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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
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TraditionAll (6)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (1)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (5)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (16)Scripture and exegesis (0)Ḥadīth and the Prophet's life (0)Law (0)Creed and kalām (0)Metaphysics and cosmology (3)Sciences of letters and names (0)Counsel and governance (6)The path (2)Lives and lineages (1)Prayer and litany (3)Lyric (1)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (6)Prose (5)Verse (0)Prose with verse (1)Diagrams (0)
LanguageAll (6)Arabic (0)Persian (2)Greek (0)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (3)Hebrew (1)Other (0)
PeriodAll (61)Archaic and classical Greek (6)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (4)Late antique (3)2nd century AH (5)3rd century AH (5)4th century AH (5)5th century AH (5)6th century AH (10)7th century AH (6)8th century AH (3)9th century AH (4)10th century AH (3)11th century AH (2)13th century AH (0)
In the readerAll (6)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (6)

6 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Bacon's glossed edition of the SecretumSecretum secretorum cum glossis et notulisRoger BaconCounsel and governance7th century AHLatinListed only
The Nasirean ethicsاخلاق ناصریNaṣīr al-Dīn al-ṬūsīCounsel and governance7th century AHPersianListed only
On the Rule of PrincesDe regimine principumGiles of RomeCounsel and governance7th century AHLatinListed only
On KingshipDe regno ad regem CypriThomas AquinasCounsel and governance7th century AHLatinListed only
Rose Garden; Orchardگلستان؛ بوستانSaʿdī of ShirazCounsel and governance7th century AHPersianListed only
Secret of Secrets (Hebrew versions)סוד הסודותJudah al-ḤarīzīCounsel and governance7th century AHHebrewListed only

Records

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

Connected works

The Nasirean ethics

اخلاق ناصری

Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī

Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (597–672/1201–1274)

Philosophy · Counsel and governance · Persian · 7th century AH · Listed only

Three parts: ethics (Miskawayh), household management (tadbīr-i manzil), and the management of cities (siyāsat-i mudun);

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
633/1235 (draft; unchecked) (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Mojtabā Mīnuvī and ʿAlī-Riḍā Ḥaydarī (Tehran 1356 sh/1977) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • G. M. Wickens, The Nasirean Ethics (London: Allen and Unwin 1964) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

  • Resonance, not influence: Opinions of the people of the virtuous city The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
  • Resonance, not influence: Metaphysics of the Shifāʾ, book X (prophecy, law and the city) The first draft claims influence; not yet checked. not yet checked
  • Resonance, not influence: The refinement of character (recorded as lineage, shown as a resonance until its reference is checked) The Platonic Current's note cites TDV (“Tûsî, Nasîrüddin”) as saying the Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī follows the Tahdhīb al-akhlāq, giving page comparisons. That note was reused; the TDV article was not re-read this session. Confidence: medium. probable

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 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

Rose Garden; Orchard

گلستان؛ بوستان

Gulistān; Būstān

Saʿdī of Shiraz (d. c. 691/1292)

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

Gulistān book 1 is 'On the conduct of kings': tales of kings, viziers and dervishes;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
1257-58, Shiraz (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Yūsufī (Tehran 1368 sh) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Eastwick (1852, free); Wickens (1974) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Secret of Secrets (Hebrew versions)

סוד הסודות

Sod ha-sodot

Judah al-Ḥarīzī (c. 1170–1235 (draft says c. 1190–1225; unchecked))

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

Medieval Jewish readers took the Secretum into Hebrew;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
13th c., Spain / Provence (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • M. Gaster, 'The Hebrew Version of the Secretum Secretorum', JRAS 1907-08 · 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