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.
201–300
1 work
c. 248
Latin
Ad Quirinum
Cyprian of Carthage · c. 210–258
Scripture passages gathered under headings — on the Jews, on Christ, on Christian conduct — with almost no comment, assembled as ammunition for argument.
501–600
1 work
c. 515–520
Latin
Excerpta ex Operibus Sancti Augustini
Eugippius · c. 460 – c. 533
Three hundred and forty-eight passages cut from Augustine and arranged for monks who would never see the originals, made at a monastery near Naples by the abbot who also wrote the Life of Severinus.
601–700
2 works
c. 620
Greek
Antiochus of Palestine · 7th century
A hundred and thirty short chapters on the virtues and vices, compiled at the monastery of Mar Saba for monks scattered by the Persian sack of Jerusalem.
c. 700
Latin
Liber Scintillarum
Defensor of Ligugé · 7th century
Eighty-one chapters of short quotations on charity, patience, silence, and other virtues, each drawn first from scripture and then from the fathers.
701–800
1 work
c. 740–750
Greek
Sacra Parallela
John of Damascus · c. 675–749
An alphabetical anthology of scriptural and patristic passages arranged by subject, pairing virtues with the vices opposed to them.
801–900
1 work
c. 810–820
Latin
Diadema Monachorum
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel · d. c. 840
A hundred short chapters on the virtues, arranged for reading aloud one each evening before the monks retire.
901–1000
1 work
c. 975
Old English
Anonymous
A manuscript of homilies and religious poems, including Andreas, Elene on the finding of the cross, and the fullest text of The Dream of the Rood.
1001–1100
1 work
1073
Old Church Slavonic
Anonymous
An anthology of patristic extracts on doctrine and morals copied for a prince of Kyiv from a Bulgarian original, illuminated with a portrait of the ruling family.
8 of 1774 works