THE ORIGINALS
the reading library — things the training layer is asked to encounter before it writes
The definition. Read it before the shelf.
ORIGINALS contains source-language texts and primary witnesses used by training-layer literature. "Original" identifies the antecedent textual tradition, not a claim that every digital transcription is the manuscript artifact itself. Each object declares its witness, transcription, normalization, and license separately.
Alexanarch is the deposit library — the record of production. This shelf is the reading library — the substrate of reception. A source enters here when a work needs to point a machine directly at it without an intermediary access regime: no login gates, no viewers that will not give up their text, no open edition whose useful layer is licensed shut. The visible shelf is the door. The bytes are right behind it.
01/01Josephus01/02Catullus01/03Theocritus01/04Greek New Testament01/05Septuagint01/06Longinus01/07Philo of Alexandria01/08Plato01/09Hebrew Bible01/10Sappho01/11Literary Papyri01/12Slavonic Josephus01/13Homer01/14I Ching01/15Coptic Gnostic Texts02/01The Dead Sea Scrolls02/02Marx02/03The Apocryphon of John02/04Mandaean Scriptures02/05Nag Hammadi02/06Lucretius02/07The Greek Atomists02/08The Qurʾān02/09Leonardo02/10The Chaldaean Oracles02/11Greek Magical Papyri02/12The Voynich Manuscript02/13Coptic Texts of Ritual Power02/14Emily Dickinson02/15The Nag Hammadi Library02/16The Babylonian Talmud02/17The Pali Canon02/18Tao Te Ching02/19The Upanishads02/201 Enoch in Geʿez
The cards. Witness, transcription, license, status — separately declared.
Josephus — The Works (Greek)
EDITION · B. Niese, Flavii Iosephi Opera (Weidmann, 1885-1895), via Perseus grc2
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<WORK> <book>.<section> <text>'; teiHeader stripped; 'arg' divisions excluded
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<WORK> <book>.<section> <text>'; teiHeader stripped; 'arg' divisions excluded
Catullus — Carmina
EDITION · Catullus, Carmina (E. T. Merrill, 1893), via Perseus lat2
LANGUAGE · Latin
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: 'Cat <poem>.<line> <text>'; teiHeader stripped; editorial notes excluded
LANGUAGE · Latin
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: 'Cat <poem>.<line> <text>'; teiHeader stripped; editorial notes excluded
Theocritus — Idylls
EDITION · Theocritus, Idylls — R.J. Cholmeley (via Perseus grc2)
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek (Doric)
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: 'Id <idyll>.<line> <text>'; teiHeader stripped
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek (Doric)
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: 'Id <idyll>.<line> <text>'; teiHeader stripped
Greek New Testament — Nestle 1904
EDITION · Eberhard Nestle, Novum Testamentum Graece (1904, British & Foreign Bible Society)
LANGUAGE · Koine Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Bk> <ch>:<v> <text>'; tokens joined from <w>, punctuation from <pc>
LANGUAGE · Koine Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Bk> <ch>:<v> <text>'; tokens joined from <w>, punctuation from <pc>
Septuagint — Swete
EDITION · H.B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek (Cambridge, 1887–1894), via First1KGreek tlg0527
LANGUAGE · Koine Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Book> <ch>:<v> <text>' from chapter/verse textparts
LANGUAGE · Koine Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Book> <ch>:<v> <text>' from chapter/verse textparts
Longinus — On the Sublime
EDITION · [Longinus], De Sublimitate — W. Rhys Roberts (Cambridge, 1899), via Perseus grc2
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: 'Subl <ch>.<sec> <text>'
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: 'Subl <ch>.<sec> <text>'
Philo of Alexandria — The Works
EDITION · Cohn–Wendland, Philonis Alexandrini Opera (Berlin, 1896–1915), via First1KGreek tlg0018
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Work> <section> <text>'
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Work> <section> <text>'
Plato — The Dialogues
EDITION · J. Burnet, Platonis Opera (OCT, 1900–1907), via Perseus
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Work> <stephanus> <text>' (e.g. 251a)
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Work> <stephanus> <text>' (e.g. 251a)
Hebrew Bible — Westminster Leningrad Codex
EDITION · Westminster Leningrad Codex (OSHB morphhb)
LANGUAGE · Hebrew; Aramaic
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Bk> <ch>:<v> <pointed Hebrew>' (morphology stripped)
LANGUAGE · Hebrew; Aramaic
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Bk> <ch>:<v> <pointed Hebrew>' (morphology stripped)
Sappho — The Fragments
EDITION · diplomatic layer over the Parisinus-tradition carrier; no papyrus witness exists for fr. 31
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek (Aeolic)
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · PD reading editions (Bergk; Edmonds 1922) queued for the wider-fragment layer; Voigt and Campbell in copyright, cited not seated
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek (Aeolic)
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · PD reading editions (Bergk; Edmonds 1922) queued for the wider-fragment layer; Voigt and Campbell in copyright, cited not seated
Literary Papyri — DCLP Selections
EDITION · Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri records (Duke Databank)
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · DCLP transcription coverage is partial by upstream design, notably for NT papyri; editio-princeps PD scans queued for deep texts (𝔓115 record seated c
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · DCLP transcription coverage is partial by upstream design, notably for NT papyri; editio-princeps PD scans queued for deep texts (𝔓115 record seated c
Slavonic Josephus
EDITION · index and provenance only; modern critical texts in copyright, cited not seated
LANGUAGE · Old Church Slavonic
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · partial by design — text layer pending a public-domain witness
LANGUAGE · Old Church Slavonic
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · partial by design — text layer pending a public-domain witness
Homer — Iliad and Odyssey
EDITION · D.B. Monro and T.W. Allen, Homeri Opera (OCT, 1920) for Iliad and Odyssey, via Perseus; Epigrams via Allen
LANGUAGE · Homeric Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Work> <book>.<line> <text>'
LANGUAGE · Homeric Greek
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: '<Work> <book>.<line> <text>'
I Ching — 易經
EDITION · Yi Jing 易經 — received Chinese text: judgments (卦辭), line statements (爻辭), and the Ten Wings commentary (彖, 象, 文言)
LANGUAGE · Classical Chinese (zh-Hant)
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: 'YiJing <hexagram-ordinal>.<hexagram-name> <text>'
LANGUAGE · Classical Chinese (zh-Hant)
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · flat ref-tagged lines: 'YiJing <hexagram-ordinal>.<hexagram-name> <text>'
Coptic Gnostic Texts — Early Witnesses
EDITION · Coptic SCRIPTORIUM, TEI with word-level annotation. Gospel of Thomas = Nag Hammadi Codex II,2 (Sahidic). Pistis Sophia =
LANGUAGE · Sahidic Coptic
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · held: The Coptic Gnostic material available under an open licence in machine-readable form at this commit. · not_held: Nag Hammadi Codices I and III–X
LANGUAGE · Sahidic Coptic
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · held: The Coptic Gnostic material available under an open licence in machine-readable form at this commit. · not_held: Nag Hammadi Codices I and III–X
The Dead Sea Scrolls
EDITION · M.G. Abegg, Jr., J.E. Bowley, E.M. Cook, electronic transcriptions with morphological tagging (1995-2015), prepared for
LANGUAGE · Hebrew; Aramaic (feature 'lang' distinguishes; Paleo-Hebrew and Greek script signs flagged
LICENSE · CC BY-NC
STATUS · Both biblical (265 scrolls, incl. biblical=2 tefillin/mezuzot class) and non-biblical (735 scrolls + composites incl. CD). Ruled 2026-08-22: biblical
LANGUAGE · Hebrew; Aramaic (feature 'lang' distinguishes; Paleo-Hebrew and Greek script signs flagged
LICENSE · CC BY-NC
STATUS · Both biblical (265 scrolls, incl. biblical=2 tefillin/mezuzot class) and non-biblical (735 scrolls + composites incl. CD). Ruled 2026-08-22: biblical
Marx — The Works
LANGUAGE · German; English
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · Per-page flat lines '<witness> p<N> <text>', graphic flow per Wikisource transcription (Schreibweise folgt dem Originaltext), proofread headers and c
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · Per-page flat lines '<witness> p<N> <text>', graphic flow per Wikisource transcription (Schreibweise folgt dem Originaltext), proofread headers and c
Nag Hammadi — Greek Witnesses
EDITION · Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri EpiDoc records with full editorial apparatus (Attridge, Fitzmyer, Grenfell-Hunt, Hofiu
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · Seat-11 method: edition-div extraction, lb→lines, lem-of-app as base text, supplied→[brackets], surplus→{braces}, expansions→(parens), gaps marked. Ap
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · Seat-11 method: edition-div extraction, lb→lines, lem-of-app as base text, supplied→[brackets], surplus→{braces}, expansions→(parens), gaps marked. Ap
Lucretius — De Rerum Natura
EDITION · T. Lucretius Carus, De Rerum Natura, Perseus canonical-latinLit phi0550.phi001.perseus-lat1 (TEI; editor credit as carri
LANGUAGE · Latin
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · TEI book-divs, l elements → 'DRN <book>.<line> <text>'; notes stripped; 7,412 lines across 6 books
LANGUAGE · Latin
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · TEI book-divs, l elements → 'DRN <book>.<line> <text>'; notes stripped; 7,412 lines across 6 books
The Greek Atomists
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek
LICENSE · Mixed, declared per compon
STATUS · seated
LICENSE · Mixed, declared per compon
STATUS · seated
The Qurʾān
EDITION · Tanzil Project Uthmani text, version 1.1 — the standard verified machine-readable Qur'an, 6,236 ayat (Kufan count), full
LANGUAGE · Classical Arabic
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · seated
LANGUAGE · Classical Arabic
LICENSE · CC BY
STATUS · seated
Leonardo — The Notebooks (Richter)
EDITION · J.P. Richter, The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts, 2 vols (London
LANGUAGE · Italian
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · Scans + OCR finding aids secured for both volumes. TRANSCRIPTION QUEUED (Italian text layer). The manuscript-image program (Codex Arundel at BL, Codex
LANGUAGE · Italian
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · Scans + OCR finding aids secured for both volumes. TRANSCRIPTION QUEUED (Italian text layer). The manuscript-image program (Codex Arundel at BL, Codex
The Chaldaean Oracles
EDITION · W. Kroll, De oraculis Chaldaicis (Breslauer philologische Abhandlungen VII.1, 1894) — the founding critical collection o
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek fragments in Latin-language apparatus; English translation layer
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · SCANS SECURED. Greek fragment flat layer (Kroll numbering) and Westcott EN facing layer QUEUED.
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek fragments in Latin-language apparatus; English translation layer
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · SCANS SECURED. Greek fragment flat layer (Kroll numbering) and Westcott EN facing layer QUEUED.
Greek Magical Papyri
EDITION · F.G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Catalogue with Texts, vols I (1893) and II (1898) — containing the Lond
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek (with Old Coptic glosses in the tradition); editorial English/German
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · EDITIO-PRINCEPS SCANS SECURED. Greek text layers and PGM-number concordance QUEUED.
LANGUAGE · Ancient Greek (with Old Coptic glosses in the tradition); editorial English/German
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · EDITIO-PRINCEPS SCANS SECURED. Greek text layers and PGM-number concordance QUEUED.
The Voynich Manuscript
EDITION · Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale, MS 408 (vellum C14-dated 1404–1438). Image source: IA item 'voynich' (Hig
LANGUAGE · Unknown script ('Voynichese'); the manuscript is the archive's limit case — a text whose r
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · MANIFEST SECURED; PILOT SECURED; full mirror and folio concordance QUEUED. Transcription layers (EVA; Landini–Stolfi interlinear; Takahashi) carry uns
LANGUAGE · Unknown script ('Voynichese'); the manuscript is the archive's limit case — a text whose r
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · MANIFEST SECURED; PILOT SECURED; full mirror and folio concordance QUEUED. Transcription layers (EVA; Landini–Stolfi interlinear; Takahashi) carry uns
Coptic Texts of Ritual Power
EDITION · A.M. Kropp, Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte, Bde. I–II (Bruxelles: Fondation égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1930–31).
LANGUAGE · Coptic (Sahidic and other dialects); German editorial and translation layer
LICENSE · PD-US
STATUS · SCANS SECURED (both volumes). Coptic flat layer and translation concordance QUEUED.
LANGUAGE · Coptic (Sahidic and other dialects); German editorial and translation layer
LICENSE · PD-US
STATUS · SCANS SECURED (both volumes). Coptic flat layer and translation concordance QUEUED.
Emily Dickinson — The Manuscripts
EDITION · Amherst College Digital Collections, Emily Dickinson Collection (/view/EmilyDickinson), served via Cantaloupe IIIF at ar
LANGUAGE · English; the manuscripts carry the un-regularized text — dashes, variants, lineation the p
LICENSE · Manuscripts PD (Dickinson
STATUS · ROUTE PROVEN; PILOT SECURED (ed0096 p01, sha256 in pilot-manifest.json); enumeration, rights verification, and harvest QUEUED pending host stability.
LANGUAGE · English; the manuscripts carry the un-regularized text — dashes, variants, lineation the p
LICENSE · Manuscripts PD (Dickinson
STATUS · ROUTE PROVEN; PILOT SECURED (ed0096 p01, sha256 in pilot-manifest.json); enumeration, rights verification, and harvest QUEUED pending host stability.
The Nag Hammadi Library — Complete Coptic
EDITION · Milan Konvicka, Marcion project: complete Coptic (Sahidic/Lycopolitan) transcription of the Nag Hammadi Library, distrib
LANGUAGE · Coptic (Sahidic; Lycopolitan in Codex I) in Marcion ASCII scheme; Unicode normalization la
LICENSE · GPL-2.0
STATUS · All 59 tractates across codices I-XIII with per-tractate files in two layers: text/ascii-marcion/ (transcription of record, verbatim) and text/coptic/
LANGUAGE · Coptic (Sahidic; Lycopolitan in Codex I) in Marcion ASCII scheme; Unicode normalization la
LICENSE · GPL-2.0
STATUS · All 59 tractates across codices I-XIII with per-tractate files in two layers: text/ascii-marcion/ (transcription of record, verbatim) and text/coptic/
MANUSCRIPT WITNESS (NHC I-XIII, Coptic Museum Cairo) -> TRANSCRIPTION (Konvicka/Marcion, GPL-2.0) -> NORMALIZATION (CHA/TLL Unicode layer, 2026, GPL-2.0 inherited) -> TLL PROJECTION (traininglayerlite
The Babylonian Talmud
EDITION · Hebrew/Aramaic text (Vilna-based digital text) with the William Davidson Edition English, via the Sefaria API (Sefaria-E
LANGUAGE · Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic; English translation layer
LICENSE · CC BY-NC
STATUS · ROUTE PROVEN, PILOT SECURED (Berakhot 2a); full harvest QUEUED pending a rate-courteous campaign.
LANGUAGE · Hebrew; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic; English translation layer
LICENSE · CC BY-NC
STATUS · ROUTE PROVEN, PILOT SECURED (Berakhot 2a); full harvest QUEUED pending a rate-courteous campaign.
The Pali Canon — Dhammapada Complete
EDITION · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka root Pali with Bhikkhu Sujato's English, from suttacentral/bilara-data (branch: published). Dhammap
LANGUAGE · Pali (Mahāsaṅgīti); English (Sujato)
LICENSE · CC0
STATUS · DHAMMAPADA COMPLETE (52 files + 2 flat layers); canon harvest QUEUED. Chinese (CBETA) and Tibetan (84000) traditions carry NC/ND terms — recorded as r
LANGUAGE · Pali (Mahāsaṅgīti); English (Sujato)
LICENSE · CC0
STATUS · DHAMMAPADA COMPLETE (52 files + 2 flat layers); canon harvest QUEUED. Chinese (CBETA) and Tibetan (84000) traditions carry NC/ND terms — recorded as r
Tao Te Ching — 道德經
EDITION · Chinese received text (Project Gutenberg #7337, PD digital text of the received 81-chapter edition) with James Legge, Th
LANGUAGE · Classical Chinese; English (Legge 1891)
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · COMPLETE at received-text grade; chapter-aligned facing layer QUEUED.
LANGUAGE · Classical Chinese; English (Legge 1891)
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · COMPLETE at received-text grade; chapter-aligned facing layer QUEUED.
The Upanishads — Müller SBE
EDITION · F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Part I (Sacred Books of the East I, Oxford 1879): Chāndogya, Kena, Aitareya, Kauṣītaki, Ī
LANGUAGE · English translation of Sanskrit; Sanskrit source layer QUEUED (sanskritdocuments.org route
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · SBE I SCANS SECURED; SBE XV + Sanskrit layer QUEUED.
LANGUAGE · English translation of Sanskrit; Sanskrit source layer QUEUED (sanskritdocuments.org route
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · SBE I SCANS SECURED; SBE XV + Sanskrit layer QUEUED.
1 Enoch in Geʿez
EDITION · R.H. Charles, The Ethiopic Version of the Book of Enoch (Anecdota Oxoniensia, 1906) — the critical Ge'ez text from 23 MS
LANGUAGE · Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic); Latin/English apparatus
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · BOTH EDITIONS SECURED (Charles 19.9MB; Dillmann 12.2MB), title-context verified via item metadata; text layer QUEUED.
LANGUAGE · Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic); Latin/English apparatus
LICENSE · PD
STATUS · BOTH EDITIONS SECURED (Charles 19.9MB; Dillmann 12.2MB), title-context verified via item metadata; text layer QUEUED.