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A corpus is database of texts: some deal with older texts, some with the language we speak today. The one below is called The Aberdeen Corpus of Older Scots (ACOS). It is a poetic corpus and spans from 1375 to 1513. You can use an IT tool, called a concordancer, to search the database for patterns. This is what linguists call 'corpus linguistics'.
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ACOS was compiled in 2011 as part of my doctoral research at the University of Aberdeen.
How to use the database? Simple! By clicking here, you will download the .zip file which has all the .txt files of the texts: zip file
You can navigate the files by using a freely available concordancer such as AntConc: https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
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Many thanks to the Special Collections of the University of Aberdeen as well as the Scottish Text Society and the Association for Scottish Literary Studies for permission to put the files as an open access resource for scholars and language enthusiasts to use freely.