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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
This database originated in 1991 as the Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts, CLCLT, under the direction of Prof. Paul Tombeur. From 2009 onwards, the database has been known as the Library of Latin Texts, the world’s leading database for the study of Latin texts.
The new name Library of Latin Texts reflects the expansion of the chronological limits that were originally set, as well as the broadening of the database’s horizon which now integrates the initial Christian outlook into a general cultural perspective. The present aim is to offer a database that continues to expand and aims to comprise not only Latin literature from the patristic and medieval periods but also from Antiquity and the early-modern and modern eras. The Library of Latin Texts gathers Latin texts of all genres and all periods, attaching great importance to translations, essentially from Greek originals, into Latin.
With regard to this corpus, the objective of the database can be summarised in the brief sentence: “Who said what, when, where, and how many times?”
The textual material integrated into the database forms the first of the two pillars on which the Library of Latin Texts is built, the other one being a rich pool of sophisticated search tools.
The LLT has thus established itself as the reference database for Latin texts, offering texts from the beginnings of Latin literature down to the present day.
In total, the present version of the LLT contains more than 167 million Latin words, drawn from more than 12,100 works (including 5,800 diplomatic charters) that are attributed to approximately 2,290 authors.
The texts are selected from the best editions available and established as much as possible according to best contemporary scholarly practice. Great efforts have been undertaken to verify facts relating to the text, such as the veracity of the authorial attribution or the dating. The printed text has often been enhanced by detecting and correcting typographical errors. In order to identify, insofar as it is possible, the words proper to each work, a distinction is made between the original text and “paratextual” elements.
Content
Literature from Antiquity
The first chronological part of the database comprises the entire corpus of Latin literature from Classical Antiquity up to the second century AD.
These are the opera omnia of Plautus, Terence, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Titus Livius, the Senecas, the two Plinys, Tacitus, Quintilian and the others. The texts in this section come essentially from the Bibliotheca scriptorum Romanorum Teubneriana / Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina 1 (© Walter de Gruyter).
Literature from Patristic Authors
The second chronological part of the database comprises Latin literature of the patristic period, starting around 200 A.D. with Tertullian and ending with the death of the Venerable Bede in 735.
It offers the complete works of important patristic writers such as Ambrose, Augustine, Ausonius, John Cassian, Cyprian, Magnus Felix Ennodius, Gregory the Great, Jerome, Marius Victorinus, Novatian, Paulinus of Nola, Prudentius, Rufinus of Aquileia, Salvian, Tertullian, Victor of Vita, the Latin translations of the Apostolic Fathers, and many rich corpora of authors such as Boethius, Cassiodorus, Eucherius of Lyon, Gennadius of Massilia, Hilary of Poitiers, Ildefonsus of Toledo, Isidore, and Bede. It also contains non-Christian literature of the same period, by authors such as Ammianus Marcellinus, Claudian, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, or the Scriptores Historiae Augustae. This second chronological part also contains the complete critical text of the Latin Bible according to the Vulgate, the corpus of Latin Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, and the Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils of Late Antiquity.
Literature from the Middle Ages (736-1500)
The medieval literature in the database comprises Latin literature after 735 and includes a large number of texts up to 1500.
This part of the database contains more than 100 million words and continues to develop. It includes the complete works of many medieval authors such as Anselm of Canterbury, Beatus of Liebana, Bernard of Clairvaux, Rupert of Deutz, Sedulius Scottus, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, Thomas of Celano or William of St. Thierry. It also includes the Sentences and the Commentaries on the Pauline epistles of Peter Lombard, the Rationale of Guillaume Durand and important works by Abelard, Bonaventure, Hildegard of Bingen, Hugh of Saint Victor, Jan Hus, Ramon Llull, William of Ockham, Walter of Châtillon’s Alexandreis, an important collection of hagiographical texts and of liturgical works, a huge corpus of works related to the beginnings of the Franciscan order, and many others.
Neo-Latin Literature (1501-1965)
This part of the database already contains more than 15 million words and continues to develop.
It includes, for instance, the decrees from the modern ecumenical Church councils up to Vatican II, the Latin translations of John of Ruusbroec made by the German Carthusian Laurentius Surius, important Latin works of René Descartes, Lipsius’ De constantia, the Christianae religionis institutio of Calvin (according t o the edition of 1559), poetical works by Joachim du Bellay and by the Jesuit Jacob Balde, the epic Colombus poem of Ubertino Carrara SJ, the complete works of Lawrence of Brindisi, and many others...
Key Features
- Contains about 6,300 texts and 5,800 diplomatic charters
- Developed and produced by Brepols’ Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’
- Semestrial updates with new and improved texts
- Interface available in English, French, German, and Italian
- The powerful search-software provides users with enhanced search possibilities:
- one can construct complex search queries by using wildcards and Boolean operators, or expand results beyond literal matches by applying the similarity search
- instead of searching the entire data set, one can also use filters in order to restrict the search to a particular Author or group of Authors, a particular Work, or a particular Period or Century
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