10th century in literature

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This article presents lists of the 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 Shōnagon diary / journal / memoire c. 990s-1000s Japan
Kavijanasrayam Malliya Rechana Telugu poetic prosody book c. 900-950
Paphnutius
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim
Play c. 935-1002
Vikramarjuna Vijaya Adikavi Pampa Kannada version of the epic Mahabharata c. 939?
Al-Tasrif
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
Medical encyclopedia Completed in 1000[2]
Josippon Joseph ben Gorion
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. 950[6]
Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions Associated with Constantine VII Treatises providing information on
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]
Þórsdrápa Eilífr 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
Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates[15]
10th century[16]
Shahnameh Ferdowsi
Epic poem
Begun c. 977, finished 1010[17]
Benedictional of St. Æthelwold
Godeman (a scribe) for Æthelwold of Winchester
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
Bishop Leofric
Collection of
Old English poetry, including "The Wife's Lament
"
Copied c. 975[20]
"Deor" Given to
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
Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book)[20]
Poem in
Anglo-Saxon literature[22]
Copied c. 975[20]
Extensive Records of the Taiping Era
Compiled by Li Fang Collection of anecdotes and stories 977–78[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]
Wamyō Ruijushō (倭名類聚抄) Compiled by Minamoto no Shitagō (源 順) Collection of Japanese terms Mid-930s[26]
Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集) Ordered by Emperor Murakami Imperial waka anthology c. 951[27]
Yamato Monogatari (大和物語) 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 Æthelweardi
Æthelweard 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 Wakashū (古今和歌集) 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. 850 to c. 950[41]
Leofric Missal Unknown scribes Service book Core written c. 900, with an addition made c. 980[42]
"Eiríksmál" 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]
Ishinpō Tanba Yasunori Encyclopedia of
Chinese medicine
Issued in 982[48]
Hudud al-'alam
Unknown Concise geography of the world Begun 982–983[49]
Ōjōyōshū 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
932–968[52]
Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam
Algebraist c. 850 – c. 930[53]
Ælfric of Eynsham Author of
Aelfric Bata
. Also a Bible translator
c. 955 – c. 1010[54]
Æthelweard
Anglo-Saxon
historian
Before 973 – c. 998[55]
Akazome Emon (赤染衛門) Japanese waka poet fl. 976–1041[56]
Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri Philosopher born in modern Iran Died 992[57]
Al-Maʿarri
Arab poet born near Aleppo
, Syria
973–1057[58]
Al-Masudi
Arab
historian and geographer
c. 896 – 956[59]
Al-Mutanabbi Arabic poet 915–965[60]
Ibn al-Nadim Author of the Fehrest, an encyclopedia c. 932 – c. 990[61]
Al-Natili
Arabic-language
author in the medical field
fl. c. 985–90[62]
Alchabitius
Author of Al-madkhal ilā sināʿat Aḥkām al-nujūm, a treatise on astrology; from Iraq fl. c. 950[63]
Aldred the Scribe Author of the
glosses in the Lindisfarne Gospels
10th century[64]
Alhazen
Mathematician, died in Cairo c. 965 – c. 1040[65]
Asser Welsh biographer and bishop, died in Sherborne died 1909[66]
Bal'ami
Samanids and translator of the Ṭabarī into Persian
Died c. 992–7[67]
Abu-Shakur Balkhi
Persian
writer
915–960s[68]
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
Muslim polymath
849–934[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 Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī
Arab
astronomer
c. 850 – c. 929[72]
David ben Abraham al-Fasi
Fes
10th century[73]
Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
Scholar and
Samanids and early Ghaznavids
973 – after 1050[74]
Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī
Mathematician and astronomer; author of Kitāb fī mā yaḥtaj ilayh al-kuttāb wa'l-ʿummāl min ʾilm al-ḥisāb, an
Persian
descent
940 – 997 or 998[75]
Cináed ua hArtacáin
dinsenchas
poems
Died 974[76]
Constantine VII
Byzantine emperor and author of De Administrando Imperio and De Ceremoniis
905–959[77]
Abu-Mansur Daqiqi
Poet, probably born in
Ṭūs
After 932 – c. 976[78]
Shabbethai Donnolo Italian physician and writer on medicine and astrology 913 – after 982[79]
Egill Skallagrímsson
Viking skald
and adventurer
c. 910 – c. 990[80]
Eilífr Goðrúnarson
Icelandic skald
c. 1000[81]
Einarr Helgason
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 876–940[83]
Eysteinn Valdason
Icelandic skald
c. 1000[84]
Eyvindr skáldaspillir
Icelandic skald
Died c. 990[85]
Al-Farabi
Muslim philosopher
c. 878 – c. 950[86]
Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani Literary scholar and author of an encyclopedic work on Arabic music 897–967[15]
Ferdowsi
Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic
c. 935 – c. 1020–26[87]
Flodoard French historian and
chronicler
894–966[88]
Frithegod British poet, author of Breviloquium vitae Wilfridi, a version of Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi written in hexameters fl. c. 950 – c. 958[89]
Fujiwara no Asatada (藤原 公任) One of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
c. 910 – c. 966[90]
Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原 公任)
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
966–1041[91]
Fujiwara no Takamitsu (藤原 高光)
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
Died 994[90]
Fujiwara no Tametoki (藤原 為時) Japanese waka and kanshi poet and father of Murasaki Shikibu[92] Late 10th – early 11th century[93]
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (藤原 敏行) 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
maqāma
genre
968–1008[100]
Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī
Arabian
geographer
Died 945[101]
Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi
man of letters
c. 840 – c. 930[102]
Hrotsvitha German dramatist and poet c. 935 – c. 1002[103]
Ibn al-Faqih
Persian
historian and geographer
Died 903[104]
Ibn al-Jazzar Physician Died 970/980[105]
Ibn al-Qūṭiyya
Historian of
Visigothic descent[106]
Died 977[107]
Ibn Duraid
Arabian poet
837–934[108]
Ibn Hawqal Author of Kitāb al-masālik wa'l-mamālik, a book on geography; born in
Nisibis
Second half of the 10th century – after 988[109]
Ibn Juljul Author of Tabaqāt al atibbāʾ wa'l-hukamả, a summary of the history of medicine 944 – c. 994[110]
Ibn Khordadbeh Author on subjects including history, genealogy, geography, music, and wines and cookery; of
Persian
descent
c. 820 – c. 912[111]
Ioane-Zosime
hymnographer
and translator
10th century[112]
Lady Ise (伊勢) Japanese waka poet,[113] mother of Nakatsukasa[114] c. 877 – c. 940[113]
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon Physician and philosopher, born in Egypt 832–932[115]
Israel the Grammarian European scholar, poet and bishop c. 895–c. 965[116]
Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部) 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 – c. 1029[120]
Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
Astronomer and
number theorist from Khurasan
c. 900 – c. 971[121]
Abu-Mahmud Khojandi
Astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand c. 945 – 1000[122]
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi Author of Mafātih al-'ulũm (Keys of the Sciences) fl. c. 975[123]
Ki no Tokibumi Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber fl. c. 950[124]
Ki no Tomonori (紀 時文) Japanese waka poet and one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū c. 850 – c. 904[125]
Ki no Tsurayuki (紀 貫之) Japanese waka poet, critic and diarist; one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū c. 872 – c. 945[126]
Kishi Joō
(徽子女王)
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
929–985[127]
Kiyohara no Motosuke (清原 元輔)
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and father of Sei Shōnagon[128]
908–990[124][128]
Leo the Deacon
Byzantine
historian
Born c. 950[129]
Liutprand of Cremona Italian historian and author c. 922 – 972[130]
Luo Yin (羅隱) Japanese poet 833–909[131]
'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi Author of Kāmil al-Ṣinā'ah al-Tibbiyyah, a compendium; born near Shiraz First quarter of the 10th century – 994[132]
Abu Nasr Mansur Astronomer, born in
Gīlān
c. 950 – c. 1036[133]
Mansur Al-Hallaj
Arabic-speaking mystic and author of the Ṭawāsin, a collection of 11 reflective essays; born near Beyza
857–922[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
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
fl. 898–920[90]
Michitsuna no Haha
( 藤原道綱母)
Author of Kagerō nikki (The Gossamer Years) Died 995[138]
Minamoto no Kintada (源 公忠)
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
889–948[90]
Minamoto no Muneyuki (源 宗于) Japanese poet[139] Died 939[140]
Minamoto no Saneakira (源 信明) Japanese poet 916–970[141]
Minamoto no Shigeyuki (源 重之) Japanese poet Died c. 1000[142]
Minamoto no Shitagō (源 順)
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals[90]
911–983[90][124]
Vācaspati Miśra
Indian polymath 900–980[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 839–923[146]
Al-Muqaddasi
Arabian traveller and author of a Description of the Lands of Islam, an Arabic geography[147]
c. 946–7 – 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 Chandōmbudhi, the first treatise on Kannada metrics Late 10th century[150]
Nakatsukasa (中務) One of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, daughter of Lady Ise
c. 912 – after 989[114]
Al-Nayrizi Astronomer and meteorologist probably from Neyriz c. 865 – c. 922[151]
Jacob ben Nissim Philosopher, lived in Kairouan 10th century[152]
Nōin (能因) Japanese poet 988–1050?[153]
Notker Labeo German theologian,
philologist
, mathematician, astronomer, connoisseur of music, and poet
c. 950 – 1022[154]
Odo of Cluny Author of a biography of
epic poem and 12 choral antiphons
878/9–942[155]
Óengus mac Óengusa Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland" Died 930[156]
Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto (大中臣 頼基)
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
Died 958[90]
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (大中臣 能宣) Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber 922–991[124]
Ono no Komachi (小野 小町) Japanese poet 834–900[157]
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (凡河内 躬恒) Japanese waka poet fl. 898–922[158]
Adikavi Pampa Kannada-language poet 902–945[159]
Abū Sahl al-Qūhī
Astronomer and mathematician from Tabaristan c. 940 – c. 1000[160]
Qusta ibn Luqa Scholar of Greek Christian origin whose work included astronomy, mathematics, medicine and philosophy Probably c. 820 – probably c. 912–913[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 – 974[162]
Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
Physician, scientist, philosopher and author of alchemy and logic; born in
Rey, Iran
865–925[163]
Regino of Prüm
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 Shōnagon (清少納言) Japanese diarist and poet c. 966 – c. 1025[169]
Abu Sulayman Sijistani Philosopher from
Sijistan
c. 932 – c. 1000[170]
Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani
Islamic philosopher
fl. 971[171]
Sijzi
Geometer, astrologer and astronomer, born in
Sijistan
c. 945 – c. 1020[172]
Ibrahim ibn Sinan Geometer from Baghdad 908–946[173]
Farrukhi Sistani Court poet of Mahmud of Ghazni 10th–11th centuries[174]
Somadeva Suri
Jain monk and author of the Upāsakādyayana, a central text of Digambara
śrāvakācāra literature
10th century[175]
Sosei (素性) One of the
Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
859–923[90]
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi Astronomer in Iran 903–986[176]
Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真/菅原 道眞) Japanese statesman, historian and poet 845–903[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] – c. 986–7[181]
Ukhtanes of Sebastia
Chronicler of the history of Armenia
c. 935 – 1000[182]
Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi Mathematician, possibly from Damascus c. 920 – c. 980[183]
Vaṭeśvara
Indian mathematician
Born 802 or 880[184]
Wang Yucheng (王禹偁) Chinese Song dynasty poet and official 954–1001
Widukind of Corvey
Saxon
historian
Died c. 1004[185]
Xue Juzheng (薛居正) Author of the
Five Dynasties
912–981[33]
Ibn Yunus Egyptian astronomer and astrologer 950–1009[186]
Ahmad ibn Yusuf Egyptian mathematician fl. c. 900–905, died 912/913[187]
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
Physician and author of Al-Tasrif, from Al-Andalus 936–1013[188]

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