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Welcome to Philologic. Here are some tips to make your search more productive:

• For pattern matching one may employ wildcard characters (e.g., widow* retrieves widow, widowe, widowhood, etc.).
• To search without considering diacritics turn on "Caps Lock" and type in all uppercase (e.g., NAIVETE finds both naivete and naïveté).
• Selecting similar word search applies to all words in the database.

For more help on the searchable fields. View the Manual

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Sort by bibiliographic information, order by: Author, Title Author, Year of Publication Title, Author Year of Publication, Author

Bibiliographic Search Fields

Find documents or limit word searches (use AND, OR, and NOT).

To see available terms click on the "Terms" button beside the field
Themes:

(e.g. 'Political Development, Campaign of 1858 ')

Genre:

(e.g. 'song')

Publisher:

(e.g. 'Philadelphia: Fisher and Brothers')

Format:

(e.g. 'newspaper')

Gender:

(e.g. 'm')

Source:

(e.g. 'Public Domain')

Type:

(e.g. 'text', 'image', 'sound')

One may also use the bibliographic fields on their own to find documents and sort the results.
Sort bibliographic searches only by: Author, Title Author, Year of Publication Title, Author Year of Publication, Author

Text Object Search Fields

Find documents or limit word searches (use OR only).

Div Objects
Head:

(e.g. 'An Odalisque from the Seraglio.')

SubDiv Objects:
Tag:

(e.g. 'notetext')

N:

(e.g. '256')