Source Library

Source Library is a digital library of over 4,000 rare historical texts from the 15th through 19th centuries, translated into modern English using artificial intelligence.^[1]

Source Library is initiated in 2026 by the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Embassy of the Free Mind is home to the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. Source Library is free to read and cite. Its collection draws from thirteen major digital libraries worldwide. Every page preserves the original manuscript alongside its AI-translation, allowing readers to verify and improve the text.

Source Library collects and translates digitised rare books from these institutions:

• Internet Archive
• Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
• Bavarian State Library (MDZ)
• Wellcome Collection
• e-rara (Swiss National Library)
• Europeana
• Biblissima IIIF Aggregator
• Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
• Vatican Library (DigiVatLib)
• Cambridge Digital Library
• Herzog August Library
• Library of Congress
• Google Books (via IA mirror)

• Source Library