Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina

The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, usually abbreviated BHL, a document created by the Bollandists resource that about the different versions, the manuscript tradition and the editions of saints' lives and other hagiographical texts ( Passio, Translatio ) is taught in Latin. For the Latin area, there are, since 1999, an online accessible database, the queries for the name of the saint, according to the number of the entry in the BHL and after the incipit (test phase) allows. It also provides information about the manuscript tradition can be retrieved.

The repertory is an essential supplement to the Acta Sanctorum. In the scientific literature is the reference to the BHL standard, comparable to the references to Regestensammlungen as the Regesta Imperii.

Printouts

• Bibliotheca Hagiographica latina Antiquae et mediae Aetatis ( = Subsidia Hagiographica, 6). 1898-1901 ( reprint 1992), XXXV -1304 p
• Bibliotheca Hagiographica latina Antiquae et mediae Aetatis. Novum Supplementum. Edidit H. Fros ( = Subsidia Hagiographica, 70). 1986, 961 pp.
• H. Fros, Inédits non recensés dans la BHL. Special issue of Analecta Bollandiana, 102, 1984, pp. 163-196, 355-380.