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1. Browse lists Wordlist and Line list A browse list is an alphanumerical listing of all the indexed terms that you can search on ina certain field Depending on the indexing technique used word indexing or block term indexing the list may consist of individual words or terms which may combine several words By clicking the Browse list button facing each field a scrolling screen appears allowing to choose the terms to be withheld as research criteria For fields containing a Line list as well as a Wordlist Incipit Explicit Author and Work you first need to select the browse list you want to consult In order to position yourself in the index type one or more letters or a word in the search field and click the Position button The index will list the corresponding results words entries starting with these letters or word You can navigate in the index by using the Previous or Next arrows In order to select the wanted search criterion click the icon in front of the listed terms the selected criteria are listed in the text box below which allows you to control your choice You can remove the criteria one by one by clicking on the term to be deleted or cancel them all by using the Clear selected items button To insert the selected items in the search screen press the Confirm selected items button The terms will be added in the corresponding search field the default connecting operator between them being OR This operator can be modified i2. Folio Clear fields Total number of hits 868 Warning There is a difference between the search criteria written in the search field and those inserted using the autocomplete function thus selected out of the list of suggestions This last option corresponds with the selection of a criterion in the index the program will visualize only those documents responding exactly to the criterion s in the search field On the other hand when the terms are written in the search field the result will display all written terms regardless of their order 9 Display of results A result is a word or a combination of words that respond to the criteria of the last effectuated search On the document screen the criteria are displayed as highlighted text in blue The term result also refers at a superior level of response to documents found in the framework of the search When you carry out a search the numbered result that is to say the number of documents found is displayed at the bottom of the search screen in red Right of each field the number of responses related to the selected terms in that field is displayed in grey By launching a search Search button bottom of the screen a hitlist is displayed If no results are found the search screen remains active 1 F7 L 18 Hitlist The results appear first in a list of abridged responses screen designated by the term Hitlist This hitlist offers a brief description of the resu
3. the NOT operator excludes all the criteria introduced in the search field thus defined The logical operators within the search fields allow for the combining in all the fields and with the order of priority from left to right of all searched data according to logical criteria in order to maximally specify the search These operators are five in number AND or the code or a space OR or the code NOT or the code NEAR or the code This operator which needs to be followed by an Arabic numeral preceded by a space imposes a search according to an order of maximal proximity defined by this number regardless of the respective order of words BEFORE or the code This operator which needs to be followed by an Arabic number preceded by a space gives the order of anteriority of one term with respect to another considering the respective order of words The Boolean operators NEAR and BEFORE need to be placed before the search criteria and not between them The other Boolean operators AND OR and NOT are placed between the criteria thus linked Warning It is impossible to link more than two terms with the proximity operators NEAR and BEFORE Further in order to guarantee the performance of the program one should limit the use of truncations In case the search request generates too many results an error message appears illegal s
4. BREPOLS amp PUBLISHERS IN PRINCIPIO INCIPIT INDEX OF LATIN TEXTS USER S MANUAL INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ET D HISTOIRE DES TEXTES C N R S PARIS HILL MONASTIC MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY COLLEGEVILLE MN USA BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE DEPARTEMENT DES MANUSCRITS PARIS 2015 2015 Functional design Institut de Recherche et d Histoire des Textes Hill Monastic Manuscript Library and Brepols Publishers NV 2015 Database IRHT HMML and Biblioth que nationale de France 2015 Publication rights Brepols Publishers NV IL HISTORY AND MISSION ccccosccsccssccescnscceccesccscceccesscecceseeccusccecceccesccecceessscescsccecceseeecs 4 MO ne nee eee ca ee 4 NON ee 4 PEM VA LONG E E E E A E E E 5 LOCO IRSE A aia 5 EPOC rd 6 O rico cri cpsis 6 A A 7 HOW TO USE UN PRINCIPIO insan a arar act 8 le INSTALLATION pda A T 8 2 EN AP e E A 8 a SEARCUSCREEN corso ata a a Re ee ecascones 10 A In e Er nd tate 10 POAC O PR RES OO O OS 11 A seater 11 Re eeu pao eae ones 11 e e nn A 12 ia OP o sitos g t He OP POLO ee ee Re ore eee eee ner eer 12 DOTY pts seve no A e ate rte 12 DO T OP O ER ea A A RE E ees A aed 12 DIC para 12 6 e CRA e 13 4 BROWSE LISTS WORDLIST AND LINE LIST ccccccccesessseeccceccecceeessecccceeeeauaesececeeeeeeseuanseeeeeeeseuggeeeeeeeeeneeas 13 5 LOGICAL OPERATORS BOOLEAN OPERATORS ssscsssssseeeseeeseceseeseseaesenecseecseeeseeeaeeeaeeseeeseecaeseneesa
5. aristoteles and Authenticity ps Refine Search and Author Non authentic robertus and Work Non authentic cato Refine Search and ncipit Non authentic aenice quid mirum si te complexer amore Refine Search and Work Non authentic contra monachos massilienses Refine Search 11 Data export The following options are available Saving information The simple results hitlist or the individual documents can be saved in various formats through the Export command in the hitlist the result overview or the full document screen The first option is to save the results in HTML format the software used as default for opening the HTML files will be the one set by your browser e g Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox The results can also be saved as a Word or Excel file Online users are strongly advised not to open the files within their online session but to save their results first to some physical location e g hard drive floppy disk USB flash drive or CD In order to protect unauthorized downloading of the data saving from the hitlist is limited to 500 records from the overview list to 250 records at any one time When you choose to save the result s a screen permitting you to define the export method appears There are two options downloading the results or sending them by email The document name can be defined in the field File name In order to download the file tick the Download box and hit the Export button In case yo
6. at the bottom of the screen From the hitlist you can go back to the search screen to modify the search criteria by clicking the Refine search button The hitlist can be exported Export button infra 11 Data export View document screen Y BREPOLIS 62 All products EN FR DE nome search History Help Logout in principio INCIPIT INDEX OF LATIN TEXTS EE INCIPITAIRE DES TEXTES LATINS mes me INDEX LATRINISCHER TEXTANFANCE Introduction Search Record View Previous Next Export El Refine Search Search details and ncipit Non authentic amor and Author Non authentic ovidius Record 58 of 87 Incipit Que bello est habilis ueneri quoque conuenit etas Turpe senex miles turpe senilis amor Author Ovidius Work Amores excerpta 9 v 3 4 City BERN Library Burgerbibl Shelf Mark 688 Date XIII XIV Folio 66 Bibliography Ehwald ed Teubner Leipzig 1916 p 14 Submitted by IRHT Reference 312672 The developed response gives following information the incipit and explicit of the text the name of the author and the title of the work the details about the location of the manuscript city library shelf mark date and folio and finally general details such as the bibliography the origin of the fiche and its reference number At the top of the screen the search criteria are displayed Beside the display in a scroll list supra you can also view the documents one by one by click
7. ce the authenticity field has been added to signal whether an ascription is dubious dub erroneous err or pseudonymous ps An erroneous ascription differs from a pseudonymous ascription in that the former derives from a modern secondary source as opposed to a manuscript source When none of the three boxes are checked the database will search for all documents written by a certain author even when the ascriptions are dubious erroneous or pseudonymous In order to find all dubious erroneous or pseudonymous ascriptions the respective boxes need to be selected On the contrary to exclude these ascriptions and to limit the search to authentic documents the three boxes need to be checked and the NOT operator needs to be selected Enter your search query in the fields below Click on Browse for comprehensive lists of search terms Authentic spelling Incipit Explicit Author augustinus Authenticity Widub Mer Mos and Library and Shelf Mark and and Clear fields Total number of hits 14776 Work As with author names titles have been left to stand as they appear in the source Searching in this field is facilitated by the truncation complex search and spelling equivalency features Place of conservation Manuscript holdings information is broken down into five fields place of conservation library shelf mark date and folio Place of conservation designates the settlement where the library or a
8. d The utilization of this function launches a search throughout the entire database for the same chain of characters Autocomplete function All search fields are equipped with an autocomplete function which proposes automatically the entries included in the field When typing a certain word the program displays a drop down list presenting ten suggestions from which you may select an entry This alphabetically ordered list is based on the index terms of the corresponding search field When you input search criteria that do not longer allow the database to make suggestions the autocomplete function will disappear This function will only work with the first search term Enter your search query in the fields below Click on Browse for comprehensive lists of search terms Authentic spelling and Incipit and Explicit fine fine and Author Sak iia fine dibito terminetis facientes quod decreveritis per censuram ecclesiasticam firmiter observan Testes autem quod si non omnes Dat Lat id ianuarii pontificatus nostri anno octavo decimo and Authenticity and fine praesidia and City fine uotorum iam compos uterque suorum per me felices este mei memores finis Deo gratias and Library Finees sub quo Titus capta urbe et templum incendit finem bis mille tenere and Shelf Mark gt j finem dicendis impono Deo gracias and Date Finem fac miseriae Nos junge beatis finem fore vale nostri memor Mediolani V ydus Maij and v
9. e Enter key on your keyboard or click on the program s Search button The value entered can consist of a single word with or without truncation or two or more words in the case of a complex search Searching within multiple fields In order to perform a more specific search it is possible to execute an advanced search with one search criterion over different fields linked by a logical operator or to carry out a crossed search over several fields by crossing several search criteria in one or more fields linked by several logical operators General remark Searches must always be multiplied It is exceptional that an initial search gives all of the expected results Always assume that the database contains adequate responses other than those already obtained Simple Search On top of the screen in the search field next to the title the user can perform a simple search This procedure permits to obtain with a single search criterion name of an author or a place a concept etc a first orientation in the information In fact the interrogation will not be limited to a certain field but the criterion will be searched in the entire database Furthermore the simple search permits to launch a search based on a passage selected in a document given in response which makes even more effective every type of interrogation In order to execute such a search the user has to paste between quotation marks the selected passage in the search fiel
10. earch string In this case the search criteria should be specified by extending the search string or by reducing the use of wildcards In order to avoid undesirable repetition of this error message remove all search criteria using the Clear fields button before refining them facilitate your search criteria when the error remains 6 Metacharacters These are four in number designates any combination of characters or the absence of a character truncation can be used to the right or to the left of the search term Thus entering Augustin will find Augustinus and all its variants including the French form Augustin and the English form Augustine but not the Italian form Agostino 2 designates any unique character or the absence of a character Thus entering Ro bertus permits to search for the variants Robertus Rotbertus and Rodbertus y are utilized as dividers to group together or to separate chains of characters They allow one to indicate a priority among the operators AND OR and NOT and the search criteria Make sure to always enter the two parentheses or delete both of them since the omission of one of them invalidates the criterion Ml yy a and permit to execute a contiguous search allowing for finding all occurrences of one or several adjacent words respecting the order of the words during the data capture in the field 7 Sp
11. eeneees 14 ONE PCR OR sa ee ele eu 15 7 EE IGT OO aN CY a ao a na 15 O OR RO DR ER a ae a ee 16 PO CO q RAE tones absanceecaateceecee 16 ee CCE alo lalo AAA eE O 0 en eee a ee er ee 16 Dear Cie With mala ple Helds ne eee ee NEE OE ESET A 16 eeepc fear a oo ie 16 PURO CO ECL INCOM steno Ei iat gn 17 2 MMII OR OE a 17 A 18 as A PP A 19 LO SEARCH HISTORY ersinnen e tr cinta car 20 TL TA TL ario 20 e E ores A sea A pleco c seed enone E gue eou semen oradese 20 PPP E EE E E oo geeancsenacuntece 21 III ABOU IN PRINCIPE en benne a E 22 I HISTORY AND MISSION 1 History 1990 IRHT decides to publish in electronic form its file of around 400 000 Latin incipits The project is undertaken in collaboration with Brepols Publishers and Dataware software managed by Orda B Brussels 1993 The first release of the program appears containing nearly 150 000 incipits Subsequent releases will contain an additional 100 000 incipits each year The CD ROM format allows continuous updating and correction of the data In collaboration with IN PRINCIPIO the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library in Collegeville Minnesota USA begins to digitize its file of 400 000 Latin incipits 1995 The first CD ROM to combine incipits from IRHT and HMML is published It contains 400 000 incipits 1998 IN PRINCIPIO appears as a Windows program It contains 750 000 incipits 2001 The Biblioth que nationale de France Cabinet des manuscrits joins IN PRINCIPIO as
12. elling equivalency To accommodate variations in medieval spelling several orthographic equivalencies have been built into the program Vowels and semi vowels j i v u ae e oe e y i Consonants k c ph f h nothing w u bp pp cq dq cx x dc cc df ff dg gg dl Il dn nn dp pp ds ss dt tt md nd mf nf mpn mn dt tt md nd mf nf mpn mn mps ms mpt mt nb mb nm mm np mp ssp sp xf ff xs 16 Groups of letters tia cia tie cie tii cii tio cio tiu ciu mihi michi nihil nichil It is possible to bypass the spelling equivalency feature and to search for authentic spellings only by ticking the Authentic spelling box Thus if you type the word hymnus in the search field Incipit the program will give you in result all the documents containing the forms NO NO NO himnus hymnus imnus hympnus himpnus ympnus impnus Enter your search query in the fields below Click on Browse for comprehensive lists of search terms Authentic spelling and Incipit and Explicit and Author and Authenticity and and and Library and Shelf Mark and Date and Clear fields Total number of hits 2 8 Search strategies Advanced Search Searching within a single field The simple search the most common search in IN PRINCIPIO is conducted in a single field usually the incipit field To launch a simple search enter a search value into the field then press th
13. idem apostolum scimus Author S Augustinus E Export El Refine Search El Hitlist Work De predestinatione sanctorum ad supradictos Prosperum et Hylarium contra monachos Massilienses City TROYES Library BM Shelf Mark 40 7 Catalog CGMBP in 4 2 p 38 Submitted by IRHT Reference 107183 Il HOW TO USE IN PRINCIPIO 1 Installation e With the DVD inserted in the DVD drive an exe programme is displayed This programme must be activated Follow the instructions given on the screen The search software of the IN PRINCIPIO database functions on the basis of an Internet navigator browser It can be used either with the Internet Explorer navigator from the 6 0 version upwards or with Mozilla Firefox from the 2 0 version upwards Obviously one of these navigators must be installed into your computer To uninstall the software select the uninstall option in the map Program and Features to be found in the Control Panel of your Windows Operating System e For those who consult the database on the Internet connect to BREPOLiS the Brepols site for on line databases at www brepolis net and select IN PRINCIPIO The user should follow the instructions on the screen depending on their licence Please note that network installation is restricted to users who have paid a supplementary subscription and enabling software will be required from Brepols to permit networking of the application 2 Get
14. ing on the corresponding line of the hitlist The navigation arrows on top of the screen allow opening one document after the other in the sequence ascending or descending of the hitlist The content of the scroll list as well as the individual records can be exported Export button or can be printed using the print command of the browser infra 11 Data export From the overview as well as from the document view you can go back to the search screen in order to modify the criteria Refine search button or to the hitlist Hitlist button 19 20 10 Search history To find a previously displayed screen you can use the Search history This history gives for each previous search the query and the number of results and offers the immediate possibility to return to the various stages of the search either the search screen which allows for refining the search with a new criterion with a view to a new search or the hitlist This last option is not available when there are no search results or when the search has triggered an error message amp 4 BREPOLIS 62 All products El FR DE Home Search History Help Logout Has r j in primcipto INCIPIT INDEX OF LATIN TEXTS INCIPITAIRE DES TEXTES LATINS mn msn acre wwe INDEX LATEINISCHER TEXTANFANCE ie CR f se Poio DE ad 2 Sa ns ROUTE n E gt ee Ve eben 2 2 2 Introduction Search Search History Search Details and Author Non authentic
15. it peccatum mortale n natura humana cum Verbo dicat absolutum 1 t videtur quod non illud quod non est E E E t videtur quod non quia quod est per O po ppp ED FO po pE pE pp p po p p p Click on an entry below to remove it from the selection list Utrum anima sit substantia hoc sit verum Et videtur quod non illud quod non est per se subsistens non est substantia et hoc patet per Philosophum in Praedicamentis Utrum anima sit substantia hoc sit verum Et videtur quod non quia quod est per se subsistens non est substantia Utrum anima possit perficere duas materias Clear selected items Confirm selected items 5 Logical operators Boolean operators The operators linking amongst themselves the search fields have the highest priority from top to bottom Then follow the operators introduced in the search fields themselves with the order of priority from left to right The distinct search requests in different search fields can be linked with the help of these three logical operators AND OR NOT buttons placed before the field names Utilization of the AND operator signifies that the result must correspond to the request for all criteria in the fields thus linked utilization of the OR operator signifies that the result can contain inconsequentially one of the criteria in the fields thus linked the OR operator needs to precede all fields thus linked utilization of
16. lts by giving the incipit the name of the author and the title of the work to the extent that this information is available The Hitlist screen appears as follows 4 BREPOLIiS All products EN FR DE Home Search Histon Helg gt LU Li a 4 in pre ipio grediermm falre INCIPITANDEX OF LATIN TEXTS a gt Dm Sccaleabrei Imps INCIPITAIRE DES TEXTES LATINS D D eee D plarmapedum u firerumanderquaes pa n ae eS INDEX LATEINISCHER TEXTANFANCE AAA AT d TRE A ae see um fol afirme definar Inpimr err T A de Sgt A Po Introduction Search Search results 7 hits gt Export El Refine Search Search details and ncipit Non authentic amoris and Author Non authentic cicero View selection Y All items Incipit Author Work i gt ps i e ad Familiares i T A 1 Amoris quidem tui quoquo me uerti uestigia uel proxime Cicero aaa ad Familiares fad Fadium Gallum F 9 Benivolentia non adolescentulorum more ardore quodam aie De officiis 15 47 amoris sed stabilitate potius ac constantia iudicemus Cum similis sensus extitit amoris aliquem nacti sumus huius cum moribus et natura congruamus ita quod in eo o EA z g v 3 ER PAA Cicero De amicitia cap 8 par 27 quasi lumen aliquod probitatis et uirtutis prospicere uideamur 7 4 Gravi teste privatus sum amoris Cia Epist ad familiares fragmentum 2 2 ad Curionem Paratum ad omnia famulatum plurima cum sa
17. lute et si Y 5 amoris ueteris cordialiter et sincere et mihi quam cicius Cicero Epistulae diuersae excerpt potes animum tuum 9 6 Votiue amoris continuum incrementum Cicero Epistulae diuersae excerpt Votiue amoris continuum incrementum et fautorum dilecte 7 petitorias atque relatibus unus ero et esse cupio uobis Cicero Epistulae diuersae excerpt ad uota paratus The hitlist can be sorted by clicking on one of the headings Incipit Author or Work Double clicking on a heading reverses the sort order from ascending to descending or vice versa At the top of the screen the search details i e the number of results and the search criteria are displayed A selection of records from the hitlist can be made All records are selected by default when the hitlist is created To deselect them tick the boxes in front of each line All records can be unticked by clicking in the tickbox All items in the right corner on top of the screen This process can be reversed by clicking in this tickbox again The selected records a sequence of maximum 250 documents can be displayed in a scroll list by clicking the Overview button This page can be exported Export button or printed using the browser s print function As the hitlist can be lengthy and in order to speed up the consultation the records are displayed along several pages max 30 items per screen You can browse through the list by using the navigation arrows
18. ment or export or print the records identified The different search fields are Incipit The incipit is composed of the first words of the text and serves to identify it For instance Arma uirumque cano Troiae qui primus ab oris is the incipit of Virgil s Aeneid In principio creauit Deus celum et terram is the incipit of the book of Genesis In contrast to title and ascribed author which may vary widely from one manuscript copy of a text to another the incipit tends to be the more stable element of the text and the surest means of identifying it unambiguously As with the explicit title author and other fields truncation complex search and spelling equivalency features can facilitate most searches in the incipit field The most productive search in this field will consist of two words drawn from the text s incipit and separated by the Boolean operator AND Generally the more distinctive the search terms are and the closer to the beginning of the text they occur the better the results will be Explicit The explicit is composed of the final words of the text and serves like the incipit to identify it especially when the beginning of the text is corrupt or missing Thus the explicits of Virgil s Bucolics and the Book of Revelation from the Bible are respectively Ite domum saturae uenit Hesperus ite capellae and etiam uenio cito amen ueni Domine lesu Gratia Domini nostri lesu Christi cum o
19. mnibus The explicit field benefits from the same search facilities as the incipit field including truncation complex searching and spelling equivalency Author This field gives the name of the author to whom the source attributes the text including authors of commentaries and translations For the same text IN PRINCIPIO may return several author names either the same author designated under different names e g Bonauentura Iohannes de Balneoregio Iohannes de Fidanza or the same text ascribed to different authors As a matter of methodological principle author names appear in the database as they appear in the source except for the case which is generally converted to the nominative case This will help researchers to distribute the manuscripts of one work into different textual families In some instances the name of the author appears in modern form as per the source Researchers may find it useful to conduct a complex search which combines different forms of the same name e g Petrus Pierre Pietro Pedro Peter In many cases truncation of the name will produce the same results e g Robert Note however that this truncated search will not find the forms Rodbertus or Rotbertus although the spelling equivalency feature will accommodate many such variations Infra 7 Spelling Equivalency Authenticity Because author names appear in the database just as they appear in the sour
20. n the search screen infra 5 Logical operators Boolean operators Attention when selecting an item from the Line list only the documents meeting the exact wording for that particular item will be searched E g the selection of Omne animal fuit in archa in the browse list of the field Incipit will result in the list of manuscripts of which the first words are Omne animal fuit in archa excluding those with the incipits Omne animal fuit in archa Noe and Finaliter ergo veniendo ad hoc sophisma omne animal fuit in archa Noe Browselist by Incipit Insert Close Enter a word below to go to a specific position in the list 9 Line list Word list utrum Position Click in the list below to append the entry to your search query TU T P O Eo un m Quasi dicet Difficultas est in faciendo 1 de universali sit scientia logicalis ad quattuor utilis m est tantus ignoratur ita scribit venerabilis Boetius 1 anima sit substantia hoc sit verum m anima sit substantia hoc sit verum 1 anima possit perficere duas materias m arca tanta capacitate quanta describitur m CF Queritur utrum n Deus regeret immediate omnia inferiora sua providentia vel per aliqua media trum Eucharistiae sacramentum valeat homini sine contritione um fraterna correctio sit actus iustitiae vel sit actus caritatis m intellectus noster sit de novo factus an sit ab aeterno et quod non sit de m invidia s
21. ng those in which the date falls within the appropriate century e g 1456 or forms part of a range e g XIV XVI Warning The use of hyphens invalidates the search In order to introduce a period in the Date field type the different centuries of that period separated by the OR operator e g to find all manuscripts from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century Date 13 OR 14 OR 15 OR 16 Folio Depending on the source this field indicates either the full range of folios occupied by the text or the text s initial folio Occasionally when the source is an older catalogue this field may instead give a number corresponding to the text s numerical order within the manuscript first second third etc notated n 1 n 2 n 3 Though meagre this information is included in the hope that it will prove useful to the researcher Generally manuscripts are foliated which is to say that a leaf rather than a page is numbered and the front and back of each leaf is marked as being recto or verso One must therefore distinguish 15r which is to say recto of the fifteenth leaf from 15v or verso of the fifteenth leaf In the case of a manuscript which is written in more than one column columns are distinguished by a lower case letter 15rb therefore indicates fifteenth leaf recto second column When a manuscript is paginated the notation p precedes the page number s 4
22. ntly consulted of these card files covers the whole of Latin literature from its origins to the Renaissance and at present contains some 400 000 entries Institut de Recherche et d Histoire des Textes Section latine 40 avenue d l na F 75116 Paris Dominique Potrel lt poirel irht cnrs fr gt The Collection of incipits at the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville MN USA Since its founding in 1965 the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library HMML has sent teams of researchers and technicians to film more than 25 million pages from nearly 90 000 volumes in libraries and archives throughout Europe the Middle East and North Africa Today HMML represents one of the largest and most comprehensive archives of medieval and Renaissance sources in the world Over the past 30 years the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library has assembled a card file of more than 400 000 Latin incipits making this the largest collection in the United States and one of the largest collections in the world With a concentration of manuscripts from Austria Germany Spain Portugal and Malta HMML s records have proved to be geographically and topically complementary to those of IRHT Hill Monastic Manuscript Library P O Box 7300 Saint John s University Collegeville MN 56321 7300 USA Matthew Heintzelman lt mheintzelma csbsju edu gt The Collection of incipits of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France D partement des Manuscrits Paris France The file catal
23. ogue of incipits from the Latin catalogue has been built up over many years from a vast array of bibliographical sources in order to assist the work of the cataloguers of the Fonds latin It also contains a large number of incipits drawn directly from the Latin manuscripts in the department s own hands While this cannot be said to have been done systematically except for a project in the 1950s to identify incipits from the Suppl ment latin collection it does reflect the specific interests of the librarians The inputting of the 180 000 records started in January 2002 Bibliotheque nationale de France D partement des manuscrits Catalogue latin 58 rue de Richelieu F 75084 Paris Cedex 02 Charlotte Deno l lt charlotte denoel bnf fr gt Collections from Other Institutions and Individual Scholars IN PRINCIPIO includes incipits from those other institutions and individual scholars willing to collaborate Prof Dr Klaus Reinhardt director of the Cusanus Institute in Trier assisted by Dr Tilo Altenburg has graciously transferred to the database 40 000 records from the valuable Repertorium Biblicum Mediu Aevi Matriti 1950 1980 whose indexes he himself developed with Friedrich Stegmiiller IN PRINCIPIO is also grateful to Dr Thomas Mathiesen director of the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum for allowing to include data from the Thesaurus IN PRINCIPIO appreciates at the same time the kind willingness of Dr Christian Meyer member of
24. ontains ten searchable fields your search query in the fields below Click on Browse for comprehensive lists of search terms Authentic spelling Incipit Explicit Author Authenticity Library Shelf Mark and Date and Clear fields There are ten search fields into which a search query can be entered Each search field has a fieldname to the left and one or more browse lists to the right which list the search terms that have been indexed for this category of information The data in each field may be a combination of words alone or numbers alone or a combination of words and numbers The fields are therefore alphanumerical fields The browse lists are generated normally by a procedure of indexing by entry 1 e blocks of texts are indexed rather than individual components of a word phrase or numerical sequence Line list The fields Incipit Explicit Author and Work also contain a browse list by word indexing each word in the data for this field is indexed and can be searched separately Wordlist Infra 4 Browse lists Wordlist and Line list The relationship between the fields and the relationship between search terms within a search field are defined by the logical operators AND OR and NOT Infra 5 Logical Operators A search query defined in this way will produce a number of hits which can then be displayed on a hitlist Infra 9 Display of Results from where the user can go to view the complete docu
25. or Authenticity Work City Library Shelf Mark Folio Submitted by 4 Previous Next b Export Refine Search n authentic aristoteles and Authenticity ps Cum de utilitate corporis Aristoteles Ps Epistola ad Alexandrum PARIS BnF lat 350 LI BNF olim tractaremus Reference Except for rare works such as those preserved in a single manuscript the program usually allows researchers to compare their texts against critical editions studies repertories or other evidence Users should bear in mind however that in contrast to classical and patristic literature medieval literature is still largely obscure Many texts remain unknown because the collections in which they appear are not catalogued or catalogued imprecisely Moreover of those texts which are catalogued many remain unpublished And of those texts which are published a vast number have yet to receive modern critical editions Subsequently consulting IN PRINCIPIO will not necessarily procure a definitive attribution It may however provide that one elusive manuscript or bibliographic reference that sets the researcher on a surer path to identifying a work For example if the program refers to a good recent critical edition the user will probably agree with it If the program references a manuscript directly or through a catalogue or through an out dated or inferior edition the user will have to investigate further or accept the at
26. rchive containing the manuscript in question is found In the absence of such a place name this field will give the name of a monastery or chateau as appropriate Library Most of the manuscripts cited in IN PRINCIPIO are preserved in libraries Throughout the database the name of the holding institution is given according to local preference usually in an abbreviated form Shelf mark The shelf mark describes the location of the manuscript within the holding library or archive Sometimes composed of a simple number it can take a more complex form and give the name of the collection an indication of the manuscript s format fol 4 or Q 8 etc the literary domain class theol patr or language of its contents lat gr fr germ or such precise physical information as the manuscript s cabinet floor or lectionary number Date A manuscript date is indicated when the source of the information provides one Generally the date appears in the form of a Roman numeral e g XII for twelfth century or less often a specific year e g 1475 ca for circa signifies near or around a specific date in and ex for ineunte and exeunte signal the beginning or end of the century Note that when searching the date field you must use Arabic numerals Entering the date 15 for the fifteenth century will return all records which have 15 or XV in the field includi
27. reveal new variants of the name of the author and the title of the text which can be used for further searching and so on until all the possibilities have been exhausted Such a search strategy may locate several manuscripts or manuscript fragments that a simple search might not have uncovered Author search This function is useful when an author is cited too briefly to allow identification For example if one wishes to identify which author named Robertus commented on Cato s Distichs entering Robertus in the author field and Cato in the work field will quickly show that it is the Cistercian Robert of Envermeuil author of a Cato moralisatus Search results 23 hits Search details and Author Non authentic robertus and Work Non authentic cato View selection i Incipit Author 1 Assit et hec discat uiciis ne uita satiscat Robertus de Euremodio 9 Cum animaduerterem gloses interlin aire pro quando ego R iotos de Em moda Cato in animo considerarem Cum animaduerterem gloses interlin aire pro quando ego Y 3 RA i Cato in animo considerarem OA a 4 Cum animaduerterem gloses interlin aire pro quando ego e deman Cato in animo considerarem Y 5 Cum fueris felix Robertus de Euremodio Envermeuil W 6 Dilige non erga caros Robertus de Euremodio el 7 Esto pius uere semper hiis qui te genuere non moueas batas de Curia patrem nec uis offendere matrem W 8 Generose indolis adolescentulo Petro de Saluciis Robertu
28. s de Evromodio Title search E Export El Refine Search T All items Work Cato moralisatus siue commentarii in Catonis Disticha Libri ll praefatio Novuus Cato fol 10v Cato moralisatus siue Comment in Catonis Disticha praef Cato moralisatus siue Comment in Catonis Disticha praef Cato moralisatus siue Comment in Catonis Disticha praef Cato moralisatus siue Commentani in Catonis Disticha lib 1 Cato moralisatus siue Commentarii in Catonis Disticha lib 3 24 Cato moralisatus siue Commentarii in Catonis Disticha lib 3 24 Cato moralisatus Prologus For both scholarly and practical reasons no attempt has been made to normalize titles however variant or erroneous from the way they appear in the manuscripts and other sources that furnish them It is in effect the role of the incipit to reconcile diverse witnesses to the same text even when they give different attributions As a result IN PRINCIPIO is to our knowledge the richest extant source of information on medieval titles and variations of title Among other applications this function can be used to identify a text known only by its title as is frequently the case in medieval inventories Thus Contra monachos Massilienses appearing in an Augustinian context will probably signal Augustine s De Praedestinatione sanctorum Record View Search details and Work Non authentic Contra monachos Massilienses Record 1 of 1 Incipit Dixisse qu
29. ssion e Home This function calls up the first screen of the application the search screen containing ten search fields e Search history This function allows one at any given moment to retrieve the details of searches previously effectuated during the course of a working session e Help In the help program following elements are at the user s disposal a help file with information about the functionalities of the software and the electronic version of the current user s manual e Logout This function enables to close the application and to leave the database It is imperative that the online user utilizes this function and not the button on top of the screen in order to close correctly the working session on the BREPOLIS database If the Logout button is not used the session will not be closed and the database will be inaccessible for other users To prevent unfinished sessions staying open and thus inaccessible for other users the system will automatically logout sessions that have been inactive for more than fifteen minutes The second toolbar underneath the title on a blue background offers the following functions e Introduction The introduction gives a description of the content of the database and a presentation of the scientific partners e Search This function calls up the search screen the screen from which most of the searches linked with particular fields are launched 3 Search screen The search screen c
30. the Research Group ERL 7229 de M di vistique CNRS MSH Lorraine Universit Nancy 2 who has graciously offered to include in this database the lists of incipits which he has elaborated within the framework of his publications Catalogue des manuscrits not s du Moyen Age conserv s dans les biblioth ques publiques de France 1 amp 2 Tunhout Brepols 2006 amp 2009 and The Theory of Music Manuscripts from the Carolingian Era up to c 1500 published in the R pertoire International des Sources Musicales RISM G Henle Verlag Munich 2003 Institutions and individual scholars who have built up their own incipit databases whether electronic or on card files are warmly invited to collaborate and can make contact through one of the three academic partners or through Brepols Publishers directly For technical assistance publication and order information contact Brepols Publishers N V Begijnhof 67 B 2300 Turnhout Belgium Tel 32 14 44 80 20 Fax 32 14 42 89 19 Mail brepolis brepols net
31. the third scholarly partner 2003 IN PRINCIPIO is made available online and operates with new software 2009 The online version of IN PRINCIPIO operates with new software and the lay out of the database is modernized It contains more than one million incipits 2 Mission The incipit and explicit serve to put texts and manuscripts into relationship with one another Thus IN PRINCIPIO lends itself to two principle functions identifying texts written in the Latin language from its origin to around 1500 for instance when analysing the contents of a manuscript locating manuscripts which transmit a work particularly for researchers preparing a critical edition of the work or a study of its transmission In addition to searching by incipit and explicit IN PRINCIPIO users can search any of the fields appearing in the search screen Querying the Author and Work fields for example is useful in three cases in constructing a list of incipits associated with a given text when attempting to identify an author whose name is known only in part that is by performing an author search when attempting to identify texts described in a medieval inventory that is through performing a title search Identifying texts In IN PRINCIPIO identification of works is expressed in the following fields author authenticity of author ascription work title Record View Search details Record 27 of 250 Incipit Auth
32. ting started The toolbars displayed permanently on top of the screen offer the user an orientation in the various levels of information of the IN PRINCIPIO database SMABREPOLIS 83 Al products EN FR DE Ho in principio Se Ja 7 d Eee pr Im prof INCIPIT INDEX OF LATIN TEXTS INCIPITAIRE 1 DES TEXTES LATINS INDEX LATRINISCHER TEXTANFANCE PT bir exeremuam uAmman d emera introduction Search Enter your search query in the fields below Click on Browse for comprehensive lists of search terms Authentic spelling and Incipit El Browse and Explicit Browse and Author j El Browse and Authenticity D dub Mer and Work F El Browse and City El Browse and Library El Browse and Shelf Mark El Browse and Date El Browse and Folio El Browse Clear fields The first toolbar on top of the screen above the title on a grey background offers the following functions e BREPOLIiS This logo contains a hyperlink to the BREPOLiS website the website of all online projects of Brepols Publishers and his academic partners e All databases In this list appear all electronic databases included in the user s license e EN FR DE On entering the application the default setting is the language defined in the user s license specified while subscribing The three buttons EN FR DE permit to modify the language of the interface to English French or German at any time during the se
33. tribution only provisionally This margin of uncertainty has less to do with IN PRINCIPIO than with the nature and size of Latin literature above all Medieval Latin literature and with the current state of scholarship The origins of some texts will probably always remain obscure or unknown But gradually as catalogues editions and other research tools appear particularly repertories of incipits such as IN PRINCIPIO the critical attribution of authors and texts will progress proportionately Locating manuscripts For even a single text IN PRINCIPIO generally identifies one or several manuscript references with information in the following fields place of conservation library or archive shelf mark date folios Record View 4 Previous Next gt Export Refine Search Hitlist Search details on authentic Genes and City Paris and Library BnF Record 2 of 110 Incipit In principio creavit Deus celum et terram que est inanis et vacua et Spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas et facta est lux que divisa a tenebris vocata est dies Gen 1 1 2 Work Commentarium in Genesim City PARIS Library BnF Shelf Mark n a 223 Date XIII Folio 33 Bibliography Long re J Les sermons latins de Maurice de Sully v que de Paris 1196 Steenbrugge Dordrecht 1988 p 237 Submitted by IRHT Reference 2267 Because most manuscript collections have not been described with sufficient precision it
34. u want to send the result s by e mail indicate this option insert the correct e mail address in the corresponding field and hit the Export button A confirmation telling you an e mail with the file in attachment has been sent by inpr export brepols net will appear In your inbox you will receive an e mail entitled in principio export Export Refine Search File name Select method of export Download E mail E mail brepolis brepols net Format html xls Export Refine Search En Hitlist Printing information The Print command is available through the main browser menu at the top of the screen The simple results hitlist overview or the complete document records are printed depending on whether you are in the hitlist screen the overview screen or the full document screen when you press the commando In case the hitlist is rather long more than one page save the complete list ina HTML Word or Excel document before printing NHI About IN PRINCIPIO The Collection of incipits at the Institut de Recherche et d Histoire des Textes Paris France Since its foundation in 1937 the Institut de Recherche et d Histoire des Textes had compiled several card files of incipits using a wide range of sources including direct descriptions of manuscripts library catalogues collections of texts and specialized bibliography The oldest most voluminous and most freque
35. would be futile to search IN PRINCIPIO or a similar tool for an exhaustive list of manuscripts containing a given text For some searches the database can furnish up to ten to twenty per cent of the information accessible in catalogues as well as many citations deriving from original manuscript work Although IN PRINCIPIO constitutes the world s largest repertory of incipits for a search as complete as possible it should be consulted with other tools IN PRINCIPIO is therefore not an exhaustive definitive repertory but an evolving database List of incipits Many works have not one but several unique incipits texts composed of several parts especially when some parts circulated separately texts preceded by prefaces dedicatory letters or prologues commentaries or sermons that might begin with the text commented on and so on And this says nothing of mutilated abridged or expanded texts For these reasons it is recommended that researchers do not search for one incipit only but consider other possibilities To find all the incipits for the same text the scholar can conduct a complex search which combines the name of the author and the title of the work in the author and work fields respectively In such cases one obtains a number of responses perhaps indicating several different incipits Each incipit invoked can then be queried separately Proceeding in this fashion can lead in an iterative way to other leads a search by incipit may
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