Welcome to the online Arabic and Latin Corpus
The Arabic and Latin Corpus is a digital collection of Arabic-Latin translations of the 10th to 14th centuries AD.
The Corpus has a double aim: to improve our understanding of the Arabic influence in Europe, especially by compiling a comprehensive database of texts, translators and authors, and to provide citable digital editions of as many of these texts as possible, either from modern editions or from important textual witnesses.
At the moment, the Corpus consists of 209 digital texts. For a digital dictionary of the vocabulary of the Arabic–Latin translations of the Middle Ages see the Arabic and Latin Glossary.
The corpus is published on this website at irregular intervals. Archived snapshots of the XML files on which the latest releases are based can be found in a citable format on Zenodo.
You can find the release history and the changelog in the News section.
2026-06-30 – Release 0.4.0
- Website
- Changelog added to the website
- From now on, releases will also be published and archived on Zenodo
- Texts added
- Aristotle: Book of Animals II: Parts of Animals – Latin (Aris_Anim2_la)
- Aristotle: Metaphysics fragm. – Latin (Aris_MetAlpha_la)
- Aristotle: Meteorology 1–3 – Arabic (Aris_Meteora_ar)
- Aristotle: Meteorology 1–3 – Latin (Aris_Meteora_la)
- Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh Ibn Rušd (Averroes junior): On the Active Intellect – Arabic (AverIunior_Int_ar)
- Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh Ibn Rušd (Averroes junior): On the Active Intellect – Latin (AverIunior_Int_la)
- Ibn Rušd (Averroes): Long Commentary on De anima – Latin (Aver_LCAn_la)
- Galen: Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms – Latin (Galen_CoHippAph_la)
- Text files renamed (URL changed)
- anonymous (Ps.-Aristotle): Discourse on the Pure Good – Arabic (ProclArab_Causis_ar → Ps-Aris_Caus_ar)
- anonymous (Ps.-Aristotle): Discourse on the Pure Good – Latin (ProclArab_Causis_la → Ps-Aris_Caus_la)