About
The texts stand on their own; the essays are one reader’s reading.
What this is
The Neoplatonic Library is a small, self-contained library of the works of the Platonic tradition, in public-domain editions. Each text is a transcription of a printed book — the scanner’s own characters, kept — with the editorial work recorded rather than hidden: the repairs that were made, why, and where none could be, the damage left visible. You can read the repaired text and the raw transcription against each other, and the difference between them is the repair list.
It is a STATIC site. Every page is a file; there is no database, no account, no tracker, and nothing is sent anywhere. The search runs in your browser over an index served as a file. The transcriptions, the repair logs and the graph are exportable as plain data.
Licence
The transcriptions are public domain. Every text here is a transcription of a printed edition published before 1929; the print is out of copyright and so is the transcription.
The editorial layer is CC BY 4.0. The transcriptions are public-domain works. The editorial work — repairs, page models, apparatus, notes — is released under CC BY 4.0. The editorial layer is the repairs and their rationales, the page models and anchor manifests, the apparatus and notes, the graph, and the site’s own prose — released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. You may share and adapt it for any purpose, including commercially, provided you give credit, link the licence, and say what you changed. Credit “The Neoplatonic Library (neoplatonic-library.org)” with a link to the page the material came from.
How to cite
Cite the edition, the version, and the URL. Each edition page carries a formatted citation. Version 1.0.0 of each edition is the migration of the blog library’s served text; the version date is the blog’s own import date, recorded in the version note.
The form, for the editions served here:
Proclus, The Elements of Theology, trans. Thomas Taylor (London, 1816). The Neoplatonic Library, version 1.0.0. https://neoplatonic-library.org/texts/proclus-elements-of-theology-taylor-1816/
Each edition page carries its own citation string, and a pinned version’s page carries that version’s — so a citation to a particular version keeps naming that version. Every published edition’s record and the graph are also served as plain data, at the data export and the graph.