April 2012. The following Lullian manuscripts have been added from the Barcelona, BC, s. n.; Firenze, BML, Ashburnham 893, 907, 1246; the following pseudo-Lullian alchemical manuscripts have been added from the Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Fol. Cod. 501; Firenze, BNC, Magl. XVI.25, XVI.40, XVI.46
March 2012. One manuscript with authentic Lullian works has been added, Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, B 121, in addition to the following Pseudo-Lullian alchemical manuscripts: Boston, Medical Library, 18; Brussel·les, Bibliothèque Royale, 3751; Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, 201 i 202; Caen, Bibliothèque Municipale, 143; Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 99, 112, 395, 396; Cambridge, Trinity, O.3.27, O.8.14, O.8.28, O.8.32; Canterbury, Christ Church, 50; Darmstadt, Hessische Landesbibliothek, 4225; Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, N 101, N 177; Edinburgh, University Library, 131; Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, 871, 1158.
February 2012. The following pseudo-Lullian alchemical manuscripts have been added from the Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria: 523 (927), 524 (928), 1353 (2591); Bordeaux, Bibliothèque Municipale, 530, 530, 532.
April 2011. Nine new manuscripts hava been posted from the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica of The Hague, the majority containing pseudo-Lullian alchemical works. The most notable exception is a manuscript of the 15th century with three authentic works.
March 2011. Forty new manuscripts have been posted and described from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Science, all with pseudo-Lullian alchemical works. These have been added to the two previously posted manuscripts containing authentic Lullian works (núms. 441 i 442).
January 2011. Within the section of Catalogues, we have carried out the task of identifying the manuscripts and printed editions present in the Inventories. The result can be seen, for example, in the catalogue of Rafael Barceló. Clicking on one of the manuscripts or editions cited in this inventory will show the result, displayed in accordance with our indications for October 2010 (see below).
October 2010. In the pages of descriptions of manuscripts or in those with bibliography of editions, there is a new area which shows the presence of that manuscript or edition in the inventory of some library prior to the mid 19th century. See examples for a manuscript or for an edition.
June 2010. The catalogue of San Isidoro 2º has been entered, and the catalogues entered in the month of March have been revised using photographs of the originals.
February 2010. The catalogues of the Electorium, Bouvelles, and Gonon have been revised. The catalogue of Sbaralea has been divided in two, Sbaralea 1º and Sbaralea 2º, while the descriptions and entries have been revised.
July 2009: The list of Lullists can be ordered by first name, last name, date or categories. In the same section, under Advanced Search, the user can also do one combining name, date and category.
April 2009: As the result of a trip to Madrid we have been able to complete or correct descriptions of the following manuscripts of: Biblioteca Nacional de España 5734; Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense, Biblioteca Histórica 107; Biblioteca del Palacio Real II-2462; Real Academia de la Historia 9-2163, 9-2167; Biblioteca del Real Monasterio de El Escorial d.III.23, &.II.15, x.III.3.
December 2007. Links to digital reproductions of the Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimoni Bibliogràfic been added to most of the manuscripts and older printed editions of the Biblioteca Pública of Palma de Malorca, permitting the user to consult color images not only of entire manuscripts, but also of works such as the Mainz edition of 1721-42 and the Zetzner edition of 1609.
June 2007: We have introduced into the section of Lullists all proper names appearing in the descriptions of manuscripts found in the libraries of: Andorra la Vella, Arras, Augsburg, Barcelona, Bari, Bergamo, Berlin, Bern, Bernkastel-Kues, Bethlehem (USA), Bologna, Bourges, Brussels, Cagliari, Camaldoli, Cambridge (GB), Cambridge (USA), Carpentras, Cincinnati, Clermont-Ferrand, Colmar, Cologny-Geneva, Cologne, Copenhagen, Cortona, Cracow, Dún Mhuire-Killiney.
April 2007: Descriptions of manuscripts with alchemical works based on documentation of prof. Michela Pereira have been recentlhy edited in Llull DB. They are Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Ashburnham 190, 191, 1448; Gaddi 174. Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale: Magliabechiano II.iii.27, II.iii.28, XV.3, XV.22, XVI.43, XVI.45, XVI.47, XVI.49, XVI.50, XVI.53, XVI.58, XVI.59, XVI.60, XVI.62, XVI.133; Raccolta Palatina 792
December 2006: The inventory of the Lullian books belonging to Juan de Herrera has been entered in the Llull DB.
December 2006: We have begun to enter in the Llull DB descriptions of manuscripts containing alchemical works taken from the archive of prof. Michela Pereira. See Biblioteca de Catalunya ms.1727, Biblioteca Universitaria of Bologna, mss. 12.1.9, 138, 142,164, 168, 270.
November 2006: a new section, on the development of which we have been working in past months, has now been added to the database. Under the heading of Lullists, we offer biobibliographical information about people related in one way or another with Ramon Llull or with the history of Lullism: authors, copyists, owners of manuscripts, editors, etc. At the moment of its publication this section contains 287 names.
August 2006: In the Bibliographical section of the Llull DB one can now consult a list of all known incunables of works by Ramon Llull and other Lullists of the time.
July 2006: One can now consult the newly revised and expanded, multilingual version of the web Who is Ramon Llull?.
November 2005: Our Llull database now has more than 5000 bibliographical
entries. Of these almost 900 are prior to 1985 but unrecorded in the classic
bibliographies of Rogent i Duràn, Brummer and Salleras (see the complete chronological list of same). It has also catalogued more than 1000 manuscripts, of which almost half have now been digitalized, principally by the Raimundus-Lullus-Institut of Freiburg.
June 2005. Descriptions of the following manuscripts of Palma de Mallorca have been added: 102-V3-1 from the Biblioteca March, 11 from Sant Francesc, 5 from the library of the Marquès de Vivot, SL 3 from the Biblioteca Diocesana, and 995, 1002, 1005, 1006, 1009, 1012, 1019, 1062, 1071, 1103 from the Biblioteca Pública.
April 2005: As the result of a trip to Milan and Bergamo we have been able to complete or correct descriptions of the following manuscripts of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana: A 206 Suss, I 121 Inf, O 87 Sup, Y 21 Sup; of the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense of Milan: AD XV 17/2, AH X 47; and of the Civica Biblioteca Angelo Mai of Bergamo: MA 263, MA 365.
March 2005: In the section of Works we have begun developing a catalogue of Lullistic works which eventually will contain the works of all authors, known or anonymous, who have had any direct relation with the history of Lullism.
February 2005: The page of Works offers a Brief catalogue of the authentics works of Ramon Llull which permits a rapid overview of his works. For each title we give the date and place of composition (insofar as they are known), the versions in which they have been transmitted, the number of manuscripts and editions in which they have appeared, and their place in the two other catalogues most consulted by scholars. From this list one can go directly to the page of complete information for each work.
December 2004: We have added to the database more than sixty manuscript or typewritten essays done by seminary students for the Certamen del Seminari Conciliar de Sant Pere between the years 1899 and 1968, and now consultable in the Biblioteca Diocesana of Palma. They can be found by writing the words "Seminari Conciliar" in bibliografia.
October 2004: The inventory of the library of Sant Francesc of Palma done by P. Rafael Barceló in 1715 has been revised. As far as has been possible, whatever manuscripts from that collection are still extant have been identified.
July 2004: As a result of a visit to Mainz, we have been able to complete the descriptions of the Lullian manuscripts held in the Martinus-Bibliothek and in the Stadtbibliothek of that city.
June 2004: We have introduced into the Llull DB an inventory of the collection of Llull manuscripts found in Mainz in 1718, intended for use in the edition Ivo Salzinger was preparing (SA-1). It is especially interesting for the section on books received from Barcelona.
May 2004: Among the routine tasks in the Llull DB never mentioned in this section of New Features is that of incorporating new titles of Lullian bibliography. Not only does this concern recent publications, but also earlier publications which had never been recorded in the classic bibliographies of Rogent i Duràn, Brummer and Salleras. The user can now consult a complete chronological list of these previously unrecorded titles (not all of them strictly Lullian) prior to 1985, with more than 800 items.
April 2004: The various portions of the Llibre d'Evast e Blaquerna (II.A.19) which have been transmitted independently in the manuscript tradition have been identified, and each given its own catalog number. The result has been a change from some of the previous catalog numbers, so that for instance Llibre d'amic e amat, has gone from II.A.19c to II.A.19e .
April 2004: Thanks to a suggestion of Stephen Tabor, Curator of Early Printed Books of the Huntington Library of San Marino, California, a consultation of the Illustrated Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC) developed since 1980 by the British Library, has allowed us to add three previously unknown early Lullian editions. They are an Ars brevis from Venice, ca. 1475, another Ars brevis from Lyon, ca. 1491-3, and an Arbor scientiae from Barcelona, 1489. The first two are apparently conserved in only one copy each, and the first is now the earliest known edition of Ramon Llull. The ISTC has also permitted us to join editions listed by Rogent & Duràn as separate. They are on the one hand the Ars generalis ultima and the Logica brevis of Venice, 1480 (RD 1 i 2), and on the other hand the two editions of the Liber de laudibus B. virginis Mariae, Paris, 1499 (RD 24 i 25). Finally it has allowed us to list the libraries where the rarest of these editions can be found.
At the same time, thanks to Hannah Bonner, and to Heather Smith, Reference Librarian of Oberlin College, Ohio, we have been able to add three publications from the end of the 19th century also previously unknown to Lullian bibliography. They are Maclear, Apostles of Mediaeval Europe (1869); Walsh, Heroes of the mission field (1879); and Smith, Twelve pioneer missionaries (1900). Each devotes an entire chapter to Llull, interesting for their view of Llull during a time of maximum missionary activity in the Anglo-Saxon world.
March 2004: The Llull DB now offers the text of the critical edition of the Doctrina pueril edited by Joan Santanach and soon to be published in NEORL VII.
January 2004: The page of Presentation of the Llull DB has been brought up to date, and now includes all the possible ways in which the different parts of the database can be consulted.
October 2003: From the home page of the Catalan version of the Llull DB, one can gain access to an introductory account of the figures, works, and historical background of Ramon Llull in web format.
September 2003: All the records from the catalogue of apocryphal works up to and including FD II.113 have been revised. There also now exists the possibility of consulting consecutively (in ascending or descending order) all the records of the catalog of works.
August 2003: As of now one can find a work not only on the basis of a word or words from the title, but also of any word or words from the invocation, incipit, explicit or colophon of a work. The search engine which permits one to do this is in the first field of the section Works of Ramon Llull.
July 2003: The pages of the bibliographical section have incorporated a search engine which permits the user to find a work in the Collective Catalogue of the Universities of Catalunya, in the catalogue of the the University of the Balearic Islands with other libraries connected to its network, or in that of the library of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität of Freiburg (i.Br.).
June 2003: With the following link one can consult the complete list of digitalized texts accessible through the Llull DB. It offers reliable texts, edicions of special interest, or simply Lullian bibliography.
March 2003: New details on manuscripts and editions of the French, English and Scots versions of the Llibre de l'orde de cavalleria.
February 2003: Substantial improvements have been made in the section on Catalogues and Inventories. In the first place, the descriptions and bibliographies of the majority of lists has been completed. Secondly, a distinction has been made between 'catalogue' and 'inventory', with the possibility of consulting these lists separately or together. Thirdly, within each list the user can consult the works in the order in which they appear in the original document, or ordered according to Bonner's catalogue, which is the one used by the Llull DB.
January 2003: Within the section of Bibliography, the user can find all the Lullian bibliography which has appeared in the journal EL/SL from volume 26 (1986) up to the last volumes in preparation. In these last references one can find the latest bibliographical information on Ramon Llull and Lullism. We would be grateful for any information on new publications.
December 2002: The development in extenso of the bibliographical references which appear under the headings of Works and Manuscripts, as well as in other areas of the Llull DB, has been carried out in the form of links.
November 2002: The listing of the manuscripts of Tabula generalis (III.11) has been completed thanks to the collaboration of Viola Tenge-Wolf of the Raimundus-Lullus-Institut of Freiburg i. Br.
October 2002: New details on the pseudo-Lullian work Expositio amici et amati (FD II.318), with information about different versions and the manuscripts in which they are found.
August 2002. Our search engine has been modified so that the varying forms of a name (Joaquim/Joaquín Carreras i/y Artau, Eusebi/Eusebio/E. Colomer/Colomer i Pous) can now be consulted under any one of these forms.
July 2002. Links were begun to be added to the approximately 350 manuscripts digitalized, principally by the Raimundus-Lullus-Institut of Freiburg. Thus, if the user, for example, consults Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 10528, under the heading of "Reproductions" he will find a little window on which he can click to go directly to the images of the manuscript. We have also begun to do the same thing with some printed editions (as, for example, the Blanquerna of 1521, digitalized by the Biblioteca Virtual Joan Lluís Vives).
June 2002. Changes have been introduced in the order of works from the first cycle of the quaternary phase of Llull's production, that is, works whose catalogue numbers begin with II.A, in accordance with the new chronology established by Joan Santanach in SL 40 (2000), pp. 23-46 . The possibility of finding the work under the old number, however, has been preserved. Thus, for example, if the user looks for II.A.4 hoping to consult the Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis, he will arrive at the Llibre de demostracions, preceded by a note saying "II.A.4 had formerly been: II.A.9 - Gentil", giving the user the possibility of clicking on this last title and going to the desired work.
May 2002. In the section "Llull at the University of Barcelona", "Obres i estudis", a few digitalized editions of works of Ramon Llull can be consulted. They are the not yet definitive versions of works already published or about to be published.