medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Al Magary <[log in to unmask]>
> DuCange is available in *much* better PDFs, from new scans, at the
Stanford Medieval & Modern Thought digitization project:
http://standish.stanford.edu/bin/page?forward=home
thanks, Al, for the headsup on this very nice site.
>When you see them you will immediately discard the wretched Gallica PDFs
which were made from old scratched film.
yes, the Gallica site, typically for all the French Ministre de Kulture sites
i've see, is the product of a project dreamed up by Geniuses and excuted by
Morons.
many of the .pdf texts are hell to read (i didn't realise that they were made
from microfilm, which surely explains this phenomenon), and the maps on the
site --of which there are many very interesting ones-- are universally much
too small to actually read.
but, they are there "en principe" which is, apparently, the only thing that
counts.
the "Memoires" site is a quite marvelous resource,
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/inventai/presenta/bddinv.htm
with many tens of thousands of photographs of middlevil buildings, sculptures,
etc.
alas, my random sampling of them suggests to me that a full 10% are mis-titled
(and, therefore, mis-placed in the DB).
there are many more similar databases sponsored by the MdeC
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/bdd/index.html
>and more.
yes, a quite ecclectic sampling of stuff.
hey, Chevalier's "Bio-Bibliographie" is on line.
http://standish.stanford.edu/bin/search/advanced/process?sort=title&browse=1&clauseMapped%28titleBrowse%29=Re%CC%81pertoire+des+sources+historiques+du+moyen+a%CC%82ge%2C+par+Ulysse+Chevalier+...+Bio-bibliographie.
that's a useful thing to have.
unfortunately, it takes quite a while to download the 900+ Mb single file per
volume.
also, quite a while to do a search through all the 1100+ pages --but it *IS*
OCRed!!!
that's quite an accomplishment.
wonder how they did it?
the .pdf is, like the DuCange, very clean and high contrasty, quite legible.
AND, selections can be marked, copied and pasted:
Fulbert (v), ecolatre, chancelier, puiseveq. de CHARTRES 1007, sac. v. oct. i,
f 1029 avr. io.
BELLARMIN-LABBE, S. e., (1728) '3a8. — BONSERGENT (L. F.), dans Ball. soc.
antiq. France (1873), i53, 182-3, pi.; Ball, monum. (1873), E, I, 730-7. —
BHUCKER, Hist. crit. phil. (1766-7), III, 607-8; VI, 079. — BVLJEVS, Hist.
univ. Paris. (1660), I, 584-5. — BOLTEAU, S1 F-t et sa cathedrale, dans Mem.
soc. archeol. Eure-et-Loir(1882), VII, 288. —
etc.
i am Impressed.
if you are in a position to offer suggestions to the Powers that Be in Palo
Alto, Al, how about suggesting that those massive files be broken up into more
manageable ones??
> Stanford MMT's bibliographic data is not bad but the database functions are
weak-...so look thoroughly.
yes, took me a while to get the hang of the navigation --i ended up just
looking at all the Titles, which works for now with only a few score books
on-line, but when this thing Grows like Topsey that will be a much more
difficult task.
hey, here's Cooper's "Broad-sclerophyll vegetation of California; an
ecological study of the chaparral and its related communities"
http://standish.stanford.edu/bin/search/advanced/process?sort=title&browse=1&clauseMapped%28titleBrowse%29=The+broad-sclerophyll+vegetation+of+California%3B+an+ecological+study+of+the+chaparral+and+its+related+communities%2C+by+William+S.+Cooper.
tough to find a copy of that around, when you need one.
thanks, Al.
c
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