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.
201–300
1 work
c. 250–300
Greek, surviving in Coptic
Anonymous
Hermes leads a pupil through the last stages of initiation into silence, where the two of them see the eighth sphere and hear the ninth singing, and the pupil finds he can no longer speak in his own words but only in a hymn of vowels.
1001–1100
2 works
c. 1077
Latin
Lanfranc of Bec · c. 1005–1089
Customs for Canterbury covering the whole year, including the sign language monks used during the hours of silence — signs for bread, for a book, for a psalter.
founded 1084; customs written c. 1121
Latin
Bruno of Cologne and the early Carthusians · c. 1030–1101
The arrangements of a house where each monk lives in a separate cell with a garden, meets the others chiefly in choir, and copies manuscripts as his work.
1101–1200
1 work
c. 1121–1128
Latin
Consuetudines
Guigo I · 1083–1136
The written form of Carthusian life: the cell, the hair shirt, the weekly walk, the books each monk is lent, and the instruction to copy manuscripts as preaching with the hands.
4 of 1774 works