medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I should point out that, while Patristique [http://www.patristique.org/Acta-sanctorum] is allied to Gallica, going directly to the Patristique website takes you immediately to Mansi and the AASS. [Sans the December volumes of AASS, of course ... one hopes they are in process?!?]
The texts accessible from Patristique are in wonderfully clean PdF format -- very easy to navigate, to read, and even to download.
On the other hand, the Gallica home [http://gallica.bnf.fr/], as Christopher rightly points out, takes a person on a merry chase through an over enthusiastic [over-achieving?] search function. And then only yields scans that often reproduce the poor condition of the dusty old volume from which they were made. Bad images -- without the wonderful dusty ambiance.
Elaine
Elaine M. Beretz, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Center for Visual Culture
Bryn Mawr College
101 Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 27. January
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 9:31 AM
> medieval-religion: Scholarly
> discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> From: Elaine Beretz <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Ah, but the AASS is available for free on-line:
> http://www.patristique.org/Acta-sanctorum
>
> all save Decembre, it seems.
>
> > Note, too, that the site also offers Mansi.
>
> "the site" is the BN's Gallica
>
> http://gallica.bnf.fr/
>
> which has quite a bit of stuff, sometimes in really, really
> bad and illegible
> scans (i.e., the books are there "en principe," which is
> all that really
> counts, to a bureaucratic mind).
>
> and, of course, incomplete sets are there (e.g., only three
> volumes of Gallia
> christiana novissima).
>
> > Much freedom from carting around big volumes with
> crumbling pages, although
> I confess to missing the scent of old dust and moldering
> binding. Nothing else
> says *real* library to me ...
>
> yes, using Gallica isn't much like visiting a real
> library.
>
> c
>
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