Sources & Bibliography

Polyglottle displays public-domain and openly licensed texts alongside morphological data and lexical glosses. All primary texts are in the public domain or are used under open licenses. Gloss data is derived from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the Anthropic Claude API.

New Testament Texts

Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)

Society of Biblical Literature Greek New Testament

EditorMichael W. Holmes
PublisherSociety of Biblical Literature & Logos Bible Software, 2010
MorphologyMorphGNT — per-word parsing (part of speech, case, number, tense, mood, voice) via Robinson codes
LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Sourcegithub.com/morphgnt/sblgnt

Latin New Testament (Clementine Vulgate)

Biblia Sacra Vulgata

TranslatorJerome (Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus), c. 382–405
EditionClementine recension, 1592
LicensePublic domain
SourceBolls.life Bible API (version code: VULG)

German New Testament (Luther 1912)

Lutherbibel, 1912 Revision

TranslatorMartin Luther, 1534; revised 1912
LicensePublic domain
SourceBolls.life Bible API (version code: LUT)

French New Testament (Louis Segond 1910)

La Sainte Bible

TranslatorLouis Segond, 1910
LicensePublic domain
SourceBolls.life Bible API (version code: FRLSG)

Dutch New Testament (Statenvertaling)

Staten Bijbel

TranslatorStates General commission, 1637
LicensePublic domain
SourceBolls.life Bible API (version code: DSV). Includes Strong's numbers.

English New Testament (King James Version)

Authorized Version

TranslatorCommissioned by James I, 1611; Cambridge edition
LicensePublic domain
SourceBolls.life Bible API (version code: KJV). Includes Strong's numbers.

Russian New Testament (Synodal Translation)

Синодальный перевод

TranslatorHoly Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, 1876
LicensePublic domain
SourceBolls.life Bible API (version code: SYNOD)

Old Testament Texts

Hebrew Old Testament (OSHB / WLC)

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible — Westminster Leningrad Codex

Base textWestminster Leningrad Codex (BHS 5), the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible (1008/1009 CE)
MorphologyFull per-word morphological tagging (part of speech, stem, binyan, number, gender, state) via Open Scriptures tags
LicenseCC0 (public domain dedication)
Sourcegithub.com/openscriptures/morphhb

Greek Old Testament (Septuagint / LXX)

Rahlfs Edition

EditorAlfred Rahlfs; revised by Robert Hanhart (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2006)
NotesGreek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, 3rd–1st century BCE
LicensePublic domain
SourceBolls.life Bible API (version code: LXX)

Latin Old Testament (Clementine Vulgate)

See New Testament entry above

German, French, Dutch, English, Russian Old Testaments

Same editions as New Testament above

Classical Literature

Homer, Odyssey — Greek (Perseus Digital Library)

Ὀδύσσεια

EditionHomer. The Odyssey. Murray, A.T., ed. London: William Heinemann, 1919.
ProviderPerseus Digital Library, Tufts University
LicenseCC BY-SA 3.0
Sourcegithub.com/PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit

Homer, Odyssey — Latin (Didot Edition)

Odyssea (Latin translation)

Edition19th-century Didot Latin translation
LicensePublic domain
SourceProject Gutenberg #52693

Homer, Odyssey — English (Butler)

The Odyssey

TranslatorSamuel Butler, 1900
LicensePublic domain
SourceProject Gutenberg #1727

Homer, Odyssey — French (Leconte de Lisle)

L'Odyssée

TranslatorCharles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, 1893
LicensePublic domain
SourceProject Gutenberg #14286

Morphological Data

MorphGNT

Morphological Greek New Testament

MaintainerJames Tauber
CoverageAll 27 New Testament books; per-word part of speech, parsing (case/number/gender, tense/mood/voice), and lemma
LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Sourcegithub.com/morphgnt/sblgnt

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb)

Morphological tagging of the Westminster Leningrad Codex

Maintaineropenscriptures (Open Scriptures project)
CoverageAll 39 Hebrew Old Testament books; per-word tagging including stem, binyan, gender, number, state, and person
LicenseCC0
Sourcegithub.com/openscriptures/morphhb

Perseus AGDT Treebank

Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank, v2.1

ProviderPerseus Digital Library, Tufts University
CoverageHomer's Iliad and Odyssey; per-word 9-character postag (part of speech, number, tense, mood, voice, gender, case, degree) and syntactic dependency relations
LicenseCC BY-SA 3.0
Sourcegithub.com/PerseusDL/treebank_data (release v2.1)

Lexical Data & Glosses

Wiktionary

Wikimedia Foundation

UsageBulk gloss lookups for German, French, Dutch, Latin, English, and Russian words via the Wiktionary REST API
LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Sourceen.wiktionary.org (REST API)

Claude (Anthropic)

AI-assisted gap-filling for missing glosses

UsageWords not resolved by Wiktionary were glossed using Claude via the Anthropic API, with source tagged as "claude" in the data
ProviderAnthropic, PBC

Text Delivery

Bolls.life Bible API

Multi-version Bible text API

UsageUsed to fetch the text of most Bible translations during the data ingestion pipeline (Vulgate, Luther, Segond, Statenvertaling, KJV, Synodal, LXX)
Sourcebolls.life