Every source text and every English rendering on this site, by licence. The edition prints three benches. Latin is drawn from the Patrologia Latina (Migne, 1844–65) via the Corpus Corporum TEI transcription, except where a text is not in the Patrologia and is transcribed from the page images of a public-domain print, which its own entry names. Hebrew and Aramaic texts and their published English translations are drawn from Sefaria and from the public-domain translators named below. The Greek-Jewish bench is the Septuagint and Philo of Alexandria, whose Greek is Cohn's critical text of 1896 in the First1KGreek TEI. Fresh English not otherwise credited is a Claude draft approved by Wilson Pruitt.
Share-alike attaches to the Hebrew/Aramaic text as republished; the fresh English beside it is our own work and is CC BY.
Hebrew and Aramaic from he.wikisource.org, licensed CC BY-SA, via www.sefaria.org.
The Bereshit Rabbah Hebrew on this site comes from two versions, by chapter, and this is not an editorial preference. Chapters 1–3 are from 'Wikisource Bereshit Rabbah' (CC BY-SA), which does not cover chapter 8; chapter 8 is from 'Daat Bereshit Rabbah' (public domain), which returns no text at all for chapters 1–3. The third version Sefaria lists for the work, 'Midrash Rabbah — TE' (Torat Emet), is not used anywhere here: its own site prints an all-rights-reserved notice. The two versions differ in orthography — abbreviations printed rather than expanded, plene and defective spelling varying freely — so an anchor phrase retyped from one will not always match the other; see the note on _HFUZZ in scripts/bench.py.
Transcribed from the page images of archive.org item biblia-sacra-lyra_202308, which carries no rights notice. A SUBSTITUTION, accepted by Wilson Pruitt on 2026-09-06: PLAN.md named the 1492 Venice Biblia cum glossa, which did not surface on archive.org; this Koberger folio carries the same three-layer apparatus (Postilla, Burgos's Additiones, Doering's Replicae) and is cited throughout as the edition actually used, as Chalcidius is cited from the Bade print of 1520 rather than from Waszink. Leaf numbers in `source` are the archive.org leaf index (page/nN.jpg), which is the only stable reference the item has: the scandata carries no printed folio numbers, and the hOCR page index is offset from the leaves by an amount that drifts along the volume. Expansion convention as frozen for Chalcidius: abbreviations expanded silently and consistently, u/v normalised, nothing else altered.
Transcribed from the page images of archive.org item bub_gb_LxGcsxR3tWgC (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, digitised by Google), which carries no rights notice of any kind. The 1520 print is not a critical edition and this edition cites the edition actually used rather than a modern one; where a reading matters, the variant is recorded in the witness notes. One is worth naming here: this print gives Prov 8:22 as creauit me Deus progressionis suae SEMITAM, where the text quoted in K1's finding, from Baehrens's apparatus to Origen's first homily, has PRIMITIAM. Chalcidius was escalated at Phase 6 part one as wanting Waszink's Plato Latinus, on the ground that the only free text was uncorrected OCR of a 1617 print whose images carry a ProQuest notice. That was true of the 1617 item and not of this one.
Phase 6. Origen in Rufinus's Latin is PG 12, and this edition's Latin bench is a PL harvest, so this is the one witness whose Latin came from outside it. Published 1920, so public domain in the United States; Baehrens died 1929, so public domain in the EU since 2000. Transcribed from the archive.org page image, not from the item's OCR.
Cohn's 1896 text is itself in the public domain and this edition holds that a faithful transcription of a public-domain text creates no new right. What is licensed here is the file actually used, including its correction and encoding, and the site already carries CC BY-SA components under per-component licensing (Wikisource Talmud Bavli, Wikisource Bereshit Rabbah, Miqra according to the Masorah). This key does the same. The critical apparatus that the file carries inside its section divisions is not reproduced; it is stripped in the loader, and where a reading matters the variant is recorded in the witness notes.
Philo, De opificio mundi, ed. Leopold Cohn, Philonis Alexandrini opera quae supersunt i (Berlin: Reimer, 1896). TEI text tlg0018.tlg001.1st1K-grc1 from OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek (University of Leipzig / Perseus, Digital Divide Data), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Split out of the generic cc-by key at Phase 6 for the same reason as the Midrash Rabbah English: cc-by is also the key on our own fresh drafts and carries no attribution, and CC BY requires one. Six witnesses.
Ramban, Commentary on the Torah, Hebrew: Sefaria 'Vocalized Edition', licensed CC BY 4.0. Via www.sefaria.org.
Sefaria records this version's licence as 'unknown', and it is the only Hebrew of Neofiti it carries. That is a metadata gap and not a rights assertion: the version is sourced from the Vatican Library's own digitisation of a manuscript copied in 1504, and the manuscript is centuries out of copyright. This edition treats the transcription as public domain on the same principle it states in every Wroot Press rights statement and applies against itself — a faithful transcription of a public-domain text creates no new copyright, and claiming one over it would be copyfraud. Note the limit of the reasoning: it covers the TEXT, not the Vatican's page images, which this edition does not reproduce. If the Vatican Library or Sefaria asserts a right in the transcription, these two witnesses come down.
Aramaic of Targum Neofiti transcribed from Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Neofiti 1, via www.sefaria.org.
197 passages. Wilson ruled 2026-09-05 that the edition carries CC BY 4.0 and NOT the Wroot Press default of CC BY-NC 4.0 — a deliberate departure, made so that our English sits without friction beside the third-party CC BY and CC BY-SA texts on the same page. The colophon should say it is deliberate.
Fresh English drafted by Claude and approved by Wilson Pruitt for Bereshit / In Principio, 2026, licensed CC BY 4.0.
Set 2026-09-05 by Wilson's ruling: his own Englishings carry the same licence as the edition, CC BY 4.0, with the colophon linking each back to its published home per the one-translation-one-home rule. Three witnesses: bonaventure-sent-2-12-1-2, bonaventure-sent-2-13-1-1, bonaventure-sent-2-13-1-2 — the third is fresh English of Phase 6 and is credited to the same edition.
Bonaventure, Commentary on the Sentences, Book II, English by Wilson Pruitt, published at bonaventure.wrootpress.com (Wroot Press). Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Filled at Phase 6 from the version record Sefaria's own v3 API returns (versionTitle, license CC-BY, and the credits in versionNotes), not from a boilerplate: Sefaria publishes no separate per-version attribution string, and the credits it ships with the version are the attribution it specifies. Twenty-three witnesses use this key; until Phase 6 they were keyed to the generic cc-by, which carries no attribution line, so the colophon rendered none.
The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022, licensed CC BY 4.0. Managing Editor: Jason Rappoport. Translator: Joshua Schreier. Editors: Michael Siev, Yaacov Francus. Copy-editors: Deborah Meghnagi Bailey, Ilana Sobel. Via www.sefaria.org.
Set 2026-09-05 by Wilson's ruling, as wroot-bonaventure. One witness: glossa-1-2-ruach.
Glossa ordinaria, English by Wilson Pruitt, published at migne.app/glossa (Wroot Press). Licensed CC BY 4.0.
✅ Wilson ruled 2026-09-05: trust Sefaria and ship it. The evidence weighed: the v3 API returns license 'CC-BY' for this versionTitle with versionSource nli.org.il AND digitizedBySefaria true — Sefaria digitized the text themselves, which implies they secured terms, and the two other Chavel versions on Sefaria are marked 'unknown', so CC-BY here is a deliberate assertion and not a default. The licence claim is Sefaria's and is named as theirs above. Six witnesses.
Ramban (Nachmanides), Commentary on the Torah, translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel (New York: Shilo, 1971–76). Shown as CC BY on Sefaria. Via www.sefaria.org.