Works

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

Table and records Streams

TraditionAll (2)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (2)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)

GenreAll (2)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 (2)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)

FormAll (2)Prose (2)Verse (0)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)

LanguageAll (10)Arabic (5)Persian (3)Greek (0)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (2)Hebrew (0)Other (0)

PeriodAll (8)Archaic and classical Greek (0)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (1)Late antique (0)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (0)4th century AH (0)5th century AH (0)6th century AH (2)7th century AH (3)8th century AH (1)9th century AH (0)10th century AH (1)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)

In the readerAll (2)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (2)

2 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲	Author	Genre	Period	Language	Status
Statesman's BookPolicraticus	John of Salisbury	Counsel and governance	6th century AH	Latin	Listed only
Secret of Secrets (Latin versions)Secretum secretorum (Latin)	John of Seville and Philip of Tripoli (Latin translators)	Counsel and governance	6th century AH	Latin	Listed only

Records

Statesman's Book

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

Resonance, not influence: On Clemency The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
Resonance, not influence: To an Uneducated Ruler; Sayings of Kings and Commanders (Moralia) The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked

Secret of Secrets (Latin versions)

Secretum secretorum (Latin)

Secretum secretorum

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