We have trial access to In Principio database on the Brepolis platform until the 14th December. You will need to click “Enter database” to accept the terms and conditions of use before access is given to the database.  Access is available on and off campus.

Over one million incipits covering Latin literature from the Pre-classical Ages to the Renaissance.  In Principio is distinguished by its wide-ranging, “generalist” character. Chronologically, it covers all Latin texts that have been transmitted in manuscript since the origins of Latin literature up to about 1600 when the manuscript is replaced by the printed text. In Principio thus covers ancient, patristic, medieval, and humanist Latin literature. In addition, all literary genres are included: the liberal arts and theology, history and poetry, medicine and liturgy, civil law and canon law, the exact and occult sciences, summas and sermons, glossaries and correspondence, cooking recipes and cursing formulas, large treatises and small, isolated sentences.

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