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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. 796–801

Latin

The Alcuinian Bible

Alcuin of York and the scriptorium of Tours · c. 735 – 804

A corrected Vulgate produced at Tours at Charlemagne's request, standardising a text that had drifted through four centuries of copying, and written in the new Caroline minuscule with word spacing and punctuation.

Western · TranslationGenesisPsalmsMatthewRomans

1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

1 work

1651

Vietnamese

Catechism in Eight Days

Cathechismus

Alexandre de Rhodes · 1593–1660

A catechism in parallel Latin and Vietnamese, published with a dictionary and grammar using a romanised script the Jesuits had developed.

Jesuit · Catechism