PDF Transcription
The source PDFs assembled by Patrick Madueke, whose work this site is built on. Both are placed in the public domain.
| File | Description | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
Original-Douay-Rheims-Bible-Merged.pdf | Complete Bible with annotations and notes | 27 MB | Download |
Original-Douay-Rheims-Bible.pdf | New Testament, text only (no notes) | 4.8 MB | Download |
Structured Data
The complete text, annotations, cross-references, and reference material as JSON and USFM files, available in the GitHub repository. Includes:
bible/tagged/— verse text with all original markup preserved (<sc>,<i>, footnote anchors, marginal note markers, cross-reference markers), pluscross_refsarrays and inline footnotes.bible/raw/— plain prose text with all markup stripped. Footnotes and cross-references preserved as structured data.usfm/— USFM 3 files with inline footnotes (\f) and cross-references (\x).annotations/— the 1,707 annotations with their sub-notes, one file per chapter.reference/— 26 JSON files for the original prefatory material: prefaces, tables, glossaries, and historical tables from the 1582 and 1609–1610 editions.
API
A read API is available for programmatic access to the text. See the API documentation for endpoints, parameters, and examples.
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