Such resources offer a number of special features and advantages. An electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations. Interactive hypertext fiction by Michael Joyce. A searchable archive of manuscripts in Spanish, from the medieval and early modern periods, including dictionaries, travel books, scientific treatises, legal texts, poetry, and biographies, as well as some works in Catalan and Arabic.
Readers can view the texts as facsimile images of the original manuscripts or as plain text.
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The database contains over 35,000 poems, and is based on the Bibliography of American Literature , Yale University Press, 1955-1991. The corpus of nearly 2,000 texts includes novels, verse, theater, essays, correspondence, treatises, in literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Guide Twenty-one versions of the Bible. In addition to the 13 complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works, and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch, and Jonah.