The Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) contains metadata on allGreek and Latin literary works which are partly or fully preserved in manuscriptsdating between 400 BC and AD 800. For each of the 10.500 texts theuser can find where it is now preserved, where it is published, where it waswritten and found, when it was written, etc. This information can be presentedin graphs and pies, allowing us to study the reception of ancient literaturein time and place, the change from papyrus to parchment and from rollto codex, or that from classical to pagan literature. In the next step also literaturein other languages (Egyptian, Coptic, Syriac, Hebrew) is being includedin order to obtain a full view of what remains of the literary production ina multicultural ancient world.
