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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.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

c. 9th century; attribution debated

Latin

Veni Creator Spiritus

Attributed to Rabanus Maurus · c. 780 – 856

Seven stanzas calling the Spirit to visit the minds he made — the finger of God's right hand, the gift, the living fount, fire, love — and asking him to pour speech into the mouth and light into the senses.

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