This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 10th century.
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| Title | Author | Description | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book of Fixed Stars | Treatise on astronomy including a star catalogue and star charts | [1] | ||
| The Pillow Book | Sei Shōnagon | diary / journal / memoire | Japan | |
| Kavijanasrayam | Telugu poetic prosody book | |||
| Paphnutius | -1002 | |||
| Kannada version of the epic Mahabharata | ? | |||
| Al-Tasrif | [2] | |||
| Josippon | Joseph ben Gorion | 940[3] | ||
| Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity | Philosophical-scientific encyclopedia | [4] | ||
| Aleppo Codex | Copy of the Bible | 920[5] | ||
| Political geography of the world | [6] | |||
| Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions | [7] | |||
| Geoponica | Agricultural manual[8] | [9] | ||
| [10] | Skaldic poem with Thor as its protagonist | [11] | ||
| [12] | ||||
| Poem seeking to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as the social equal of the Hárfagri dynasty[13] | [14] | |||
| Kitab al-Aghani | 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] | ||
| Shahnameh | [16] | |||
| Benedictional of St. Æthelwold | [17] | |||
| Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise | Handbook dealing with military formations and weapons | [18] | ||
| Exeter Book | Collection of Old English poetry, including "The Wife's Lament" | [19] | ||
| "Deor" | The only surviving Old English poem with a fully developed refrain; possibly of a Norse background[20] | |||
| "The Rhyming Poem" | Poem in couplets utilising rhyme, which was rarely used in Anglo-Saxon literature[21] | |||
| Extensive Records of the Taiping Era | Collection of anecdotes and stories | 977–78[22] | ||
| Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era | Encyclopedia | 984[23] | ||
| Greek Anthology | Collection of Greek epigrams, songs, epitaphs and rhetorical exercises | [24] | ||
| Collection of Japanese terms | [25] | |||
| Imperial waka anthology | ||||
| Yamato Monogatari (大和物語) | Unknown | Uta monogatari (narrative fiction with waka poetry) | ||
| History of the Prophets and Kings | Universal history | [26] | ||
| Praecepta Militaria | Military manual | 965[27] | ||
| Escorial Taktikon | [28] | Precedence list | [29] | |
| Bodhi Vamsa | Prose poem describing the bringing of a branch of the Bodhi tree to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century | [30] | ||
| Old History of the Five Dynasties | 974[31] | |||
| Chronicon Salernitanum | Anonymous[32] | 974[33] | ||
| Chronicon Æthelweardi | Latin version of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | After 975 and probably before 983[34] | ||
| Anonymous[35] | [36] | |||
| (古今和歌集) | Compiled by a committee of bureaucrats recognised as superior poets | [37] | ||
| Annales Cambriae | Diverse sources | Chronicle believed to cover a period beginning 447 | [38] | |
| Waltharius | [39] | |||
| Leofric Missal | Unknown scribes | Service book | [40] | |
| Unknown | ||||
| Khaboris Codex | Unknown | [41] | ||
| Suda | Unknown[42] | Encyclopedia | [43] | |
| Tractatus coislinianus | Unknown | Manuscript containing a statement of a Greek theory of comedy | [44] | |
| Beowulf | Unknown | [45] | ||
| Ishinpō | Tanba Yasunori | [46] | ||
| Hudud al-'alam | Unknown | Concise geography of the world | [47] | |
| Ōjōyōshū | Kanbun Buddhist text | |||
| Karnataka Kadambari | Romance in champu (mixed prose and verse) | |||
| Chhandombudhi | ||||
| Completes the first draft of Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) | a long epic poem, the national epic of Greater Iran | [48] | ||
| Tomida femina | Anonymous | Charm, the oldest known complete Occitan poem | ||
| The Battle of Maldon | Anonymous | Old English heroic poem (earliest manuscript lost 1731) | [49] | |
| Passio Sancti Eadmundi |
| Name | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arab poet | 932–968[50] | ||
| Algebraist | [51] | ||
| 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 | [52] | ||
| Anglo-Saxon historian | [53] | ||
| Akazome Emon (赤染衛門) | Japanese waka poet | ||
| [54] | |||
| Arab poet born near Aleppo, Syria | 973–1057[55] | ||
| Arab historian and geographer | [56] | ||
| 915–965[57] | |||
| Author of the Fehrest, an encyclopedia | [58] | ||
| Arabic-language author in the medical field | [59] | ||
| [60] | |||
| [61] | |||
| died 1909[62] | |||
| [63] | |||
| Persian writer | 915–960s[64] | ||
| 849–934[65] | |||
| Arabic- and Persian-language poet | [66] | ||
| Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland" | |||
| Arab astronomer | |||
| [67] | |||
| 973 – after 1050[68] | |||
| Mathematician and astronomer; author of Kitāb fī mā yaḥtaj ilayh al-kuttāb wa'l-ʿummāl min ʾilm al-ḥisāb, an arithmetic textbook; of Persian descent | 940 – 997 or 998[69] | ||
| Irish poet and author of dinsenchas poems | [70] | ||
| Byzantine emperor and author of and De Ceremoniis | 905–959[71] | ||
| [72] | |||
| Italian physician and writer on medicine and astrology | 913 – after 982[73] | ||
| Viking skald and adventurer | [74] | ||
| [75] | |||
| [76] | |||
| Author of a history of the world and treatises on medicine and theology | 876–940[77] | ||
| [78] | |||
| [79] | |||
| [80] | |||
| 897–967[81] | |||
| [82] | |||
| 894–966[83] | |||
| British poet, author of Breviloquium vitae Wilfridi, a version of Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi written in hexameters | [84] | ||
| Geometer | [152] | ||
| (清少納言) | [153] | ||
| [154] | |||
| [155] | |||
| [156] | |||
| 908–946[157] | |||
| [158] | |||
| South Indian Jain monk and author of the Upāsakādyayana, a central text of Digambara śrāvakācāra literature | [159] | ||
| Sosei (素性) | 859–923 | ||
| 903–986[160] | |||
| Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真/菅原 道眞) | 845–903 | ||
| "Spiritual father" of Symeon the New Theologian and author of the "Ascetical Discourse", a narrative intended for monks | 917 or 924 – c. 986–7 | ||
| [161] | |||
| [162] | |||
| Wang Yucheng (王禹偁) | Chinese Song dynasty poet and official | 954–1001 | |
| Saxon historian | [163] | ||
| Xue Juzheng (薛居正) | 912–981 | ||
| Egyptian astronomer and astrologer | 950–1009[164] | ||
| Egyptian mathematician | [165] | ||
| 936–1013[166] |