| 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 | |