The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
401–500
1 work
c. 484–489
Latin
Historia Persecutionis Africanae Provinciae
Victor of Vita
An African bishop's record of sixty years under Arian Vandal kings: churches confiscated, catholic clergy deported to the desert, a public debate rigged in advance, and the confessors of Tipasa whose tongues were cut out and who, Victor says, went on speaking.
501–600
1 work
c. 566–570
Latin
Victor of Tunnuna · d. c. 570
An African bishop's year-by-year record, written across a decade of imprisonment and exile for refusing to condemn the Three Chapters, and ending at the year he ran out of freedom to write.
1601–1700
1 work
1627
Spanish
De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute
Alonso de Sandoval · 1576–1652
A study of African peoples, languages, and the conditions of the slave ships arriving at Cartagena, written by a priest who met each vessel.
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