5th-century books

Compilation of laws of Roman Empire (438)

Horapollo (from Horus Apollo; ) (5th century AD?) is the supposed author of a treatise, titled Hieroglyphica, on Egyptian hieroglyphs, extant in a Greek translation by a Philippus (also dating to 5th century).

Jewish apocryphal text

Mṛcchakatika (), also spelled Mṛcchakaṭikā, Mrchchhakatika, Mricchakatika, or Mrichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart) is a ten-act Sanskrit drama attributed to Śūdraka (Simuka), an ancient playwright who is possibly from the 5th century CE, and who is identified by the prologue as a Kshatriya king as well as a devotee of Shiva who lived for above 110 years. The play is set in the ancient city of Ujjayini during the reign of the King Pālaka, near the end of the Pradyota dynasty that made up the first quarter of the fifth century BCE. The central story is that of a noble but impoverished young Br

thumb| Reference of Kuttaka in Aryabhatiya

5th century historical compilation by Liu Yiqing

Meqabyan (, also transliterated as or ), also referred to as Ethiopian Maccabees and Ethiopic Maccabees, are three books found only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Old Testament Biblical canon. The language of composition of these books is Geʽez, also called Classical Ethiopic, although they are more commonly found in Amharic today. These books are entirely different in their scope, content and subject from the more well-known books of Maccabees found in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles.

5th century Manichean manuscript

work by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

ancient Chinese short story collection

5th-century papyrus fragment

Samantapāsādikā (also spelled Samantapāsādika) is a commentary (Aṭṭhakathā) on the Vinaya Pitaka of the Theravada Tipitaka. It was composed by Buddhaghosa in the 5th century CE, based primarily on the Sinhalese Mahā-aṭṭhakathā (Great Commentary), with references also to the Mahāpaccarī and Kurundī commentaries.

4th- or 5th-century Taoist text by Guo Pu

The Lokavibhāga (literally "division of the universe") is a 5th-century Sanskrit text by Rishi Simhasuri. Its manuscript was first discovered in an Indian temple of Karnataka by M.R.R. Narasimhachar. The Lokavibhaga consists of 11 chapters and a total of 1737 verses (shlokas) distributed over these chapters. The text has an incomplete colophon, which states it was completed in a village named Patalika near Kanchi (Tamil Nadu) in the 22nd year of Simhavarman's rule in Banarastra. The colophon includes astronomical observations along with a samvat date and year which together confirm the text wa