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.
301–400
1 work
383
Latin
De Perpetua Virginitate Beatae Mariae
Jerome · c. 347 – 420
A Roman layman had argued from the gospels that Mary bore other children after Jesus and that marriage is therefore no worse than virginity. Jerome answers by combing the usage of until and brother through the whole of scripture, and proposes that the brothers of the Lord were cousins.
1401–1500
2 works
1440
Latin
De Falso Credita et Ementita Constantini Donatione
Lorenzo Valla · c. 1407–1457
A demonstration that the document by which Constantine supposedly gave the West to the papacy is a forgery — proved from its Latin, its anachronisms, and its silences.
c. 1444–1457
Latin
Lorenzo Valla · c. 1407–1457
Notes comparing the Vulgate against Greek manuscripts and finding the Latin wanting in dozens of places, including words on which doctrines had been built.
1501–1600
1 work
1516
Greek
Novum Instrumentum Omne
Desiderius Erasmus · c. 1466–1536
The Greek text printed alongside a fresh Latin translation and annotations, produced in haste from a handful of late manuscripts.
4 of 1774 works