Classics: Latin
Guide to Library resources in Classics
Latin
How to use the TLL
A useful guide is available on how to use the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
Online resources
- Abbreviationes This link opens in a new windowa database of medieval Latin abbreviations. Also allows you to search how a specific abbreviation mark was used during a given period or by an individual writer.
- Acta Sanctorum This link opens in a new windowA collection of documents relating to the lives of saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the 16th century.
- L'Annee Philologique This link opens in a new windowThis index to scholarly work on the language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, history and culture of ancient Rome has become the standard bibliographical tool for research in classical studies. [Database text is in English] Loyola University Library have produced a helpful series of video user guides, e.g. at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk_NcDSPtSo&feature=relmfu
- Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL) This link opens in a new windowmore than 450 Latin covering theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, chartersand inscriptions.
- Aristoteles Latinus Database (ALD)The complete corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle.
- Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina This link opens in a new windowLatin texts from antiquity to medieval and neo-Latin texts
- Brill's New PaulyA comprehensive practical encyclopaedia intended for everyday use by students and scholars of the ancient world. It comprises the English edition of Der Neue Pauly (the standard reference work of the ancient world - see below) along with supplements such as 'Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts' and 'The Reception of Myth and Mythology'.
- The Cambridge History of Classical Literature Volume 2: Latin LiteratureThe Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome.
- In Principio: incipit index of Latin texts This link opens in a new windowA searchable database of Latin incipits - the opening words that identify texts - covering texts transmitted in manuscript since the origins of Latin literature up
to c. 1600 A.D. - Library of Latin Texts: Series A This link opens in a new windowThe world’s leading database for Christian Latin texts. Previously known as the Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts, it aims to cover the entirety of Christian Latin literature, from the patristic period to the modern era.
- Library of Latin Texts: Series B This link opens in a new windowLatin texts of all genres and all periods including chronicles, medieval saints’ lives and travel narratives, legal texts, and theological, philosophical and scientific treatises from the modern period
- Database of Latin Dictionaries This link opens in a new windowIntegrates a range of modern, medieval and early-modern Latin dictionaries enabling more wide-ranging search.
- New Pauly Online This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive practical encyclopaedia intended for everyday use by students and scholars of the ancient world. It comprises the English edition of Der Neue Pauly (the standard reference work of the ancient world - see below) along with supplements such as 'Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts' and 'The Reception of Myth and Mythology'.
- Der Neue PaulyThe original German text version of the above.
- Patrologia Latina This link opens in a new windowAn enormous collection of Latin works by the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers covering more than 1000 years from Tertullian to the medieval period.
- Thesaurus Linguae Latinae This link opens in a new windowThe largest dictionary of Latin in existence, covering the language from its origin to c. 600 A.D.
Subject Guide
Hilda McNae
Contact:
Senior Librarian (Academic Liaison)
University of St Andrews Library, KY16 9TR
Tel: 01334 462298
University of St Andrews Library, KY16 9TR
Tel: 01334 462298