Title: Humanist Greek texts from Estonia and Latvia
Author: Janika Päll
Institution: Tartu University, Tartu University Library; Institute of Foreign languages and cultures;
The Excel file provides information gathered during Swedish Research Council Project number 2016-01881 (PI Johanna Akujärvi, Lund, 1.01.2017?31.12.2022) http://projekt.ht.lu.se/helleno-nordica/, subproject MP1RT17012 "Helleno-Nordica: humanistide kreeka keel Rootsi suurrriigis" (1.01.2017?31.12.2022, Janika Päll, Financer: Lund University) by Janika Päll (Tartu University, Tartu University Library; Institute of Foreign languages and cultures). Most of the data concerning Estonia were already gathered during Estonian Research Agency’s grant PUT 132 Humanist Greek in Early Modern Estonia and Livonia: a bridge to modern and ancient European culture (lead Janika Päll, Tartu UL, 1.1.2013-31.12.2016). The data were inserted by Janika Päll, partly also by Marilyn Fridolin. 
The columns include following information
A. Author of Humanist Greek text: normalized name as in national bibliographies or biographies, including dates of life (exact or with floruit, ante/post). Existing common name variants  are separated with “/”. For anonymuses, the year of occasion or print are given as floruit. 
B. Author as in the Humanist Greek text: full name as in the print/manuscript, including given titles. 
C. Role of the author: author, translator, in case of dissertations, combined with the roles of praeses or respondens. 
D. Other author: if the Humanist Greek text is a dissertation or translation, the normalized name of the respondent (resp) or the author of the source text (auth). 
E. Incipit: first line of the Humanist Greek text, as in print but with normalized orthography (spirituses, accents and final sigmas, capitalization), unless it is significant. Misspellings and typos are indicated with “[!]”.
F. Heading of the Humanist Greek text in normalized orthography 
G. Prosodic type: prose – poetry (type of verse form), from a list of prosodic types (drop-down list in the database). In Latin.
H. Length of text.  For poetry and shorter prose texts: verse count (if metrical), line count for prose. For longer texts: count in pages, adding reference ‘page(s)’. 
I. Formal patterns and devices from a list of figurative features (drop-down list in the database).
J. Genre of the Humanist Greek text: in Latin, from a list of genres (drop-down list in the database).  If more than one genre, separated with ‘/’.
K. Occasion: the occasion for the Humanist Greek text from expandable list of standard occasions, in English. If more than one occasion, separated with ‘/’.
L. Date of occasion: exact date, if available, in the format “Year/Month/Day” (XXXX/XX/XX). The dates in Greek are converted to modern usage, the Greek variants are given in column AD.
M. Text type: print, manuscript, epigraphy, internet source.
N. Addressee of the Humanist Greek text: the name of the explicit addressee, whether named person, collectives or functions, when more than one person, their names are separated with “;”.
O. Short title in normalised orthography with link to electronic catalogue, if available, preferable to the electronic catalogue of the country where the text was printed or ms is preserved. 
P. Normalized name of the Author/Praeses/Editor/Deliverer of the print, especially if different than for the Humanist Greek text (column A). If the column is empty, it means that the author is same as for the Humanist Greek text. In case of multi-authored collections, AAVV is used. 
Q. Respondens of the print, if the print is a dissertation. 
R. Year: the year as in print (manuscript) in arabic numerals. Estimated years are given in brackets [], unknown years marked with ‘?’. If the print is dated with Greek numerals, chronogram or other devices, these will be explained in column AD. 
S. Place of print/publication/writing: modern place name according to the practice of given country.
T. Place of print/publication/writing as written in the actual text. 
U. Printer/identifier with modern normalized name of printer. Years of life or activity are given, if available from national bibliographies. 
V. Printer as in print. 
W. Print format. 
X. Location of the Humanist Greek text in print/volume, if available. 
Y. National bibliography number(s), if available. 
Z. Library, shelf mark & link to scan: for each identified imprint, library and shelf mark, if available, and link to scan, if available. Used abbreviations: UL (University Library), UCL (University College L), NL (National L); CA (City Archives), CM (City Museum), USL (University and State L); SL (State L); HA (Historical Archives); FLS (Library of Finnish Literary Society); CAU (Central Archives of University); DRL (Diocesan and Regional Library); LM (Literary Museum). 
AA. Additional information concerning reprints 
AB. Additional information concerning the dedicatee(s) of print. 
AC. Additional information – connected languages, in case of macaronic texts or multilingual compositions
AD. Other Additional information, e.g. dates or other information written in Greek, issues of the disputed authorship or dates etc. 
AE. Connected text (print/manuscript) – indicated with an “x” here if the text is one of several HUG-texts (which are recorded separately) in the same print or manuscript. 
AF. Database entry/quotation – initials of the person who has inserted the data. 
AG Unique identifier of the text (in case of Estonian and Latvian corpus, starting with HUG 01)
AH. National Database (or database subset), to which the entry belongs. 
Abbreviated references:

Finnish NB = Laine, Tuija / Nyqvist, Rita (eds.), Suomen kansallisbibiliografia / Finlands nationalbibliografi / Finnishe Nationalbibliographie 1488–1700. Helsinki 1996.
Garber = Garber, Klaus et al. (eds.), Handbuch des personalen Gelegenheitsschrifttums in europäischen Bibliotheken und Archiven. Volumes concerning respectively Reval (Bd 7), Dorpat (Bd 8) and Riga (Bd 12-15). Hildesheim 2003-2004.  
Jaanson, Ene-Lille. Druckerei der Universität Dorpat 1632?1720. Geschichte und Bibliographie der Druckschriften. Tartu 2000: Tartu Ülikooli raamatukogu. 
Klöker, Martin. Literarisches Leben in Reval in der ersten Hälfte des 17ten Jahrhunderts (1600–1657). Institutionen der Gelehrsamkeit und Dichten bei Gelegenheit. 1. Darstellung. 2. Bibliographie der revaler Literatur. Drucke von den Anafängen bis 1657. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer 2005.
Melander, Toini. Personskrifter hänförande sig till Finland 1562-1713: bibliografisk förteckning, Helsinki 1951-1959.
O Dorpat = Viiding, Kristi; Orion, Jana, Päll, Janika (eds.), O Dorpat, urbs addictissima musis. Valik 17. sajandi Tartu  juhuluulet. Tallinn 2007
Sainio, Matti Antero. Dissertationen und Orationen der Universität Dorpat 1632 - 1656. Stockholm, 1978.