The Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) is a resource for all ancient written literary manuscripts, from 500 BC to AD 800. It currently lists more than 16.000 Greek,

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

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, Syriac and Demotic literary texts. It is said that it "attempts to collect the basic information on all ancient literary texts". It includes authors from

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

to Gregory the Great and more than 3.600 texts of unidentified authors.Leuven Database of Ancient Books
Trismegistos It was founded in 1998 at the KU Leuven by Willy Clarysse.

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