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Neo-Latin Links

We take great pride in this collection of links for Neo-Latin studies, as it is probably one of the largest and most comprehensive to be found on the Internet.

So feel free to browse through our collection of sites for texts, scholarship, instruments and other. Please also report any missing or broken links on this page.

I. Neo-Latin texts
General collections

Some more specified sites

Digitized photographic reproduction

II. Neo-Latin Scholarship
Associations
Institutes
Journals

III. Instruments for Neo-Latin Studies
Lexicographical, grammatical and stilistic aids

Libraries and Bibliography

Biographical Instruments

IV. Collections of links

V. Varia

VI. Appendix: Justus Lipsius on the Internet

 

 

I. Neo-Latin texts

General collections
Prof. Dana F. Sutton’s (Univ. of California) online Neolatin texts
31,530 items and growing (many with full text)
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/index.htm

CSL: Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum of David Camden (
Univ. of Harvard)
some 800 entries (spanning the entire body of Latin Literature) with full text
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/authors_a.html

The CAMENA-project: Corpus Automatum Manhemiense Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum by the Univ. of Manheim

73 authors with full text

http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camena.html

Mark Moskowitz’ Contemporary Latin Poetry (20th-21st century)
60 authors with full text
http://www.suberic.net/~marc/latinpoetry.html

The Latin Library – Neo Latin by the Ad Fontes Academy (Northern Virginia)

58 authors with full text

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/neo.html

Prof. Ulrich Harsch’ (Univ. of Augsburg) Neolatin texts in the Bibliotheca Augustana

50 authors with full text

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_chron.html#latnov

The Heinsius-collection by Dr. A.J.E. Harmsen (Univ. of Leiden): a collection of Dutch Neolatin poetry

46 authors with full text

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/dutch/latijn/Heinsius.html

The Perseus-collection of Neolatin Texts by the Tufts University
13 authors with full text
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Renaissance.html

The Bibliotheca Latina by the Univ. of Wisconsin

various links, not all up to date
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/classics/biblio.htm
Some more specified sites
Institute for Latin Studies Colloquia Collection (Univ. Kentucky)
http://www.chlt.org/sandbox/colloquia/index.html

The Clusius Correspondence Database of the Scaliger Institute (
Leiden)digitized collection of some 1,300 letters written to and by Carolus Clusius
http://digitool.leidenuniv.nl/?local_base=whs02

The Erasmus Text Project by Christopher Cudabac (with Colloquia, Moriae Encomium and three Precationes)

http://smith2.sewanee.edu/erasmus/index.html

The White Trash Scriptorium containing a variety of Latin E-books (Erasmus, Thomas Morus, Janus Secundus, Poggio Braccciolini, etc.)
http://www.ipa.net/~magreyn/

The Database of Nordic Neolatin Literature

http://www.uib.no/neolatin/

Korpus der akademischen Gelegenheitsdichtung an der Academia Gustaviana (1632-1656)
http://www.ut.ee/klassik/neolatina/

Europa Humanistica: IRHT (Paris), CHI (Den Haag), SPH (Leuven)

http://www.base_bude.ouvaton.org/

The TML: Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum by the
Univ. of Indiana
http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml/start.html

Andrea Alciato’s Book of Emblems: The Memorial Web Edition in English and Latin by the Univ. of Newfounland

http://www.mun.ca/alciato/index.html

The Later Latin Society (Hobart, Tasmania)
some of Erasmus’ Colloquia:
http://www.informalmusic.com/latinsoc/Colloq.html

Richard de Bury’s Philobiblion:

http://www.informalmusic.com/latinsoc/debury.html

The Pico-project (on Pico della Mirandola) by the Brown University and the University of Bologna
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/index.html

Progetto Girolamo Cardano (with pdf version of his Opera Omnia, Lyon, 1663)
http://filosofia.fdp.unimi.it/cardano/index.php?page=testi

Papal Encyclicals Online

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/all.htm
 Digitized photographic reproduction
Codices electronici ecclesiae Coloniensis
http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/

Gallica, the “Bibliothèque numérique” of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

http://gallica.bnf.fr

The Waller manuscript collection of
Uppsala University
http://www.ub.uu.se/arv/waller/eindex.cfm

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University

http://image.ox.ac.uk/

Digitalisierte Drucke und Autographen by the Univ. of Bielefeld (contains scanned old prints from 1483-1921)

http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/rara.htm

The Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (with occasional exhibitions of rare books)
http://www.crrs.ca/new/

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II. Neo-Latin Scholarship

Associations
International organisations
The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS)
http://www.ianls.org

Academia Latinitati Fovendae
http://www.academialatina.org/

Fédération internationale des Sociétés et Instituts pour l'étude de la Renaissance: unifies all the societies and institutes for the research of the Western Civilization of the Renaissance

http://fisier.haifa.ac.il/index.htm
National organisations
America: The Renaissance Society of America:
http://www.rsa.org/index.html

Belgium: Netwerk 17e Eeuw:
http://www.schist.ulg.ac.be/histmod/17/index.htm

Canada: The Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société Canadienne d’études de la Renaissance

http://www.csrs-scer.ca

France: Société Française d'Étude du Seizième Siècle:

http://www.cesr.univ-tours.fr/SFDES/index.htm

Italy: Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento:

http://www.insr.it/

UK
: Society for Renaissance Studies:

http://www.sas.ac.uk/srs/Default.htm

UK
: Society for Neo-Latin Studies:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/

Ukrain: The Institute of Neo-Latin Studies of the Ukrainian Catholic University :
http://www.ucu.edu.ua/content.php?page_id=48&l=en

Institutes

Institutes for the study of Neo-Latin literature and the Renaissance, ordered alphabetically by city:
Anderlecht, The Erasmus House:
http://www.erasmushouse.museum/

Bonn, Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit:

http://www.medneolat.uni-bonn.de/index.html

Brussels, Insititute for the Study of Renaissance and Humanism:
http://rd-ir.vub.ac.be/vademecum/team/RENH.html

Cambridge
Society for Neo-Latin Studies:
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/other/courses/ugrad/NL_news_events.html

Chicago
, Center for Renaissance Studies at The Newberry Library:
http://www.newberry.org/nl/renaissance/L3rrenaissance.html

Copenhagen, Forum for Renaissance Studies:
http://www.igl.ku.dk/~pade/forum_for_renaissance_studies.html

Cork
, Centre for Neo-Latin Studies:
http://www.ucc.ie/acad/classics/CNLS/

Dallas, Centre for Thomas More Studies:
http://www.thomasmorestudies.org/index.html

Florence
, Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies:
http://www.itatti.it/default.htm

The Hague, Constantijn Huygens Instituut:

http://www.chi.knaw.nl/index.html

Heidelberg, Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit:

http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak9/mlat/index.htm

Jena, Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit:

http://www2.uni-jena.de/philosophie/altertum/mlat/

Leiden, Scaliger Institute:
http://ub.leidenuniv.nl/bc/scaligerinstitute/

Leuven, Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae:
http://arts.kuleuven.be/sph/

London, Warburg Institute:

http://www.sas.ac.uk/Warburg/DEFAULT.HTM

Los Angeles, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmrs/default.html

München, Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance:

http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/

Nijmegen
, OIKOS-section for Neo-Latin Studies:
http://www.oikos.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?c=16

Tempe
, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies:
http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/

Toronto
, The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies :
http://www.crrs.ca/

Tours
, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance:

http://www.cesr.univ-tours.fr/

Vienna
, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein:
http://www.univie.ac.at/klassphil/

Warsaw
, Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe:

http://www.obta.uw.edu.pl/obta/index.html

Warwick
, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance:
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek:

http://www.hab.de/index.htm

Journals

Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance:
http://www.droz.org/welcome.html

Les Cahiers de l'Humanisme:

http://www.lesbelleslettres.com/html/revues.htm#Cahiers

Calamus Renascens

http://www.ucm.es/info/extensio/publicaciones/AEUE/cadiz/CALAMUS_
RENASCENS.htm

Camenae
http://www.paris4.sorbonne.fr/fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=1761

English Literary Renaissance:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=00138312&site=1

Erasmus of
Rotterdam Society Yearbook:
http://www.sfu.ca/~pabel/ers.htm

Giornale Storico della letteratura Italiana:

http://www.loescher.it/default.asp?Md=18&Dx=18
HumanisticaLovaniensia

International Journal of the Classical Tradition:
http://www.transactionpub.com/cgi-bin/transactionpublishers.storefront/ 582773020/Product/View/1073&2D0508&2D1i&2D1

Italia Medoevale e umanistica:
http://www.editriceantenore.it/it/asp/search.asp?Periodico=Italia%20 Medievale%20e%20Umanistica

Lias (full text 1974-2001):
http://webdoc.ubn.kun.nl/tijd/l/lias/

Moreana:
http://www.apostles.com/amica.html

Melissa:

http://users.skynet.be/Melissalatina

Neulateinisches Jahrbuch:

http://www.medneolat.uni-bonn.de/html/neulat__jahrbuch.html

Nouvelle Revue du XVIe siècle:

http://www.cesr.univ-tours.fr/SFDES/SFDES/Res16.htm

Renaissance Quarterly:

http://www.jstor.org/journals/00344338.html

Renaissance Studies:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0269-1213&site=1

Res Publica Litterarum:

http://www.salernoeditrice.it/periodici/respub.htm

Schede Umanistiche:

http://arub.unibo.it/SU.html

Seventeenth Century News:

http://www-english.tamu.edu/pubs/scn/

The Sixteenth Century Journal:

http://escj.truman.edu/journal.html

Studia Humaniora Tartuensia (on-line journal):

http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/

Studi Petrarcheschi:
http://www.editriceantenore.it/eng/asp/sp.asp

Studi Umanistici Piceni:

http://www.paleani.it/Catalogo/IISP_file/studi_umanistici_piceni.htm

Vox Latina:

http://www.voxlatina.uni-saarland.de

Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten:

http://www.harrassowitz.de/verlag/CulturalHistory/wbn29.html

Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen:

http://www.harrassowitz.de/verlag/CulturalHistory/wrm27.html

Online journals:
Renaissance forum: an electronic journal of early-modern literary and historical studies:
http://www.history-journals.de/articles/hjg-eartic-j00053.html

Retiarius:

http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/retiarius/

Other collections of links to journals of interest for the study of Neo-Latin and the Renaissance:

The History Journals Guide:
http://www.history-journals.de/articles/index.html

The links of the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise:

http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/CERRA/cerra.sites.revues.html

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III. Instruments for Neo-Latin Studies

Lexicographical, grammatical and stilistic aids
The Stanford collection of Latin dictionaries for medieval studies, with scanned versions of Du Cange, Bartal, and others
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/latdic.html

A collection of dictionaries and study aids for Latin in general is found on the website of College of Saint Benedict and
Saint John’s University
http://library.csbsju.edu/rqs.phtml?subject_id=20

The Neulateinische Wortliste (1300-1700) of Johann Ramminger

http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ramminger/

The on-line edition of the Orbis Latinus (J. G. Th.
Graesse, 1909)

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html

Silva Rhetoricae: a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/
Libraries and Bibliography
A list of libraries and bibliographies on the web
http://fuzzy.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/F207/newlink.htm

The Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK) unites a considerable amount of national and international library-catalogues

http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html

The LIBIS(ng)-catalogue which - among others - contains the catalogue of the University of Louvain and the Seminarium

http://www.bib.kuleuven.ac.be/catalogus.htm

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (includes a retrospective on-line medieval and Renaissance bibliography covering all languages and disciplines)

http://www.itergateway.org/

The Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen

http://www.stcv.be/

The Short Title Catalogue Netherlands
http://www.kb.nl/kb/resources/frameset_kb.html?/kb/stcn/stcn.html

The Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke

http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/NFuseDE.htm

Das Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts

http://www.vd17.de/

Internetography on Renaissance intellectual history

http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/GGRENirDB/default.htm

Traditio Classicorum: The Fortuna of the Classical Authors to the Year 1650
http://www.theol.uni-freiburg.de/forsch/lohr/lohr-ch4.htm


Bibliotheca Erasmiana Hispanica: "Erasmo en las bibliotecas españolas actuales e históricas"
http://www.uco.es/humcor
Biographical Instruments
The Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/

Marc van der Poel’s Bibliographical Aid to the Study of Renaissance Latin Texts
http://www.let.kun.nl/m.v.d.poel/Bibliographical%20Aid.htm

Harvard Theatrum Catalogorum

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~earlymod/tc/


Nederlandse Humanisten - biografie en bibliografie
http://www.humbio.nl/

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IV. Collections of links

The collection of links of the Harvard College Library (= Rinascimento)
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k6246&pageid=icb.page23323

The collection of links by Latinitas
http://www.grexlat.com/nexus/cone.html

The collection of links by the Warburg Institute
http://www.sas.ac.uk/Warburg/mnemosyne/links.htm

The collection of links by The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
http://www.crrs.ca/new/library/webresources/webresources.htm

The collection of links by The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/links.htm

The collection of links by the Forum for Renaessancestudier
http://www.igl.ku.dk/~pade/links/links.htm

A collection of links for background information on sixteenth century Renaissance English literature
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/renaissanceinfo.htm

A collection of links, especially regarding Latinitas viva
http://augustinus.eresmas.net/nexus.htm

The Ceres-links
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/links.htm

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V. Varia

SCHOLA (Latin social forum)
http://schola.ning.com/

Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/

Atrium Nuntii Latini: unofficial transcripts of the Nuntii Latini
http://web.idirect.com/~atrium/nuntii.html

Ephemeris
http://ephemeris.alcuinus.net/

Radio Bremen – Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

The weather forecast in Latin
http://latin.wunderground.com/

ISTA: Latin hip-hop
http://www.ista-latina.de

Leo Latinus: Dr. Nicolaus Gross’ translating service from and to Latin
http://www.leolatinus.com/

Latin cross-word puzzles
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/worldlanguages/cafe/latin/student/index.html

Latinum podcast
http://latinum.mypodcast.com/

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VI. Appendix: Justus Lipsius on the Internet

Biography

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_Lipsius
http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iustus_Lipsius

Encyclopedia articles
- Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (auct. Halm):
http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00008376/images/index.html?seite=743
- Neue deutsche Biographie (auct. Heinz Dollinger):
http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/0001/bsb00016332/images/index.html?seite=692
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (auct. Jan Papy):
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justus-lipsius/
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (auct. John Sellars)
http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/lipsius.htm
- Encyclopedia Britannica (11th ed., 1911):
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Justus_Lipsius

- NNDB:
http://www.nndb.com/people/797/000094515/
- The Catholic Encyclopedia (auct. Paul Lejay):
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09280b.htm

Varia
- Museum van de Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis (auct. Michiel Verweij):
http://www.ru.nl/ahc/vg/html/vg000305.htm
- Justus Lipsius (Overijse, 1547 – Leuven, 1606), een humanist van eigen bodem met Europese uitstraling (auct. Jeanine De Landtsheer)
http://alum.kuleuven.be/ 3deleeftijd/archief lezingen/Samenvatting De Landtsheer.doc

Texts online

Digitally accessable prints
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/li.html

1594 English translation by John Stradling of De Constantia
http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/lipsius1.htm
http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/lipsius2.htm

Von der Geistesstärke, Die Constantia des Justus Lipsius, übersetzt von Karl Beuth
http://www.lipsius-constantia.de/

Justus Lipsius, Twee boecken vande stantvasticheyt. Vertaald door J. Mourentorf, met inleiding en aantekeningen door H. van Crombruggen (Amsterdam, Stichting ‘Onze oude letteren’ – Antwerp: De seven sinjoren, 1948)
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/lips001twee01_01/

Justus Lipsius’ Saturnales Sermones, ed. and transl. Andrea W. Steenbeek
http://www.renaissancetexts.nl/saturnalia/

Justus Lipsius’ De Amphitheatro liber, ed. Andrea W. Steenbeek
http://www.renaissancetexts.nl/deamphitheatro/DeAmphitheatro.html

Online acta

De verhoudingen tussen auteur, drukker en gededicaceerde bij Neolatijnse publicaties, edd. Tom Deneire, Demmy Verbeke, Dirk Sacré (Leuven, 2005)

Online versions of previously published papers

Erik De Bom, ‘Macht, zelfpresentatie en de media. Justus Lipsius en het beeld van de vorst’, Streven 74 (2007), 40-50
http://users.skynet.be/streven/artikels/DeBomLipsius.htm

Jan Papy, ‘Justus Lipsius and the German Republic of Letters: Latin Philology as a Means of Intellectual Exchance (sic) and Influence’, in Eckhard Kessler - Heinrich C. Kuhn (Edd.), Germania latina. Latinitas teutonica. Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Humanistische Bibliothek. Texte und Abhandlungen 54 (München, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003), pp. 523-538
http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/GermLat/Acta/Papy.htm

Chris L. Heesakkers, ‘Lipsius, Dousa; Jan van Hout: Latin and the Vernacular in Leiden in the 1570s and 1580s’, in Karl Enenkel - Chris Heesakkers (Edd.), Lipsius in Leiden. Studies in the Life and Works of a great Humanist on the occasion of his 450th anniversary (Voorthuizen, Florivallis, 1997), pp. 93-120
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/hees002lips01/index.htm

Sylvette Sué, ‘Justi Lipsii Vita Illustrata ab Othonio Sperlingio. Une biographie inédite de Juste Lipse, 1547-1606’, Lias 2 (1975) 1-108
http://webdoc.ubn.kun.nl/tijd/l/lias/vol2_1975/justlivii.pdf

M.E.H.N. Mout, 'De geleerde als instituut. Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) en zijn vriendschappen. Jaarrede door de voorzitter', in Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden, 2000-2001 (Leiden, 2002), pp. 3-16.
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_jaa004200101_01/_jaa004200101_01_0001.htm#1

University projects

‘Power and Passion, Prince and People. Justus Lipsius’ Monita et exempla politica (1605) as a Bridge between Political Philosophy and the Ideal of the Christian Ruler’
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sph/Monita.htm

Leiden University exhibition ‘Justus Lipsius 1606-2006’
http://bc.ub.leidenuniv.nl/bc/tentoonstelling/Justus_Lipsius/

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Last modification: September 1, 2009