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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 (4)The Quran (0)Ibn ʿArabī (0)Sufism (0)Philosophy (0)Ismaili thought (0)Greek sources (0)Further afield (4)Arabic grammar (0)Other (0)
GenreAll (4)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 (3)The path (0)Lives and lineages (1)Prayer and litany (0)Lyric (0)Language and grammar (0)Other, or not yet classed (0)
FormAll (4)Prose (4)Verse (0)Prose with verse (0)Diagrams (0)
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In the readerAll (4)In the reader (0)Planned (0)Listed only (4)

4 of 82 works.

Works, sortable by column
Title ▲AuthorGenrePeriodLanguageStatus
Andarz: Middle Persian counsel literatureاندرز (Pahlavi andarz)Anonymous (Sasanian andarz)Counsel and governanceLate antiqueOtherListed only
Advice to the Emperor / EkthesisἜκθεσις κεφαλαίων παραινετικῶνAgapetus the DeaconCounsel and governanceLate antiqueGreekListed only
Letter of Tansarنامه تنسرTansar (attributed)Counsel and governanceLate antiquePersianListed only
Book of Lords / Lives of the Kings of the Persiansخدای‌نامگ / سیر ملوک العجمAnonymous (Sasanian andarz)Lives and lineagesLate antiqueOtherListed only

Records

Andarz: Middle Persian counsel literature

اندرز (Pahlavi andarz)

Andarz

Anonymous (Sasanian andarz) (Sasanian period)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Other · Late antique · Listed only

Short sayings and instruction from sage to king or son;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
Sasanian, preserved in 9th-10th c. Pahlavi, Iran (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Zaehner, The Teachings of the Magi (1956); Shaki and others · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Zaehner (1956); Jamasp-Asana and West (Pahlavi Texts) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Advice to the Emperor / Ekthesis

Ἔκθεσις κεφαλαίων παραινετικῶν

Ekthesis kephalaiōn parainetikōn

Agapetus the Deacon (fl. 6th c. CE)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Greek · Late antique · Listed only

72 short chapters, acrostic on Justinian's name: the emperor is equal to all in nature, to God alone in power;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
c. 527-30, Constantinople (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Riedinger (1995); PG 86 · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Peter Bell, Three Political Voices from the Age of Justinian (Liverpool 2009) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Letter of Tansar

نامه تنسر

Nāma-yi Tansar

Tansar (attributed) (Sasanian setting)

Further afield · Counsel and governance · Persian · Late antique · Listed only

Defends Ardashīr's centralising reform;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
Sasanian setting; Persian recension via Ibn Isfandiyār (c. 1210), Iran (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Minovi (Tehran 1932); Darmesteter (JA 1894) · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Translations
  • Mary Boyce, The Letter of Tansar (Rome 1968) · en · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

Connected works

Book of Lords / Lives of the Kings of the Persians

خدای‌نامگ / سیر ملوک العجم

Xwadāy-nāmag / Siyar mulūk al-ʿajam

Anonymous (Sasanian andarz) (Sasanian period)

Further afield · Lives and lineages · Other · Late antique · Listed only

The history of kings as moral exemplar;

Attribution
authentic not yet checked
Date
6th-7th c. Pahlavi; Arabic 8th c., Iran/Baghdad (basis: date of composition) not yet checked
Editions
  • Lost; fragments only · cite only (unchecked) not yet checked
Not in the reader yet

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