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Palimpsests Patristics Library

Palimpsests Patristics Library

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Intake & maintenance

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Put a question to the whole library at once — the answer is an annotated bibliography of verbatim, page-linked quotations from your own editions.

“I'm writing an article on how church fathers were opposed to cremation and why.”

Who the quotation is said to be by, if you know. The check searches the words alone, then says who actually speaks them in your library.

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Enter to send · Shift+Enter for a new line · Type sets what comes back (annotated bibliography unless you choose otherwise) · Sources sets whose words are searched (the Fathers' own unless you add modern scholarship) · Prefixes: find: fast raw search (no AI) · every: every page containing a term (no AI) · check: check a quotation

This workbook's last question is still being answered. Ask the next one here when it's done, or ask in another workbook meanwhile.

Enter to check · Shift+Enter for a new line · Paste the words as you found them · Every passage is read except indexes and bibliographies, so the answer can say who is speaking — the Father himself, a translator's note, a later writer quoting him, or a hymn · Nothing is filled in from memory: if the words aren't in your books, the answer says so


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    You're reading a shared copy. Sign in and this workbook is saved into your own research as your own branch — the questions above stay, and you can put further questions to the same library.

    No passcode? Ask whoever shared this with you — the library is private, and accounts are handed out by its librarian.

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    Sources cited

    Chicago note style

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    People & usage

    People

    Claude usage

    Monday email

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    Account

    Model & billing

    Every answer is drafted by Claude, which costs a little per question. This is where you choose who covers it.

    Whose tokens to use

    Covered by FDS's monthly API credit for this library — it's there to be used, so ask freely.

    Optional: pick the model and spend your own tokens — every question you ask bills to your Anthropic account instead.

    Create one at console.anthropic.com → API keys. Use a key made just for this site, with a spending limit — it's stored on this site's server so it can answer your questions, which means the librarian could technically read it.

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    Monday email

    Each Monday morning, the coming Sunday’s readings and the Fathers’ comments on them, in your inbox. Only if you ask for it.

    Your address is used only for these emails, and for the searches you ask to hear about (“Email me when it’s ready” under the question box). It is deleted when you stop the Monday emails. They are sent through Resend, an email service, with no tracking.

    Your collection

    Quotations are the authors’ own words, checked against the page they come from when you saved them. Notes are yours alone.

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      Save any quotation from an answer, a catena or the reading pane (press “save” beside it), and it’s kept here with its citation.