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.
101–200
2 works
c. 140; lost, known through references
Greek
Aristo of Pella
A Jewish Christian and an Alexandrian Jew dispute the messiah from the prophets, and the Jew asks for baptism at the end. Celsus read it and thought it deserved pity rather than hatred; Origen defended it.
c. 160s; lost, echoed in Minucius Felix
Latin
Marcus Cornelius Fronto · c. 100 – c. 170
A speech by Marcus Aurelius's own tutor, known only through the charges Minucius Felix puts in a pagan's mouth in order to refute them: the infant covered in dough and stabbed by an initiate who does not know what he is cutting, and the lamp overturned at the feast.
401–500
1 work
c. 480–495
Latin
De Viris Illustribus
Gennadius of Massilia · d. c. 496
A continuation of Jerome's catalogue, adding about a hundred writers of the intervening century with a line or two on each and a verdict. Gennadius is a Gaul of the Lérins school, so Faustus is praised and Augustine handled coolly.
901–1000
1 work
987
Arabic
Al-Fihrist
Ibn al-Nadim · d. c. 995
A Baghdad bookseller's index of every book he knew to exist in Arabic, with notes on the authors. It covers scriptures and sects at length — Christians, Jews, Sabians, Manichaeans — and lists the titles of Mani's own writings one by one.
4 of 1774 works