About Royal Archives

A linked library of the Scriptures and the Church Fathers.

Mission

Royal Archives is a linked library of the Scriptures and the Church Fathers. Scripture, patristic works, and reference encyclopedias are cross-referenced into a single reading experience, so a verse and the writings that cite or expound it sit one click apart. It is free to use and offline-capable.

Sources & provenance

Texts are drawn from public-domain editions and digitized scholarship: the Ante-Nicene and Nicene/Post-Nicene Fathers series, nineteenth-century reference works, and original-language scans. Every work carries provenance badges naming its edition, and texts derived from optical character recognition are corrected over time.

  • Ante-Nicene Fathers and Nicene/Post-Nicene Fathers series.
  • Nineteenth-century reference works, via Wikisource, CCEL, and the Internet Archive.
  • Migne Patrologia Graeca scans for Greek sources.

Licensing

The historical texts and translations taken from public-domain editions remain in the public domain.

Royal Archives’ own contributions — original translations, the Orthodox Catholic Bible (OCB) recension, and editorial apparatus — are © Royal Archives, all rights reserved.

Source transcription for the Nikifor Bible Encyclopedia is via Russian Wikisource (ru.wikisource), licensed CC BY-SA.

Beta

The site is in beta: addresses and content may change, and errors in scan-derived texts are corrected continually.