Below are links to other projects, networks, resources and events that those interested in the cult of saints may find useful.
General
- BIBP: La Base d’Information Bibliographique en Patristique http://www4.bibl.ulaval.ca/bd/bibp/
- Société des Bollandistes: http://www.bollandistes.org/
- Hagiography Society http://www.hagiographysociety.org/
- Associazione Italiana per lo Studio della Santità, dei Culti e dell’Agiografia http://www.aissca.eu/
The Syriac World
- A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity: http://csc.org.il/db/db.aspxdb=SB
- Dumbarton Oaks: Resources for Byzantine Studies. http://doaks.org/research/byzantine/resources Includes Syriac and other useful online books, articles, maps etc.
- Goussen Library, Universität Bonn http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/ulbbn/nav/classification/16431 An outstanding collection of digitalized books relating to oriental Christianity, including editions of lives of the saints.
- Syriac Studies Reference Library, Brigham Young University http://cpart.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/home/resources/ssrl/ A very useful collection of digitalized Syriac texts, including the standard editions of Saints’ lives.
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library http://www.hmml.org/ An enormous collection of digital images of manuscripts in Syriac and other oriental Christian languages from throughout the Middle East and Ethiopia. Search using OLIVER.
- The Syriac Gazetteer http://syriaca.org/geo/index.html . Index of 2000+ places related to Syriac texts. Uneven quality, but still useful. Most churches and monasteries are eccentrically listed under ‘Mar’ (saint).
The Egyptian World
- APIS – Advanced Papyrological Information System now available on Papyri.info:http://papyri.info which aggregates material not only from APIS, but from the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), the Bibliographie Papyrologique (BP), and soon the Arabic Papyrological Database (APD) as well. It collaborates closely with Trismegistos and allows not only searches for any aspect or part of a published text, but enables the entering of new text editions and corrections to existing texts.
- A checklist of all Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic documentary texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets published in monographic volumes, it offers a standard list of abbreviations for these text editions and decodes them: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/texts/clist.html
- Coptica (by Pierre Chérix, Université de Genève) offers a collection of literary and documentary published works freely accessible: http://www.coptica.ch/
- Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari (CMCL) is a growing collection of the literary production up to the 12th century preserved in Coptic. The material gathered is conveniently organized by author or subject title though not freely accessible: http://cmcl.aai.uni-hamburg.de/
- Corsair is The Online Catalog of the Pierpont Morgan Library which allows to browse and search for selected images of their Coptic Manuscripts:http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/
- The Duke Papyrus Archive offers texts and images of their papyri presenting them according to subject: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/texts/homepage.html
- Among many other interesting texts one can find an image of the 4th century Coptic Martyrdom of Stephanos: http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/records/438.html
- Trismegistos is a fully searchable portal for all papyrological and epigraphical data from Egypt (about 800 BC to AD 800). Particularly useful is the search function for names and places: http://www.trismegistos.org/
- What’s New in Papyrology is a site announcing new publications, as well as upcoming scholarly conferences, events and seminars: http://www.papyrology.blogspot.co.uk/
Georgia
- For brief summary lives in English of practically all Georgian saints: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/7213.htm
- For many Georgian texts: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm . Go to ‘INDEX’, and click ‘Text Database’; the Georgian texts appear as no.15.
Armenia
- For many Armenian texts: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm . Go to ‘INDEX’, and click ‘Text Database’; the Armenian texts appear as no.6.
- For text and translation of many Armenian texts, see also: http://rbedrosian.com/grabar_hist.html
The Latin West
- Patrologia Latina: http://latina.patristica.net/ (scans only)
- Europeana Eagle Project http://www.eagle-network.eu/collections/ (portal to several databases of Latin inscriptions)
- Acta Sanctorum : http://www.patristique.org/Acta-sanctorum.html (scans only)
- Bibliotheca Augustana https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html#la (a number of Latin texts in good edition)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Early Church Fathers): http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html (English translations of major literary texts)
- Library of Latin Texts (Brepols): http://www.brepolis.net/ (searchable database of ancient and medieval Latin literature, only for subscribers)
- Monumenta germaniae Historia: (Brepols): http://www.brepolis.net/(as above)
- Acta Sanctorum (Chadwyck): http://acta.chadwyck.co.uk/(as above)
- Thomas Head’s website: http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/hagiography/hagindex.html (a number of links to internet resources in late antique and medieval, mostly Latin, hagiography)