CETEDOC: Patrisztikus és középkori latin irodalom, II-XV. század
http://www.brepols.com/publishers
Kiadó: Cetedoc, Louvain-la-Neuve (vezető: Paul Tombeur)

The database comprises almost all works published in the Corpus Christianorum, both the Series Latina and Continuatio Mediaevalis. An important number of works have been taken from other collections such as the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Sources Chrétiennes, Migne's Patrologie Latina, Acta Sanctorum, Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi.

CLCLT-4, which constitutes the fourth edition of the Library, has been enlarged by almost 4 million new forms. With its 38 million forms, it contains the complete works of most of the major patristic authors as well as those of several medieval writers (e.g. Ambrose, Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, Cassian, Gregory the Great, Jerome, Marius Victorinus, Thomas a Kempis and Thomas of Celano). Moreover, it includes the Vulgate, the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the ecumenical councils of the Early and Medieval Church. Among the newly added works are Cyprian's Opera omnia, several pseudo-Augustinian works, translations from Greek authors, Augustine's newly discovered sermons, the letters of Petrus Damiani, and many other texts of primary importance.

Present version: CLCLT-4 (2000); on 2 CD-Roms

Nemzetközi Középkorász Bibliográfia (IMB)
http://www.brepols.com/publishers
Editorial responsibility: International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds
The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (450-1500) with over 270,000 records.

The International Medieval Bibliography is today recognised as the leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c. 450-1500) and an essential tool for both teachers and researchers. It was established in the mid-1960s with the support of the Medieval Academy of America to provide a current bibliography of articles from periodicals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, Festschriften or collections of essays). It has been published since 1968 and in the intervening period has catalogued and classified over 270,000 medieval records. An electronic version has been available since 1995.

Not only does the IMB provide full bibliographical information to the records from the publications, but it provides a comprehensive cataloguing and indexing system to assist the user in identifying all relevant records. A unique network of over 50 specialist contributors and teams throughout the world ensures regular coverage of articles in journals and miscellanies from the Americas, Europe and the Pacific.

The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology of Medieval Europe, Theology and Philosophy, Modern (European) Languages and Literatures, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Commu-nication Studies.

The database covers 4000 journals and 5000 miscellany volumes that are the sources for the records, includes over 120,000 index terms from a controlled thesaurus, has a 'modern author' browse list of over 70.000 scholars and allows searching by subject, geographical area and century.

Present version: IMB-5 (1999); on 1 CD-Rom

Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH)
http://www.brepols.com/publishers
Editorial responsibility: Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Munich) (director: R. Schieffer)

A corpus of historical works, charters, legal texts, letters, political texts, and literature from the European Middle Ages.

eMGH-2 contains a selection of texts from different series but offers the majority of the texts that have been edited in the subseries, Auctores Antiquissimi and Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum. From the former are included works of Salvianus Massiliensis, Eugippius, Eutropius, Landolfus Sagax, Paul the Deacon, Victor Vitensis, Corippus Africanus, Venantius Fortunatus, Iordanes, Ausonius, Symmachus, Avitus Viennensis, Ennodius, Apollinaris Sidonius, Faustus, Ruricius, Claudius Claudianus, Cassiodorus, Merobaudes, Dracontius, Eugenius Toletanus, Aldhelm. From the Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum the user will find works of Gregory of Tours, Fredegar, and the complete Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici. Other works that are available are the Epistulae Bonifatii et Lulli, Concilia aevi Saxonici et Salici, the Diplomata Ludovici II and the Epistulae of Peter Damian. eMGH-2 contains therefore more than 400 works.

Present version: eMGH-2 (2000)

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized all ancient texts from Homer to A.D. 600 and a large number of texts from the period between A.D. 600 and the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library which will include the entire corpus of Greek literature from Homer to the present era.

TLG text materials are currently disseminated in CD ROM format. The most recent edition of the TLG disk was released in February 2000 and contains 76 million words of text (6,625 works/work collections from 1,823 authors). In addition to CD ROM access, institutions with a site license can now search all TLG texts and Canon materials online. If your institution does not have a site license you can try out the TLG Demo site which contains a representative selection of texts and the complete Canon of Greek Authors and Works.

Status:
Twenty nine years later, the Thesaurus of the Greek Language is a reality. The TLG Digital Library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words. The center continues its efforts to include all extant Greek texts from the byzantine and post-byzantine period. TLG texts are disseminated in CD ROM format in more than 50 countries world-wide and used by thousands of specialists and non-experts. TLG users include researchers, educators and students from a wide range of disciplines such as classics, archaeology, history, art, history, philosophy, linguistics, and theology/religious studies in more than 2,000 universities and research centers around the world. The Project released a new version of its CD ROM (TLG E) in February 2000. The TLG online version is now available to institutions with a site license. A Demo site has also been created so that non-subscribers can try out the TLG Search engine. The Demo site contains a representative selection of texts and the complete Canon of Greek Authors and Works. The online version is updated regularly with new texts as they become available.

Software:
The TLG does not presently disseminate software to be used with its CD ROM. The TLG disk contains only texts in beta code (with attendant ID tables enabling efficient browsing of text), a word index of the texts, files containing bibliographical information (Canon) and Canon indices. To browse or search the CD ROM data users will need to obtain additional software. A number of software packages (developed for a variety of computer platforms) is available from several vendors.

TLG publications:
In addition to its extensive collection of texts, the TLG has compiled the Canon of Greek Authors and Works, a comprehensive database of all known ancient Greek and Byzantine authors, together with bibliographies of existing critical editions of their extant works. The Canon is included in all TLG CD ROMs and can be searched on line. It is also available in print: Luci Berkowitz and Karl A. Squitier, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Authors and Works, third edition (Oxford University Press, 1990). A copy of the printed Canon can be ordered from:

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://www.ccel.org
The CD-ROM contains most of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library web site -- more than 200 volumes, including many of the most important works in Christian history: the Early Church Fathers, a selection of later important works, four translations of the Bible, more than four commentaries, a Bible dictionary, and more. This CD-ROM is the result of four years of the work of many volunteers, scanning, typing, formatting, proofreading, and collecting public domain resources. All share a common goal: to make edifying, classic Christian books and resources widely available.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam
http://www.brill.nl
Includes:
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (English) Volumes I-IX -Addenda & Corrigenda to Volumes I-IX.

The Addenda & Corrigenda, as in the Volumes I-IX, are included on the CD-ROM as an appendix to the Online Help. To access this information, click Help - Help Topics and select "Appendix: Addenda & Corrigenda" from the Table of Contents that pops up.
Glossary and Index of Terms (English), updated up to Volume IX.
Index of Proper Names (English and French), updated up to Volume IX
Index of Subjects (English), updated up to Volume IX

The Marburger Index: Kalauz a németországi művészethez
http://www.fotomr.uni-marburg.de/
http://www.iconclass.nl/texts/micd.htm

The Marburger Index, a reference work and guide to art in Germany, was first published in 1977. Its illustration section currently offers 1,327,000 photographs, with an annual increase of 55,000. The text-and-catalogue section, issued on microfiche from 1983 till 1990, is now published annually in an augmented version as a database on CD-ROM.

The contents of the Marburger Index are best explained against its historical background. The Marburger Index began with the documentation of the photographs of the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and the Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne. Subsequently it has come to include the photo collections of the state departments for the preservation of historical monuments (Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Bremen, Hamburg, Niedersachsen, Rheinlande, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein), picture libraries (Berlin, Rheinland-Pfalz), museums (Karlsruhe, Cologne, Nuremberg) and small archives, and after the German unification, also the collection of the Deutsche Fotothek in Dresden.

The database is published on three CDs, each of which can be run independently. CD 1 holds objects from the time before 1800 and undated works, CD 2 collects objects from 1700 till today. Both give access to the complete stock of object descriptions, displaying a reference to the illustration on microfiche wherever there exists one. The third disk holds an extract of the database, approximately 40,000 works of art and their digital illustrations, as a supplement to the Marburger Index.

Cataloguing
The systematic cataloguing of the photographic sources - supported for many years and in many ways by the Volkswagen-Stiftung - was carried out by the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, together with many museums, university departments and photo libraries. Cataloguing is based on the guidelines of the Marburger Informations-, Dokumentations- und Administrations-System (MIDAS-Handbook, 3rd edition, K. G. Saur, Munich) and conforms to accepted academic cataloguing standards.

The database gives access to approximately 300,000 works of art, especially in the fields of painting, sculpture, drawing, book illumination, graphic arts, photography and architecture. So the wealth of information in the Marburger Index is the result of the awareness in many institutions of the benefits of cooperative publication of large collections.

In addition to the topographical order of the photo documentation, the database offers access to the material by artist's name and workshop, subject matter, material or artistic technique, country of origin, time period, location and patron. The Marburger Index Database on CD-ROM is not just a combination of the previously released indexes. It offers numerous additional options for searching the database in a convenient and individual manner.

ICONCLASS: Ikonográfiai klasszifikációs rendszer
http://www.iconclass.nl

Special attention is paid to the subject matter of works of art, because despite their significance for all historical disciplines, subjects have never before been systematically described in art history.

Iconographic cataloguing at the Marburger Index is based on ICONCLASS, an internationally used classification system developed in the Netherlands, published in seventeen volumes between 1973 and 1985, and now also available in digital form under the name 'ICONCLASS Browser'.

ICONCLASS is a decimal classification of the subjects of western art, offering definitions and keywords in English. To date it is the most comprehensive tool for interpreting iconography, because it allows to determine the iconographic context of images as varied as golden pitchers, cut-off heads, nude children, swans, lances, eye-glasses, crucifixions, dogs, ships, Native American Indians, embraces, executions, drowned bodies, resurrections, etc., thus identifying stories, scenes, persons and events.

Subject Access on the CD-ROM
As the ICONCLASS Browser and the ICONCLASS Bibliography form part of the present CD of the Marburger Index, there are two different ways to search for iconographic information: either query the database directly, under menu option 'Subjects', using names and German keywords or consult the ICONCLASS Browser first, under the menu option ICONCLASS and then search the database with the assigned classification numbers ('notations').

With its wide range of access possibilities to the material, the Marburger Index is an indispensable tool for art historians and scholars of related disciplines. It features: new, individual and highly specific search possibilities quick location of the desired illustration in the photo documentation independent use of this art-historical research tool.

Lexikon des Mittelalters
http://www.metzlerverlag.de/LexMA/

Das Lexikon des Mittelalters ist in den über zwanzig Jahren seines Entstehens zu einem wichtigen und unverzichtbaren Arbeitsmittel für Wissenschaftler unterschiedlichster Disziplinen und für eine interessierte Öffentlichkeit geworden. 1977 begonnen, wurde das Werk mit dem neunten Band 1998 abgeschlossen und 1999 um einen Registerband ergänzt. Bei dem Reichtum und der Vielfalt der Informationen, die auf den 10000 Buchseiten des Lexikons erarbeitet wurden, war es nicht verwunderlich, daß schon bald der Wunsch nach einer CD-ROM-Ausgabe des Lexikons des Mittelalters geäußert wurde.

Nun ist es so weit: Das Standardwerk der Mediävistik wird hier erstmals in einer elektronischen Fassung vorgelegt. Die über 36.000 Artikel können nun auf verschiedenste Weise durchsucht, kopiert und aus-gedruckt werden. Durch eigene Indizes erschlossen sind ferner die 11400 Personen-Artikel, die 1900 Städte-Artikel, 930 Artikel zu Klöstern, 890 zu Familien und 150 zu Dynastien, ferner die 92 Stammtafeln sowie die 3000 Verfasserinnen und Verfasser. Eine Suche im Volltext ist ebenso möglich wie gezielte inhaltlich-thematische Recherchen innerhalb von mehr als 80 Sachgebieten. Durch Verweise verbundene Artikel können durch einfaches Anklicken des Zielwortes aufgerufen werden. Dank der mitlaufenden Band- und Spaltenangabe läßt sich die CD-ROM auch problemlos als Register zur Buchausgabe benutzen.

Den enormen Textbestand des Lexikons des Mittelalters für die elektronische Recherche zu erschließen, war kein einfaches Unternehmen. Das begann bei der Digitalisierung der neun Bände. Das Werk wurde komplett neu erfaßt, und zwar mittels doppelter manueller Erfassung und anschließender Fehlerkontrolle. Mehr als 600 Sonderzeichen aus den verschiedensten Schriften und Umschriften mußten in die Daten integriert und für die Bildschirmdarstellung vorbereitet werden. Die systematische Erschließung des Lexikons, die eine thematische elektronische Recherche erst möglich macht, fußt auf einer seit 1986 aufgebauten Artikeldatenbank der Zürcher Arbeitsstelle, die für die elektronische Ausgabe weitergehend strukturiert wurde.

It includes about 1000 images of manuscripts covering the period between the 9th and 17th centuries with 54 images of Greek Tetraevangelia, 376 images of Bulgarian Tetraevangelia, 267 images of Serbian Tetra-evangelia, 167 images of Wallahian and Moldavian Tetraevangelia, and 166 images from 30 Qurans.