I’m not sure where I came across this, but for those who do not have access to Migne’s Patrologia Latina or Patrologia Graeca, it seems that many of the volumes can actually be located by using the Google ‘book search’. The instructions I printed from the Internet are as follows:
‘To locate volumes of the Patrologia Graeca on Google Books, use the search “cursus completus series” (without the quotes). To get volumes of the Patrologia Latina as well, leave out the term “series”. NB: It is important to sepcify “full view”, otherwise nothing much comes back….
‘I find that the online displayed copies often seem to be missing pages; but the PDF available for download for them all does not.’
Hi!
I hope you will not mind receiving a question from Australia!
I was VERY interested to read the above message on your blog regarding Patrologia Latina/Graeca.
Do you think you could maybe give me a little further guidance?
I can locate cursus completus OK on the Google Book Search.
But is it also possible, using Google Book Search, to bring up specific volumes of the Patrologia(s)?
For example, I’d like to locate this passage in Ambrosiaster (or do we call him Ambrose), quoted by Richard Simon in Hist. critique du texte du Nouveau Testament (1689):
“Quem locum ita expresse Ariani testificamini esse de Spiritu…
sed fidem nonpotuistis auferre”
Ambrosiaster is in PL volumes 14 to 17.
Is there any way to “bring up” those volumes of PL on my computer screen?
Thank you in anticipation, kind wishes from “duwn under”,
Andrew
You might also be interested in the Patrologia Cursus Completus, Series Graeca newly available from Logos in electronic format.
http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/4345
Thanks!
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