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.
501–600
1 work
c. 526
Latin
Institutiones Grammaticae
Priscian
Eighteen books on Latin, written at Constantinople for Greek-speaking officials, quoting several hundred Latin authors — many of whom survive only in these citations.
701–800
1 work
c. 784–796
Latin
Epistola de Litteris Colendis
Charlemagne, drafted by Alcuin · Charlemagne, c. 748 – 814
A circular to the monasteries observing that letters arriving from them are devout in sentiment and illiterate in grammar, and reasoning that if men cannot get the words right they will get the meaning wrong. Every house is to teach letters properly.
901–1000
1 work
c. 992–1002
Old English
Ælfric of Eynsham · c. 955 – c. 1010
Latin grammar explained in English for boys who had none, with a glossary of some three thousand words grouped by subject — parts of the body, birds, tools, church furnishings — and a preface saying he wrote it because the teaching had decayed.
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