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800 to 900 Timeline Outline

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<p>The Book of Kells.</p>
The Book of Kells
(Circa 800)

About 3000 Manuscripts of Classical Authors Survive from the 9th to 12th Centuries
(Circa 800)

Folio f32v of Harley 2767, the document from which most manuscripts of De architectura were copied. (View Larger)
The Archetype of De Architectura
(Circa 800)

Some of the Earliest Library Catalogs
(Circa 800)

Charlemagne Renews Book and Library Culture
(800 – 877)

<p>Example of Carolingian minuscule script.</p>
Adoption of the Carolingian Minuscule
(800 – 830)

<p>The Rök Runestone, believed to be the earliest Sweedish writing, makes reference to Ostrogothic King, Theodoric the Great.</p>
The First Written Swedish Literature
(Circa 800)

Charlemagne. (View Larger)
Charlemagne is Crowned Imperator Augustus
(December 25, 800)

One of the most outsanding illumated manuscripts of De luadibus sanctae crucis, preserved in the Vatican Library, depicting Christ. (View Larger)
Carmina Figurata Word Pictures
(Circa 810)

A page from the Uspensky Gospels. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Dated Manuscript Written in Greek Minuscule
(815 – 835)

A portrait of Matthew from the Ebbo Gospels. (View Larger)
An Unusual, Energetic Style of Illustration
(Circa 816 – 841)

<p>Page from Utretch Psalter.</p>
The Utrecht Psalter
(Circa 816 – 850)

Leaf 2r of the Stuttgart Psalter (Folio Bible 23 in the Wurttenmbergische Landesbibliothek). (View Larger)
"A Perfect Relationship between Text and Picture"
(Circa 820 – 830)

The Plan of Saint Gall. (View Larger)
The Only Surviving Major Architectural Drawing from the Fall of the Roman…
(820 – 830)

"The most ingenious and expressive work of narrative art known from all of Late Antiquity"
(820)

A portrait of al-Khwarizmi on a postage stamp from the former USSR. (View Larger)
Algorithm Invented; Introduction of the Decimal Positional Number System…
(Circa 825)

St. Theodore, the Studite.
Rules for the Scriptorium and the Library
(Circa 825)

A folio from the Bern Physiologus. (View Larger)
Medieval Natural History Bestseller
(825 – 850)

The Oldest Surviving Manuscript on Arabic Paper
(Circa 825)

A Studio for Royal Mayan Scribes in the Ninth Century
(Circa 825)

The Earliest Surviving Text of Lucretius's De rerum natura
(Circa 825)

Origins of the Term Algebra
(Circa 830)

Inventories of Ninth Century Libraries
(833 – 835)

An illustration of the psalms from the Vivian Bible. (View Larger)
Lavishly Illuminated for Charles the Bald
(846)

The Oldest Complete Dated Book in Arabic Written on Paper
(848)

A diagram of a 'self trimming lamp' from the Book of Ingenious devices, preserved in the 'Granger Collection' in New York. (View Larger)
The First Programmable Machine & the Earliest Known Mechanical Musical…
(850)

Cosmas Indicopleustes's map of the earth, from Topographia Christiana. (View Larger)
An Early Flat-Earth View of the World
(Circa 850)

The Earliest Surviving Copy of Aristotle's Biological Works
(Circa 850)

An icon depicting St. Photius. (View Larger)
The First Byzantine Encylopedia
(Circa 850)

The Oldest Surviving Fragments of the Babylonian Talmud May Date from the Ninth Century
(Circa 850)

The frontispiece of a 1709 edition of De re coquinaria. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Cookbook
(Circa 850)

A depiction of David from the Chludov Psalter. (View Larger)
A Byzantine Iconophile Psalter from the Time of the Iconoclasm
(Circa 850)

A bust of Aulus Cornelius Celsus.
The Oldest Western Medical Document after the Hippocratic Writings and…
(Circa 850)

Codex Heidelbergensis 398: the single document, edited by Sigismund Gelenius, that recounts the periplus of Hanno. (View Larger)
The Periplus of Hanno the Navigator
(Circa 850 – 950)

The Earliest Surviving Manuscript Closest to Euclid's Original Text
(Circa 850)

The Fables of Phaedrus
(Circa 850)

The First Treatise on Cryptanalysis
(Circa 850)

The Codex Spirensis, of which Only a Single Leaf of the Original Survives
(Circa 860 – 920)

Alcuin.
Vikings Destroy the Library of York Cathedral
(867)

Folio 241b of MS Leiden Or. 298, a manuscript of the 'Gharib al-Hadith' by Abu `Ubayd al-Qasim b. Sallam. (View Larger)
The Oldest Arabic Manuscript on Arabic Paper Preserved in Europe
(November – December 867)

A portion of the Diamond Sutra. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Dated Complete Printed Book
(May 11, 868)

The Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram
(Circa 870)

The upper cover of the Lindau Gospels. (View Larger)
The Magnificent Upper Cover of the Lindau Gospels
(Circa 875)

The Earliest-Known Manuscript of the Arabian Nights
(October 20, 879)

One of the Two Oldest Manuscripts of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
(Circa 880)

The second page of MS. d'Orville 301. (View Larger)
The Oldest Dated Manuscript of a Classical Greek Author
(888)

The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle, marked secondarily by the librarian of the Laud collection in the Bodelian Library. The manuscript is an autograph of the monastic scribes of Peterborough, and the opening sections were likely scribed around 1150. The section displayed is prior to the First Continuation. (View Larger)
The First Continuous History Written by Europeans in their Own Language
(890)

By the End of the 9th Century the Major Part of Latin Literature had Been Copied
(Circa 890 – 900)

The First Surviving Book Written Entirely in English
(Circa 890)

Over 100 Booksellers and 30 Public Libraries in Baghdad
(891)

Folio 94v of the Clarke Plato. (View Larger)
The Oldest Surviving Manuscript of Plato's Tetralogies
(November 895)