Unique features of the CAG-online

• The base texts of the CAG-online have been assembled from the best available printed editions – critical ones where possible. Their misprints have, for the most part, been corrected. The recently discovered Sermones Dolbeau and Sermones Erfurt have been incorporated as well as the letters, edited within the Augustinian corpus, but not written by Augustine himself.
• Part of the CAG-online is, furthermore, a detailed and complete list of Augustine’s works, regarded as decisive for Augustinian research, including authentic titles, abbreviations and recent editions as well as ancillary information about Augustine’s Epistulae and Enarrationes in Psalmos.
• Every word form occurring in a text is lemmatised, i.e. it is categorized under its grammatical base form and will be found by a search request for this form. All Augustinian quotations, taken from the Bible, ancient literature or his own works, are designated as such in categories, and their sources are duly recorded; quotations from Greek appear in Greek letters.
• The retrieval software providing numerous possibilities of enquiry and indices was developed by the Competence Centre for Electronic Text Publishing at Trier University. The intuitive user guidance with extensive help functions is currently available in a German and an English version; other languages are being prepared.
• Furhermore, the CAG-online provides comfortable access to a data base of Augustinian primary and secondary literature, currently comprehending almost 38,000 bibliographical data records, developed with regard to content.
• Maintenance, updating and continuous improvement of the data stock are to be ensured by the Zentrum für Augustinus-Forschung at Würzburg University (ZAF). For CAG-online subscribers the relevant updates are available at zero extra cost.