This page is intended to do no more than give a brief overview of some of the networked resources that are likely to be of most use to our readers of pre-c. 1500 manuscripts, which are available via OxLIP (the Oxford Libraries' Information Platform). Considerably more detailed information about each resource listed here – and about hundreds of others – may be found by going to OxLIP.
Resources available freely on the web – many of which can be found via OxLIP – are not listed here; this page is devoted to products licensed to Oxford University, and thus not availabe from this site to those outside the University network.
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Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin TextsFull-text database of Christian Latin texts from the late 2nd to the 15th century based on corrected versions of the two Latin Corpus Christianorum series, supplemented by Patrologia Latina where necessary.
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Dictionary of National BiographyElectronic version of the standard reference work.
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Illustrated Incunabula Short Title CatalogueThe Illustrated ISTC is the CD-ROM version of the Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue, the British Library's database of fifteenth-century printing. The present disk contains images illustrating about 2,000 editions, drawn largely from material accumulated in the course of the research project Incipit. Future annual releases will move further towards the ultimate goal of illustrating all extant incunabula.
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In Principio: Incipit Index of
Latin TextsIncipits (and many explicits) of Latin texts transmitted in manuscript -- ancient, patristic, medieval and humanistic, up to c. 1500 A.D. Based on the card indexes of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, Paris and Orléans, and the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Minnesota.
Only available from reader workstations in Duke Humfrey's Library.
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The International Medieval BibliographyThe International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) covers recent published articles in all aspects of medieval studies within the range c.450 to 1500 A.D., over a geographical area throughout Europe and extending to the Middle East and North Africa. Citations cover articles, review articles, scholarly notes, etc., from several thousand periodicals and miscellanies (Festschriften, Conference Proceedings, Collected Essays), but NOT monographs or short reviews.
For further information see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imb/imb.htm
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Iter ItalicumP. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, accedunt alia itinera, on CD-ROM: a database of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries (Leiden, etc., 1995).
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Patrologia
Latina databaseLatin texts by patristic and medieval authors from the 2nd to the 13th centuries (up to Innocent III), assembled in the series Patrologia Latina by J.-P. Migne (1st edn., 217 volumes, Paris 1844-55, with four volumes of indexes, 1862-5).
The electronic version presents Migne's volumes in their entirety, including post-medieval commentary and notes, and allows searches by keyword, title and author. Migne's column-numbers are preserved.
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Thesaurus Linguae GraecaeFull text searching of ancient Greek texts.
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