Library of Latin Texts – Series A
responsability: Center ‘Traditio Litterarum
Occidentalium’
• Scholarly
• Heuristic work
• Over 60 million words
• Over 3100 texts of 950 authors
• Antiquity, the patristic period, the Middle Ages and
the modern era
• Selected texts from the best editions available
• ‘Memento’ (background information) for each work
• Bi-annual update online
Library of Latin Texts – Series B
• Objective: quicker development
• Approximately 7 million words in 2009
• Over 450 texts from Antiquity, the patristic period, the
Middle Ages and the modern era
• 'Memento’
• Different search possibilities
• Bi-annual update online
Three ways of accessing texts
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Choose your language
Access to manual
Example 1: search screen
(voluptas)
Example dates from February 2010
Multiple types of filters
Search field
Search options
Display of results per period
You can navigate through the list with the help of the arrow buttons.
You can navigate to ‘Distribution of Word-forms’ or to the
Database of Latin Dictionaries application.
(only available to subscribers)
You can create and save a PDF file or you can
send an e-mail which contains the selected
results.
Example 2: Table of contents
(Augustine)
Example dates from 2009
The table of contents allows you to access specified passages from
individual texts.
List of authors beginning
with ‘A-’
Augustine
List of works of Augustine
Access to a specific
reference
Create a PDF file
Access to full-text
Example 3: distribution of word forms
(urbs)
Example dates from February 2010
The third approach allows you to access texts by examining the distribution of
word-forms. (=concordances)
Create a PDF file
Access to full-text