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Digital Editions:

Rerum in Ecclesia gestarum, 1559 [Latin edition]
This early work was later expanded and forms the basis for Acts and Monuments, Page images made available by agreement with University of Pennsylvania.

Actes and monuments, 1563 [CD-ROM]
This CD-ROM combines images of 1,787 pages of text and woodcut engravings from the first edition, published in 1563. Digital images prepared by Ohio State University Libraries in 2003. Copy available for checkout.

Facsimile of John Foxe's Book of martyrs, 1583 [CD-ROM]
This CD-ROM combines images of 2,200 pages of text and woodcut engravings from the 1583 edition, the last for which Foxe was personally responsible. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press in 2001. Copy available for checkout.

Image Collections:

NEH Summer Institute Collection (2001)
This learning resource, prepared by Ohio State University Libraries in support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute held in Columbus in 2001, includes woodcuts and stories from four editions: 1563, 1570, 1576, and 1583. The stories are organized into topical groups for comparison.

CDRI Image Collections
Ohio State University Libraries and the Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University contributed images for approximately 220 woodcuts as well as title pages, calendars, almanacs, and indexes from the 1563, 1570, 1576 and 1583 editions to the American Theological Library Association's Cooperative Digital Resources Initiatives (CDRI) database. Another joint project provided images for engravings from the 1684 edition.

Documents:

Come ye blessed, go ye cursed: the world of John Foxe's Acts and monuments, also known as the Book of martyrs, Exhibition, 29 March--15 May 1999, Ohio State University Libraries. Prepared and described by James K. Bracken. Coincident with the Third International John Foxe Colloquium, 29 April-2 May 1999, The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.