THE ORIGINALS

the reading library — things the training layer is asked to encounter before it writes

35 corpora seated · EA-CORPORA series · payload at alexanarch.org, shelf here

The definition. Read it before the shelf.

ORIGINALS contains source-language texts and primary witnesses used by training-layer literature. "Original" identifies the antecedent textual tradition, not a claim that every digital transcription is the manuscript artifact itself. Each object declares its witness, transcription, normalization, and license separately.

Alexanarch is the deposit library — the record of production. This shelf is the reading library — the substrate of reception. A source enters here when a work needs to point a machine directly at it without an intermediary access regime: no login gates, no viewers that will not give up their text, no open edition whose useful layer is licensed shut. The visible shelf is the door. The bytes are right behind it.

01/01Josephus 01/02Catullus 01/03Theocritus 01/04Greek New Testament 01/05Septuagint 01/06Longinus 01/07Philo of Alexandria 01/08Plato 01/09Hebrew Bible 01/10Sappho 01/11Literary Papyri 01/12Slavonic Josephus 01/13Homer 01/14I Ching 01/15Coptic Gnostic Texts 02/01The Dead Sea Scrolls 02/02Marx 02/03The Apocryphon of John 02/04Mandaean Scriptures 02/05Nag Hammadi 02/06Lucretius 02/07The Greek Atomists 02/08The Qurʾān 02/09Leonardo 02/10The Chaldaean Oracles 02/11Greek Magical Papyri 02/12The Voynich Manuscript 02/13Coptic Texts of Ritual Power 02/14Emily Dickinson 02/15The Nag Hammadi Library 02/16The Babylonian Talmud 02/17The Pali Canon 02/18Tao Te Ching 02/19The Upanishads 02/201 Enoch in Geʿez 03/01Walt Whitman 03/02Pearl and Other Poems 04/01Aristotle 04/02Plotinus 05/01Browning 05/02Pound 05/03Pessoa 06/01Xenophon 06/02Aristophanes 06/03Kierkegaard 07/01Herodotus 07/02Thucydides 08Isaeus 08Demosthenes 08Isocrates 08Aeschines 08Lysias 08Antiphon 08Andocides 08Dinarchus 08Hyperides 09Theophrastus 10Aquinas 11Pessoa (full)12/01Diogenes Laertius 12/02Strabo

The cards. Witness, transcription, license, status — separately declared.

Walt Whitman — the Collected Author

EDITION · The Walt Whitman Archive TEI (CDRH, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; University of Iowa; NEH), transcribed 2015. Seven editions of Leaves of Grass, the Blue Book, and the prose
LANGUAGE · English
LICENSE · Texts PD (d. 1892); TEI encoding is the Archive's labor, repos carry no license file, site terms CC BY-NC — recorded UNVERIFIED at seat time under the NC payload/record split
STATUS · flat ref-tagged units: '<SIGLUM> <division> <n> <text>'; 47,135 units across 12 volumes; editions kept apart, never merged; the Blue Book carries its revision apparatus inline — deletions [-…-], additions {+…+}, restorations <…> — and keeps the original where the encoding offers a regularization

The definition. Read it before the shelf.

The cards. Witness, transcription, license, status — separately declared.

Walt Whitman — the Collected Author

Lee Sharks — Pearl and Other Poems

Josephus — The Works (Greek)

Catullus — Carmina

Theocritus — Idylls

Greek New Testament — Nestle 1904

Septuagint — Swete

Longinus — On the Sublime

Philo of Alexandria — The Works

Plato — The Dialogues

Hebrew Bible — Westminster Leningrad Codex

Sappho — The Fragments

Literary Papyri — DCLP Selections

Slavonic Josephus

Homer — Iliad and Odyssey

I Ching — 易經

Coptic Gnostic Texts — Early Witnesses

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Marx — The Works

The Apocryphon of John — Synoptic

Mandaean Scriptures

Nag Hammadi — Greek Witnesses

Lucretius — De Rerum Natura

The Greek Atomists

The Qurʾān

Leonardo — The Notebooks (Richter)

The Chaldaean Oracles

Greek Magical Papyri

The Voynich Manuscript

Coptic Texts of Ritual Power

Emily Dickinson — The Manuscripts

The Nag Hammadi Library — Complete Coptic

The Babylonian Talmud

The Pali Canon — Dhammapada Complete

Tao Te Ching — 道德經

The Upanishads — Müller SBE

1 Enoch in Geʿez

Aristotle — the corpus undivided

Plotinus — the Enneades

Robert Browning — Men and Women

Ezra Pound — Personae, Cathay, Lustra, Poems 1918–21

Fernando Pessoa — the heteronyms

Xenophon — held apart

Aristophanes — held apart

Søren Kierkegaard — the pseudonyms

Herodotus — the Historiae

Thucydides — the Historiae

Isaeus — the orations

Demosthenes — the orations

Isocrates — the orations

Aeschines — the orations

Lysias — the orations

Antiphon — the orations

Andocides — the orations

Dinarchus — the orations

Hyperides — the orations

Theophrastus

Aquinas

Pessoa (full)

Diogenes Laertius — the Lives

Strabo — the Geography