FULL-TEXT FILES: PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

Room 201B, Wilson Library

Note 1: Some of the files listed below are currently in non-networked CD-ROM format, and must be used in the ETRC. In other cases, files are Internet-accessible; links are provided wherever possible.

Note 2: Subject & area librarians are available to assist with the use of these files. When reviewing the titles below, note the initials following each title (which indicate the librarian to contact for specialized assistance); then return to this point and refer to the list of Subject & Area Librarians Who Work With the ETRC, organized by staff member initials.

PHILOSOPHY
1. Past Masters (RK)
  This cluster of full-text databases includes coverage of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Continental Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz), and British philosophy 1600-1900 (Bacon, Hobbes, Locke and others). Available in the ETRC in CD format. Also provided here is a web link to a set of sample pages set up by the supplier, Intelex. Full web access will soon be available.
  NOTE: Helpsheet available.
2. The Internet Classics Archive (RK)
  English translations, including Aristotle, Plato, Plutarch, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Plotinus.
3. Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition (RK)
  CD-ROM providing access to the 20,000 facsimiles and transcriptions of the hitherto unpublished writings of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig J. J. Wittgenstein (1889-1951)--as catalogued by G. H. von Wright in his 1982 publication The Wittgenstein Papers.
RELIGION
1. The Bible in English (CHM/MP)
  CD-ROM containing "twenty-one different versions of the English Bible. In addition to thirteen complete Bibles, there are five texts that comprise New Testaments only, two that contain just the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and New Testament"--User manual.
2. Bible: King James Version (CHM)
3. Bible: Martin Luther translation (CHM)
4. Biblia Sacra (MBR)
  CD-ROM containing texts of the Bible in Czech, Greek, Latin and English.
5. Bibliia (MBR)
  CD-ROM. In Russian.
6. Book of Mormon (CHM)
7. Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts (SH)
  Latin texts on CD with instructions in English, French, German, and Italian, chiefly from the following corpora: Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina; Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Medievalis; Corpus Christianorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum; Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina; Patrologiae Latinae supplementum; Sources chrétiennes; S. Bernardi opera omnia ; and: Biblia sacra juxta vulgatam versionem.
8. Koran (CHM)
9. LMLO: Late Medieval Liturgical Offices: Resources for Electronic Research : texts. (CHM)
  Written by Andrew Hughes and published by the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, "this unusual book maps new territory in many disciplines. It sets out concise but comprehensive methods for describing and recording liturgical material (nearly 1,500 complete offices are edited); for categorizing late medieval poetry (some 50,000 poems are analyzed); for indexing and comparing plainsongs (several thousand are nearly ready for release); and for making brief inventories of liturgical manuscripts (some 2,000 are in preparation). In addition, it presents a consistent system of sigla for referring to the libraries in which manuscripts are held (manuscripts from more than 400 libraries were used for this project)." Consists of book plus 3 disks.
10. Patrologia Latina (CHM or SH)
  Covers works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216. Originally published by J.-P. Migne in 221 vols. from 1844 to 1855, with title Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina.
  Note: The print version is available in Wilson Library stacks: WILS Quarto 270.1 M58L; the CD version is available in Wilson's Electronic Text Research Center; and we now have access over the Web to the Univ. of Michigan's online version.
11. The Trinity Apocalypse (MBR)
  CD-ROM. Reproduction of 13th century illustrated ms. in Trinity College (Cambridge) of the book of Revelation from the New Testament with text accompaniments.
12. Troia CD (MBR)
  "An electronic guide to the publications of the Russian State Historical Library; includes 1,200 articles, 800 color illus., and demo versions of 2 upcoming electronic publications from the library: "Moscow's Monasteries" and "The History of the Old Believers." Also includes material on the War of 1812, the Table of Ranks, and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.

Last update: 5.31.01