Visit Brepols at Charleston on Tuesday 7 November 2023
Visit our booth at the Vendor Showcase of the Charleston Library Conference and discover the latest news from our BREPOLiS databases, and eBook and eJournal packages.
Index Religiosus has been updated
The Index Religiosus has been updated with new records.
The database now contains over 840 000 records dealing with theology, religious sciences and church history.
Library of Latin Texts: update
The Library of Latin Texts has been updated and now contains more than 155.5 million words on a total of 11,765 works and diplomatic charters. It offers a first series of sermons falsely attributed to Augustine and completes the text of Ambrosiaster’s Quaestiones in its various recensions. It provides a provisional text of Gilbert of Poitiers’ Commentarium in sancti Pauli epistulas, and begins to incorporate Durandus of Saint-Pourçain, while its coverage of Honorius of Autun, Petrus Comestor, and Denis the Carthusian continues to extend. The LLT now also includes the Columbus epic Plus ultra by Aloysius Mickl and Ludvig Holberg’s utopian novel Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum, and progressively integrates texts from the online library of Fascist Latin Texts (ed. H. Lamers and B. Reitz-Joosse).
The Patrologia Orientalis Database has been updated!
The Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD) has been updated. This year’s update includes the third part of the ‘Hymnaire de Saint-Sabas’, published according to the Georgian manuscript H 2123.
The Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD) is the online version of the famous collection of patristic texts from the Christian East, including works, recorded in non-Latin languages, that come from geographical, cultural, or religious contexts somehow linked to Rome or the Eastern Roman Empire. For more information about the POD, please visit this page.
About the DLD update
The Database of Latin Dictionaries has received a major update. Not only does its new user interface offer easier access and more advanced search possibilities, it also contains a first version of the BREPOLiS Latin lemmas. These lemmas allow for closer integration between the Database of Latin Dictionaries and the various Latin full-text databases on BREPOLiS.
For a detailed introduction to the Database of Latin Dictionaries and its new functionalities, you can re-watch the webinar “Enhancing your lexicographical research with the new DLD and ALD interfaces” (21/04/2023):
If you have been a DLD user for some time and want to know where in the new interface you can find the functionalities you are used to, we invite you to take a look at this short video:
In the current blogpost, we highlight a selection of the DLD’s main novelties.
When searching the dictionaries, you will not only get an overview of results per dictionary, but also a list of unique matches (either exact matches or matches within larger phrases) that can then be used as a filter.
Any of the various search fields in the database allows for the use of wildcards and Boolean operators.
Furthermore, having your search term preceded by the ampersand (&) now allows you to perform lemmatized searches based on the new BREPOLiS Latin lemmas.
In Lewis & Short, Gaffiot, and Blaise’s Patristic dictionary, these lemmas are also displayed in the new toolbar that accompanies each article.
In a growing number of dictionaries, you can now look for individual translations, allowing you to quickly see how a particular English, Spanish, German… word of phrase can be expressed in Latin.
The BREPOLiS Latin lemmas constitute the second main part of the new DLD interface. In this section of the database, you can browse the list of all lemmas currently connected to Lewis & Short, Gaffiot, and Blaise’s Patristic dictionary.
The individual BREPOLiS Latin lemma records contain live links both to the connected dictionary articles and to the attested word-forms in the various BREPOLiS Latin full-text databases.
Furthermore, you can search for a lemma by simply entering a word-form attested in the texts you are working on. Again, the live links with the Latin full-text databases will help you find out which forms are already attested, and which are not.
We warmly invite you to explore the new Database of Latin Dictionaries and discover all of these features – and many more! – that have been added in the current update. Also, please do not hesitate to send us your feedback through the form you will find in the database.
Researching emotions in BBIH
We are happy to share a new BBIH online reading list, which offers 521 recent publications focusing on the history of emotions in Britain, Ireland and the British empire and the Commonwealth.
The list takes as its starting point the keyword Emotions and mental states, which is a broad subject category in BBIH’s hierarchical subject tree.
BBIH’s subject tree offers a powerful way of searching by subject because it uses terminology systematically applied to records by BBIH’s editors: your results will not depend on the appearance of words in titles or in keywords provided by authors. You can learn more about the subject tree here.
The books, articles, book chapters and theses in this list were published between 2020 and 2023, but in total, BBIH holds the details of over 2,200 publications about the history of emotions. Our coverage in this growing area of historical research is ongoing, and further publications will be added in future updates of the Bibliography.
Brepols au congrès de l’AIFBD (Bruxelles, 16-18/08)
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que Brepols participera au congrès de l’AIFBD (Association Internationale Francophone des Bibliothécaires et Documentalistes) qui se déroulera du 16 au 18 août à Bruxelles. A cette occasion, nous serons heureux de vous présenter notre offre de ressources numériques (bases de données, livres électroniques et revues) et, tout particulièrement, notre fond francophone.
Pour un aperçu de nos livres électroniques en français: télécharger (PDF, 262 kb)
Pour une sélection de nos revues: télécharger (PDF, 391kb)
Sources Chrétiennes Online: newest update
The Sources Chrétiennes Online (SCO) database has been updated. It now provides source texts and French translations from 545 of the over 630 printed volumes.
Notable additions are Cosmas Indicopleustes’ Christian Topography, the spiritual works of Gertrude of Helfta, and a series of sermons by Caesarius of Arles. Furthermore, the Greek source text has been added for two volumes (SC 12 and 15) that originally contained only a translation. By 2025, the SCO database will cover all volumes by then published in print in the long-running Sources Chrétiennes edition project.
Brepols @ ALA conference (Chicago, June 22-26)
We are glad to inform you that Brepols will be attending the 2023 ALA Annual Conference (Chicago, June 22-27). Therefore, we would like to invite you to stop by at our booth # 4134 in the exhibit hall to discover our most recent online projects:
- BrepolsOnline Books
BrepolsOnline Books is the platform of Brepols’ extended eBook program. The eBooks—more than 2,200 in total—are available for purchase in a variety of collections to serve your library’s specific needs and budgets.
- Updates of current databases
We will be pleased to keep you posted on the most recent updates of our online databases hosted on Brepolis.
Database of Latin Dictionaries: Important update
We are glad to announce that the Database of Latin Dictionaries‘ new interface has been launched. This change of interface not only allows for more advanced search options (including, for instance, the possibility to look for phrases rather than just single headwords), but it also includes a first version of the Brepolis Latin lemmas, prepared by the Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’ in order to strengthen the link between dictionaries and attestations in the full-text databases.
If you are already a DLD user and want to know what are the main differences between the old and the new search interface, we invite you to have a look at this short video: