Study of Religion Datasets

The Annuaires de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études are annual publications that attest the intellectual life of the Sections of Historical and Philological Sciences (since 1873) and Religious Studies (since 1886). The deposit contains the reports of the annual conferences of the researchers, to which are added, irregularly, introductory articles, obituaries and thesis statements. This dataset contains the publications of the Section des sciences religieuses from 1889 to 2007 and of the Section des sciences historiques et philologiques from 1872 to 2007.

The Annuaires de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études are annual publications that attest the intellectual life of the Sections of Historical and Philological Sciences (since 1873) and Religious Studies (since 1886). This deposit contains the reports of the annual conferences of the researchers, to which are added, irregularly, introductory articles, obituaries and thesis statements. This dataset contains the publications of both Section des sciences religieuses and Section des sciences historiques et philologiques from 2008 to 2017.

HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne) is an open archive where the scholars can deposit documents from academic fields. The articles in HAL are uploaded either by one of the authors with the consent of the others, or by an authorized person of their behalf. HAL aims to ensure the long term preservation of a deposed document that are stored there permanently and will receive a stable web address.

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Selection of rare books from KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections and KU Leuven Libraries Maurits Sabbe Library, mostly from the so-called Collectio academica antiqua or the old academic collection. This collection groups all works published by members of the Old Louvain University, from its foundation in 1425 until the abolition by the French government in 1797. It is a unique collection, derived from the only Belgian academic institution under the Ancien Régime. The data set contains a selection of books written by theologians affiliated to the Old Louvain University. The bibliographic records and digital copy (if available) are accessible via Limo, the KU Leuven discovery platform. Some of them are published on the Lovaniensia portal.

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Selection of rare books and manuscripts from the KU Leuven Libraries Maurits Sabbe Library. The data set contains a bibliographic description per item and a link to a digital copy (high resolution). The bibliographic records are accessible via Limo, the KU Leuven discovery platform.

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At the moment not many datasets from the University Archive are digitally available. It has only recently started receiving digital records for archiving and only digitizes files when necessary or on demand.

Some relevant fonds

• All the records from fonds of archives of people and organizations connected to the university.
• Some records from fonds of people and organizations not connected to the university
• All the records from the fonds Archief en Museum van het Vlaamse Studentenleven (AMVS)
• The Topographical-historical atlas containing objects connected to the university, which is spread across several records. Lecture notes and course material after 1797.

The department of Special Collections manages the rich library heritage that is preserved at the University Library. You can discover many of the digitised copies by theme via Limo.

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East Asia Collections

The East-Asian Library (LSIN) was inaugurated in the building of the University Library (Ladeuze square) in 1996. The university establishes here a collection about language, culture, religion and general social subjects from China, Japan and Korea.

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A web-portal that includes a Virtual Library with downloadable electronic publications of books related to the fields of Slavic Studies and Religion and an electronic space for auto-publishing.

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An electronic teaching and learning platform that contains 24 interactive courses in Medieval languages (Old Bulgarian (OCS), Byzantine Greek and History of Bulgarian), Literature, History, Medieval Arts, Philosophy and Theology. The courses of Old Bulgarian, History of Bulgarian and Old Bulgarian Literature are also available in English.

A unique electronic infrastructure containing a corpus of digitally typed Old Bulgarian texts with religious content (up to now over 130 with over a million word forms), the digitized Old Bulgarian Dictionary, a reversed Greek-Old Bulgarian Dictionary, based on the e-version of the above mentioned dictionary, Historical Dictionary of Bulgarian language with the respective software for creating and editing dictionary entries. The Historical Dictionary is a developing resource that contains a Grammatical Dictionary with paradigms shown at each processed inflective entry.

1X Theo

The new IxTheo is a comprehensive bibliography for theology and religious studies. It is now possible to search not only for articles, but also for monographs, databases and relevant Internet links. The new IxTheo remains a free and open access service to the worldwide scholarly community.

BrepolsOnline Books is the platform of Brepols’ extended eBook programme. The eBooks are available for purchase in a variety of collections to serve the library’s specific needs and budgets. BrepolsOnline Journals provides online access to 57 academic journals in a broad range of research areas of the Humanities.

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The Patrologia Orientalis Database (POD) is a 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. This initial version of the database allows users to access texts included in the Patrologia Orientalis (PO) series in two forms: the original text, available as a PDF file, and a searchable translation.

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The LLT-A is the reference database for Latin texts, offering texts from the beginnings of Latin literature down to the present day. In total, the present version of the LLT-A contains more than 78 million Latin words, drawn from more than 3,800 works that are attributed to approximately 1,200 authors. The texts are selected from the best editions available and when possible established according to best contemporary scholarly practice.

The Library of Latin Texts – Series B (LLT-B) serves as a supplement to the Library of Latin Texts. Both databases are produced by the Centre ‘Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium’ (CTLO) under the direction of Prof. Paul Tombeur. The objective of the LLT-B is to put a large number of Latin texts into electronic form, at a rapid pace, in order to meet the needs of students and researchers. The Library of Latin Texts – Series B offers the same research possibilities and functionalities as the LLT-A, which makes it a valuable research instrument.

The VLD contains every citation, listed by book, chapter and verse of the Bible. The use of the application is simple. The application allows the scholar to search citations individually or as a whole, following the biblical structure to print the results. The result of the search is the image of the archival cards with the up-to-date information as it is held in the Vetus Latina Institute in Beuron. The interface is very straightforward.

The DLD holds a broad spectrum of dictionaries. Important dictionaries for the ReIReS context are:
– Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin by Leo F. Stelten
– Kirchenlateinisches Wörterbuch by Albert Sleumer
– Lexicon philosophicum by Étienne Chauvin
– Lexicon philosophicum terminorum philosophis usitatorum by Johannes Micraelius. DLD also holds 2 dictionaries on patristics, 4 on antiquity, 4 from the middle ages, 7 on the middle ages and later.

Clavis Clavium is a database that aims to integrate references database and serves as a collaborative update platform to open up & edit the inventory of Patristic, Medieval and Byzantine texts and their authors. It serves as an “authority list” for authors and texts.

Papal Letters represents an electronic version of the celebrated ‘Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siècle’ (32 vols.: Rome,1883- ) and the ‘Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe siècle’ (48 vols.: Rome, 1899- ). Furthermore, it contains unpublished material (litterae communes of Gregory XI from 1371 to 1375 and the registers of petitions of Urbain V).

The most comprehensive tool for studying Church prelates from the Early Church to the Early Modern Period. The lists of bishops produced in Eubel’s ‘Hierarchia catholica medii aevi… ab anno 1198’ and Gams’ ‘Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae’ still represent the most comprehensive tool for studying the prelates of the Church from the Early Church to the Early Modern Period. It contains prosopographical information on 30,000 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs.

This encyclopedia is an unparalleled source of information for anyone interested in the history of the Church. The DHGE has a wide coverage, including all continents and the period spanning Antiquity to the present day. The Dictionnaire’s entries are divided into three distinct groups based on whether they deal with people, places or institutions.

The Index Religiosus begins from the basis of two existing bibliographies: the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique and the Elenchus Bibliographicus from the journal Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. These two tools are internationally recognized as essential working instruments for Theology and Religious Studies. Scope and aims: The Index Religiosus endeavours to become the international reference bibliography for academic publications in Theology and Religious Studies. It covers publications written in various European languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, etc.).

One PDF-file with an alphabetical catalogue of 2862 titles of the Jewish Library at the UNIMAINZ (digital born). The Library is a permanent loan of the Jewish Community of Mainz and contains ca. 5500 volumes, including rare Judaic and Hebraic sources.

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One EXCEL-file with a Hebrew catalogue of the 3006 Hebrew titles of the Jewish Library at the JGU Mainz. The Library is a permanent loan of the Jewish Community of Mainz and contains ca. 5500 volumes, including rare Judaic and Hebraic sources.

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36 digitalised Hebrew manuscripts from 1700 until 1920. The Jewish Library at the JGU is a permanent loan of the Jewish Community of Mainz since 1955 and contains the remains of the libraries of the former Jewish Communities in Mainz which were confiscated in 1938.

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Dilibri is the digitized collection of regional studies literature related to Rhineland-Palatinate and of imprints preserved at Rhineland-Palatine libraries.

Full digital version of manuscripts Hs42 of the Martinus-Bibliothek Mainz.

Old catalogue of the manuscripts of the Martinus-Bibliothek (before 1963). Contains all manuscripts of the Martinus-Bibliothek but no fragments.

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Information about the library including contact, OPAC / catalogues, description of the collection, especially of the old and rare book collection, activities, exhibitions …