In principio
Subtitle: incipit index of Latin texts = incipitaire des textes latins = index lateinischer Textanfänge
Contributors: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library; Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des manuscrits
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Turnhout, Belgium]
Language: eng
Subjects: Latin literature; Latin Manuscripts; Incipits
Other titles: INPR; Incipitaire des textes Latins; Incipit index of Latin texts; Index lateinisher Textanfänge
Description: A collection of approximately 1,000,000 incipits covering all known Latin texts, in manuscript form, from the start of Latin literature to around 1500 A.D. This includes ancient, patristic, medieval, and humanist literature and covers all genres: theology and liberal arts, history and poetry, medicine and liturgy, civil and canon law, exact and occult sciences, summons and sermons, glossaries and correspondences, cooking recipies and cursing formulas, large and small treatises, even isolated sentences. Updated semi-annually.
Notes: Title from icon on database information screen (viewed Aug. 4, 2003).

This resource is available only to current faculty, staff and students of Columbia University.

Also available on CD.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

In Latin, English and French.

Academic Partners:  Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (C.N.R.S.,  France); Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (Collegeville, MN, U.S.A.);  Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits. (France).