Tips for Searching
AND, OR, NOT (Keyword Boolean)
- Use AND, OR, NOT to combine search terms
- Use quotation marks to indicate phrases: "Divina Commedia"
- Use opening and closing parentheses to group search terms
- Use ? or * to truncate: donna? or donna* (will find singular and plural forms). Note that the use of truncation symbols vary in each database or catalog.
- There is no need to write with diacritics (accents, tildes, etc.)
Examples:
Celestina AND (tema? OR critica?)
Fernando de Rojas AND “Celestina”
“Teatro” AND "comedia" AND Spain
"social aspects" AND “Spanish literature”
Spanish AND "clitic placement"
Databases
- Archivo de Filología Española 1998-2007A selection of historical grammatical treatises that includes, among others, Nebrija's "Gramática de la lengua española" and Villena's "El arte de trovar".
- Archivo del Romancero Menéndez PidalThis website offers background information about romances as collected by Menéndez Pidal. There is also an archive of romanceros that are available to review and study.
- Biblioteca Digital Hispanica (BNE)The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica offers a collection of electronic sources ranging from art, astronomy, biology, botany, civil war propaganda, culture, literature, etc.
- Biblioteca Gonzalo de BerceoAn website dedicated to the complete works of Gonzalo de Berceo.
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de CervantesThe Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes offers a wide variety of electronic Spanish texts, which you can search for by title or author (the website is a little challenging to navigate).
Of particular interest will be:
- Cantar de Mio Cid: Dedicated specifically to the study of the epic poem, this page offers information on various manuscripts, and studies on the text. There are also links to other useful databases as well as images.
- La Celestina: This website features information about Fernando de Rojas as well as the presentation, context and influence of La Celestina.
- Cantar de Mio CidListen to this work read in Spanish while reading it in paleographic or normative transcription or English translation. NOTE: Requires specific browser/software specifications.
- CERL Portal : Manuscripts and Early Printed MaterialThe CERL Portal gives access to descriptions of manuscripts of all periods and early printed materials (up to 1830) in collections in Europe, the United States and Australia. The Portal searches these collections simultaneously and offers the search results grouped by library. The full display will offer you the most important details, but not the entire record. For the full records, please follow the link to the original database provided in each record. There you can make use of the more extensive search possibilities offered by the source database, which in many cases will include access to digitized images. The CERL Portal is an initiative of the Consortium of European Research Libraries.
- Corpus Biblia MedievalThe Corpus Biblia Medieval is an electronic source that allows you to access various versions of conserved medieval bibles as well as study facsimiles of the original texts.
- Corpus bibliográfico del Mester de Clerecía: Obras de Nueva ClerecíaA PDF bibliography for the Mester de Clérecía literary genre.
- Corpus of Hispanic Chivalric RomancesA website that contains a corpus of chivalric and chivalric-realted works.
- Digital Library of Old Spanish TextsThe Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies presents this online library of early Spanish texts. A full user guide is available on the website.
- Digital ScriptorumThe Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
- Europeana CollectionsEuropeana.eu is a digital library containing 4 million items, including images, texts, audio and video, from European museums, galleries, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
- Hispanic Seminary of Medieval StudiesCreated by Profs. Kasten and Nitti of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 70's, this data bank is part of a project to utilize digitized formats of medieval texts to contribute to the compilation of dictionaries. The site is now working to offer their textual archives in an on-line format while still preserving its original structure. Some available texts are: prose works of Alfonso X el sabio, Spanish medical texts, Navarro-Aragonese texts, Spanish legal texts, Spanish biblical texts, Spanish poetic texts, and early Celestina texts
- A page of interest from the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies is the one dedicated to La Celestina.
- La Celestina, de Fernando de Rojas: Bibliographía y EnlacesDetailed bibliography of La Celestina, as well as a list of recommended editions and the main themes present in the work.
- LIBRO ( American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain)A collection of full-text, out-of-print university press monographs. The collection focuses upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries.
- Libro de buen amor: Bibliografía y enlacesA bibliography of the Libro de Buen Amor, encompassing books as well as journal articles and conference proceedings.
- PhilobiblonA free internet-based bio-bibliographical database of texts written in the various Romance vernaculars of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
- TeXTReDA database that provides access to the Léxico hispanoamericano, Corpus of Hispanic Chivalric Romances, The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, the Hispanic Society of America, and Parnaseo. It also has a link to early editions of La Celestina.
- World Digital LibraryUNESCO's World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
- PARNASEOA database that contains links to various sites with online editions of medieval Spanish texts.
- Of particular interest will be: