DELM is a network of researchers and research projects working on databases of early Latin manuscripts that aims to facilitate co-ordination, collaboration, and data exchange.

The network was founded in early 2024, following a meeting of manuscript researchers in Dublin in May 2023. Its co-ordinators are Immo Warntjes (e-mail) and Pádraic Moran (e-mail).

Mailing list

Join our mailing list for general discussion and for information about future meetings.

Instructions: send a blank e-mail to delm+subscribe@googlegroups.com. When you receive a response, just reply to confirm. (Clicking the link does not always seem to work. If you don't see a response, check your Spam folder. If you have further problems, contact Pádraic Moran above.)

Meetings

We aim to meet once or twice yearly (in person and/or online) to discuss research issues of common interest.

Everyone is welcome to participate. Details will be circulated via our mailing list (see above).

Resources

R. M. Pollard & J.-F. Aubé-Pronce, 'Converting Bischoff Dating Clauses: A Proposed Set of Rules' (PDF document, 12 May 2025)

For digital resources, see our GitHub site: https://github.com/DELM-net

Some relevant projects

• Bibliotheca Legum: A Database on Carolingian Secular Law Texts
• Biblissima+ (Observatory of Written Cultures, from Clay to Print)
• Clavis canonum – Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
• Computus in the Carolingian Age
• Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine
• Digital Latin Library
• Earlier Latin Manuscripts
• e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
• Fragmentarium: Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments
• Innovating Knowledge: Isidore’s Etymologiae in the Carolingian Period
• IrCaBriTT: Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission
• Jordanus: An International Catalogue of Medieval Scientific Manuscripts
• Marginal Scholarship: The Practice of Learning in the Early Middle Ages (c. 800–c. 1000)
• Minuscule Texts: Marginalized Voices in Early Medieval Latin Culture c. 700–c. 1000
• MIrA: Manuscripts with Irish Associations
• PASSIM: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages
• PeopleAndWriting: People, Script and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula (c. 900-1200)
• Renewing the Carolingian Renaissance (750–900)
• Searobend (Linked Metadata for English-Language Texts 1000–1300)

If you have a database of Latin manuscripts (ideally online), contact either or both of our co-ordinators above to include your project in the list above.