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 Medieval Studies: 39 Databases
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Acta Sanctorum Database
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Collection of texts on the lives of the saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the sixteenth century, published over a period of three hundred years by the Société des Bollandistes.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
Anselm: Opera Omnia
    (Use Past Masters)
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: Full-text searchable database of medieval Latin texts associated with Ireland 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.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
Archivum Secretum Vaticanum, Reg. Vat.
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: reg.vat.1-reg.vat.523
Mode of access: CD-ROMs in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: JPEG images of papal letters as recorded in the Secret Vatican Archives, Reg. Vat. collection.
Aristoteles Latinus Database
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: 1 CD-ROM
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: The complete corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of Aristotle as published in the printed work, Aristoteles Latinus.
Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Collection of treatises on art and architecture printed and published between 1470 to 1775 and structured around the two Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, with translations mostly from the publication period; contains approximately 4,000 images.
Users: Licensed for four concurrent users.
Bibliographie Internationale de L'Humanisme et de la Renaissance
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1965/1995
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstation 31. Select the All Titles folder, then Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme.
Description: Searchable bibliography of scholarly books and articles on humanism and the Renaissance.
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: BTL-2
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: Contains over 600 works from almost 300 authors, providing access to all the Latin texts of antiquity from the beginning until the end of the second century A.D.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Bibliographie
Type: Indexes & Articles
* You will be asked for a password; it's not needed; just click OK.
Coverage: Ed. 1 covers bibliographic data from v. 84-93 (1991-2000) and supplements 1-3.
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: Cumulative bibliography of essays and monographs cited in Byzantinische Zeitschrift and its supplement, indexed by keywords; bibliographic citation records can be searched, browsed, copied, exported and printed.
Concordance de L'Occitan Médiéval
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: The Concordance of medieval Occitan (COM) brings together the corpus of texts extant in the language from the first attestation to those belonging to the end of the fifteenth century. This first CD-ROM contains the poetry of the troubadours, taken from critical editions.

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Dictionary of Old English  
Type: Reference
Coverage: A-F
Description: Defines the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language.
Dictionary of Old English Old English Corpus
Type: Reference, eBooks & eTexts
Description: This edition includes over 3,000 different texts and was constructed from a version supplied by the Dictionary of Old English Project in 1998.
DYABOLA
Type: Reference
Description: The online subject catalogue of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome, the most comprehensive library in the world devoted to classical studies. Organized as a hierarchical tree of 32,000 subject and key words, with entries to books and journal articles in classical archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, archaeology of the Near East, Byzantine art history, epigraphs, numismatics, classical history, and antique social and legal history.
Electronic Beowulf
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select "Humanities & History" folder, then Electronic Beowulf.
Description: Contains an image-based edition of Beowulf, the greatest Old English poem surviving in the British Library in a composite codex known as Cotton Ms. Vitellius A. xv.
Europa Sacra - Online  
Type: Reference
* Click on "Enter databases", then select Europa Sacra.

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In Principio
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: release 10(2003)
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: Consists of more than 700,000 incipits covering Latin literature from the pre-classical age to the Renaissance taken mainly from the card files of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (Paris, France) and the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (Collegeville, MN).
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
In the Heart of Hilandar
Type: Indexes & Articles
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: The first complete interactive computer-based presentation of the frescoes in the main church of the Hilandar monastery on Mt. Athos.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Index of Christian Art Database
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: Dating from Early Apostolic times to 1400 A.D.
Description: Based on The index of Christian art, a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects to 1400 begun at Princeton University in 1917. The database contains records of works indexed by the archive since 1991. No images are presently available.
Users: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users.
International Medieval Bibliography Online  
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.
Coverage: 1967-
Description: Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains bibliography and index to journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

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Labyrinth
Type: Reference
Description: The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. This project not only provides an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies.
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online  
Type: Reference
* Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.
Librairie des Ducs de Bourgogne
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: v.1 CD-ROM
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: Each CD-ROM contains two complementary databases: a textual database and an image bank. The textual database consists of all the descriptive notes of the manuscripts. The image bank comprises the reproductions of all illustrations. In addition, there is a series of background articles relating to the history of the Burgundy Library, important persons, or stylistic trends.
Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: CLCLT 5(2002)
Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Library of Latin Texts.
Description: Latin texts from the following corpora: Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina; Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Medievalis; Corpus Christianorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum; Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina; Patrologiae Latinae supplementum; Sources chrétiennes; Biblia sacra juxta vulgatam versionem; as well as many other recent editions.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

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Medieval Sourcesonline
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Full text of high-quality translations of primary sources for medieval studies.
Medioevo Latino
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: v.1/10(1980/89), v.17(1996)
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute: Standalone workstation.
Description: Cumulation of the print version issued with the same title, focuses on texts written in Latin between 457 CE and the beginning of the 16th century.
Middle English Compendium
Type: Reference
Description: Provides integrated access to three major Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources, including a large collection of Middle English texts.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Coverage: eMGH 4(2004)
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: Searchable electronic version of texts from all five divisions of Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates) providing primary source materials from northern Europe for the period through ca. 1200 C.E.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
NetLibrary E-book Collection
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: A collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.
Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.

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Past Masters
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Collection of searchable, full-text humanities databases of scholarly complete editions or selections from classics in philosophy, political science, and economics. Works by Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Austin, Ayer, Berkeley, Calvin, Collingwood, Davidson, Descartes, Dewey, Fichte, Hegel, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Nietzsche, Plato, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein.
Patrologia Latina
Type: eBooks & eTexts
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Description: Provides access to the first edition of Migne's PL, including index volumes, published 1844-1864. Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to Pope Innocent III in 1216.
PhiloBiblon
Type: Reference
Coverage: version 2.0C(1999)
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: Bibliographic database of medieval literary texts produced on the Iberian Peninsula, consisting of three component bibliographies: BETA (Bibliografía Española de textos antiguos); BITAGAP (Bibliografia de textos antigos Galegos e Portugueses); and: BITECA (Bibliografia de textos Catalans antics).
PoetriaNova
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: A collection of medieval Latin poetry produced in Europe between the 7th and the 13th centuries. Query functions permit a consultation of archives comprising more than 900,000 verses; plus texts extending to earlier periods. It is primarily aimed at inter-textual searching.
Registra Vaticana
    (Use Archivum Secretum Vaticanum, Reg. Vat.)

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Scientific and Medical Writing in Old and Middle English
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of acces: Ask for CD-ROM at the Reference Desk. Software has been installed on Reference workstations 30 and 31. Select the All Titles folder, then Scientific and medical writing in Old and Middle English.
Description: Provides information on more than 8,500 texts from the earliest significant body of technical and learned writing in English. Features Old and Middle English manuscripts found in American and British museums and libraries.
Thesaurus Diplomaticus
Type: Reference
Mode of access: Available only from public access computers in Hesburgh Library or any ND branch library. Path: Start/Library and Information Resources/All Titles A-Z/Thesaurus Diplomaticus.
Description: "Over 6,000 charters and 13,000 analysed documents ... for studying the medieval history of Western Europe."--Publisher's website.
Thesaurus Formarum Totius Latinitatis
Type: Reference
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Description: "Database for the study of the vocabulary of the entire Latin world."--User's guide.
Users: Licensed for one concurrent user.
TLG, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Type: eBooks & eTexts
* To set up an account to use this new interface, click on: Search the Online TLG ... Subscribers ... Institutions, in the left hand frame.
Description: Electronic collection of ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, plus historiographical, lexicographical, and scholastic texts deriving from the period between 600 and 1453.
Vetus Latina Database
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 18 CD-ROMS
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: Comprehensive patristic records for the Vetus Latina Institut in Beurum.

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Wheel of Memory
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute: Standalone workstation.
Description: An interactive exploration of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, a late thirteenth-century world map that presents, in over one thousand texts and images, a panoramic view of the intellectual and conceptual framework of the Middle Ages.

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