The following list supplies links to sites where texts of works by Erasmus can be found. It is an updated version of an earlier list in Erasmus Studies 34 (2014) 65–66. If you would like to suggest additions, please mail them to: jan.bloemendal@huygens.knaw.nl
This site of the Rotterdam Library replaces the site of the Erasmus Centre for Early Modern Studies (
These two sites give an overview of the Erasmi Opera Omnia (asd) series.
https://www.villagebooks.com/book/9780802019813
This site offers a list of the volumes of the Collected Works of Erasmus (cwe) that have appeared.
On this site, many of the volumes in the asd series can be found in pdf with an underlying ocr.
A splendid edition of the asd volumes (II: 1–9) of the Adagia made by Hans van Poll.
The edition of Erasmus’ letters by Percy S. Allen, Helen M. Allen and Heathcote W. Garrod.
vd 16 (Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts) gives an overview of German editions of Erasmus’ works, often linked to online versions of early prints from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich and other German libraries.
The project ‘Gallica’ of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France provides facsimiles of many editions.
This site by Arnoud Visser shows fascimiles of works by Erasmus annotated by, among others, Luther.
This website, ‘Post-Reformation Digital Library’, contains links to (early) editions of many of Erasmus’ theological works.
The site ‘Bibliotheca Augustana’ offers hypertext editions of, inter alia, the Adagia, Laus Stultitiae, Iulius exclusus e coelis, Colloquia and poems.
This site, maintained by Martin Engels, offers several documents regarding Erasmus, among which a concordance to the Adagia.
The ‘Erasmus Text Project’ offering texts of Colloquia, The Praise of Folly and prayers. It is now part of the archive.org ‘wayback machine’ and works only partially.
Some texts of Erasmus (Laus Stultitiae, Colloquia, De laude matrimonii, Querela Pacis, Institutio principis Christiani, Libri Antibarbarorum and 29 other writings) are available on the neo-Latin part of The Latin Library.
Dana Sutton’s highly useful Analytic Bibliography of Online Neo-Latin Texts with links.
Many old editions of Erasmus are available as facsimiles, and many new books can be partially consulted.
Through catalogues such as these many books of or on Erasmus can be found, often with links to google books.
Many articles and reviews of books concerning Erasmus can be searched in