Under the direction of Professor René-Michel Roberge
INTRODUCTION
What is the BIBP?
Definition
The BIBP is first an automated bibliographical service specialized in Patristics. It contains both retrospective and current information. Presently, it offers some 29 000 notices from 350 journals. Each notice contains the usual bibliographical information, an analysis by primary and secondary descriptors and an abstract of the document. Each document is directly identified and analyzed from its source. Eventually, a file of some 40 000 reviews of articles about Patristics will be available.
The BIBP also works on the standardization of the patristic nomenclature. So as to achieve the status of a reliable source of information, with the requirement of a unique terminology, the BIBP carefully describes and names the patristic "objects" (authors, works, manuscripts, papyri, archeological artefacts, epigraphic and iconographic documents, etc..). This work of standardization has produced the following indexes now available to users of the BIBP.
Index of the Sudied Patristic Works
Index of the Studied Patristic Manuscripts. Vol. 1, By Authors. Vol. 2, By Place of storage. Vol. 3, By Dates. Vol. 4, By Origins. Vol. 5, By Contents.
Index of the Studied Archaeological Documents. Vol. 1, By Subjects and Nature. Vol. 2, By Provenance and Places of storage. Vol. 3, By Dates and Contents.
Index of the Studied Epigraphic Documents. (By Subjects, Provenance, Places of storage, Dates, Languages and Contents)
Index of the Studied Papyri. (By Denominations, Places of storage, Subjects, Nature of the support, Shape of the support, Provenance, Dates, Languages and Contents)
Index of the Studied Patristic Vocabulary. Vol. 1. By Authors. Vol. 2 By Words.
Index of the the Studied Biblical Texts
Index of the Studied Publishers of Patristic Texts. Vol. 1, By Publisher. Vol. 2, By Works
Those indexes are automated and constantly updated. We intend to make them available over the Internet. Presently, they are available in print form at Laval University
Time limits chosen as to the Patristic period. The BIBP indexes documents about patristic Christianity (from the 1st century (with the exception of biblical texts) up to the mid 9th century). Exceptions are made for Oriental and Slavonic Christianity for which the time limit is the mid 11th century (1054). The limit is pushed to the 14 th century for Syrian, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Persian and Arab Christian literatures.
Sources appearing in the indexes
Presently, the BIBP is limited to the indexation of journals
Hereafter is the list of those journals appearing in the BIBP. (Faire un hyperlien ici)
The BIBP is supported by a scientific council which is composed of the best specialists in each of the patristic disciplines working together with an international network of contributors for the identification and analysis of documents.
Mr. Denis Bouchard is the chief information specialist of the BIBP.
The BIBP is under the official patronage of the Association Internationale d'Études Patristiques (AIEP).