| Sumario: | The Electronic Manipulus florum Project (<http://manipulusflorum.com/>) is digitizing a large collection of Latin quotations. We examine the design of the Janus search engine, which finds overlaps between keywords, supplied text, and Manipulus florum quotations in the presence of typographic, orthographic, and complex variants. Janus can be used to determine whether, and to what extent, the Manipulus florum was used as a resource by later writers. It can also be used to determine which previous works Thomas of Ireland used to compile the Manipulus florum. In addition, the Janus engine could be used to find overlaps between two arbitrary texts.
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