Date of Manuscript: ca. 1400-1425 Boethius’s best known work is the Consolation of Philosophy (De consolatione philosophiae), which he wrote most likely while in exile under house arrest or in prison while...
Learn MoreDate of Manuscript: ca. 1450-65 Humanist manuscript compilation of three short treaties on the virtues of the ascetics life by St. John Chrysostom, transcribed into Latin in northern Italy and...
Learn MoreDate of Manuscript: 1488 This rubricated manuscript in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni, the first Florentine scholar to use the word “studia humanitatis” as a term for literary studies was used in...
Learn MoreDate of Manuscript: 1476 Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment, in Latin. Written in the humanist style in Padua, Italy circa 1476, this volume contains Marcus Tullius Cicero’s “Verrine...
Learn MorePublication Date: 1610 First Edition English. Augustine of Hippo remains one of the most renowned church fathers and philosophers. His work, City of God, “is an apology for Christianity against the...
Learn MoreDate of Manuscript: ca. 18th Century The Koran is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the exact word of God and the Final Testament, following the Old and New Testaments. Its literally...
Learn MoreDate of Manuscript: ca. 13th Century Handwritten in Latin and on parchment, this work is illuminated and rubricated. It was made in Northern France in the 13th century. The earliest examples of these portable...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1611 “(Adapted from Jean Calvin, 1509-1564) French Protestant reformer. Calvin’s theological doctrines had tremendous influence, particularly in the Puritan religion of England,...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1520 Third German Edition printed in the same year as the first edition. This is the second of Luther’s three crucial reformatory writings of 1520, which the Reformer radically...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1611 First Edition, First Printing King James Bible. Two editions of the Bible are recognized as having been produced in 1611. They are known as the “He” and “She”...
Learn MoreDate of Manuscript: 1450 This newly discovered copy of the apocalyptic and pseud-epigraphic biblical book of the lost prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, is arguably the “most important Jewish...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1694 Second Edition. The foundation of liberalism Two Treatises of Government, The foundation of the principles of democracy. English philosopher. “Educated at Christ Church, Oxford,...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1775 First Edition. Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia, on the Fifth of September 1774. Containing, The Bill of Rights, a...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1831 “The Bible of the Reformers” was the Black Book, a massive compendium of all the abuses, electoral, ecclesiastical, legal, which they sought to abolish. The edition cited here...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1496 Very rare first complete edition of Aristotle. In Aristotle’s Politics (eight books), the good of the individual is identified with the good of the city-state. The study of human...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1819 Political essays written in 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy between Great Britain and her colonies. “For the last twenty years, our principal opinions have...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1788 First Edition. This is the most famous and influential American political work. When Hamilton invited his fellow New Yorker Jay and Madison, from Virginia, to join him in writing...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1763 “In this, the greatest of the dialogues of Plato, Socrates, while seeking an answer to the question What is justice? Described an ideal of perfect society, the republic after...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1713 English philosopher and proponent of deism. His writings gather together the results of previous English Freethinkers. The imperturbable courtesy of his style is in striking...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1691 Chinese name Kung Fu-tse, 551 – 479 BC. Chinese political and ethical philosopher and would-be reformer. Failing to achieve personal ambitions and success, Confucius...
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