README.md

---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- en
- la
- grc
pretty_name: "Migne Patrologia — englished works (Latin/Greek ↔ English)"
tags:
- history
- theology
- religion
---

# Migne Patrologia — englished works (Latin/Greek ↔ English)

163 works from Migne's Patrologia (156 Latin, 7 Greek) with the shop's English translation (~3.18M words) beside the public-domain source text, one JSON record per work.

Canonical home: https://migne.app (each record carries its canonical URL). This dataset is a machine-generated export of that site's build, regenerated from the source of truth and never hand-edited; the site remains the one published address of the text.

## Licence

**CC BY-NC 4.0** on the English translation, apparatus and encoding; source text public domain and unclaimed. Machine-learning training, fine-tuning, evaluation and retrieval — including commercial model development — are explicitly permitted under those terms: keep the attribution and say if you changed the text. Full terms: https://migne.app/rights

## Credits

Greek text: CGPG (CC BY 4.0). Latin: Corpus Corporum TEI transcription (no licence statement in its headers). 49 older PL works have English but no Latin on disk yet.

## How the English was made

English text was drafted with LLM assistance and checked against the source; the verification procedure and what has and has not been checked are described on the site's rights / about pages. Treat it as a careful working translation, not a critical edition.

## Loading

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("wrootpress/migne", data_files="data/migne-2026-09-08.jsonl.gz")
```

Contact: wilson@wrootlabs.com