Resources by Language

Greek

  • Manuscripts and Resources of the British Library - One of the most impressive collections of digitized manuscripts and codices can be found at the website of the British Library. [1]    This collection contains almost nine hundred Greek manuscripts, including many early Christian and Byzantine ones, as well as important papyri.
  • Perseus Library of Greek and Latin Texts - The Perseus Digital Library of Greek and Latin texts,[1] housed at Tufts University and edited by Gregory R. Crane, has several modules pertinent for scholars of Christianity.  Perseus’ Greek and Roman Materials contain Greek and Latin texts with morphological analyses as well as English translations of classical and late antique texts.    
  • Perseids - The team at Perseids, whose goal is to help students and scholars to create and edit digital projects, provides innovative ways to improve the instruction of Latin and Greek to students.  It also gives tutorials on how to train students to encode texts from the ancient world.  
  • Mnamon: Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean - Mnamon is a portal site for ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean.  It contains links to resources for Coptic, Aramaic, Latin, Greek, Syriac, Northern Arabian, and Southern Arabian.
  • Pinakes | Πίνακες - Pinakes | Πίνακες a database of Greek manuscripts produced by the Greek section of the Institute for Research and History of Texts.
  • Codex Sinaiticus Project - The Codex Sinaiticus Project is a digital project to conserve, digitize, transcribe, and disseminate the Codex Sinaiticus, a manuscript of the Bible from the middle of the fourth century with the earliest complete copy of the Greek New Testament.
  • Digital Corpus for Greco-Arabic Studies - The Digital Corpus for Greco-Arabic Studies  assembles a wide range of Greek texts and their Arabic counterparts. It also includes a number of Arabic commentaries and important secondary sources.
  • Database of Greek Loan Words in Coptic - The Database of Greek Loan Words in Coptic records every single instance of a foreign word used in a Coptic source (i.e. token usage). Each individual attestation will provide the loanword’s individual spelling, its full textual context, an English translation, and an encoding to describe its significant grammatical characteristics.
  • Greek Manuscripts at the British Museum - Many of the Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World are available online.
  • Database of Greek Loan Words in Coptic - Database of Greek Loan Words in Coptic Aims “to produce a systematic, comprehensive and detailed lexicographical compilation and description of Greek loanwords as attested in the entire Coptic corpus throughout all dialects and genres of text.” This project records any instance of any borrowing from another language into Coptic. Attestations of words are displayed, and …

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Latin

  • The Tertullian Project - The Tertullian Project An excellent site for both students and scholars. Contains discussion and summaries of his writings and thought, links to both Latin texts and English translations, bibliography, reviews, discussion of manuscripts, and much else.
  • Perseus Library of Greek and Latin Texts - The Perseus Digital Library of Greek and Latin texts,[1] housed at Tufts University and edited by Gregory R. Crane, has several modules pertinent for scholars of Christianity.  Perseus’ Greek and Roman Materials contain Greek and Latin texts with morphological analyses as well as English translations of classical and late antique texts.    
  • Perseids - The team at Perseids, whose goal is to help students and scholars to create and edit digital projects, provides innovative ways to improve the instruction of Latin and Greek to students.  It also gives tutorials on how to train students to encode texts from the ancient world.  
  • Mnamon: Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean - Mnamon is a portal site for ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean.  It contains links to resources for Coptic, Aramaic, Latin, Greek, Syriac, Northern Arabian, and Southern Arabian.
  • Library of Latin Texts - The Library of Latin Texts (available unfortunately only with a subscription) is an important database for Latin texts.   It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature through the Patristic and Medieval period.  Many of these texts come from the Corpus Christianorum Series.
  • Arab-Latin Glossary - The Arab and Latin Glossary  is a digital dictionary of vocabulary used in Arabic-Latin translations of the Middle Ages.  This dictionary is easy to use, and one must not even know Arabic to benefit from it.  A user must simply click on a word (an Arabic word transliterated into the Latin alphabet) and will be …

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  • Keywords in Augustine’s Letters - Keywords in Augustine’s Letters (KAL), in heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/data/R5RAXO. Distributed in the form of an Excel file, the KAL supplies keyword data for 252 Latin letters by Augustine, based on the CAG Online. The data should be useful to anyone who wants to study the style or content of Augustine’s letters.
  • Augustinian Correspondence Database - Augustinian Correspondence Database 3 (ACDb3), in heiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository, 22017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/data/10085. Distributed in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, the ACDb3 contains all intertextual references noted in the editions of Alois Goldbacher, Klaus-Detlef Daur, and Johannes Divjak. In different sheets you find frequency of references sorted by content and scale of identifiability, a list …

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  • Scrinium Augustini: The World of Augustine’s Letters - A tool designed to enhance the efficiency of comprehensive studies on the correspondence of the bishop of Hippo. Searching in English, textual results are in Latin.
  • Numen – the Latin Lexicon - The Latin Lexicon or Numen is a superb site with a dictionary and grammatical tools based upon many different sources.

Syriac

  • Mnamon: Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean - Mnamon is a portal site for ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean.  It contains links to resources for Coptic, Aramaic, Latin, Greek, Syriac, Northern Arabian, and Southern Arabian.
  • Syriac Digital Corpus - The Digital Syriac Corpus is a curated digital repository of TEI encoded texts written in classical Syriac. The Corpus has the texts of many Syriac authors, and it is frequently updated and expanded.
  • e-GEDESH – Electronic Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage - e-GEDSH is an electronic version of the 2011 edition of the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, published by Gorgias Press on behalf of the Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute. The encyclopedia currently holds 622 entries written by 76 contributors.
  • Catalogue of Digital Editions - The Catalogue of Digital Editions keeps track of primary sources without respect to chronology or geography, and early Christian sources strongly feature in a search on antique sources. Navigation and display are very accommodating, and underlying data is RDF-compliant. Other filtered results: Greek Latin Armenian Syriac
  • syriaca.org - Syriaca.org is a research portal for Syriac studies with several modules. The Syriac Gazetteer is a geographical reference work for places related to Syriac studies.  It is edited by Thomas Carlson and David Michelson. The Syriac Biographical Dictionary  is a multi-volume guide to persons related to Syriac culture or history.  It is edited by David Michelson, …

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  • Sedra – Beth Mardutho - https://sedra.bethmardutho.org/ The Syriac Electronic Data Research Archive (SEDRA) is a linguistic and literary database of the Syriac language and literature. Its acronym derives from Syriac word ܣܕܪܐ sedrā whose meanings include ‘array’, ‘series’ as well as ‘order’ and ‘rank’, all of which are terms that are associated with database theory. It is edited by James …

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  • Trismegistos - https://www.trismegistos.org/ This is a research portal of resources in papyrology and epigraphy from regions across the ancient world. They have minted URIs for people, texts, and objects.