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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 (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 (12)Arabic (5)Persian (5)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 ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Statesman's BookPolicraticusJohn of SalisburyCounsel and governance6th century AHLatinListed only
Secret of Secrets (Latin versions)Secretum secretorum (Latin)John of Seville and Philip of Tripoli (Latin translators)Counsel and governance6th century AHLatinListed only

Records

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

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