The corpus
The codex is a compilation, and most of what its compiler wrote fits inside a small shelf of books. Every folio of the translation was read against the passage it retells, because an elliptical text does not become English on its own: the manuscript leads, and the source only ever says what one of its phrases means. This is that shelf. Every book on it is public domain, and each links to where it can be read.
How each was fetched and under what terms is in the provenance file; the reading itself is in the book, and every departure from these sources is named in its notes.
King James Bible
Project Gutenberg ebook 10, public domain.
Read it: Gutenberg 10
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision)
Project Gutenberg ebook 8300, public domain. Added 2026-09-20 because the codex is a Catholic compilation working from the Vulgate, and pooling candidate words off a Protestant English translation manufactures near-misses: a third of the King James candidate pool turns out to be wording no Vulgate reader would have had. It also supplies the deuterocanon — Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Machabees — which the King James file here does not contain at all. Challoner's explanatory notes are set as separate paragraphs between the verses and are stripped, not pooled.
Read it: Gutenberg 8300
Wake, The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament
Gutenberg ebooks 6507–6515, public domain. Supplies the Protevangelium, the infancy gospels and the Gospel of Nicodemus.
Read it: Gutenberg 6507 · Gutenberg 6508 · Gutenberg 6509 · Gutenberg 6510 · Gutenberg 6511 · Gutenberg 6512 · Gutenberg 6513 · Gutenberg 6514 · Gutenberg 6515
York, Towneley, Chester and N-Town (Ludus Coventriae) play cycles
archive.org scans of 19th- and early-20th-century editions, public domain.
Read it: archive.org
Caxton's Golden Legend
archive.org, public domain.
Read it: archive.org
Barlaam and Ioasaph
attributed to St John Damascene, Woodward and Mattingly's translation — Project Gutenberg ebook 749, public domain. Added 2026-09-20. It carries the apologue of the man fleeing a unicorn who falls into a pit and clings to a tree gnawed by two mice, which folio 148v tells, and its moral names the falling man as "the race of Adam", which is why the codex writes him with Király & Tokai's Adam sign.
Read it: Gutenberg 749
The Roman Missal, English, 1865 and The Complete Office of Holy Week, 1875
archive.org scans, public domain. Added 2026-09-20 for the liturgy: a 1593 Catholic reader is at least as much missal and breviary as it is scripture, and the Reproaches of Good Friday that folio 048v tells live there and in no Bible. Both are Google scans of two-column books, so the Latin and English columns interleave and the OCR invents words; any token absent from the 1.75M words of period English in ALL.txt is dropped before use.
Read it: archive.org
R. H. Charles, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, vol. 2
R. H. Charles, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, vol. 2 (Oxford, 1913), from the Internet Archive scan apocryphapseudep02charuoft. Published 1913 and out of copyright. The Vita Adae et Evae in it is the source of the codex's whole opening -- Satan refusing to worship Adam, Michael, Seth at the gates of Paradise for the oil of mercy -- and nothing in the corpus had covered it. Only the Books of Adam and Eve are indexed: four fifths of that volume is critical apparatus whose dense rare vocabulary outscored every real parallel.
Read it: archive.org
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, tr. William Whiston, Project Gutenberg ebook 2850. Public domain. The codex tells the siege of Jerusalem, Vespasian and Titus, and the mother who eats her child.
Read it: Gutenberg 2850
This rests on the Király and Tokai dictionary; their translation is unpublished; the readings here are this project's own.