Thorndike and Kibre online: eTK and eVK2 (Voigts-Kurtz)

Three searchable databases for primary and secondary sources relating to the study of medieval science and medicine.

The first, eTK, is a digital resource based on the print edition of Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge UP, 1963) and its supplements; the second, eVK2 (last update: 2014), is the result of Linda Ehrsam Voigts’ and Patricia Deery Kurtz’s Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: an Electronic Reference (U of Michigan, 2000), originally published as a CD-ROM, and later revised and supplemented; the third, eVK2 bibliography, is a searchable bibliography of secondary literature related to the Voigts-Kurtz database.

Also included is a searchable name list of variant spellings of authors’ names.

Dates: 500 – 1500.

Subject: Cosmology, Science.

Geopolitical Region: Europe Original Language: Latin

Link: http://cctr1.umkc.edu/cgi-bin/medievalacademy