Pauca opera fabulam Argenidem legentibus utilia:

1. IJsewijn, J., "John Barclay and His Argenis, A Scottish Neo-Latin Novelist," Humanistica Lovaniensia 32 (1983) 1-27. Hoc opusculum illius philologi praeclarissimi (mortuus 1998), Principis studiorum neo-latinorum, primum lege.

2. Davis, Charles, "John Barclay and His Argenis in Spain," Humanistica Lovaniensia 32 (1983) 28-44. De tribus versionibus in linguam hispanicam factis.

3. Fleming, David, Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon (Euphormio's Satyricon) 1605-1607 (Nieuwkoop Holland) 1973. Praefatio perutilis est.

4. Collignon, Albert, Notes Historiques, Littéraires et Biliographiques sur L'Argenis de Jean Barclay (Paris and Nancy) 1902. Repositorium multorum rerum: de compositione et editione Parisiis, cum epistulis Barclaii et amicorum; de fortuna et exito fabulae ipsius; de latinitate; de familia Barclaii. Additur index editionum et versionum a Domino Collingnon repertorum. Opus luculentum.

5. Becker, August "Johann Barclay 1582-1621," Zeitschrift für vergleich. Lit.-Geschichte 15 (1903). De omnibus operibus Barclaii.

6. Kettelhoit, Paula, Formanalyse der Barclay-Opitzschen "Argenis," Bottrop i.W., Buch- und Kunstdruckerei Wilh. (Postberg) 1934.

7. Bensly, Edward, in Cambridge History of English Literature (Cambridge and New York) 1910, vol. 4, 290-299. Quamquam ad textum Latinum sane non spectat, scriptor optime disserit de familia, fama, laude Barclaii.