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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
Table and recordsStreams
TraditionAll (1)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (1)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (1)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 (1)The path (0)Lives and lineages (0)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (1)Prose (1)Verse (0)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)
LanguageAll (4)Arabic (3)Persian (0)Greek (1)Syriac (0)Ottoman Turkish (0)Chinese (0)Latin (0)Hebrew (0)Other (0)
PeriodAll (2)Archaic and classical Greek (0)Hellenistic (0)Roman imperial (0)Late antique (1)2nd century AH (0)3rd century AH (1)4th century AH (0)5th century AH (0)6th century AH (0)7th century AH (0)8th century AH (0)9th century AH (0)10th century AH (0)11th century AH (0)13th century AH (0)
In the readerAll (1)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (1)

1 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Byzantine mirrors: Photius' Letter to Boris of Bulgaria (c. 864-66); Theophylact of Ohrid, Paideia basilike (1080s [check]); Basil I's Exhortations to Leo (886 [check])Letter to Boris-Michael; Παιδεία βασιλική; Κεφάλαια παραινετικάPhotius of ConstantinopleCounsel and governance3rd century AHGreekListed only

Records

Byzantine mirrors: Photius' Letter to Boris of Bulgaria (c. 864-66); Theophylact of Ohrid, Paideia basilike (1080s [check]); Basil I's Exhortations to Leo (886 [check])

Letter to Boris-Michael; Παιδεία βασιλική; Κεφάλαια παραινετικά

Photius to Boris; Paideia basilikē (Theophylact); Basil I, Kephalaia

Photius of Constantinople (c. 810–after 893 CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Greek · 3rd century AH · Listed only

Christian ruler as imitator of Christ;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
9th-11th c., Constantinople; Ohrid (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

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