Prose texts in Latin

1687 work by Isaac Newton describing his laws of motion and gravitation

major body of Frankish law governing all the Franks of Frankia under the rule of its kings during the Old Frankish Period

collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence as codified by Justinian

Encyclopedia published circa AD 77–79 by Pliny the Elder

book by Augustine of Hippo

late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman Emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers of the period 117–284; much of its content is regarded as fictional

autobiographical work by Saint Augustine

Compilation of laws of Roman Empire (438)

book of biographies of popes

document detailing the administrative organisation of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires

the first border treaty between Russia and Siberian-Manchu ruled China (1689)

Roman law digest

philosophical work by Boethius

treatise on architecture by Vitruvius

thumb|right|The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the Fulda monastery|monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the [[New York Academy of Medicine]]

story from the Metamorphoses of Apuleius

part of the 6th century codification of Roman law

Imperial Roman register of roads and stations

book written by Carl Friedrich Gauss

book by Cato the Elder

Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality

4th-century account of a pilgrimage from Bordeaux to the Holy Land

one of the four components of the “Corpus juris civilis” drafted under the Byzantine emperor Justinian

theological text written by Saint Augustine of Hippo (4 books)

sixth century codification of Roman law

thumb|300px|Apocolocyntosis, from a 9th-century manuscript of the Abbey library of Saint Gall. The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally Pumpkinification/Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a satire on the Roman emperor Claudius (), which, according to Cassius Dio, was written by Seneca the Younger. A partly extant Menippean satire, an anonymous work called Ludus de morte Divi Claudii ("Play on the Death of the Divine Claudius") in its surviving manuscripts, may or may not be identical to the text mentioned by Cassius Dio. "Apocolocyntosis" is a word play on "apotheosis", the proce

ancient Latin book on rhetoric

The Proslogion () is a prayer (or meditation) written by the medieval cleric Saint Anselm of Canterbury between 1077 and 1078. In each chapter, Anselm juxtaposes contrasting attributes of God to resolve apparent contradictions in Christian theology. This meditation is considered the first-known philosophical formulation that sets out an ontological argument for the existence of God.

thumb|A manuscript of Tertullian's Apologeticus from the 1440s. Apologeticus ( or Apologeticus) is a text attributed to Tertullian according to Christian tradition, consisting of apologetic and polemic. In this work Tertullian defends Christianity, demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated like all other sects of the Roman Empire. It is in this treatise that one finds the sentence "Plures efficimur, quotiens metimur a vobis: semen est sanguis Christianorum," which has been liberally and apocryphally translated as "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church" (Apologeticu

book by Publius Cornelius Tacitus

collection of twelve ancient Roman panegyric orations

Latin-language medieval document about trade between Germans and Slavs

Latin work of natural philosophy by Seneca

Book by Nicolas Trigault

work on agriculture by Marcus Terentius Varro

statute

book on China compiled by Athanasius Kircher from various Jesuit reports

series of personal missives by Pliny the Younger directed to his friends

Briton missive to Rome, 5th century

12th century Latin text by Innocent III

book

manuscript on the game of chess

essay supposedly written by Quintus Tullius Cicero

literary work

Commentarii (Latin, Greek: hupomnemata) are notes to assist the memory, or memoranda. This original idea of the word gave rise to a variety of meanings: notes and abstracts of speeches for the assistance of orators; family memorials, the origin of many of the legends introduced into early Roman history from a desire to glorify a particular family; and diaries of events occurring in their own circle kept by private individuals. An example of this is the day-book drawn up for Trimalchio in Petronius's Satyricon (Satyricon, 53) by his actuarius, a slave to whom the duty was specially assigned. Ot