The Library of Latin Texts has been updated!
The July 2026 update of the Library of Latin Texts (LLT) is now available, marking another major expansion of the corpus. This release adds over 3 million words, bringing the database’s total size to more than 173 million words.
The update introduces 82 new works, 7 new editions of existing texts, and 2 expanded dossiers.
Late Antiquity: Theological Debates and Updated Editions
This update captures the intense doctrinal conflicts of the fourth and fifth centuries:
- Doctrinal diversity is represented by the Homoian Commentarius in Iob, the Libri Adamantii Origenis aduersus haereticos, and Vigilius of Thapsus’ Contra Eutychetem.
- Attempts at religious reconciliation can be found in Prosper of Aquitaine’s De uocatione omnium gentium and the correspondence of Pope Pelagius I.
- Older texts (mostly from the Patrologia Latina) have been replaced with modern scholarly editions, including treatises by Augustine of Hippo, three funeral orations by Ambrose of Milan, and the Carmen ad Flauium Felicem.
Middle Ages: Encyclopaedism, Science, and Reform
- Encyclopaedic writing remains an central focus, featuring Bartholomew of Urbino’s monumental Milleloquium diui Ambrosii (over 1,000 excerpts from Ambrose) and Bartholomew the Englishman’s De proprietatibus rerum.
- In the natural sciences, the transmission of Arabic and Hebrew knowledge into Latin Europe is illustrated by Al-Nayrīzī’s commentary on Euclid (tr. Gerard of Cremona) and Abraham bar Ḥiyya’s Liber embadorum (tr. Plato of Tivoli). This material is complemented by several treatises on computus (calendar calculation) by Johannes de Sacrobosco and others.
- Texts on (moral) theology include Alan of Lille’s Liber paenitentialis, Radulfus Ardens’ complete Speculum uniuersale, and Geert Grote’s extensive Epistularium (Devotio moderna).
- Scholastic thought is expanded through the inclusion of James of Eltville’s Lectura in libros Sententiarum and Heymeric de Campo’s Tractatus de formis intentionalibus.
- Ecclesiastical controversies continued throughout the Middle Ages, with Ratramnus of Corbie’s ninth-century Liber de anima ad Odonem Bellouacensem and John of Segovia’s Council of Basel defense of the Immaculate Conception.
Neo-Latin: Reformation, Politics, and Modern Poetry
- The religious and political polemics that marked the Humanist era are represented by Ulrich von Hutten’s anti-Erasmian Expostulatio, Melanchthon’s Confessio Augustana uariata, and Francesco Filelfo’s Commentationes Florentinae de exilio.
- Historiography and political thought intersect in Hugo Grotius’ chronicle of the Dutch Revolt, Annales de rebus Belgicis. Treatises defending the divine right of kings by Claude Saumaise and John Rowland further illustrate the political uses of Latin.
- The nineteenth- and twentieth-century engagement with the classical tradition is showcased in the poetry of Giovanni Pascoli.
Improvements to Existing Dossiers
The Library of Latin Texts continues to undergo targeted refinements. This release reorganizes the dossier for Ambrosiaster’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles and introduces several new biographical entries for historical figures.
