See also Gnomon Online for supplements to the database. This incipit collection of approximately 400,000 incipits covers all Latin texts that have been transmitted in manuscript since the origins of Latin literature up to about 1500, classical, patristic, medieval and humanistic Latin. IMB does not cover monographs or short reviews. The current disc covers 1984-1993. Each annual disc will include restrospective data until by 1999 coverage will be from 1967-1997.
Work is underway to include all known texts of the Byzantine and post-byzantine period.
See the TLG web site for a list of authors and software for viewing and searching the CD-ROM database. See also Luci Berkowitz, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae canon of Greek authors and works . The CD, based on the magnetic tapes used to produce the Index Thomisticus can be used as a concordance or as a source of text to be downloaded one paragraph at time. All Rights Reserved.