Saturday, February 14, 2009

An Index to Athenae Oxonienses

While working on improvements to the Episcopacy post, I ran into trouble finding some information in Anthony a Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, which is one of the earliest biographical and bibliographical dictionaries. The most common modern edition, published by Philip Bliss in the early 19th century, is a great improvement over previous editions, but is still poorly organized and difficult to use. The index of all four volumes is stuck in the middle of Volume 4.
So I decided to create an online index. You can find it here.
The links in the index won't work in this copy. The only copies of the volumes available on the network are too big -- they take minutes to transfer even over a fast link. To get good use out of the index, you need to create a local setup. Find instructions for doing so in README.WoodIndex.
Now I can get back to making some better annotations for the previous post, and eventually get us back on track around page 26.

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