The present volume is a convenient collection of important Manichaean texts with English translations. There is a helpful introduction giving an account of the principal ‘canonical’ Manichaean works and the theology which can, when supplemented by other sources, be derived from them. The main body of the book consists of the primary sources printed in the original with facing English translations, and is divided into two parts. First, there are the fragments of sources written by Mani and Manichaeans themselves: the Living gospel, the Thesaurus, Mani's Letters, the Prayer of the emanations, the Amatorium canticum and the tomb inscription of Bassa; select passages from the Cologne Mani Codex are also included, as is a Manichaean source quoted by Severus of Antioch (though it only survives now in Syriac). The second part consists of descriptions of Manichaean doctrine and practice by pagans such as Alexander of Lycopolis and by Christians such as Epiphanius; there are also less well known anathematisation formulae which it is very helpful to have included here. Brief commentary is supplied for each work. As already noted, the texts here are not new editions but draw on existing texts from Mansi and Migne to more modern editions. (This seems unusual, given that other volumes in the CFM, such as Richter's publication of the Manichaean Psalm book, are fresh editions of already edited works.) The translation is in the main well done. The presentation of the volume is uneven, however. In addition to my copy of the book being bound the wrong way up, there are numerous spelling errors, and in the commentary some of the Greek and a large part of the Coptic have not been put into the correct fonts and therefore appear as gobbledegook. The rendering of Mani's name (admittedly a vexed matter) is not treated very consistently, with the same Latin or Greek forms being variously translated or transliterated: Manichaeus becomes sometimes ‘Mani’ (p. 7) and Mani, sometimes ‘Manes’ (p. 13), for example, whereas the same Greek form is translated variously as ‘Mani’ and ‘the Maniac’ (p. 133). The indices sometimes have entries under the normal lexical item, but at other times in inflected form (thus zōn, eidon and eipon are separated from zaō, horaō and legō). It is a shame that an otherwise very helpful volume is marred by such quirks.