10th century in literature
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This article is a list of literary events and publications in the 10th century.
Works
| Title | Author | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book of Fixed Stars | Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi | Treatise on astronomy including a star catalogue and star charts | c. 964[1] |
| The Pillow Book | Sei ShÅnagon | diary / journal / memoire | c.â990s-1000s Japan |
| Kavijanasrayam | Malliya Rechana | Telugu poetic prosody book | c.â900-950 |
| Paphnutius | Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim | Play | c.â935-1002 |
| Vikramarjuna Vijaya | Adikavi Pampa | Kannada version of the epic Mahabharata | c.â939? |
| Al-Tasrif | Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi | Medical encyclopedia | Completed in 1000[2] |
| Josippon | Joseph ben Gorion | History of the Jews from the destruction of Babylon to the Siege of Jerusalem | 940[3] |
| Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity | Brethren of Purity | Philosophical-scientific encyclopedia | 10th century[4] |
| Aleppo Codex | Shlomo ben Buya'aa | Copy of the Bible | 920[5] |
| De Administrando Imperio | Constantine VII | Political geography of the world | c.â950[6] |
| Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions | Associated with Constantine VII | Treatises providing information on military campaigns in Asia Minor | Based on material compiled in the early 10th century, current form dates to the late 950s[7] |
| Geoponica | Compiled under the patronage of Constantine VII | Agricultural manual[8] | Compiled in its present form in the 10th century[9] |
| Ãórsdrápa | EilÃfr Goðrúnarson[10] | Skaldic poem with Thor as its protagonist | 10th century[11] |
| Hákonarmál | Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Poem composed in memory of Haakon I of Norway | After 961[12] |
| "Háleygjatal" | Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Poem seeking to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as the social equal of the Hárfagri dynasty[13] | End of the 10th century[14] |
| Kitab al-Aghani | Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | Collection of songs, biographical information, and information relating to the lives and customs of the early Arabs and of the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates[15] | 10th century[16] |
| Shahnameh | Ferdowsi | Epic poem | Begun c.â977, finished 1010[17] |
| Benedictional of St. Ãthelwold | Godeman (a scribe) for Ãthelwold of Winchester | Benedictional including pontifical benedictions for use at mass at different points of the liturgical year | Written and illuminated between 963 and 984[18] |
| Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise | Leo VI the Wise | Handbook dealing with military formations and weapons | Early 10th century[19] |
| Exeter Book | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric | Collection of Old English poetry, including "The Wife's Lament" | Copied c. 975[20] |
| "Deor" | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book)[20] | The only surviving Old English poem with a fully developed refrain; possibly of a Norse background[21] | Copied c. 975[20] |
| "The Rhyming Poem" | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book)[20] | Poem in couplets utilising rhyme, which was rarely used in Anglo-Saxon literature[22] | Copied c. 975[20] |
| Extensive Records of the Taiping Era | Compiled by Li Fang | Collection of anecdotes and stories | 977â78[23] |
| Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era | Compiled by Li Fang | Encyclopedia | 984[24] |
| Greek Anthology | Originally compiled by Meleager, combined by Constantinus Cephalas with works by Philippus of Thessalonica, Diogenianus, Agathias and others; part of a later revision compiled by Maximus Planudes | Collection of Greek epigrams, songs, epitaphs and rhetorical exercises | Originally compiled in the 1st century BCE, expanded in the 9th century, revised and augmented in the 10th century, expanded again from a manuscript compiled in 1301[25] |
| WamyÅ RuijushÅ (ååé¡èæ) | Compiled by Minamoto no ShitagÅ (æº é ) | Collection of Japanese terms | Mid-930s[26] |
| Gosen WakashÅ« (å¾æ°åæé) | Ordered by Emperor Murakami | Imperial waka anthology | c. 951[27] |
| Yamato Monogatari (大åç©èª) | Unknown | Uta monogatari (narrative fiction with waka poetry) | c. 951-956 |
| History of the Prophets and Kings | Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari | Universal history | Unfinished at the time of Tabari's death in 956[28] |
| Praecepta Militaria | Attributed to Nikephoros II Phokas | Military manual | 965[29] |
| Escorial Taktikon | Edited by Nikolaos Oikonomides (1972)[30] | Precedence list | Drawn up between 975 and 979[31] |
| Bodhi Vamsa | Upatissa of Upatissa Nuwara | Prose poem describing the bringing of a branch of the Bodhi tree to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century | c. 980[32] |
| Old History of the Five Dynasties | Xue Juzheng | Account of China's Five Dynasties | 974[33] |
| Chronicon Salernitanum | Anonymous[34] | Annals | 974[35] |
| Chronicon Ãthelweardi | Ãthelweard | Latin version of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | After 975 and probably before 983[36] |
| Gesta Berengarii imperatoris | Anonymous[37] | Epic poem | Early 10th century[38] |
| Kokin WakashÅ« (å¤ä»åæé) | Compiled by a committee of bureaucrats recognised as superior poets | Anthology of Japanese poetry | Compiled c. 905[39] |
| Annales Cambriae | Diverse sources | Chronicle believed to cover a period beginning 447 | c. 970[40] |
| Waltharius | Unknown Frankish monk | Epic poem about the Germanic Heroic Age | First circulated/published c.â850 to c.â950[41] |
| Leofric Missal | Unknown scribes | Service book | Core written c. 900, with an addition made c. 980[42] |
| "EirÃksmál" | Unknown | Poem composed in memory of Eric Bloodaxe | Probably 10th century[12] |
| Khaboris Codex | Unknown | Oldest known copy of the New Testament | 10th century[43] |
| Suda | Unknown[44] | Encyclopedia | 10th century[45] |
| Tractatus coislinianus | Unknown | Manuscript containing a statement of a Greek theory of comedy | 10th century[46] |
| Beowulf | Unknown | Epic | Believed to have been written between the 7th and 10th centuries[47] |
| IshinpÅ | Tanba Yasunori | Encyclopedia of Chinese medicine | Issued in 982[48] |
| Hudud al-'alam | Unknown | Concise geography of the world | Begun 982â983[49] |
| ÅjÅyÅshÅ« | Genshin | Kanbun Buddhist text | 985 |
| Karnataka Kadambari | Nagavarma I | Romance in champu (mixed prose and verse) | Late 10th century |
| Chhandombudhi | Nagavarma I | Treatise on prosody in Vijayanagara literature in Kannada | c. 990 |
| Completes the first draft of Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) | Ferdowsi | a long epic poem, the national epic of Greater Iran | 999[50] |
| Tomida femina | Anonymous | Charm, the oldest known complete Occitan poem | 10th century |
| The Battle of Maldon | Anonymous | Old English heroic poem (earliest manuscript lost 1731) | Between the Battle of Maldon in Spring 991 and 1000?[51] |
| Passio Sancti Eadmundi | Abbo of Fleury | Hagiographic account of the death of Edmund the Martyr | 10th century |
Authors
| Name | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Firas al-Hamdani | Arab poet | 932â968[52] |
| AbÅ« KÄmil ShujÄÊ¿ ibn Aslam | Algebraist | c.â850 â c.â930[53] |
| Ãlfric of Eynsham | Author of homilies in Old English, and three works to assist in learning Latin, the Grammar, the Glossary and the Colloquy (probably with Aelfric Bata. Also a Bible translator | c.â955 â c.â1010[54] |
| Ãthelweard | Anglo-Saxon historian | Before 973 â c.â998[55] |
| Akazome Emon (赤æè¡é) | Japanese waka poet | fl. 976â1041[56] |
| Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri | Philosopher born in modern Iran | Died 992[57] |
| Al-MaÊ¿arri | Arab poet born near Aleppo, Syria | 973â1057[58] |
| Al-Masudi | Arab historian and geographer | c.â896 â 956[59] |
| Al-Mutanabbi | Arabic poet | 915â965[60] |
| Ibn al-Nadim | Author of the Fehrest, an encyclopedia | c.â932 â c.â990[61] |
| Al-Natili | Arabic-language author in the medical field | fl. c.â985â90[62] |
| Alchabitius | Author of Al-madkhal ilÄ sinÄÊ¿at AḥkÄm al-nujÅ«m, a treatise on astrology; from Iraq | fl. c.â950[63] |
| Aldred the Scribe | Author of the glosses in the Lindisfarne Gospels | 10th century[64] |
| Alhazen | Mathematician, died in Cairo | c.â965 â c.â1040[65] |
| Asser | Welsh biographer and bishop, died in Sherborne | died 909[66] |
| Bal'ami | Vizier to the Samanids and translator of the ṬabarÄ« into Persian | Died c. 992â7[67] |
| Abu-Shakur Balkhi | Persian writer | 915â960s[68] |
| Abu Zayd al-Balkhi | Persian Muslim polymath | 849â934[69] |
| Rabia Balkhi | Arabic- and Persian-language poet | Died 940[70] |
| Bard Boinne | Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland" | Died 932[71] |
| Muḥammad ibn JÄbir al-ḤarrÄnÄ« al-BattÄnÄ« | Arab astronomer | c. 850 â c. 929[72] |
| David ben Abraham al-Fasi | Karaite lexicographer from Fes | 10th century[73] |
| AbÅ« RayḥÄn al-BÄ«rÅ«nÄ« | Scholar and polymath of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids | 973 â after 1050[74] |
| AbÅ« al-WafÄ' BÅ«zjÄnÄ« | Mathematician and astronomer; author of KitÄb fÄ« mÄ yaḥtaj ilayh al-kuttÄb wa'l-Ê¿ummÄl min ʼilm al-ḥisÄb, an arithmetic textbook; of Persian descent | 940 â 997 or 998[75] |
| Cináed ua hArtacáin | Irish poet and author of dinsenchas poems | Died 974[76] |
| Constantine VII | Byzantine emperor and author of De Administrando Imperio and De Ceremoniis | 905â959[77] |
| Abu-Mansur Daqiqi | Poet, probably born in Ṭūs | After 932 â c. 976[78] |
| Shabbethai Donnolo | Italian physician and writer on medicine and astrology | 913 â after 982[79] |
| Egill SkallagrÃmsson | Viking skald and adventurer | c. 910 â c. 990[80] |
| EilÃfr Goðrúnarson | Icelandic skald | c. 1000[81] |
| Einarr Helgason | Skald for Norwegian ruler Haakon Sigurdsson | fl. late 10th century[82] |
| Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria | Author of a history of the world and treatises on medicine and theology | 876â940[83] |
| Eysteinn Valdason | Icelandic skald | c. 1000[84] |
| Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Icelandic skald | Died c. 990[85] |
| Al-Farabi | Muslim philosopher | c. 878 â c.â950[86] |
| Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | Literary scholar and author of an encyclopedic work on Arabic music | 897â967[15] |
| Ferdowsi | Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic | c.â935 â c.â1020â26[87] |
| Flodoard | French historian and chronicler | 894â966[88] |
| Frithegod | British poet, author of Breviloquium vitae Wilfridi, a version of Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi written in hexameters | fl. c.â950 â c. 958[89] |
| Fujiwara no Asatada (è¤å å ¬ä»») | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | c. 910 â c. 966[90] |
| Fujiwara no KintÅ (è¤å å ¬ä»») | Japanese poet and critic responsible for the initial gathering of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 966â1041[91] |
| Fujiwara no Takamitsu (è¤å é«å ) | Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | Died 994[90] |
| Fujiwara no Tametoki (è¤å çºæ) | Japanese waka and kanshi poet and father of Murasaki Shikibu[92] | Late 10th â early 11th century[93] |
| Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (è¤å æè¡) | Japanese poet | Died c. 901[94] |
| Kushyar Gilani | Iranian astronomer | fl. second half of the 10th/early 11th century[95] |
| Guthormr sindri | Norwegian skald | 10th century[96] |
| Nathan ben Isaac ha-Babli | Babylonian historian | 10th century[97] |
| Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld | Icelandic skald[98] | Died c. 1007[99] |
| Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani | Arabic belle-lettrist and inventor of the maqÄma genre | 968â1008[100] |
| AbÅ« Muhammad al-Hasan al-HamdÄnÄ« | Arabian geographer | Died 945[101] |
| Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi | Armenian man of letters | c. 840 â c. 930[102] |
| Hrotsvitha | German dramatist and poet | c. 935 â c. 1002[103] |
| Ibn al-Faqih | Persian historian and geographer | Died 903[104] |
| Ibn al-Jazzar | Physician | Died 970/980[105] |
| Ibn al-QÅ«á¹iyya | Historian of Muslim Spain, born in Seville and of Visigothic descent[106] | Died 977[107] |
| Ibn Duraid | Arabian poet | 837â934[108] |
| Ibn Hawqal | Author of KitÄb al-masÄlik wa'l-mamÄlik, a book on geography; born in Nisibis | Second half of the 10th century â after 988[109] |
| Ibn Juljul | Author of TabaqÄt al atibbÄʼ wa'l-hukamả, a summary of the history of medicine | 944 â c. 994[110] |
| Ibn Khordadbeh | Author on subjects including history, genealogy, geography, music, and wines and cookery; of Persian descent | c. 820 â c. 912[111] |
| Ioane-Zosime | Georgian religious writer, hymnographer and translator | 10th century[112] |
| Lady Ise (ä¼å¢) | Japanese waka poet,[113] mother of Nakatsukasa[114] | c. 877 â c. 940[113] |
| Isaac Israeli ben Solomon | Physician and philosopher, born in Egypt | 832â932[115] |
| Israel the Grammarian | European scholar, poet and bishop | c.â895âc. 965[116] |
| Izumi Shikibu (åæ³å¼é¨) | Japanese waka poet | Born c. 976[117] |
| Abraham ben Jacob | Spanish Jewish geographer | fl. second half of the 10th century[118] |
| Jayadeva | Indian mathematician | Lived before 1073[119] |
| Al-Karaji | Mathematician, lived in Baghdad | 953 â c. 1029[120] |
| AbÅ« Ja'far al-KhÄzin | Astronomer and number theorist from Khurasan | c. 900 â c. 971[121] |
| Abu-Mahmud Khojandi | Astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand | c. 945 â 1000[122] |
| Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi | Author of MafÄtih al-'ulÅ©m (Keys of the Sciences) | fl. c. 975[123] |
| Ki no Tokibumi | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | fl. c.â950[124] |
| Ki no Tomonori (ç´ ææ) | Japanese waka poet and one of the compilers of the Kokin WakashÅ« | c. 850 â c. 904[125] |
| Ki no Tsurayuki (ç´ è²«ä¹) | Japanese waka poet, critic and diarist; one of the compilers of the Kokin WakashÅ« | c. 872 â c. 945[126] |
| Kishi JoÅ (å¾½å女ç) | Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 929â985[127] |
| Kiyohara no Motosuke (æ¸ å å è¼) | Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber[124] and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and father of Sei ShÅnagon[128] | 908â990[124][128] |
| Leo the Deacon | Byzantine historian | Born c.â950[129] |
| Liutprand of Cremona | Italian historian and author | c. 922 â 972[130] |
| Luo Yin (ç¾ é±) | Japanese poet | 833â909[131] |
| 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi | Author of KÄmil al-á¹¢inÄ'ah al-Tibbiyyah, a compendium; born near Shiraz | First quarter of the 10th century â 994[132] |
| Abu Nasr Mansur | Astronomer, born in GÄ«lÄn | c.â950 â c.â1036[133] |
| Mansur Al-Hallaj | Arabic-speaking mystic and author of the ṬawÄsin, a collection of 11 reflective essays; born near Beyza | 857â922[134] |
| Ebn Meskavayh | Persian writer on topics including history, theology, philosophy and medicine | Died 1030[135] |
| Symeon the Metaphrast | Principal compiler of the legends of saints in the Menologia of the Greek Orthodox Church | Second half of the 10th century[136] |
| Mibu no Tadamine | Japanese waka poet[137] and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | fl. 898â920[90] |
| Michitsuna no Haha (è¤åé綱æ¯) | Author of KagerÅ nikki (The Gossamer Years) | Died 995[138] |
| Minamoto no Kintada (æº å ¬å¿ ) | Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 889â948[90] |
| Minamoto no Muneyuki (æº å®äº) | Japanese poet[139] | Died 939[140] |
| Minamoto no Saneakira (æº ä¿¡æ) | Japanese poet | 916â970[141] |
| Minamoto no Shigeyuki (æº éä¹) | Japanese poet | Died c. 1000[142] |
| Minamoto no ShitagÅ (æº é ) | Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber[124] and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals[90] | 911â983[90][124] |
| VÄcaspati MiÅra | Indian polymath | 900â980[143] |
| Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi | Poet born in Seville[144] | Died 973[145] |
| Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari | Writer on theology, literature and history, born in Tabriz | 839â923[146] |
| Al-Muqaddasi | Arabian traveller and author of a Description of the Lands of Islam, an Arabic geography[147] | c. 946â7 â 1000[148] |
| Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz | Writer and, for one day, caliph of the Abbasid dynasty | Died 908[149] |
| Nagavarma I | Author of the ChandÅmbudhi, the first treatise on Kannada metrics | Late 10th century[150] |
| Nakatsukasa (ä¸å) | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, daughter of Lady Ise | c. 912 â after 989[114] |
| Al-Nayrizi | Astronomer and meteorologist probably from Neyriz | c. 865 â c. 922[151] |
| Jacob ben Nissim | Philosopher, lived in Kairouan | 10th century[152] |
| NÅin (è½å ) | Japanese poet | 988â1050?[153] |
| Notker Labeo | German theologian, philologist, mathematician, astronomer, connoisseur of music, and poet | c. 950 â 1022[154] |
| Odo of Cluny | Author of a biography of Gerald of Aurillac, a series of moral essays, some sermons, an epic poem and 12 choral antiphons | 878/9â942[155] |
| Ãengus mac Ãengusa | Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland" | Died 930[156] |
| Ånakatomi no Yorimoto (大ä¸è£ é ¼åº) | Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | Died 958[90] |
| Ånakatomi no Yoshinobu (大ä¸è£ è½å®£) | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | 922â991[124] |
| Ono no Komachi (å°é å°çº) | Japanese poet | 834â900[157] |
| ÅshikÅchi no Mitsune (å¡æ²³å 躬æ) | Japanese waka poet | fl. 898â922[158] |
| Adikavi Pampa | Kannada-language poet | 902â945[159] |
| AbÅ« Sahl al-QÅ«hÄ« | Astronomer and mathematician from Tabaristan | c. 940 â c. 1000[160] |
| Qusta ibn Luqa | Scholar of Greek Christian origin whose work included astronomy, mathematics, medicine and philosophy | Probably c. 820 â probably c. 912â913[161] |
| Ratherius | Author of works including a criticism of the social classes of his time and two defences of his right to the Diocese of Liège | c. 887 â 974[162] |
| Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi | Physician, scientist, philosopher and author of alchemy and logic; born in Rey, Iran | 865â925[163] |
| Regino of Prüm | Chronicler and author of works on ecclesiastical discipline and liturgical singing, born in Altrip | Died 915[164] |
| Richerus | Chronicler from Reims | Died after 998[165] |
| Ahmad ibn Rustah | Persian author of a geographical compendium | Died after 903[166] |
| Al-Saghani | Mathematician and astronomer who flourished in Turkmenistan | Died 990[167] |
| Ibn Sahl | Geometer | fl. late 10th century[168] |
| Sakanoue no Mochiki | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | fl. c. 950[124] |
| Sei ShÅnagon (æ¸ å°ç´è¨) | Japanese diarist and poet | c. 966 â c. 1025[169] |
| Abu Sulayman Sijistani | Philosopher from Sijistan | c. 932 â c. 1000[170] |
| Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani | Islamic philosopher | fl. 971[171] |
| Sijzi | Geometer, astrologer and astronomer, born in Sijistan | c. 945 â c. 1020[172] |
| Ibrahim ibn Sinan | Geometer from Baghdad | 908â946[173] |
| Farrukhi Sistani | Court poet of Mahmud of Ghazni | 10thâ11th centuries[174] |
| Somadeva Suri | South Indian Jain monk and author of the UpÄsakÄdyayana, a central text of Digambara ÅrÄvakÄcÄra literature | 10th century[175] |
| Sosei (ç´ æ§) | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 859â923[90] |
| Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi | Astronomer in Iran | 903â986[176] |
| Sugawara no Michizane (è å éç/è å éç) | Japanese statesman, historian and poet | 845â903[177] |
| Symeon the Studite | "Spiritual father" of Symeon the New Theologian[178] and author of the "Ascetical Discourse", a narrative intended for monks[179] | 917 or 924[180] â c. 986â7[181] |
| Ukhtanes of Sebastia | Chronicler of the history of Armenia | c. 935 â 1000[182] |
| Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi | Mathematician, possibly from Damascus | c. 920 â c. 980[183] |
| Vaá¹eÅvara | Indian mathematician | Born 802 or 880[184] |
| Wang Yucheng (ç禹å) | Chinese Song dynasty poet and official | 954â1001 |
| Widukind of Corvey | Saxon historian | Died c. 1004[185] |
| Xue Juzheng (èå± æ£) | Author of the Old History of the Five Dynasties, an account of China's Five Dynasties | 912â981[33] |
| Ibn Yunus | Egyptian astronomer and astrologer | 950â1009[186] |
| Ahmad ibn Yusuf | Egyptian mathematician | fl. c. 900â905, died 912/913[187] |
| Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi | Physician and author of Al-Tasrif, from Al-Andalus | 936â1013[188] |