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Where each text comes from, and the licence under which it may be reused.

Fragments of the Apocalypse of Peter

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Andrew Rutherford, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

The Apocalypse of Peter

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Andrew Rutherford, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

Revelation of Paul

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Alexander Walker, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

The Vision of Paul

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Philip Schaff et al., as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

Revelation of John

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Alexander Walker, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

The Apocalypse of Thomas, the Apocalypse of the Virgin and the Revelation of Stephen

English translation by M. R. James, from The Apocryphal New Testament , being the apocryphal gospels, acts, epistles, and apocalypses, with other narratives and fragments, newly translated by Montague Rhodes James (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1924 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. James’s notes at the foot of the pages and the page numbers are also left out; the short introductions that he prints before each work are kept. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1924 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

Revelation of Esdras

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Alexander Walker, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

Revelation of Moses

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Alexander Walker, as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

The Apocalypse of Sedrach

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Philip Schaff et al., as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

The Narrative of Zosimus Concerning the Life of the Blessed

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Philip Schaff et al., as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

The Apocalypse of the Virgin on the Chastisements

English translation from the Ante-Nicene Fathers (edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe; New York, 1885–1896; public domain), translated by Philip Schaff et al., as transcribed by volunteers of English Wikisource . SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No Greek or Latin text is shown beside it, and no modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation is in the public domain (published before 1929). The Wikisource transcription is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; we credit it here. Licence: Public domain.

The Apocalypse of Samuel of Kalamoun

English translation by Roger Pearse (2009) from J. Ziadeh’s French translation of the Arabic text (1917), dedicated by the translator to the public domain; he calls it a rough translation. It was published in Roger Pearse’s collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts (tertullian.org/fathers). SermonIndex has removed the page numbers and the footnotes and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Licence: Public domain.

The Coptic Apocalypse of Daniel

English translation by Roger Pearse (2009) from Frédéric Macler’s French translation (1896), dedicated by the translator to the public domain; he calls it a rough translation. It was published in Roger Pearse’s collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts (tertullian.org/fathers). SermonIndex has removed the page numbers and the footnotes and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Licence: Public domain.

Pistis Sophia: The First Book

English translation by G. R. S. Mead, from Pistis Sophia: a Gnostic Gospel (with extracts from the Books of the Saviour, appended), originally translated from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze’s Latin version of the Coptic text , by G. R. S. Mead (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1896); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1896 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Mead’s introduction, his table of summaries, the list of contents, the advertisements at the end and the scribal note of divine names after the first book are also left out. The headings of the sections are the short summaries that Mead printed in the margin of the book, and the numbers in brackets in the text, which are the page numbers of the Coptic manuscript, are removed. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1896 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

Pistis Sophia: The Second Book

English translation by G. R. S. Mead, from Pistis Sophia: a Gnostic Gospel (with extracts from the Books of the Saviour, appended), originally translated from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze’s Latin version of the Coptic text , by G. R. S. Mead (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1896); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1896 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Mead’s introduction, his table of summaries, the list of contents, the advertisements at the end and the scribal note of divine names after the first book are also left out. The headings of the sections are the short summaries that Mead printed in the margin of the book, and the numbers in brackets in the text, which are the page numbers of the Coptic manuscript, are removed. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1896 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

Extracts from the Books of the Saviour

English translation by G. R. S. Mead, from Pistis Sophia: a Gnostic Gospel (with extracts from the Books of the Saviour, appended), originally translated from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze’s Latin version of the Coptic text , by G. R. S. Mead (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1896); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1896 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Mead’s introduction, his table of summaries, the list of contents, the advertisements at the end and the scribal note of divine names after the first book are also left out. The headings of the sections are the short summaries that Mead printed in the margin of the book, and the numbers in brackets in the text, which are the page numbers of the Coptic manuscript, are removed. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1896 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.

The Acts of Archelaus: the Disputation with Manes

English translation: an older public-domain translation as collected in the Writings-Database (HistoricalChristianFaith), mostly from the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers and similar nineteenth-century editions. SermonIndex has only divided it into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. No modern English version has been made. Licence: Public domain.