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.
1201–1300
1 work
c. 1241–1265
Armenian
Kirakos Gandzaketsi · c. 1200–1271
Armenian history to the author's own day, including his capture by the Mongols and the two years he spent as their secretary before escaping.
1401–1500
1 work
c. 1468–1477
Greek
George Sphrantzes · 1401–c. 1478
A courtier's diary-like record of the last emperors, ending with his own enslavement, the loss of his children in the sultan's household, and his retirement to a monastery.
1601–1700
1 work
1682
English
Mary Rowlandson · c. 1637–1711
A minister's wife taken captive by Narragansett and Nipmuc raiders describes eleven weeks of forced marches, hunger, and her attempts to read providence in it.
3 of 1774 works