Description

The Digital Library of Late-Antique Latin Texts—DigilibLT—publishes secular prose texts written in Latin in late antiquity (from the second to the seventh century AD) with the aim to produce a digital corpus of late-antique Latin literary texts. The project is a continuation of the PHI database (Packard Humanities Institute). The texts are annotated according to the XML-TEI standards and are offered free of charge to the public for reading and research. Since its creation in 2010, DigilibLT has achieved significant goals: near 400 texts have already been uploaded, a number that is constantly increasing. In addition, in recent years DigilibLT has added two significant extensions to the canon of authors and works initially designed for inclusion. The first concerns the grammatical works, uploaded to the site based on the best and most recent critical editions. Since 2019, DigilibLT has started another expansion line, this time regarding late Roman law. The first step has been the completion of a Canon of Roman Law, now available on the website alongside the other canon.