Collection Contents Period andlanguage Access and where to findit Best use Philokalia Anthology of Greek monastic and hesychast spiritual texts, first printed in 1782. Fourth to fifteenth centuries, Greek and later translations Many editions and translations, both print and digital. Relevant for spiritual interpretation and biblical reception, but it should be kept distinct from verse-indexed commentary corpora. Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi Directory of all Latin Bible commentaries written up to 1500, digitized and searchable online; around 12,000 numbers and almost 24,000 commentaries. Medieval Latin Free online through Trier . The indispensable medieval counterpart to patristic verse indexes and claves. How to find material for a verse A workable verse-search procedure has to begin by fixing the textual form of the verse. Patristic and medieval authors do not all cite the same Bible text: they may reflect the Vulgate, an Old Latin form, the Septuagint, a Greek New Testament form, or a later liturgical or catena tradition. BiblIndex and the Vetus Latina Database are strong when the entry point is a verse number , while TLG and LLT become decisive when the entry point is the wording itself. Normalize the verse in more than one textual form. Write down the reference in standard chapter and verse form, then note the likely Vulgate wording, the likely Greek wording if relevant, and any major textual variants or shorter phrases that are distinctive enough to search. This matters especially in Psalms, the Septuagintal books, and verses often quoted in Old Latin form. Start with a verse index, not with Migne. Search BiblIndex first. Its function is precisely to move from biblical reference to patristic references, and it inherits the massive Biblia Patristica dataset. It is the best free answer to the question, “Who cites this verse at all?” rather than, “Where does this author say something about it?” If the verse is Latin, check whether the wording is Old Latin or Vulgate. If the citation looks pre-Vulgate or diverges from Jerome, go to the Vetus Latina Database, which is 32 11 33 1. 34 2. 35 3. 8