Can you help us? We’re looking for digital language resources for Latin (especially Medieval Latin), Anglo-Norman French, and Old and Middle English.
We already have, or hope to have shortly, the following:
- Lewis and Short, Latin Dictionary (Perseus)
- Du Cange, Latin Glossary (thanks to Andrew Dunning)
- Digital Anglo-Norman Dictionary
- Middle English Dictionary (U. Michigan)
- We’re also aware of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, but not sure how far advanced that project is.
We’re not just looking for ‘proper’ dictionaries; basically, we really need word lists, especially common spelling variations.
To be usable, resources must be in a structured text format and free to use. Ideally, we’re looking for a database or tagged XML, but as long as there’s some sort of regular structure (eg an HTML table or list) it may be useful. They don’t necessarily have to be available online.
But we can’t use PDFs or scanned images.
We will be very happy to obtain any necessary permission from resource owners and give them credit when the project launches.
If you have any ideas, please leave a suggestion in comments below or tweet @MedMSSO, with URL or contact information where possible. (Comments are likely to be moderated, but they will appear eventually and will be noted.)
All help will be gratefully received!
Please let us know if you require the data in any particular format as we can extract what you need and send it to you. We also have a substantial number of texts which are searchable (but for a number of reasons are not on the website) that we may be able to make available to you.
Heather – many thanks! The project director should have already been in touch with you (I hope), and may have said something about formats, but I’ll check and find out and get back to you.
Have you seen Migne’s dictionary of medieval Latin. It goes nicely with the Patrologia Latina.
The catalogue entry is :
Lexicon manuale ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, ex glossariis Caroli Dufresne, D. Ducangii, D. P. Carpentarii, Adelungii, et aliorum, in compendium accuratissime redactum; ou, Recueil de mots de la basse latinité, dressé, pour servir à l’intelligence des auteurs, soit sacrés, soit profanes, du moyen âge, par W. H. Maigne d’Arnis … Publié par m. l’abbé Migne … Tome unique
Publisher Info Paris, J. P. Migne [1866?]
There are a number of online versions of Bosworth-Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. I’m not quite sure which formats these are in (and a few of the sites offer different formats), so here are the sites I’ve used in the past:
1) http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/BT/Bosworth-Toller.htm
2) http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html
These two show up in Google, but are new since I last read Old English:
1) http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/
2) http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/books/asd/dict-H.html
http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/dmlcs/frameset_home.html
Would this be helpful?
At the website at Toronto of the Dictionary of Old English (DOE) is a fine list of other online dictionaries. The DOE itself gives only the entries A to G, and this is only accessible for subscribers