Editing Lost literary work (section)

==Middle Ages (500–1500)==
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===6th century===
* [[Cassiodorus]]'s ''Gothic History'', which survives only in a much shorter abridgement, the ''[[Getica]]'' of [[Jordanes]]

===7th century===
* The ''[[Kakinomoto no Ason Hitomaro Kashū]]'' is lost as a standalone work, although an unknown portion of it was preserved as part of the later {{Lang|ja-latn|[[Man'yōshū]]}}.

=== 8th century ===
* ''[[The Life of God's Messenger]]'' by [[Ibn Ishaq]], although [[Ibn Hisham]] published a [[Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah (Ibn Hisham)|further revised version of the book]], under the same title.

===Anglo-Saxon works===
* ''[[The Battle of Maldon]]'', a heroic poem of which only 325 lines in the middle survive.
* ''[[Waldere]]'', an epic which is now lost apart from two short fragments.
* The [[Finnesburg Fragment]], comprising 50 lines from an otherwise lost poem.
*[[Bede]]'s translation of [[Gospel of John|John's Gospel]], c. 735.
* ''[[Beowulf]]'': since a fire in 1731 parts of the manuscript have been lost, most notably a large section of the fight between Beowulf and the dragon towards the end of the poem. (c. 1000)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hc.edu/news-and-events/2018/08/20/plucked-out-of-the-burning-beowulf-and-salvaging-the-classics/|title=Beowulf|website=hc.edu|date=20 August 2018 }}</ref>

===12th century===
* Three works by [[Gerald of Wales]]:
** ''Vita sancti Karadoci'' ("Life of St Caradoc")
** ''De fidei fructu fideique defectu''
** ''Cambriae mappa''
* A romance on the subject of [[King Mark]] and [[Iseult]] by [[Chrétien de Troyes]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/arthur/chretien.html | title= Chrétien de Troyes | website= earlybritishkingdoms.com | access-date= July 13, 2024}}</ref> 
* The [[Old French]] [[Romance (heroic literature)|romances]] ''[[André de France]]''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lFt7y13ERoC |page=13 |title=The Perception of the past in twelfth-century Europe, Part 116 |author=Paul Magdalino|author-link=Paul Magdalino |isbn=978-1-85285-066-1 |year=1992|publisher=Bloomsbury }}</ref> and ''[[Gui d'Excideuil]]''<ref>{{cite web | last = de Vaqueiras | first = Raimbaut | title = Canso 14 (Ja non cujei vezer)| work = Raimbaut de Vaqueiras: Complete Works | date = | url =http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/raimbaut_de_vaqueiras/raimbaut_de_vaqueiras_14.php | access-date = 2009-09-13 }}</ref>
* ''[[Hryggjarstykki]]'', a [[Norse saga]] about almost contemporary Norwegian kings written around 1140.<ref>{{cite book | last= Sturluson | first= Snorri | date= 1200 | title=[[Heimskringla]]}}</ref> 
* ''[[Skjöldunga saga]]'', a Norse saga on the [[List of legendary kings of Denmark|legendary Danish dynasty]] of the [[Skjöldung]]s, composed c. 1180–1200<ref>{{cite web | url=https://manuscript.ku.dk/motm/skjldunga-saga/ | title= Skjöldunga Saga| date= 3 June 2016| access-date= July 13, 2024}}</ref> 
* ''[[Gauks saga Trandilssonar]]'', a lost [[Sagas of Icelanders|saga of the Icelanders]].<ref>Margaret Clunies Ross, [https://books.google.com/books?id=h-0fzWbcAM4C&dq= ''The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga''], Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 144.</ref>
*[[Life of Despot Stefan Lazarević]] is a work first written in 1166 but the only surviving chronicle is from 1431 by [[Constantine of Kostenets]] who includes a genealogy of the [[Nemanjić dynasty]] up until Despot [[Stefan Lazarević]].
* [[William of Tyre]]'s ''Gesta orientalium principum'', a history of the Islamic world<ref>Peter W. Edbury and John G. Rowe, ''William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East'', Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 23–24.</ref>

===13th century===

* The Quaternuli by [[David of Dinant]]. Which were condemned by a provincial council headed by [[Peter of Corbeil]] in 1210, who ordered for them to be burned for expressing pantheist beliefs. David may have also published another work, entitled De Tomis, seu Divisionibus. Though it is likely this may be another title for the Quaternuli.

* The literary tradition of the [[Nizari Ismailism|Nizari Ismailis]] ("Assassins"), partially destroyed during the reign of [[Hassan III of Alamut]], and eventually lost completely during the [[Mongol campaign against the Nizaris]], in particular during the burning of the Library of [[Alamut Castle]]
** ''Sargudhasht-i Bābā Sayyidinā'' ({{langx|fa|سرگذشت بابا سیدنا}}), Hasan Sabbah's biography. Juvayni "saved" it before burning the library, and used it as a source in his ''[[Tarikh-i Jahangushay]]'', but he claimed that he burned it after reading it.<ref name=Willey2005>{{cite book |last1=Willey |first1=Peter |title=Eagle's Nest: Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria |date=2005 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-85043-464-1 |pages=75–85 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTyTn4ErwRIC |language=en}}</ref>

===14th century===
* ''[[Inventio Fortunata]]''. A 14th-century description of the geography of the [[North Pole]].<ref name="auto1"/>
* ''Itinerarium''. A geography book by [[Jacobus Cnoyen]] of [['s-Hertogenbosch]], cited by [[Gerardus Mercator]]
* ''Res gestae Arturi britanni'' (''The Deeds of Arthur of Britain''). A book cited by Jacobus Cnoyen
* ''Of the Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde'', ''Origenes upon the Maudeleyne'', and ''The book of the Leoun''. Three works by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]].
* The [[Coventry Mystery Plays]], a cycle of which only two plays survive.
* '''Carostavnik''' or '''Rodoslov'''. Old Serbian biography enters a new—historiographic or even chronographic—phase with the appearance of the so-called ''Vita'', better yet "Lives of Serbian Kings and Archbishops" by [[Danilo II, Serbian Archbishop]], formerly Abbot of the [[Hilandar]] Monastery, and his successors, most of whom remained anonymous.
*[[Vrhobreznica Chronicle]] originates in 1371 but the work is not transcribed until two and half centuries later by a writer named Gavrilo, a hermit, who collected earlier annals in his redaction composed in 1650 at the Vrhobreznica monastery. Part of a manuscript archived as Prague Museum #29 (together with Vrhobreznica Genealogy).
* [[Koporin]] Chronicle	– a 1371 chronicle transcribed in 1453 by Damjan, a deacon, who also wrote the annals on the order of Archbishop of Zeta, Josif, at the Koporin monastery.
* [[Studenica Monastery|Studenica]] Chronicle – a 14th century chronicle from 1350–1400. Oldest survived copy in a 16th-century manuscript, together with a younger annals.
* [[Cetinje]] Chronicle	covers events from 14th century until the end of 16th century, though the manuscript collection is from the end of the 16th century.

===15th century===
* ''[[Yongle Encyclopedia]]'' ({{zh|t=永樂大典|s=永乐大典|p=Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn|l=The Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Era|labels=no}}). It was one of the world's earliest, and the then-largest, encyclopaedia commissioned by the [[Yongle Emperor]] of China's [[Ming dynasty]] in 1403, completed about 1408. About 400 volumes (less than 4%) of a 16th-century manuscript set survive today.<ref>{{cite web|title= Yongle dadian|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/654973/Yongle-dadian|website=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|access-date=23 October 2014}}</ref>
* [[François Villon]]'s poem "The Romance of the Devil's Fart."