Antissiodorensis, Notkerus Balbulus, Regino Prumiensis, Hucbaldus S. Amandi Vita Brendani / Betha Brenainn / Life of St. Brendan Nennius (attributed), Historia Brittonum (The History of the Britons, c. 828–29) Asser, Vita Ælfredi regis Angul Saxonum (The Life of King Alfred, 893) Book of Kells written and illuminated in a Columban monastery in the British Isles (c. 800) Old English literature (890s) Alfred the Great's translations Pope Gregory I's Pastoral Care, the first known book in English Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy and an alliterative verse version, the Metres of Boethius Blostman ("Blooms"), an anthology partly based on the Soliloquies of Augustine Portions of the Vulgate Book of Exodus and the first fifty poems of the Psalter Werferth's translation of Pope Gregory I's Dialogues Translation of Orosius' Histories against the Pagans incorporating the narrative of Ohthere of Hålogaland Translation of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) Arabic literature Al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing) Persian scholar Sibawayh writes the first Arabic grammar in 840. Al-Baladhuri (died892) Al-Jahiz (776–868/9) Kitab al-Hayawan (Book of Animals) Kitab al-Bukhala (Book of Misers) Kitab al-Bayan wa al-Tabyin (Book of Eloquence and Demonstration) Risalat mufakharat al-sudan 'ala al-bidan (Treatise on Blacks) Ibn Sa'd (784–845) – Kitab Tabaqat Al-Kubra (Book of the Major Classes, biographical collection) Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz (861–908) Al-Waqidi (c. 748–822) Ya'qubi (died 897/8) The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, presumed to originate in this century (the oldest surviving text belongs to the 14th century) Germanic Þjóðólfr of Hvinir Haustlöng Ynglingatal Þorbjörn Hornklofi Glymdrápa Hrafnsmál (Haraldskvæði) Sanskrit literature Gunavarma I Amoghavarsha I 868: May 11 – The Diamond Sutra, the oldest known surviving dated book, is printed in China. Middle Chinese (see Tang dynasty Chinese writers) Duan Chengshi (段成式, died863) Han Yu (韓愈, 768–824) Mo Xuanqing (莫宣卿, died 834) Li Ao (李翱, 772–841) Liu Yuxi (劉禹錫, 772–842) Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元, 773–819) Yuan Zhen (元稹, 779–831) Zhang Yanyuan (張彥遠) Tamil: see Chola literature Kannada: see Rashtrakuta literature Kavirajamarga, Royal path to poets in Kannada Vaddaradhane Govindsvamin Shivakotiacharya Armenian Tovma Artsruni Old Church Slavonic Turkic Book of Dede Korkut See also Ancient literature List of years in literature 10th century in literature Byzantine literature Kannada literature Medieval Bulgarian literature Puranas Notes References 02