# 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 |
| 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 |
| Josippon | Joseph ben Gorion | History of the Jews from the destruction of Babylon to the Siege of Jerusalem | 940 |
| Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity | Brethren of Purity | Philosophical-scientific encyclopedia | 10th century |
| Aleppo Codex | Shlomo ben Buya'aa | Copy of the Bible | 920 |
| De Administrando Imperio | Constantine VII | Political geography of the world | c. 950 |
| Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions | Associated with Constantine VII | Treatises providing information on military campaigns in Asia Minor | Based on material compiled in the early 10th century, current form dates to the late 950s |
| Geoponica | Compiled under the patronage of Constantine VII | Agricultural manual | Compiled in its present form in the 10th century |
| Þórsdrápa | Eilífr Goðrúnarson | Skaldic poem with Thor as its protagonist | 10th century |
| Hákonarmál | Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Poem composed in memory of Haakon I of Norway | After 961 |
| "Háleygjatal" | Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Poem seeking to establish the Hlaðir dynasty as the social equal of the Hárfagri dynasty | End of the 10th century |
| Kitab al-Aghani | Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | 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 | 10th century |
| Shahnameh | Ferdowsi | Epic poem | Begun c. 977, finished 1010 |
| Benedictional of St. Æthelwold | Godeman (a scribe) for Æthelwold of Winchester | Benedictional including pontifical benedictions for use at mass at different points of the liturgical year | Written and illuminated between 963 and 984 |
| Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise | Leo VI the Wise | Handbook dealing with military formations and weapons | Early 10th century |
| Exeter Book | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric | Collection of Old English poetry, including "The Wife's Lament" | Copied c. 975 |
| "Deor" | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book) | The only surviving Old English poem with a fully developed refrain; possibly of a Norse background | Copied c. 975 |
| "The Rhyming Poem" | Given to Exeter Cathedral by Bishop Leofric (part of the Exeter Book) | Poem in couplets utilising rhyme, which was rarely used in Anglo-Saxon literature | Copied c. 975 |
| Extensive Records of the Taiping Era | Compiled by Li Fang | Collection of anecdotes and stories | 977–78 |
| Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era | Compiled by Li Fang | Encyclopedia | 984 |
| 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 |
| Wamyō Ruijushō (倭名類聚抄) | Compiled by Minamoto no Shitagō (源 順) | Collection of Japanese terms | Mid-930s |
| Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集) | Ordered by Emperor Murakami | Imperial waka anthology | c. 951 |
| 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 |
| Praecepta Militaria | Attributed to Nikephoros II Phokas | Military manual | 965 |
| Escorial Taktikon | Edited by Nikolaos Oikonomides (1972) | Precedence list | Drawn up between 975 and 979 |
| 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 |
| Old History of the Five Dynasties | Xue Juzheng | Account of China's Five Dynasties | 974 |
| Chronicon Salernitanum | Anonymous | Annals | 974 |
| Chronicon Æthelweardi | Æthelweard | Latin version of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | After 975 and probably before 983 |
| Gesta Berengarii imperatoris | Anonymous | Epic poem | Early 10th century |
| Kokin Wakashū (古今和歌集) | Compiled by a committee of bureaucrats recognised as superior poets | Anthology of Japanese poetry | Compiled c. 905 |
| Annales Cambriae | Diverse sources | Chronicle believed to cover a period beginning 447 | c. 970 |
| Waltharius | Unknown Frankish monk | Epic poem about the Germanic Heroic Age | First circulated/published c. 850 to c. 950 |
| Leofric Missal | Unknown scribes | Service book | Core written c. 900, with an addition made c. 980 |
| "Eiríksmál" | Unknown | Poem composed in memory of Eric Bloodaxe | Probably 10th century |
| Khaboris Codex | Unknown | Oldest known copy of the New Testament | 10th century |
| Suda | Unknown | Encyclopedia | 10th century |
| Tractatus coislinianus | Unknown | Manuscript containing a statement of a Greek theory of comedy | 10th century |
| Beowulf | Unknown | Epic | Believed to have been written between the 7th and 10th centuries |
| Ishinpō | Tanba Yasunori | Encyclopedia of Chinese medicine | Issued in 982 |
| Hudud al-'alam | Unknown | Concise geography of the world | Begun 982–983 |
| 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 |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam | Algebraist | c. 850 – c. 930 |
| Ælfric of Eynsham | 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 | c. 955 – c. 1010 |
| Æthelweard | Anglo-Saxon historian | Before 973 – c. 998 |
| Akazome Emon (赤染衛門) | Japanese waka poet | fl. 976–1041 |
| Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri | Philosopher born in modern Iran | Died 992 |
| Al-Maʿarri | Arab poet born near Aleppo, Syria | 973–1057 |
| Al-Masudi | Arab historian and geographer | c. 896 – 956 |
| Al-Mutanabbi | Arabic poet | 915–965 |
| Ibn al-Nadim | Author of the Fehrest, an encyclopedia | c. 932 – c. 990 |
| Al-Natili | Arabic-language author in the medical field | fl. c. 985–90 |
| Alchabitius | Author of Al-madkhal ilā sināʿat Aḥkām al-nujūm, a treatise on astrology; from Iraq | fl. c. 950 |
| Aldred the Scribe | Author of the glosses in the Lindisfarne Gospels | 10th century |
| Alhazen | Mathematician, died in Cairo | c. 965 – c. 1040 |
| Asser | Welsh biographer and bishop, died in Sherborne | died 1909 |
| Bal'ami | Vizier to the Samanids and translator of the Ṭabarī into Persian | Died c. 992–7 |
| Abu-Shakur Balkhi | Persian writer | 915–960s |
| Abu Zayd al-Balkhi | Persian Muslim polymath | 849–934 |
| Rabia Balkhi | Arabic- and Persian-language poet | Died 940 |
| Bard Boinne | Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland" | Died 932 |
| Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī | Arab astronomer | c. 850 – c. 929 |
| David ben Abraham al-Fasi | Karaite lexicographer from Fes | 10th century |
| Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī | Scholar and polymath of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids | 973 – after 1050 |
| Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī | 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 |
| Cináed ua hArtacáin | Irish poet and author of dinsenchas poems | Died 974 |
| Constantine VII | Byzantine emperor and author of De Administrando Imperio and De Ceremoniis | 905–959 |
| Abu-Mansur Daqiqi | Poet, probably born in Ṭūs | After 932 – c. 976 |
| Shabbethai Donnolo | Italian physician and writer on medicine and astrology | 913 – after 982 |
| Egill Skallagrímsson | Viking skald and adventurer | c. 910 – c. 990 |
| Eilífr Goðrúnarson | Icelandic skald | c. 1000 |
| Einarr Helgason | Skald for Norwegian ruler Haakon Sigurdsson | fl. late 10th century |
| Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria | Author of a history of the world and treatises on medicine and theology | 876–940 |
| Eysteinn Valdason | Icelandic skald | c. 1000 |
| Eyvindr skáldaspillir | Icelandic skald | Died c. 990 |
| Al-Farabi | Muslim philosopher | c. 878 – c. 950 |
| Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | Literary scholar and author of an encyclopedic work on Arabic music | 897–967 |
| Ferdowsi | Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic | c. 935 – c. 1020–26 |
| Flodoard | French historian and chronicler | 894–966 |
| 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 |
| Fujiwara no Asatada (藤原 公任) | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | c. 910 – c. 966 |
| Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原 公任) | Japanese poet and critic responsible for the initial gathering of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 966–1041 |
| Fujiwara no Takamitsu (藤原 高光) | Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | Died 994 |
| Fujiwara no Tametoki (藤原 為時) | Japanese waka and kanshi poet and father of Murasaki Shikibu | Late 10th – early 11th century |
| Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (藤原 敏行) | Japanese poet | Died c. 901 |
| Kushyar Gilani | Iranian astronomer | fl. second half of the 10th/early 11th century |
| Guthormr sindri | Norwegian skald | 10th century |
| Nathan ben Isaac ha-Babli | Babylonian historian | 10th century |
| Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld | Icelandic skald | Died c. 1007 |
| Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani | Arabic belle-lettrist and inventor of the maqāma genre | 968–1008 |
| Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī | Arabian geographer | Died 945 |
| Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi | Armenian man of letters | c. 840 – c. 930 |
| Hrotsvitha | German dramatist and poet | c. 935 – c. 1002 |
| Ibn al-Faqih | Persian historian and geographer | Died 903 |
| Ibn al-Jazzar | Physician | Died 970/980 |
| Ibn al-Qūṭiyya | Historian of Muslim Spain, born in Seville and of Visigothic descent | Died 977 |
| Ibn Duraid | Arabian poet | 837–934 |
| 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 |
| Ibn Juljul | Author of Tabaqāt al atibbāʾ wa'l-hukamả, a summary of the history of medicine | 944 – c. 994 |
| Ibn Khordadbeh | Author on subjects including history, genealogy, geography, music, and wines and cookery; of Persian descent | c. 820 – c. 912 |
| Ioane-Zosime | Georgian religious writer, hymnographer and translator | 10th century |
| Lady Ise (伊勢) | Japanese waka poet, mother of Nakatsukasa | c. 877 – c. 940 |
| Isaac Israeli ben Solomon | Physician and philosopher, born in Egypt | 832–932 |
| Israel the Grammarian | European scholar, poet and bishop | c. 895–c. 965 |
| Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部) | Japanese waka poet | Born c. 976 |
| Abraham ben Jacob | Spanish Jewish geographer | fl. second half of the 10th century |
| Jayadeva | Indian mathematician | Lived before 1073 |
| Al-Karaji | Mathematician, lived in Baghdad | 953 – c. 1029 |
| Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin | Astronomer and number theorist from Khurasan | c. 900 – c. 971 |
| Abu-Mahmud Khojandi | Astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand | c. 945 – 1000 |
| Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi | Author of Mafātih al-'ulũm (Keys of the Sciences) | fl. c. 975 |
| Ki no Tokibumi | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | fl. c. 950 |
| Ki no Tomonori (紀 時文) | Japanese waka poet and one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū | c. 850 – c. 904 |
| Ki no Tsurayuki (紀 貫之) | Japanese waka poet, critic and diarist; one of the compilers of the Kokin Wakashū | c. 872 – c. 945 |
| Kishi Joō (徽子女王) | Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 929–985 |
| Kiyohara no Motosuke (清原 元輔) | Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and father of Sei Shōnagon | 908–990 |
| Leo the Deacon | Byzantine historian | Born c. 950 |
| Liutprand of Cremona | Italian historian and author | c. 922 – 972 |
| Luo Yin (羅隱) | Japanese poet | 833–909 |
| '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 |
| Abu Nasr Mansur | Astronomer, born in Gīlān | c. 950 – c. 1036 |
| Mansur Al-Hallaj | Arabic-speaking mystic and author of the Ṭawāsin, a collection of 11 reflective essays; born near Beyza | 857–922 |
| Ebn Meskavayh | Persian writer on topics including history, theology, philosophy and medicine | Died 1030 |
| Symeon the Metaphrast | Principal compiler of the legends of saints in the Menologia of the Greek Orthodox Church | Second half of the 10th century |
| Mibu no Tadamine | Japanese waka poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | fl. 898–920 |
| Michitsuna no Haha ( 藤原道綱母) | Author of Kagerō nikki (The Gossamer Years) | Died 995 |
| Minamoto no Kintada (源 公忠) | Japanese poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 889–948 |
| Minamoto no Muneyuki (源 宗于) | Japanese poet | Died 939 |
| Minamoto no Saneakira (源 信明) | Japanese poet | 916–970 |
| Minamoto no Shigeyuki (源 重之) | Japanese poet | Died c. 1000 |
| Minamoto no Shitagō (源 順) | Japanese poet: one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber and the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 911–983 |
| Vācaspati Miśra | Indian polymath | 900–980 |
| Muhammad bin Hani al Andalusi al Azdi | Poet born in Seville | Died 973 |
| Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari | Writer on theology, literature and history, born in Tabriz | 839–923 |
| Al-Muqaddasi | Arabian traveller and author of a Description of the Lands of Islam, an Arabic geography | c. 946–7 – 1000 |
| Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz | Writer and, for one day, caliph of the Abbasid dynasty | Died 908 |
| Nagavarma I | Author of the Chandōmbudhi, the first treatise on Kannada metrics | Late 10th century |
| Nakatsukasa (中務) | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, daughter of Lady Ise | c. 912 – after 989 |
| Al-Nayrizi | Astronomer and meteorologist probably from Neyriz | c. 865 – c. 922 |
| Jacob ben Nissim | Philosopher, lived in Kairouan | 10th century |
| Nōin (能因) | Japanese poet | 988–1050? |
| Notker Labeo | German theologian, philologist, mathematician, astronomer, connoisseur of music, and poet | c. 950 – 1022 |
| Odo of Cluny | Author of a biography of Gerald of Aurillac, a series of moral essays, some sermons, an epic poem and 12 choral antiphons | 878/9–942 |
| Óengus mac Óengusa | Described in the Annals of the Four Masters as the "chief poet of Ireland" | Died 930 |
| Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto (大中臣 頼基) | Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | Died 958 |
| Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu (大中臣 能宣) | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | 922–991 |
| Ono no Komachi (小野 小町) | Japanese poet | 834–900 |
| Ōshikōchi no Mitsune (凡河内 躬恒) | Japanese waka poet | fl. 898–922 |
| Adikavi Pampa | Kannada-language poet | 902–945 |
| Abū Sahl al-Qūhī | Astronomer and mathematician from Tabaristan | c. 940 – c. 1000 |
| Qusta ibn Luqa | Scholar of Greek Christian origin whose work included astronomy, mathematics, medicine and philosophy | Probably c. 820 – probably c. 912–913 |
| 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 |
| Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi | Physician, scientist, philosopher and author of alchemy and logic; born in Rey, Iran | 865–925 |
| Regino of Prüm | Chronicler and author of works on ecclesiastical discipline and liturgical singing, born in Altrip | Died 915 |
| Richerus | Chronicler from Reims | Died after 998 |
| Ahmad ibn Rustah | Persian author of a geographical compendium | Died after 903 |
| Al-Saghani | Mathematician and astronomer who flourished in Turkmenistan | Died 990 |
| Ibn Sahl | Geometer | fl. late 10th century |
| Sakanoue no Mochiki | Japanese poet, one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber | fl. c. 950 |
| Sei Shōnagon (清少納言) | Japanese diarist and poet | c. 966 – c. 1025 |
| Abu Sulayman Sijistani | Philosopher from Sijistan | c. 932 – c. 1000 |
| Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani | Islamic philosopher | fl. 971 |
| Sijzi | Geometer, astrologer and astronomer, born in Sijistan | c. 945 – c. 1020 |
| Ibrahim ibn Sinan | Geometer from Baghdad | 908–946 |
| Farrukhi Sistani | Court poet of Mahmud of Ghazni | 10th–11th centuries |
| Somadeva Suri | South Indian Jain monk and author of the Upāsakādyayana, a central text of Digambara śrāvakācāra literature | 10th century |
| Sosei (素性) | One of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals | 859–923 |
| Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi | Astronomer in Iran | 903–986 |
| Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真/菅原 道眞) | Japanese statesman, historian and poet | 845–903 |
| Symeon the Studite | "Spiritual father" of Symeon the New Theologian and author of the "Ascetical Discourse", a narrative intended for monks | 917 or 924 – c. 986–7 |
| Ukhtanes of Sebastia | Chronicler of the history of Armenia | c. 935 – 1000 |
| Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi | Mathematician, possibly from Damascus | c. 920 – c. 980 |
| Vaṭeśvara | Indian mathematician | Born 802 or 880 |
| Wang Yucheng (王禹偁) | Chinese Song dynasty poet and official | 954–1001 |
| Widukind of Corvey | Saxon historian | Died c. 1004 |
| Xue Juzheng (薛居正) | Author of the Old History of the Five Dynasties, an account of China's Five Dynasties | 912–981 |
| Ibn Yunus | Egyptian astronomer and astrologer | 950–1009 |
| Ahmad ibn Yusuf | Egyptian mathematician | fl. c. 900–905, died 912/913 |
| Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi | Physician and author of Al-Tasrif, from Al-Andalus | 936–1013 |