in our database, along with corrections by Lowe and later scholars. In addition to the research tools provided by the catalogue, you will also find collections of manuscripts organised around origin, provenance, script, and text.” |
Itineraria | |
Peutinger map | Currently, a commentary on the TAB. Peut. is being developed at the University of Eichstätt accompanied by a database. In this one can localize modern place names on the map. In addition there is a digitized form of the whole map |
Römischer Routenplaner | |
Latin Linguistics | |
Dictionnaire Historique et Encyclopédie Linguistique du Latin | Le DHELL constitue un portail visant à rendre accessibles à un large public les travaux actuels effectués dans tous les domaines de la linguistique latine: le lexique dans toutes ses composantes (phonétique, formation des mots, sémantique, étymologie, histoire, etc.), mais aussi la syntaxe et la pragmatique. |
Dictionnaries
Logeion | various greek dictionnaries |
Liddell & Scott | Greek-Latin |
Diccionario Griego-Español | |
Thesaurus linguae Latinae | TLL open access Index librorum TLL online Database at De Gruyter |
Lewis & Short | Latin-English; auch hier: morcus.net |
Georges Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch | Latin-German |
Pinkster | Latin-Dutch |
Georges Kleines deutsch-lateinisches Handwörterbuch | German-Latin |
English-Latin dictionary of Smith & Hall | English-Latin |
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online |
Other Reference Works
Electronic Journals
Revue de linguistique latine | erscheint nur online |
Commentaria Classica | |
Notizie degli scavi di antichita 1884-1929 |
Other collections of links
Kirke | Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie |
Propylaeum | Stabi-Portal für die Altertumswissenschaften |
Classics Resources | |
Digital Roman Heritage |