With today’s addition of the Gelasian Decree, the e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha, NASSCAL’s comprehensive bibliography of Christian apocrypha research, has reached the landmark number of 250 complete entries.
The site was created in 2015 by Tony Burke, Mark Bilby, and Bradley Rice. The goal was to work with other scholars to compile bibliographies for every known apocryphal Christian text. The individual pages were soon enhanced with links to manuscript images and to various related material objects (iconography, artifacts, holy sites, etc.). There are now almost 500 Manuscripta apocryphorum pages and another 36 Materiae apocryphorum pages.
Of course, the success of a project like the e-Clavis must be measured by its utility. Do people use it? It seems they do: 26000 separate users visited the site in 2022. The editors would like to thank all of the contributors to e-Clavis for their work and everyone who has supported the site—by using it, recommending it to others, and citing it in their publications—over the past eight years.