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Yongle Encyclopedia
encyclopedia
Sibylline Books
collection of prophecies used in Rome
Book of Jasher
lost book mentioned in 2 Samuel 1:18 and Joshua 10:13
Altan Debter
Mongolian historiographical work
The True Word
treatise by Celsus criticising Christianity
Khwaday-Namag
Khwadāy-Nāmag (Iranian Persian: ; ) is the hypothetical title of a lost Middle Persian story from the Sasanian era. It presumably encompassed the national history of Iran from the beginning of time until the Sasanian period. It was a remote predecessor of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ('Book of Kings'), the 10th-century Iranian national epic, which, it is assumed, drew from a version or versions of the Khwaday-Namag. Scholars have tried to determine the content of the Khwaday-Namag through a comparison of Zoroastrian works, Islamic sources, and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Some scholars use the term Khwaday-N
Book of the Wars of the Lord
lost book mentioned in Numbers 21:14–15; perhaps a collection of victory songs or poems
Epistle to the Alexandrians
pseudepigraphical Epistle attributed to Paul the Apostle that is mentioned in the Muratorian fragment
Massaliote Periplus
book by anonymus
Acts of Solomon
lost text referred to in 1 Kings 11:41: “And the rest of the acts of Solomon […], are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?”
Book of Noah
book, assumed to be non-extant Old Testament pseudepigraphal work, attributed to Noah
Wu shu
historical accounts of Eastern Wu (229-280), Three Kingdoms of China
Book of Nepos
3rd-century Christian text written by an Egyptian bishop
Brjáns saga
hypothetical early specimen of Old Norse literature
Gero
book by Pedro de Axular
Takahashi Ujibumi
Japanese clan record
Book of Gad the Seer
Religious text