Foreign Languages Subject Guide
Historical Documents Collections
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A database produced by the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (University of Chicago) of nearly 2000 texts ranging from classic French literature to nonfiction and technical writing. Includes medieval and Renaissance as well as 18th, 19th, and 20th century works in many genres, such as fiction, poetry, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker
An electronic edition of the Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker which contains the highpoints of German literature, as well as editions of works by writers and philosophers such as Herder, Kleist, Kant, and Fichte. Various historical, philosophical theological, political and art history texts are included among the digitized works. The overall range is 800 to 1914.
Electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica
(Rare Book Room, CD-ROM DD 1)
Turnhout: Brepols, 1996-. A selection of texts from all five divisions of the Monumenta Germaniac Historica (Scriptores Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, and Antiquitates).
Montecassiono Virgilio e il Chiostro
(CD-ROM, Waldo Library, Third Floor, Rare Book Room)
Features an exhibition and image catalog of medieval manuscripts from the Montescassino Library concentrating on the Latin classics.
The electronic version of of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the indexes published between 1862 and 1865.
Vedere i classici: The Illustrated Classics
(Rare Book Room, CD-ROM ND 2) A second illustrated catalog of manuscript images from the Vatican Library's immense store of manuscripts of the Greek and Latin classics.