Research Databases & Digital Collections

Peer reviewed, founded in 1995, aiming to provide detailed scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of academic philosophy. Free access. The staff of thirty editors and approximately three hundred authors hold doctorate degrees and are professors at universities around the world.

The Database of Religious History (DRH) aims to be the world’s first comprehensive, online quantitative and qualitative encyclopedia of religious and social history. For more information, visit the FAQ page.

The Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR) contains digitized historic photographic images from all over the world, dating from the late nineteenth century onward. HEIR’s core images come from lantern slide and glass plate negatives held in college, library, museum, and departmental collections within the University of Oxford.

Bibliotheca Augustana ; Chicago Homer ; Dickinson College Commentaries ; DFHG (Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum) ; Digital Athenaeus ; Digital Latin Library ; First-One-Thousand-Years-of-Greek-Project ; Greek & Latin texts with facing vocabulary and commentary (G. Steadman) Internet Ancient History Source Book ; Lace: Greek OCR ; Late Antiquity : Biblioteca digitale di testi latini tardoantichi ; the Latin Library ; Loeb Classical Library (AAR only) plus “Loebulus” (public-domain Loebs) ; Open Greek and Latin Project ; Perseus Digital Library ; PHI Classical Latin Texts ; Tesserae ; and Theoi Classical Texts (classical mythology). Issued by various institutions, for further information see the according site.

Internet Culturale: click here to access numerous digital collections of Italian libraries; Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana: click here to access the Hertziana’s digitized material and here for their rare books; Rome, Archivio Storico Capitoino: click here to access the immensly rich material of Rome’s archive; Rome, Archivio Centrale dello Stato: click here to access the databases; Rome, Sapienza: click here to access the digital collections. Vatican: click here to access the Vatican Library’s digitized collections.

Álbum de copistas de manuscritos griegos en España ; Bibliotheca Medicea Laurenziana (Plutei collection and link to all collections) ; Biblissima (a virtual library of libraries) ; British Library manuscripts ; BVMM (Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux, issued by the IRHT Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, CNRS France) ; CESG (Codices Electronici Sangallenses) ; CODEX: Inventario dei manoscritti medievali in Toscana ; Digital Scriptorium (consortium of libraries and museums) ; DigiVatLib (the treasures of the Vatican Library) ; diktyon (network of digital resources and databases on Greek manuscripts) ; Dutch collections, public and semi-public : Medieval manuscripts (libraries, museums, archives, monastic orders, private institutions) ; e-codices (Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland) ; ELM (Earlier Latin Manuscripts, founded on E.A. Lowe's Codices Latini Antiquiores) ; Fragmentarium : Laboratory for medieval manuscript fragments ; Hill Museum and Manuscript Library ; ISTC (Incunabula Short Title Catalog) ; Iter Italicum (online edition of P. O. Kristeller’s Iter Italicum, 1963–1992; AAR only) ; LC NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections) ; manuscripta mediaevalia ; ManusOnline (census of manuscripts held by Italian libraries) ; MBH (Manuscripta Bibliae Hebraicae) ; MDI (Manoscritti Datati d’Italia) ; Mount Athos Repository (largest collection of Greek manuscript codes in the world) ; Pinakes (on Greek manuscripts, IRHT) ; pyle: a gateway to Greek manuscripts ; Schoeneberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (University of Pennsylvania Libraries, click here to access the database) ; St. Gall and Reichenau manuscripts ; UCLA digital collections (Bound Manuscript Collection, Hathaway Manuscripts, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, St. Gall manuscripts) ; Vatican Library (click here to access the digitized manuscripts and here to access the digitized incunabula) ; vHMML (issued by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library).

The Votives Project is a network of people from different backgrounds who study, create, or use votive offerings or other related ways of communicating with the divine. It aims to facilitate dialogue between academic disciplines, and between academics and religious “practitioners,” and in doing so to develop rich cross-cultural and multiperiod understandings of votive material and contexts.

Linking Evidence: A Digital Approach to Medieval and Early Renaissance Rome, c. 1140–1430 is a hypertextual online multiple database linking different evidences or sources, including descriptions of the city of Rome, inscriptions associated with monuments and works of art, and images attesting to the appearance of these monuments (either actual or imaginative) and to their transformation across the centuries. The descriptions of the different writers are also visualized through maps, where each monument is linked to related images and texts.

The Harvard Law School Library’s collection, containing (digitized) printed broadsides and pamphlets reflecting most of the major developments in the Roman Republic: an introduction of the semi-republican constitution, the Statuto Fondamentale, by Pope Pius IX in March 1848; notices of growing republican sentiment, Italian nationalism, and civil unrest in the spring and summer of 1848; documents from nascent republican institutions in the winter of 1848–49; the meeting of the Constituent Assembly and the proclamation of the Roman Republic in February 1849; the republican government’s efforts to establish its authority and initiate reforms, particularly in the law; the appointment of the Triumvirate in March 1849; the defense of Rome against French forces, April–June 1849; and the collapse of the Republic at the end of June 1849.

This network aims to promote the exchange of information and ideas between scholars engaged in the study of archaic and classical lyric, elegiac, and iambic poetry.