Romance — The Romanist
The Romanist — the Latin-to-vernacular continuum, charter Latin to Roland to the troubadours.
The Latin-to-vernacular continuum: CroALa’s medieval and neo-Latin opens the desk; late-antique prose, the MGH critical editions, and the Old French treebanks and texts join as their shelves land.
The continuum is on the shelves end to end: digilibLT’s late-antique
secular prose (2nd–7th c.), CroALa’s Croatian Latin (a 976 CE charter
through the neo-Latin centuries, dual-tagged with classical), the
openMGH critical editions (the SS rerum Germanicarum first wave —
Einhard, Widukind, Adam of Bremen), BFM’s Old and Middle French from
the 842 Serments de Strasbourg onward, and the UD Romance treebanks
(Tuscan charters, Dante’s Latin, Old French, Old Romanian) carrying the
gold annotation — four gold-lemma languages: fro, frm, ro, ota.
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The shelves
A source wears every desk it serves — these 35 answer this desk. Holdings are read live from the catalog and dated; a shelf with nothing synced yet says so.
| Source | Holds | License | Status | Holdings (as of 7 November 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
analecta-hymnica |
texts | open | wired · manual | 55 docs / 17,211 passages |
aranese |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 2 docs / 839,816 passages |
bdcamoes |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 127 docs / 69,812 passages |
bfm |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 219 docs / 333,819 passages |
bim-sahcoba |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 15 docs / 19,361 passages |
cantigas |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1,682 docs / 34,162 passages |
cantus |
texts | nc | wired · manual | 156,519 docs / 156,519 passages |
corpus-corporum |
texts | nc | wired · manual | 5,248 docs / 896,770 passages |
croala |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 570 docs / 309,180 passages |
ctilc |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 967 docs / 256,685 passages |
cv-sardinian |
texts | open | wired · manual | 1 docs / 5,237 passages |
derom |
dictionary | nc | wired · manual | 233 entries |
digiliblt |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 372 docs / 459,451 passages |
disco |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1,215 docs / 4,527 passages |
divinum-officium |
texts | open | wired · manual | 4,003 docs / 26,381 passages |
gregobase |
texts | open | wired · manual | 18,422 docs / 20,810 passages |
littre |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 78,483 entries |
lo-congres |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 12 docs / 10,304 passages |
mazarinades |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 3,067 docs / 40,883 passages |
meloniromance |
cognacy dataset | attribution | wired · manual | 5,419 entries |
memis |
inscriptions | attribution | wired · manual | 51 docs / 473 passages |
noscemus |
texts | attribution | wired · frozen | 1,038 docs / 555,797 passages |
openmgh |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 153 docs / 36,143 passages |
osta |
texts | nc | wired · manual | 740 docs / 5,177 passages |
salom |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1 docs / 10,685 passages |
socinian-letters |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1,869 docs / 18,067 passages |
theatre-classique |
texts | nc | wired · manual | 1,939 docs / 1,601,085 passages |
typikon-bible |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 229 docs / 105,698 passages |
ud |
treebank | nc | wired · manual | 83 docs / 329,980 passages |
wiktionary-ca |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 198,685 entries |
wiktionary-frm |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 4,956 entries |
wiktionary-fro |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 9,280 entries |
wiktionary-oc |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 7,521 entries |
wiktionary-osp |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 1,501 entries |
wiktionary-pro |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 695 entries |
Languages on this desk (live doc-or-entry counts as of 7 November 2026): cat 199,652 · lat 192,472 · fra 83,680 · fro 9,502 · oci 7,530 · frm 4,959 · osp 2,185 · roa-opt 1,682 · spa 1,217 · eng 722 … and 24 more (nabu axis romance lists all).
Carried in by multilingual packs (ud — whole-source members whose other languages ride along, as of 7 November 2026): orv 9 · ota 5 · lzh 4 · cop 3 · egy 3 … and 15 more (nabu axis romance lists all).
The desk’s instruments
No desk-specific instruments curated yet — the generic surfaces above apply.
Working the romance desk
The generic desk surfaces — every desk answers to these, in working order (enable once, sync, then query):
nabu enable romance # first time: put this desk's shelves in this box's profile
nabu sync romance # fetch/refresh the desk's enabled members
nabu list --axis romance # the shelf census, this desk only
nabu axis romance # the desk card: members, holdings, gold coverage
nabu search WORD --axis romance # a query scoped to this desk's shelves
This desk’s own surfaces:
nabu search chevalier --lang fro # Old French across BFM — Erec's chevalier at the head of the hits
nabu search ragusa --source croala # Filelfo's 1470 Ragusaeis and Palmotić's carmina — Dubrovnik in Latin verse
nabu search --lemma miles --lang lat --axis romance # lemma search on the desk's Latin — digilibLT answers at an honest [silver] tag; --gold-only narrows to the treebanks
Ask your model
With the MCP server connected, this desk answers conversational research questions. Each example ran live against this library:
- “Who sang of Ragusa in Latin?” →
nabu_search ragusa (lang: lat)— Croatian Latin verse from the CroALa shelf (live-verified 2026-07-25): Filelfo’s 1470 Ragusaeis (AFFECTUS RAGVSA TVAE CLARISSIMA LAVDI) and Palmotić’s carmina — the medieval-Latin edge of the continuum, positionally cited (d1.d2.l198) for nabu_show.
One of the 30 research desks; the flat shelf map is The Library and the reasoning is docs/axes.md.