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8. Selected Sitography
8.1 Digital archives and online libraries
Academic libraries and repertoires
Free digital library with access to ancient texts, liturgical manuals, hagiographic treatises and historical guides. Very useful for consulting ancient versions of the Liber de apparitione sancti Michaelis and other Michaelic documents.
2. Gallica - Bibliothèque nationale de France
Extensive digital collection with medieval French manuscripts, including codices related to Mont-Saint-Michel.
3. Italian Digital Library (BDI)
National portal for the digitisation of the Italian bibliographic heritage. Search by author, place, subject.
Digital library and museum of Europe. Presents iconographic sources, texts, miniatures related to the Archangel Michael and European shrines.
Religious and liturgical archives
1. Vatican Apostolic Library - Digital Vatican Library
Liturgical manuscripts and codices, breviaries and ancient micaelic texts. Useful research for scholars and liturgists.
2. Pontifical Gregorian University - Library
Online catalogue for theological and hagiographic texts, some of which can be downloaded in PDF format.
Free access to the Liturgy of the Hours (breviary), useful for finding prayers dedicated to the archangel saints.
Historical sources and manuscripts
1. Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
Collection of medieval sources in Latin. Search by keywords: Michael, monasterium, peregrinatio, etc.
Ancient and medieval Latin texts, useful for literary comparisons on the subject of the Archangel.
3. Mirabile - Digital Archive of Medieval Culture Texts
Paid platform, but accessible from many university libraries. Contains medieval hagiographies, sermons, chronicles and encyclopaedias.
Italian library and university networks
1. OPAC SBN - Collective catalogue of Italian libraries
Search by author, title, subject. Report physical presence of the text in the library or digital availability.
2. AlmaRE - Open Access Archive of Italian Universities
Theses and research publications freely accessible.