History: Primary Sources

Coverage: 1643-1940

Provides access to an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, including prefaces, original texts, critical apparatus, and indices. This collection of documents examines the lives of saints, arranged according to each saint's feast day.

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Medieval Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle's works. 

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The Library of Latin Texts is the world's leading database for Latin texts with works from the ancient period to the 20th century. Series A consists of Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature through the Second Vatican Council while series B provides access to Latin texts of all periods and genres. This resource includes the complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis. 

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Provides access to important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. Works of epic and lyric poetry, drama, history, philosophy, medicine, religion, mathematics, and more are included in this resource.

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Provides access to published sources for the study of German history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. Resources include historical works, charters, legal texts, letters, political texts, and literature from the European Middle Ages. 

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Access the electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865.

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A digitized collection of most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. 

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Provides access to a wide variety of texts from 300-800 AD. Resources are translated from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Old Irish and include notes on content, interpretation, and debates. University of Oklahoma Libraries has access to volumes published through July 2023.

An interdisciplinary database of papyrological and epigraphic resources on Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800. Includes texts in a variety of languages from Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt, as well as a database of people and place names found in Greco-Roman Egypt.

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