Latin

• Patrologia Latina – open access, without cost  www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu

• Corpus of Medieval Latin Grammatical Texts, a fully digitized, authoritative collection of essential texts on Latin grammar, orthography, meter, figures of expression, usage, etc., written 3^rd – 8^th centuries by Augustine, Bede, Donatus, Macrobius, Priscian, and others. Based upon the compilation originally edited by Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1855-1880), but recently edited and revised by Italian and French scholars (1977-2006), with notes and bibliography of secondary sources; searchable, browsable, conveniently organized. Critical apparatus in French and English. Open access without cost.    http://kaali.linguist.jussieu.fr/CGL/text.jsp 

• Cross-Database Searchtool for Brepolis Latin – subscription required – unavailable at LSU http://www.brepolis.net/BRP_Info_En.html

• Du Cange’s Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis. Originally composed in 1678 by Charles du Fresne Du Cange. Late 19th-century publication in 10 volumes, a glossary of over 6 million Latin words (90,000 entries) with explanations and citations in Latin. This resource remains the most exhaustive glossary available of medieval Latin usage.
  • The version of Du Cange from the University of Mannheim provides open access to digitized images of the text, browsable by alphabetical listings. To identify the abbreviations of citations included in definitions, consult Tomus I, under Index auctorum. http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/ducange.html
  • The version of Du Cange from the Sorbonne is also open access and searchable.  For searching words, select the button indicated “consulter en article.” Identifying the abbreviations of citations is not facilitated in this version. http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/
  • Archive.org has also produced a pdf. version of Du Cange, with open access. Identifying the abbreviations of citations is not facilitated in this version. http://archive.org/details/glossariummedia01adelgoog

  • A paper issue of the complete Du Cange is available in the general collection of Middleton Library at LSU. Identification of abbreviations for citations clearly laid out in front matter of volume I.

• Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus)
  • The Book of Pastoral Rule — translated and modernized version of text with introduction published on Fordham’s Medieval Sourcebook. Free, open access. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/590greg1-pastoralrule2.asp
  • Dialogi — digitized manuscript accessible to the public without cost through e-codices. http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0215
  • Homilies of Gregory the Great — limited digitized manuscript freely accessible through e-codices.  http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/sbe/0157
  • Moralia in Job — digitized manuscript accessible to the public for free through e-codices. http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/sbe/0152

• In Principio: Incipits of Latin Texts – subscription required through Brepols – unavailable at LSU http://www.brepols.net/publishers/pdf/Brepolis_INPR_EN.pdf

• John Gower 
  • Complete Works of John Gower — digitized facsimile of a translation. Free, open access through HathiTrust. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000394093
  • Confessio amantis of John Gower — full view of digitized manuscript of three volumes. Available to the public without cost through HathiTrust by various institutions. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006197899
  • Crowdsourcing translation of amantis — a British Academy funded online project to crowd source the translation of Confessio amantis. http://confessioamantis.org/
  • The English Works of John Gower — full digitized manuscript available through Internet Archive without cost. https://archive.org/details/englishworksjoh03macagoog
  • The Geoffrey Chaucer Page — general information and selections of text available to all online without cost. http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/gower/
  • Gower Bibliography — browsable online bibliography of Gower’s texts. http://gowerbib.lib.utsa.edu/
  • The Gower Project.com — links to online texts, PDFs of texts, related websites, and images; all free, open access. http://www.gowerproject.com/
  • International John Gower Society — offers bibliography, catalog of Gower manuscripts, audio files, and links online for free. http://www.wcu.edu/johngower/index.html
  • John Gower: Life, Work, and Times — faculty page with timeline, bibliography, and links to texts online provided free of charge. http://home.gwu.edu/~jhsy/gower.html
  • Luminarium — online portal to the works of John Gower that are available on the web for free. http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gowerbib.htm

• Library of Latin Texts – subscription required – unavailable at LSU http://www.brepols.net/publishers/pdf/Brepolis_LLT_En.pdf

• Mirabile: Digital Archives for Medieval Latin Culture Mirabile

• Modern Equivalents of Latin Place-Names in Early Printed Books– open access

• OrbisLatinus – Latin place names; 1972 edition http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orbis-latinus

• OrbisLatinus Online – open access to 1909 edition http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html

• PHI Classical Latin Texts http://latin.packhum.org/

• Richard Rolle
  • Commentary on the Psalms — digitized manuscript accessible through Parker Library for free. Parker Library
  • Commentaries on the Psalms, the Canticles and the Nine Lessons of the Office of the Dead — digitized manuscript available through Parker Library for free. Parker Library
  • English Prose Works of Richard Rolle — selected transcriptions of texts available online for free through Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse at University of Michigan. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/rollewks
  • The English Writings — extensive though incomplete preview available for free through Google Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=zw1HUr5qS4UC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=Richard+Rolle&source=bl&ots=pf0ieVuve6&sig=Ozjx3LYw_D3Hy2Jx6JgWClmoECI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dLhBU8bZPO6nsAT14YGADw&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBzgU#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • The Fire of Love, etc. — digitized manuscript available for free through Yale’s Beinecke Digital Collections. http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3441104
  • The Incendium Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole — manuscript available for free through:
    • Internet Archive, digitized manuscript: https://archive.org/details/incendiumamoriso00rolluoft
    • Lollard Society, PDF: http://lollardsociety.org/pdfs/Rolle_IncendiumAmoris.pdf
  • Mending of Life — full, digitized manuscript available for free through the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/RichardRolleOfHampolesMendingOfLifeFromTheFifteenthCentury
  • Oleum Effusum — digitized manuscript available for free through Yale’s Beinecke Digital Collections. http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3592305
  • Religious Movements in the Fourteenth Century — an online, brief account of Rolle from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume II (1907-1921). Searchable, open access text from Bartleby.com. http://www.bartleby.com/212/0201.html