Clavis Clavium: major update

Clavis Clavium, or ‘Key of Keys’, is the go-to Open Access database to access Late Antique and Medieval Christian literature. It incorporates the almost 8,000 pages of data found in six so-called claves: the Clavis Patrum Latinorum and the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, the Clavis Patrum Graecorum and the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca, the Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti and the Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti. Together, these six indispensable tools provide researchers (whether historians, theologians, philologists, or philosophers) working on the extensive field of Early Christian, Medieval and Byzantine literature with essential information regarding authorship, authenticity, chronological and geographical contexts, manuscript transmission, and editorial history.

We have just uploaded a new version. The highlights of this new version are:

1. some 1000 pages of extra data from volumes Ia & Ib of the Clavis Patristica Pseudepigraphorum Medii Aevi by J. Machielsen, which is an invaluable source of information for the study of “Patristic and medieval forgeries, attributed during the middle ages to a Latin father, who it not its (their) real author; important medieval alterations of genuine patristic writings; the numerous erroneous attributions (intended or not) of patristic and medieval Latin texts, to a Latin father who is not its (their) real author”;

2. substantial updates of the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina by Robert Godding, with the help of Federico Giulietti, and of the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca by Xavier Lequeux;

3. substantial updates to the Catenae in Novum Testamentum by Hugh Houghton;

4. first step in the introduction of the 2023 volume of the Clavis Patrum Graecorum;

5. introduction of the results of Matthew Hoskin’s study on the manuscript tradition of Leo the Great’s letters.

6. various contributions by Peter Martens and Andras Kraft.

7. Updated links to the Library of Latin Texts and Sources Chrétiennes Online and new links to Pinakes, Agape and the Patristic Text Archive.

You can find this information with much more detail on https://www.corpuschristianorum.org/post/clavis-clavium-newsletter-5

To access Clavis Clavium, please go to https://clavis.brepols.net/clacla/