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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

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.

701–800

The Eighth Century

1 work

c. 765–790

Old High German

The Abrogans

Anonymous, probably at Freising

A Latin synonym dictionary with German equivalents written above the words, beginning at abrogans and running through some thirty-five hundred entries — made so that monks whose Latin was shaky could read the fathers.

Western Monastic · GlossaryProverbs