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Every work of the authors in the library’s orbit, in the reader or not: who wrote it, when, how it survives, where it can be read, and how it connects to other works. 82 so far. Where a field has not been checked against its source, it says so.
Checked on 2026-10-31
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TraditionAll (8)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (8)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (8)Scripture and exegesis (0)Ḥadīth and the Prophet's life (0)Law (0)Creed and kalām (0)Metaphysics and cosmology (0)Sciences of letters and names (0)Counsel and governance (8)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
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LanguageAll (61)Arabic (24)Persian (10)Greek (11)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (3)Chinese (0)Latin (8)Hebrew (1)Other (4)
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8 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▼AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Secret of Secrets (Latin versions)Secretum secretorum (Latin)John of Seville and Philip of Tripoli (Latin translators)Counsel and governance6th century AHLatinListed only
Statesman's BookPolicraticusJohn of SalisburyCounsel and governance6th century AHLatinListed only
On MonarchyMonarchiaDante AlighieriCounsel and governance8th century AHLatinListed only
The Education of a Christian PrinceInstitutio principis christianiDesiderius ErasmusCounsel and governance10th century AHLatinListed only
On KingshipDe regno ad regem CypriThomas AquinasCounsel and governance7th century AHLatinListed only
On the Rule of PrincesDe regimine principumGiles of RomeCounsel and governance7th century AHLatinListed only
On ClemencyDe clementiaSenecaCounsel and governanceRoman imperialLatinListed only
Bacon's glossed edition of the SecretumSecretum secretorum cum glossis et notulisRoger BaconCounsel and governance7th century AHLatinListed only

Records

Secret of Secrets (Latin versions)

Secretum secretorum (Latin)

Secretum secretorum

John of Seville and Philip of Tripoli (Latin translators) (12th–13th c. CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 6th century AH · Listed only

Two Latin translations carried the work to Europe, where it became one of the most copied 'Aristotelian' texts (hundreds of manuscripts).

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
12th-13th c., Toledo/Spain; Tripoli/Antioch (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • R. Steele, Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi, fasc. V (Oxford 1920) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Steven J. Williams, The Secret of Secrets (Ann Arbor 2003) discusses translations · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

  • Resonance, not influence: The Secret of Secrets The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

Statesman's Book

Policraticus

Policraticus

John of Salisbury (d. 1180)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 6th century AH · Listed only

The commonwealth as body: prince as head, priests as soul, army as hands;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
1159, Canterbury/Chartres (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Webb (Oxford 1909); Nederman CUP tr. (1990) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Cary Nederman (CUP 1990); Pike (1938) 'Frivolities of Courtiers' · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

On Monarchy

Monarchia

Monarchia

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 8th century AH · Listed only

Universal monarchy as necessary for realising the human intellect;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1313-18, Verona/Ravenna (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Prue Shaw (Cambridge 1995) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Prue Shaw (CUP 1995) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

The Education of a Christian Prince

Institutio principis christiani

Institutio principis christiani

Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 10th century AH · Listed only

Education of the prince in virtue;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
1516, Basel/Louvain (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Opera omnia IV-1 (Amsterdam 1974) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Lisa Jardine (CUP 1997); Born (1936) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

On Kingship

De regno ad regem Cypri

De regno

Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 7th century AH · Listed only

Monarchy best;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1267, Rome/Orvieto (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Leonine ed. (vol. 42) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Gerald Phelan and I. Eschmann, On Kingship (Toronto 1949); Dyson (CUP 2002) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

On the Rule of Princes

De regimine principum

De regimine principum

Giles of Rome (d. 1316)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 7th century AH · Listed only

Three books on self-governance (ethics), the household (economics), and the kingdom (politics): the Platonic-Aristotelian triad as in Ṭūsī.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1280, Paris (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Rome 1556 · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Briggs (Giles of Rome's De regimine principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, Stanford/Brill 1999) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

On Clemency

De clementia

De clementia

Seneca (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · Roman imperial · Listed only

Clemency makes power secure;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
55-56 CE, Rome (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Prechac (Budé) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Cooper and Procopé (CUP, Seneca: Moral and Political Essays 1995) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Bacon's glossed edition of the Secretum

Secretum secretorum cum glossis et notulis

Roger Bacon (1214–1292)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Latin · 7th century AH · Listed only

Bacon edits the Philip-of-Tripoli text with glosses (on hygiene, optics, astrology), using it to argue for scientific reform.

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 1270s, Oxford/Paris (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Steele fasc. V (1920) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

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