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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1577 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.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

c. 840

Latin

The Little Garden

Hortulus

Walafrid Strabo · c. 808–849

A poem on twenty-three plants in a monastery garden — sage, rue, melon, lily, rose — with their uses in medicine and their meanings.

Western · Poetry