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Guide to Reliable Editions

101 authors: the standard critical edition for each, what Ad Fontes itself uses, and where the two differ.

Two honest facts shape this guide. First, the texts on this site are mostly public-domain editions and translations, which means mostly 19th- and early-20th-century work: readable and complete in most cases, but dated, and in places a selection rather than the whole author. Second, the standard critical editions named below are usually still in copyright and are not reproduced here — this guide tells you which book to consult, and the work pages tell you what this site actually prints, so the difference is never hidden.

The series, in short

• GCS: Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller — the Berlin critical editions of Greek Christian writers (Origen, Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria, the church historians).
• Sources Chrétiennes (SC): Critical Greek or Latin text with a French translation and notes; the standard modern edition for many individual Fathers.
• CSEL: Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum — the Vienna critical editions of Latin Christian writers (Augustine, Tertullian, Jerome, Ambrose).
• CCSL: Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina — the continuation of the Latin patristic editions (Turnhout).
• Oxford Classical Texts (OCT): The standard compact critical texts of Greek and Latin classics, cited by editor and often by page or line.
• Teubner (Bibliotheca Teubneriana): The Leipzig/Stuttgart critical texts; for several authors the Teubner, not the OCT, is the standard edition.
• Loeb Classical Library: Greek or Latin text with an English translation on facing pages; the working scholarly translation for most classical authors, though individual volumes vary in age.
• Migne, Patrologia Graeca (PG) / Latina (PL): The 19th-century collected editions — complete and convenient, but uncritical: older texts, sometimes from inferior manuscripts. Cited here only where no modern critical edition covers the author.
• Ante-/Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (ANF/NPNF): The 19th-century English translations this site largely prints for the Fathers: public domain, readable, but dated, and in places a selection rather than the whole author.

Partial or older translations — read honestly

The clearest cases: Philo in Yonge (1854-55) and Josephus in Whiston (1737) are the only complete public-domain English versions, and both read their age; the Loeb editions are the modern replacements. The Fathers in ANF/NPNF are 19th-century translations, and for Ephrem, Aphrahat, and Cyril the site prints selections or surviving fragments, as the work pages state. The Greek and Latin classics come from the Perseus Digital Library, whose English translations are likewise mostly 19th-century; the original-language texts are the critical texts of Perseus's day, not the newest OCT or Teubner revisions. Where a work survives only in quotations by another author — Hegesippus, Aristobulus, Celsus, and the other fragmentary writers — the work page says so, and no complete text is pretended.

Greek authors

• Aeschylus (7 works) — standard edition: OCT (Page); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Agamemnon
• Apollonius of Rhodes (1 work) — standard edition: OCT (Seaton); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Argonautica
• Aristophanes (11 works) — standard edition: OCT (Hall and Geldart); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Acharnians
• Aristotle (4 works) — standard edition: OCT (Ross and others); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Metaphysics
  Cited by Bekker pagination, preserved across editions.
• Demosthenes (8 works) — standard edition: OCT (Dilts); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Olynthiac 1
• Diodorus Siculus (1 work) — standard edition: Teubner (Vogel and Fischer); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Library of History
• Epictetus (3 works) — standard edition: Teubner (Schenkl); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Discourses
• Euripides (19 works) — standard edition: OCT (Diggle); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Alcestis
• Herodotus (2 works) — standard edition: OCT (Hude); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Histories (Books 1–2)
• Hesiod (2 works) — standard edition: OCT (Solmsen); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Theogony
• Homer (2 works) — standard edition: OCT (Monro-Allen, Iliad; Allen, Odyssey); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Iliad
  The long-standard school text; a newer Teubner Iliad (West) exists.
• Iamblichus (2 works) — standard edition: Teubner/Budé per work; no single collected edition
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Life of Pythagoras
• Isocrates (2 works) — standard edition: OCT/Teubner tradition; Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Antidosis
• Lysias (8 works) — standard edition: OCT (Carey); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Against Eratosthenes
• Marcus Aurelius (1 work) — standard edition: Teubner (Dalfen); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Meditations
• Numenius of Apamea (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Fragments
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Plato (36 works) — standard edition: OCT (Burnet); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Alcibiades I
  Cited by Stephanus pagination, which all modern editions and translations preserve.
• Plotinus (3 works) — standard edition: Henry-Schwyzer (OCT, editio maior/minor); Loeb (Armstrong)
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
• Plutarch (14 works) — standard edition: Teubner (Ziegler) for Lives and Moralia; Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
• Polybius (1 work) — standard edition: Teubner (Büttner-Wobst); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Histories
• Porphyry (7 works) — standard edition: No single collected edition; Teubner/Budé per work
  Ad Fontes uses: Eusebius, Church History (New Advent) — the fifteen-book attack survives only in quotations by Christian respondents — read Letter to Marcella
  Several works survive only in fragments or quotations.
• Sophocles (7 works) — standard edition: OCT (Lloyd-Jones and Wilson); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Ajax
• Theocritus (1 work) — standard edition: OCT (Gow); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Idylls
• Thucydides (1 work) — standard edition: OCT (Jones, rev. Powell); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read History of the Peloponnesian War
• Xenophon (6 works) — standard edition: OCT (Marchant and others); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Anabasis

Latin authors

• Apuleius (1 work) — standard edition: Teubner (Helm); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read The Golden Ass
• Catullus (1 work) — standard edition: OCT (Mynors); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Poems
• Cicero (7 works) — standard edition: OCT (various editors); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
  Speeches, letters, rhetorical works, and philosophical works each have their own OCT volumes.
• Horace (4 works) — standard edition: OCT (Shackleton Bailey); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Ars Poetica
• Julius Caesar (2 works) — standard edition: OCT (Du Pontet); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Civil War
• Juvenal (1 work) — standard edition: OCT (Clausen); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Satires
• Livy (1 work) — standard edition: OCT (Ogilvie and others); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read History of Rome (Books 1–10)
• Lucretius (1 work) — standard edition: OCT (Bailey); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read De Rerum Natura
• Martial (1 work) — standard edition: Teubner (Lindsay); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Epigrams
• Ovid (2 works) — standard edition: OCT (Tarrant and others); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Ars Amatoria
• Pliny the Younger (1 work) — standard edition: Teubner (Mynors); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Letters
• Sallust (2 works) — standard edition: OCT (Reynolds); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read The Conspiracy of Catiline
• Seneca (6 works) — standard edition: OCT (Reynolds; Zwierlein for the tragedies); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Letters to Lucilius
• Suetonius (12 works) — standard edition: Teubner (Ihm); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Life of Augustus
• Tacitus (4 works) — standard edition: OCT (Fisher/Heubner); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Agricola
• Virgil (3 works) — standard edition: OCT (Mynors); Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read Aeneid

Jewish writers

• Anonymous (24 works) — standard edition: Charles, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (1913) for English; Rahlfs-Hanhart for Septuagint Greek
  Ad Fontes uses: Perseus Digital Library — read 1 Enoch
  This site's Septuagint reader uses Swete's text, not Rahlfs; individual apocryphal works name their translator on their pages.
• Apelles (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Rhodo, via Eusebius, Church History (New Advent) — Apelles's Syllogisms survive only in hostile report — read Apelles — testimonia
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Aristobulus of Alexandria (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel (tertullian.org, Gifford) — the Jewish philosopher's letter to Ptolemy survives only here — read Fragments of Aristobulus
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Basilides (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Eusebius, Church History and Clement, Stromata (New Advent) — read Basilides — fragments and testimonia
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Celsus (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Origen, Contra Celsum (New Advent) — Celsus's work survives only embedded in Origen's point-by-point reply — read Celsus, True Doctrine — fragments via Origen
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Hegesippus (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Eusebius, Church History (New Advent) — Hegesippus's five books of Memoirs (c. 180) survive only in these quotations — read Fragments of Hegesippus
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Josephus (31 works) — standard edition: Niese (Berlin, 1885-1895) for the Greek; Loeb (Thackeray and others) for English
  Ad Fontes uses: Eusebius, Church History and Jerome, On Illustrious Men (New Advent) — read Against Apion, Book 1
  This site prints Whiston's 1737 English (dated) with Niese's Greek.
• Marcion of Sinope (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Tertullian, Against Marcion and Eusebius, Church History (New Advent) — read Marcion — testimonia and quotations (not a reconstruction)
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Pantaenus (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Eusebius, Church History and Jerome, On Illustrious Men (New Advent) — no work of Pantaenus survives — read Pantaenus — testimonia
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Philo of Alexandria (36 works) — standard edition: Cohn-Wendland (Berlin, 1896-1930) for the Greek; Loeb (Colson-Whitaker) for English
  Ad Fontes uses: Eusebius, Church History and Jerome, On Illustrious Men (New Advent) — read On the Creation of the World
  This site prints Yonge's 1854-55 English (dated, but the only complete public-domain translation) with Cohn-Wendland Greek from the First1KGreek corpus.
• Valentinus (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Clement of Alexandria, Stromata (New Advent) — Valentinus's own writings survive only in these quotations — read Valentinus — fragments
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.

Church authors

• Ambrose of Milan (6 works) — standard edition: CSEL; PL 14-17 (older)
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Exposition of the Christian Faith
• Anonymous (Coptic Gnostic) (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: sacred-texts.com (Internet Sacred Text Archive), G.R.S. Mead's 1921 translation, public domain — read Pistis Sophia
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Aphrahat (1 work) — standard edition: CSCO for the Syriac; NPNF2-13 for the public-domain English selection
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent, NPNF Series 2 vol. 13, public domain — the NPNF selection of 8 of the 23 Demonstrations — read Demonstrations (NPNF selection: I, V, VI, VIII, X, XVII, XXI, XXII)
  This site prints 8 of the 23 Demonstrations, as the source page states.
• Athanasius (4 works) — standard edition: PG 25-28 (older); SC for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Against the Gentiles (Contra Gentes)
• Athenagoras (2 works) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read A Plea for the Christians
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Augustine of Hippo (5 works) — standard edition: CSEL and CCSL (ongoing); PL 32-47 (older complete text)
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read City of God
• Barnabas (1 work) — standard edition: Loeb, The Apostolic Fathers (Ehrman, 2003); Sources Chrétiennes for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Epistle of Barnabas
• Basil of Caesarea (4 works) — standard edition: PG 29-32 (older); SC for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: tertullian.org, public domain — read Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature
• Boethius (1 work) — standard edition: CCSL 94 for the Consolation of Philosophy; Loeb
  Ad Fontes uses: Project Gutenberg #14328, H.R. James (1897), public domain — read The Consolation of Philosophy
• Clement of Alexandria (3 works) — standard edition: GCS (Stählin); SC for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Paedagogus (The Instructor)
• Clement of Rome (1 work) — standard edition: Loeb, The Apostolic Fathers (Ehrman, 2003); Sources Chrétiennes for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read First Epistle to the Corinthians
• Clement of Rome (attributed) (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Second Epistle to the Corinthians
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Council of Constance (2 works) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Fordham Medieval Sourcebook (J. H. Robinson's English translation; University of Pennsylvania Translations and Reprints, ser. I, vol. III:6, 1912); J. H. Robinson, Readings in European History, vol. 1 (Boston: Ginn & Co., 1904), reading 215 — public domain — read Frequens (1417) — Decree on the Frequent Celebration of General Councils
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Council of Trent (25 works) — standard edition: Schroeder, Canons and Decrees (1941); Waterworth (1848) for public-domain English
  Ad Fontes uses: Hanover Historical Texts Project — read Session I (1545): Decree Touching the Opening of the Council
  This site prints Waterworth's 1848 translation.
• Cyril of Alexandria (5 works) — standard edition: PG 68-77 (older); SC for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: tertullian.org, P.E. Pusey (1874/1885), public domain; tertullian.org, P.E. Pusey (1881), public domain; tertullian.org, public domain; tertullian.org, public domain; only the surviving PD-English fragment — read Against Julian (survives in part)
  This site prints only the surviving public-domain English fragments in places — the work pages say so where that is the case.
• Ephrem the Syrian (5 works) — standard edition: CSCO for the Syriac; NPNF2-13 for the public-domain English selection
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent, NPNF Series 2 vol. 13, public domain; New Advent, NPNF Series 2 vol. 13, public domain — homilies: On Our Lord (3706); On Admonition and Repentance (3707); On the Sinful Woman (3708) — read Homilies: On Our Lord; On Admonition and Repentance; On the Sinful Woman
  This site prints the NPNF selection, not the whole Syriac corpus.
• Eusebius of Caesarea (4 works) — standard edition: GCS (Schwartz and others) for Church History and Preparation; SC for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: tertullian.org — read Ecclesiastical History (Church History)
• First Vatican Council (2 works) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: The Decrees of the Vatican Council, ed. Vincent McNabb, O.P. (London: Burns & Oates, 1907) — public domain English, via ecatholic2000.com — read First Vatican Council (1869–1870): Dei Filius — Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Fourth Lateran Council (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: Fordham Medieval Sourcebook — read Fourth Lateran Council (1215): Select Constitutions
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Gregory of Nazianzus (3 works) — standard edition: PG 35-38 (older); SC for the orations
  Ad Fontes uses: tertullian.org, C.W. King (1888), public domain — read Letters
• Gregory of Nyssa (9 works) — standard edition: Gregorii Nysseni Opera (GNO, Leiden); SC for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: tertullian.org, W.K. Lowther Clarke (1916), public domain — read Against Eunomius
• Hermas (1 work) — standard edition: Loeb, The Apostolic Fathers (Ehrman, 2003); Sources Chrétiennes for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read The Shepherd
• Ignatius of Antioch (7 works) — standard edition: Loeb, The Apostolic Fathers (Ehrman, 2003); Sources Chrétiennes for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Epistle to Polycarp
• Jerome (2 works) — standard edition: CCSL/CSEL for individual works; PL 22-30 (older)
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men)
• John Chrysostom (3 works) — standard edition: PG 47-64 (older, very large); SC for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Homilies on the Gospel of John
• Julius Africanus (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Letter to Origen
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Justin Martyr (3 works) — standard edition: Migne, PG 6 (older, uncritical complete text); modern critical editions per work
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Dialogue with Trypho
  No modern collected critical edition covers Justin; this site prints the 19th-century ANF translation.
• Mathetes (1 work) — standard edition: Loeb, The Apostolic Fathers (Ehrman, 2003); Sources Chrétiennes for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Epistle to Diognetus
• Minucius Felix (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Octavius
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Origen (6 works) — standard edition: GCS (Koetschau and others); SC for many works
  Ad Fontes uses: CCEL — read Commentary on the Gospel of John (partial: Books I, II, IV, V, VI, X)
• Palladius (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: tertullian.org — read Lausiac History
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Papias of Hierapolis (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Fragments of Papias (preserved by Irenaeus and Eusebius)
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Polycarp (2 works) — standard edition: Loeb, The Apostolic Fathers (Ehrman, 2003); Sources Chrétiennes for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Epistle to the Philippians
• Quadratus (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Fragment of the Apology (preserved by Eusebius, Church History 4.3)
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Second Vatican Council (17 works) — standard edition: Vatican official texts; Flannery (ed.) for English
  Ad Fontes uses: Vatican — read Ad Gentes — Decree on Missionary Activity
• Socrates Scholasticus (1 work) — standard edition: GCS (Hansen)
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Ecclesiastical History
• Sozomen (1 work) — standard edition: GCS (Bidez-Hansen)
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Ecclesiastical History
• Tatian (2 works) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Address to the Greeks
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Tertullian (4 works) — standard edition: CCSL 1-2; SC for individual works
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Ad Nationes
• The Ecumenical Councils (7 works) — standard edition: Tanner, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (1990); NPNF2-14 for public-domain English
  Ad Fontes uses: CCEL (NPNF Series 2, vol. 14) — read Chalcedon (451): The Definition, Tome of Leo, and Canons
• Theodoret of Cyrus (1 work) — standard edition: GCS (Parmentier)
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read Ecclesiastical History
• Theophilus of Antioch (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read To Autolycus
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.
• Unknown (1 work) — standard edition: No single standard edition is named for this author here — the work pages name the source used for each work.
  Ad Fontes uses: New Advent — read The Didache
  Where the source is Perseus, the text is the Perseus edition of that work; where it is New Advent, the 19th-century ANF/NPNF translation.

English and later authors

• Ben Jonson (2 works) — standard edition: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (2012); this site prints Project Gutenberg texts
  Ad Fontes uses: Project Gutenberg — read The Alchemist
• Edmund Spenser (1 work) — standard edition: Oxford Spenser; this site prints Project Gutenberg texts
  Ad Fontes uses: Project Gutenberg — read The Faerie Queene, Book I
• Geoffrey Chaucer (1 work) — standard edition: Riverside Chaucer (Benson); this site prints Project Gutenberg texts
  Ad Fontes uses: Project Gutenberg — read The Canterbury Tales
• John Donne (1 work) — standard edition: Oxford Donne (in progress); this site prints Project Gutenberg texts
  Ad Fontes uses: Project Gutenberg — read Holy Sonnets
• John Milton (3 works) — standard edition: Oxford Complete Works (in progress); this site prints Project Gutenberg texts
  Ad Fontes uses: Project Gutenberg — read Paradise Lost
• William Shakespeare (44 works) — standard edition: Oxford Complete Works; Arden; Folger
  Ad Fontes uses: Project Gutenberg — read A Lover's Complaint
  This site prints Project Gutenberg texts in the 19th-century Globe tradition — older spelling and punctuation, not a modern critical text.

See also: Open-access bibliography · Digital manuscript collections · Source bibliography (every source label cited on work pages).