Balthasar & Speyr Catalogue

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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "balthasar-speyr-catalogue": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.balthasarspeyr.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

22 tools

• export_bibliography

  Generate standard UTF-8 BibTeX and a direct .bib download URL for all matching works/editions/translations. Empty filters download the entire unified bibliography; filter by workIds, publicationIds, Basel references, author, language, year or any catalogue filter for individual…

• get_bibliography_source

  Read the supplied Basel bibliography's original PDF pages, including all edition/translation changes, cross-references, contextual notes and unnumbered supplements. The source revision, hash, completeness limitations and original PDF download are returned. page refers to the…

• list_works

  List public works with combinable filters, exact counts and optional facets. Includes works without digital publications. Default year is original publication year.

• get_work

  Get the complete bibliographic work record and all its public publications. Author/type scope applies to IDs too.

• list_publications

  List publication summaries. workTypes filters contained works; publicationTypes filters derived publication classification. Filters on author/type/original year match the same contained work.

• get_publications

  Get detailed publication records by filters.publicationIds or any combination of listing filters, including workTypes and publicationTypes. Paginated; full texts use get_publication_text.

• get_publication_text

  Read the downloadable EPUB/PDF text in ordered sections. Continue using nextOffset until null. Includes source URL, format and locators. Does not assume publication.text is complete. A collective source is the publication text, not necessarily one contained work.

• search_publication_text

  Find literal phrases, ignoring case and accents, in a public publication's extracted EPUB/PDF text. Returns bounded exact context with locators and nextOffset; no embeddings or generated summaries. A collective publication may contain several authors.

• get_download_links

  Get existing download links, optionally checking availability. Resolves verified source corrections. Does not generate files.

• get_catalog_options

  Get recognized and enabled types, authors, language codes and public subject labels. Corpus expansion is configuration controlled.

• get_corpus_coverage

  Get coverage and exclusions by author and original language under bibliography filters. Use before comparisons; unavailable text is not evidence of absence.

• search_works

  Search public catalog metadata and complete or selected passages with multilingual embeddings. Queries may be in any language. Evidence is grouped by bibliographic work and identifies one selected analysis language, original/translation status, source and coverage. Optional…

• get_common_life_and_mission

  Return exact Spanish passages about the encounter, common work and shared mission of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr. The service does not summarize or infer.

• get_person_life_and_mission

  Return exact Spanish biographical and mission passages for Hans Urs von Balthasar or Adrienne von Speyr. The mission topic also includes explicitly identified common-mission evidence. The service does not summarize or infer.

• get_community_of_saint_john

  Return exact Spanish passages about the identity, consecrated life, patrons, prayer and mission of the Community of Saint John, with existing related-text links. The service does not summarize or infer.

• get_vocation_discernment_contact

  Use when someone is interested in the Community of Saint John, in consecrating themselves in it, or asks about vocation, discernment of a state of life, or the Spiritual Exercises. Returns the Community's Spanish invitation to personal accompaniment and official contact details.

• search_life_mission_and_community

  Search exact Spanish passages about Balthasar, Speyr, their common mission and the Community of Saint John. Matching is lexical and accent-insensitive; results are source evidence, not generated answers.

• count_catalog

  Count distinct public works, editions and journals using combined filters, including exact baselReferences or baselReferencePrefix. No bibliography or text is returned.

• aggregate_catalog

  Group distinct works by up to two dimensions. Results are paginated. Edition dimensions refer to matching editions; counts must not be summed across overlapping groups.

• list_journals

  List identified journals with aliases, distinct article counts and documented original years. Unknown references are reported by count_catalog.

• get_topics_by_period

  Compare precomputed thematic indicators by period. Editorial and lexical assignments are default; filters.includeSemantic explicitly includes embedding associations. firstYears requires exactly one author and starts at their earliest catalogued work. Percentages use evaluable…

• get_topic_evidence

  Read bounded evidence for precomputed editorial, lexical or optional semantic topic assignments. Supports bibliography filters including baselReferences. Continue using nextOffset.

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