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Work	Map	Date	Best held edition	Pages	Untranslated
Sakya Paṇḍita, Mkhas pa 'jug pa'i sgo (and Tshad ma rigs gter) Tibetan · epistemology-of-perception	Consciousness	1230	the collected works of the founding masters of the sa-skya Tibetan · hidden	11,772	11,446
Post-Tridentine Latin meditation manuals (Bruno, Busaeus, Capilla, Álvarez de Paz, Masen, Michel, Suffren, Crombecius, Tylkowski, Segneri, Wenzel) Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1600	Garden of Sacred Meditations Wenzel, Alphons · 1744 · Latin	9,746	9,746
Longchenpa, mDzod bdun (Seven Treasuries) Tibetan · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1350	gsung 'bum/_dri med 'od zer/ (sde dge par ma/) Tibetan · hidden	7,871	7,676
Anselm, Monologion / Proslogion Medieval Latin · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1077	Divi Anselmi Archiepiscopi Cantvariensis Opera Omnia Qvatvor Tomis comprehensa Anselm, St · Unknown · Latin · hidden	4,080	4,080
Luis de la Puente, Meditaciones / Guía espiritual Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1605	Puente, Luis de la: Compendivm seu Breviarivm Absolvtissimvm omnium Meditationvm De Praecipvis Fidei Nostrae Mysteriis V Puente, Luis de la · Unknown · Latin · hidden	4,009	4,009
Sebastian Brant, Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools) — Latin tradition Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · moral-essay	Wisdom	1494	Compendiosa vitae eiusdem descriptio nauicula sive speculu fatuorum prestantissimi sacrarum literarum doctoris Joannis g Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johannes · 1511 · Latin · hidden	3,888	3,888
Disticha Catonis Roman · maxims/aphorisms	Wisdom	300	Disticha diversorum scilicet Catonis, M. Verini, faceti, dicta sapietum et aliqua carmina selecta Cato, Dionysius · 1759 · Latin · hidden	3,546	3,546
Rangjung Dorje (Karmapa III), rNam shes ye shes 'byed pa and Zab mo nang don Tibetan · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1320	gsung 'bum/_rang byung rdo rje/ Tibetan · hidden	3,089	3,057
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job Early Christian & Monastic · psychology	Consciousness	591	[Moralia in Job] Gregor · 1472 · Latin · hidden	2,652	2,652
Saavedra Fajardo, Idea de un príncipe político cristiano (Empresas Políticas) Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · mirror-for-princes	Wisdom	1640	Idea principis christiano-politici, centum symbolis expressa Saavedra de Fajardo, Diego · 1651 · Latin · hidden	2,643	2,643
Jean Gerson, De mystica theologia / De probatione spirituum / De passionibus animae Medieval Latin · psychology	Consciousness	1408	Opera Gerson, Jean · 1483 · Latin · hidden	2,624	2,624
Lam 'bras (Sakya Path with the Result) Tibetan · stages-of-the-path	Meditation	1050	lam 'bras bla ma brgyud pa'i rnam thar/ Tibetan · hidden	2,608	2,608
Gregory Palamas, Triads in Defence of the Holy Hesychasts Byzantine & Orthodox · apology/theory-of-practice	Meditation	1338	Triads in Defense of the Holy Hesychasts (Meyendorff ed.) Gregory Palamas · 1959 · Greek · hidden	2,491	2,491
Tsongkhapa, Lam rim chen mo & chung ngu Tibetan · stages-of-the-path	Meditation	1402	the lam rim chen mo of the incomparable tsong kha pa Tibetan · hidden	2,655	2,245
Dharmakīrti, Pramāṇavārttika / Pramāṇaviniścaya (with Tibetan tshad ma commentaries) Buddhist · epistemology-of-perception	Consciousness	620	Pramanavarttika with the Commentary of Manorathanandin Dharmakīrti · 1968 · Sanskrit · hidden	2,700	2,176
Johannes Lanspergius, Pharetra divini amoris Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · prayer-method	Meditation	1532	Landsberg, Johannes Justus: Minorum operum D. Ioannis Iusti Lanspergii ... libri sex Landsberg, Johannes Justus · Unknown · Latin · hidden	2,112	2,112
Sanāʾī, Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqa and Sayr al-ʿibād ilā l-maʿād Persian · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	1131	Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaqīqah va Sharī‘at al-Ṭarīqah, Sayr al-‘Ibād ila'l-Ma‘ād (Persian MS 13) Anonymous · early–mid 17th century · Persian · hidden	2,076	2,076
Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra (ch. 8, dhyāna) Buddhist · stages-of-the-path	Meditation	700	byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa/ Tibetan · hidden	2,069	2,069
Telesio, De rerum natura iuxta propria principia Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1586	Bernardini Telesii Consentini, Varii De Natvralibvs Rebvs Libelli Telesio, Bernardino · 1590 · Latin · hidden	1,993	1,993
Gall, Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux (with Spurzheim, Phrenology) Modern European · medical/physiological	Consciousness	1810	Phrenology, in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy Johann Gaspar Spurzheim · 1833 · English · hidden	1,960	1,960
Vidura-nīti (Mahābhārata, Udyoga Parva) Indian · instruction	Wisdom	100 BCE	The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Vol. 4 (Virata, Udyoga & Bhishma Parva) Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli · 1884 · English · hidden	1,919	1,919
Aphrahat, Demonstrations Syriac & Armenian · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	340	Syriac Patrology, Volume 1: The Demonstrations of Aphrahat Aphrahat · 1894 · Syriac	2,769	1,901
Polydore Vergil, Proverbiorum libellus (Adagiorum liber) Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · proverbs	Wisdom	1498	Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis Adagiorum opus Vergilius, Polydorus · 1541 · Latin · hidden	1,873	1,873
Diego de Estella, Meditaciones del amor de Dios Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1576	Estella, Diego de: Contemptus vanitatum mundi Estella, Diego de · Unknown · Latin · hidden	1,854	1,854
Jean Gerson, De mystica theologia / La montagne de contemplation / La mendicité spirituelle Medieval Latin · apology/theory-of-practice	Meditation	1408	Opera Gerson, Jean · 1483 · Latin · hidden	1,814	1,814
Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines Hellenistic & Late Antique · rule/precepts	Meditation	300 BCE	Epicurea Epicurus; Hermann Usener · 1963 · Latin · hidden	1,803	1,803
Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom (Krug Chteniya) and religious works Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1908	Krug Chteniia (Circle of Reading, Vol. 2) Leo Tolstoy · 1909 · Russian · hidden	1,788	1,788
Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion & Orationes Medieval Latin · prayer-method	Meditation	1078	Divi Anselmi Archiepiscopi Cantvariensis Opera Omnia Qvatvor Tomis comprehensa Anselm, St · Unknown · Latin · hidden	1,776	1,776
Montaigne, Essais Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · moral-essay	Wisdom	1580	Essays Michel de Montaigne · 1598 · French · hidden	2,954	1,762
Montaigne, Essais Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · dialogue	Consciousness	1580	Essays Michel de Montaigne · 1598 · French · hidden	2,954	1,712
Lotze, Mikrokosmus (with Metaphysik; Medicinische Psychologie not held) Modern European · psychology	Consciousness	1856	Mikrokosmus: Ideen zur Naturgeschichte und Geschichte der Menschheit, Band 3 Hermann Lotze · 1869 · German · hidden	1,703	1,703
Giovanni Bona, Via compendii ad Deum / Manuductio ad caelum Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1657	Via Compendii Ad Deum, Per Motus Anagogicos, Et Orationes Jaculatorias: Liber Isagogicvs Ad Mysticam Theologiam Auctore Bona, Giovanni · 1657 · Latin · hidden	1,700	1,700
Polyanthea (Nanus Mirabellius) Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1503	Loci Communes, sive Florilegium Rerum Et Materiarum Selectarum : Praecipue Sententiarum Apophthegmatum Similitudinum Exe Lang, Joseph · 1674 · Latin · hidden	1,659	1,659
John of Salisbury, Policraticus Medieval Latin · mirror-for-princes	Wisdom	1159	The Statesman's Book Johannes · 1513 · Latin · hidden	1,574	1,574
Zhang zhung snyan rgyud (Bon Dzogchen) Tibetan · practice-manual	Meditation	800	zhang zhung snyan rgyud kyi gsung pod/ (sde dge par ma/) Tibetan · hidden	1,506	1,506
Justus Velsius, Commentary on Cebes' Tablet Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · commentary	Wisdom	1551	In Cebetis Thebani tabulam commentariorum libri sex, totius moralis philosophiae thesaurus. In quibus nonnulla per occas Velsius, Justus · 1551 · Latin · hidden	1,487	1,487
Hartley, Observations on Man Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · medical/physiological	Consciousness	1749	Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations David Hartley · 1749 · English	1,494	1,487
Immanuel Hai Ricchi, Mishnat Hasidim Kabbalistic & Hasidic · prayer-method	Meditation	1727	Mishnat Ḥasidim with commentary (Gaster Hebrew MS 2117) Anonymous · 5 Adar 603 (24 January 1 · Hebrew · hidden	1,426	1,426
Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1548	Bebius, Philippus: Meditationum ex S. Ignatio ... decerpti Bebius, Philippus · Unknown · Latin · hidden	1,402	1,402
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Book II) Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · epistemology-of-perception	Consciousness	1690	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding John Locke · Unknown · English · hidden	1,349	1,349
Athanasius, Life of Antony Early Christian & Monastic · first-person-account	Meditation	357	Vitae patrum Rosweyde, Heribert · 1628 · Latin · hidden	1,346	1,346
Max Müller, The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy; Monier-Williams, Indian Wisdom Indian · anthology/study	Consciousness	1899	The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy F. Max Muller · 1899 · English · hidden	1,306	1,306
Scheffer, Lapponia (the noaidi drum trance) Slavic & Finnic · first-person-account	Meditation	1673	Lappland, Das ist: Neue und wahrhafftige Beschreibung von Lappland und dessen Einwohnern: worin viel bißhero unbekandte Scheffer, Johannes · 1675 · German · hidden	1,275	1,275
Scheffer, Lapponia Slavic & Finnic · anthropology-of-mind	Consciousness	1673	Lappland, Das ist: Neue und wahrhafftige Beschreibung von Lappland und dessen Einwohnern: worin viel bißhero unbekandte Scheffer, Johannes · 1675 · German · hidden	1,275	1,275
Yuxuan Yulu (Imperially Selected Discourse Records) Chinese · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1733	御選語錄世宗皇帝 · 1733 · Chinese · hidden	1,241	1,241
Bain, The Senses and the Intellect (with Mind and Body) Modern European · psychology	Consciousness	1855	The Senses and the Intellect Alexander Bain · 1855 · English · hidden	1,241	1,241
Digby, Two Treatises: Of Bodies and Of Mans Soule Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1644	Demonstratio immortalitatis animae rationalis, sive Tractatus duo philosophici, in quorum priori natura et operationes c Digby, Kenelm · 1655 · Latin · hidden	1,267	1,221
Wuzhen Pian (Awakening to Reality) Chinese · practice-manual	Meditation	1075	道言內外秘訣全書張伯端 Zhang Boduan (987–1082) et al.; ed. 吳勉學 Wu Mianxue · 明萬曆 Ming Wanli (1573–162 · Chinese	1,261	1,213
Denys the Carthusian, De contemplatione Medieval Latin · apology/theory-of-practice	Meditation	1450	D. Dionysii Carthvsani Opervm Minorvm Tomvs tertius, diu desideratus, cui insunt haec Dionysius · 1540 · Latin · hidden	1,178	1,178
Denys the Carthusian, De contemplatione Medieval Latin · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	1445	D. Dionysii Carthvsani Opervm Minorvm Tomvs tertius, diu desideratus, cui insunt haec Dionysius · 1540 · Latin · hidden	1,178	1,178
Dabistān-i Maẕāhib Persian · anthropology-of-mind	Consciousness	1655	Dabistān (Persian MS 189) Mīr Ẕū-al-Fiqār ‘Alī al-Ḥusaynī Ardistānī, ca. 1615–1670; ذو · 15 Ramaz̤ān 1210 AH (24 · Persian · hidden	1,138	1,138
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son Modern European · instruction	Wisdom	1774	Works, Including His Letters to His Son Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield · 1860 · English · hidden	1,137	1,137
Dādestān ī Dēnīg (Manuščihr) Zoroastrian · dialogue	Consciousness	881	Pahlavi Texts, Part 2 (SBE Vol. 18): Dādistān-ī Dīnīk E.W. West (tr.) · 1880-97 · English · hidden	1,133	1,133
Javanese wulang (didactic-romance) literature: Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang Southeast Asian · instruction	Wisdom	1750	Add. 12310 Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang Anonymous · Javanese · hidden	1,095	1,095
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelationes Medieval Latin · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	1370	Himmlische Offenbarungen Birgitta of Sweden · 1664 · German	1,778	1,093
Birgitta of Sweden, Revelations Medieval Latin · first-person-account	Meditation	1370	Himmlische Offenbarungen Birgitta of Sweden · 1664 · German	1,778	1,092
Grub mtha' (Tibetan doxographies of the four tenet systems) Tibetan · anthology/study	Consciousness	1700	grub mtha'i rnam bshad kun bzang zhing gi nyi ma/ Tibetan · hidden	1,108	1,087
Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1650	The Saints' Everlasting Rest Richard Baxter · 1654 · English · hidden	1,079	1,079
Gruter, Bibliotheca exulum seu Enchiridion divinae humanaeque prudentiae Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1625	Bibliotheca Exulum: Seu Enchiridion Divinae Humanaeque prudentiae Gruterus, Janus · 1625 · Latin · hidden	1,075	1,075
Dzogchen instruction literature (Semde khrid yig, kun gzhi rang grol, thod rgal) Tibetan · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	1700	rdzogs pa chen po yang rtse klong chen/ Tibetan · hidden	1,258	1,043
William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism ('Does Consciousness Exist?') Modern European · epistemology-of-perception	Consciousness	1904	The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy William James · 1897 · English · hidden	1,039	1,039
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad Indian · scripture/upanishad	Consciousness	700 BCE	बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद् Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, adhyāya 1-2, with Śaṅkara's bhāṣya Śaṅkarācārya · 1910 · Sanskrit	1,102	1,027
Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra) Buddhist · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	400	theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos legs bshad nyi ma'i 'od zer : a detailed commentary on the ratnagotravibhaga o Tibetan · hidden	1,027	1,027
Vijñānabhairava Indian · practice-manual	Meditation	800	1392 Vigyan Bhairava And 16 Other Manuscripts Sharada Raghunath Temple Uncatalogued Unknown · Unknown · Sanskrit · hidden	1,021	1,021
Isaac of Nineveh, Ascetical Discourses Syriac & Armenian · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	680	On Religious Perfection Isaac of Nineveh; Paul Bedjan · 1909 · Syriac	1,029	1,009
Bovelles, Liber de intellectu, de sensu (and Dialogi de animae immortalitate) Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1510	Liber de intellectu. Liber de sensu. Liber de nichilo. Ars oppositorum. Liber de generatione. Liber de sapiente. Liber d Bovelles, Charles de · 1510 · Latin · hidden	979	979
Plutarch, De genio Socratis and De defectu oraculorum (daimones, inspiration, oracular states) Hellenistic & Late Antique · dialogue	Consciousness	100	De natura et effectionibus daemonum : libelli duo Plutarchi Cheronensis Plutarchus, 45-120 · 1576 · Greek · hidden	975	975
Wander, Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon Modern European · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1867	Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon, herausg. von K.F. W. Wander Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander · 1873 · German · hidden	973	973
Jurjānī, Ẕakhīra-i Khwārazmshāhī (Persian medicine: brain and psychic faculties) Persian · medical/physiological	Consciousness	1110	Z̤akhīrah-ʼi Khwārazmshāhī (Persian MS 192) Jurjānī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥasan, ca. 1042–1137; جرجانی، إسماعيل ب · possibly 17th century CE · Persian · hidden	960	960
Reshit Hokhmah (de Vidas) Kabbalistic & Hasidic · ethical-treatise	Wisdom	1575	Reshit Hokhmah Vidas, Elijah ben Moses de, active 16th century · 1579 · Hebrew · hidden	944	944
Menog-i Khrad (Dana-i Menog-i Khrad) Zoroastrian · maxims/aphorisms	Wisdom	850	Pahlavi Texts, Part 3 (SBE Vol. 24): Dīnā-ī Maīnōg-ī Khirad, Sad Dar E.W. West (tr.) · 1880-97 · English · hidden	937	937
Dādestān ī Mēnōg ī Xrad (Opinions of the Spirit of Wisdom) Zoroastrian · dialogue	Consciousness	550	Pahlavi Texts, Part 3 (SBE Vol. 24): Dīnā-ī Maīnōg-ī Khirad, Sad Dar E.W. West (tr.) · 1880-97 · English · hidden	937	937
Škand-gumānīg Wizār (Mardān-Farrox) Zoroastrian · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	870	Pahlavi Texts, Part 3 (SBE Vol. 24): Dīnā-ī Maīnōg-ī Khirad, Sad Dar E.W. West (tr.) · 1880-97 · English · hidden	937	937
Pirkei Avot (Sayings of the Fathers) Hebrew & Jewish · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	200	Die alten Gebete der Hebräer nebst dem Pirke Aboth Moses Israel Landau · 1843 · German · hidden	926	926
Attar, Mantiq al-tayr Persian · gnomic-poetry	Wisdom	1177	Conference of the Birds — Persian Text (Tehran critical edition, 1993) Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār · 1993 · Persian · hidden	920	920
ʿAṭṭār, Manṭiq al-Ṭayr Persian · stages-of-the-path	Meditation	1177	Conference of the Birds — Persian Text (Tehran critical edition, 1993) Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār · 1993 · Persian · hidden	920	920
ʿAṭṭār, Manṭiq al-ṭayr (Conference of the Birds) Persian · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	1177	Conference of the Birds — Persian Text (Tehran critical edition, 1993) Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār · 1993 · Persian · hidden	920	920
Guy du Faur de Pibrac, Quatrains Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · gnomic-poetry	Wisdom	1574	Tetrasticha Gallica Graecis pariter & Latinis versibus expressa Pibrac, Guy du Faur de · 1607 · Greek · hidden	896	896
Luis de Granada, Libro de la oración y meditación Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1554	Libro de la oración y meditación Luis de Granada · 1554 · Unknown · hidden	890	890
Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo; De sollertia animalium (animal minds) Hellenistic & Late Antique · commentary	Consciousness	100	De virtute morali libellus graecus Plutarchus, 45-120 · 1526 · Greek · hidden	890	890
Kaykavus ibn Iskandar, Qabus-nama Persian · mirror-for-princes	Wisdom	1082	Buch des Kabus, oder Lehren des persischen Königs Kjekjawus Kaykavus ibn Iskandar; trans. Heinrich Friedrich von Diez · 1811 · German · hidden	888	888
Hardinge Britten, Ghost Land / Art Magic Theosophical & Modern Esoteric · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	1876	Art Magic; or, Mundane, Sub-Mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism Emma Hardinge Britten · 1876 · English · hidden	885	885
Sahdona (Martyrius), Book of Perfection Syriac & Armenian · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	640	The Complete Works of Sahdona Sahdona (Martyrius) · 1902 · Syriac	908	884
Apocryphon of John (Nag Hammadi II,1; III,1; IV,1) Hermetic & Gnostic · scripture/upanishad	Consciousness	150	The Nag Hammadi Library James M. Robinson (ed.) · 1981 · English · hidden	1,053	882
Huainanzi (jing-shen theory) Chinese · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	139 BCE	Huainanzi Liu An (劉安) · 1595 · Chinese · hidden	954	880
Zhang Zai, Zhengmeng Chinese · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1060	Zhengmeng Zhang Zai · Unknown · Unknown · hidden	875	875
Sebastian Franck, Sprichwörter Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · proverbs	Wisdom	1541	Sprichwörter Sebastian Franck · 1575 · German · hidden	866	866
Aṣṭāvakra Gītā Indian · koan/dialogue	Meditation	800	MN 000670 Ashtavakra Sharada Manuscripts At Kurukshetra University Unknown · Unknown · Sanskrit · hidden	863	863
Aṣṭāvakra Gītā Indian · dialogue	Consciousness	800	MN 000670 Ashtavakra Sharada Manuscripts At Kurukshetra University Unknown · Unknown · Sanskrit · hidden	863	863
Epidaurian iamata (Asclepius incubation inscriptions) Greek · first-person-account	Dreams	350 BCE	Bartholomaei Bolognini Bononiensis Epitome elegiaca in Pub. Ovidii Nasonis Libros XV. Metamorphoseon Bolognini, Bartolomeo · 1544 · Latin · hidden	856	856
Huangting Jing (Scripture of the Yellow Court) Chinese · sutra/scripture	Meditation	350	正統道藏 Zhengtong Daozang vol. 5 (Ming imperial Daoist canon, with 黃庭經 Huangting jing) Ming Imperial compilation · 1445 · Classical Chinese	854	829
Erasmus, Lingua Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · ethical-treatise	Wisdom	1525	Lingua opus novum et hisce temporibus aptissimum Erasmus, Desiderius · 1526 · Latin · hidden	820	820
Vives, De anima et vita Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · psychology	Consciousness	1538	Ioannis Lodovici Vivis Valentini De anima et vita libri tres Vives, Juan Luis · 1543 · Latin · hidden	806	806
Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · proverbs	Wisdom	1555	Refranes o proverbios en romance Hernán Núñez · 1621 · Unknown · hidden	804	804
Krüger, Versuch einer Experimental-Seelenlehre / Träume Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · psychology	Consciousness	1758	Dreams Krüger, Johann Gottlob · 1758 · German · hidden	804	804
Novalis, Fragmente Modern European · maxims/aphorisms	Wisdom	1798	novalis fragmente geordnete ausgabe · 1929 · German · hidden	800	800
Leadbeater, The Inner Life Theosophical & Modern Esoteric · practice-manual	Meditation	1910	The Inner Life Charles Webster Leadbeater · 1910 · English · hidden	790	790
Lipsius, Neostoic works (De Constantia; Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam) Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · ethical-treatise	Wisdom	1594	Philosophia et Physiologia Stoica (Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam; Physiologia Stoicorum) Justus Lipsius · 1644 · Latin · hidden	782	782
Hugh of St Victor, Didascalicon Medieval Latin · instruction	Wisdom	1128	Didascalicon Hugh of St Victor · 1991 · English · hidden	774	774
La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales Modern European · maxims/aphorisms	Wisdom	1665	Des Herzogs de la Rochefoucault Moralische Maximen François de La Rochefoucauld · 1784 · German · hidden	774	774
Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living / Holy Dying Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · rule/precepts	Meditation	1650	The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living Jeremy Taylor · 1651 · English · hidden	767	767
Gospel of Truth (Nag Hammadi I,3) Hermetic & Gnostic · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	150	The Nag Hammadi Library James M. Robinson (ed.) · 1981 · English · hidden	933	765
Jāmī, Nafaḥāt al-Uns Persian · first-person-account	Meditation	1478	Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492) Jami · 1478 · Turkish · hidden	758	758
Jāmī, Nafaḥāt al-uns Persian · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	1478	Breaths of intimacy (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jāmī (d. 1492) Jami · 1478 · Turkish · hidden	758	758
Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics Modern European · epistemology-of-perception	Consciousness	1859	Lectures on Metaphysics Hamilton · 1858 · English · hidden	750	750
Johann Fischart, Das Philosophisch Ehezuchtbüchlein Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · moral-essay	Wisdom	1578	Das Philosophisch Ehezuchtbuchlin oder Die Vernunfftgemäse Naturgescheide Ehezucht, sampt der Kinderzucht : Auß des ... Plutarchus, 45-120 · 1597 · Greek · hidden	744	744
Lorenzo Scupoli, Combattimento spirituale Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1589	Scupoli, Lorenzo: Certamen Spiritvale seu Opusculum ... Ven: Patris LAVRENTII SCVPVLI Cler[ici] Reg[ularis] Theatini ex Scupoli, Lorenzo · Unknown · Latin · hidden	743	743
S. Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy II Indian · anthology/study	Consciousness	1926	Indian Philosophy, Volume II S. Radhakrishnan · 1926 · English · hidden	735	735
Hugo von Trimberg, Der Renner Medieval Latin · gnomic-poetry	Wisdom	1300	Der Renner Hugo von Trimberg · 1908 · German · hidden	723	723
Aelius Aristides, Sacred Tales (Hieroi logoi; incubation dreams of Asclepius) Hellenistic & Late Antique · dream-book/oneirology	Consciousness	170	Aelii Aristidis Adrianensis Opera Omnia, Graece et Latine — Vol. 1 (Jebb, 1722) Aelius Aristides · 1722 · Latin · hidden	716	710
Augustine, Enchiridion ad Laurentium Early Christian & Monastic · instruction	Wisdom	421	D. Aurelii Augustini Enchiridion ad Laurentium, sive, summa et praecipua totius christianae religionis capita Augustinus, St · Unknown · Latin · hidden	705	705
Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · maxims/aphorisms	Wisdom	1647	Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia Baltasar Gracián · 1954 · Spanish · hidden	702	702
ʿImād-i Subḥāniyya dar ʿilm-i sulūk (Sanjānī) Persian · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	1604	ʻImād-i Subḥāniyah dar ‘Ilm Sulūk (Persian MS 688) Qivām al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻImād Sanjānī, ca. 1333–1418; قوام · 17 Rabī‘ I 1013 AH (13 A · Persian · hidden	700	700
Safavid school miscellany: Mīr Dāmād, Dawwānī, Bābā Afżal, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr (with Ibn Sīnā) Persian · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1600	Forty-eight texts on philosophy, by Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037), Mīr Dāmād (d. 1630), Davvānī (d. 1501), Bābā Afẓal (d. c. 1213), Ibn Sina; Mir Damad; Davvani; Baba Afzal et al. · 1600 · Persian · hidden	678	678
Mach, Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen Modern European · epistemology-of-perception	Consciousness	1886	Erkenntnis und Irrtum: Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung Ernst Mach · 1905 · German · hidden	672	672
Biyanlu (The Blue Cliff Record) Chinese · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1125	Blue Cliff Record Yuanwu Keqin (圜悟克勤) · 1125 · Chinese · hidden	669	669
Reinhard Lorich, Loci communes de institutione principum Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · mirror-for-princes	Wisdom	1541	Loci communes de institutione principum, quorum cognitio non modo iis, qui cum imperio sunt, verum quibusuis aliis magis Lorich, Reinhard · 1541 · Latin · hidden	659	659
Düringsfeld, Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Modern European · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1872	Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen Düringsfeld · 1872 · German · hidden	654	654
Awakening of Faith (Dasheng qixin lun, section on śamatha–vipaśyanā) Buddhist · apology/theory-of-practice	Meditation	550	Açvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana Ashvaghosha, D.T. Suzuki (trans.) · 1900 · English · hidden	654	654
Thomasin von Zerklaere, Der Welsche Gast Medieval Latin · instruction	Wisdom	1216	Der Welsche Gast Thomasin von Zerklaere · Unknown · Unknown · hidden	640	640
La Bruyère, Les Caractères Modern European · maxims/aphorisms	Wisdom	1688	La Bruyere Les Caracteres G. servois, A. Rebelliau · 1913 · French · hidden	636	636
Le Roux de Lincy, Le Livre des proverbes français Modern European · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1842	Le livre des proverbes français, tome 2 Antoine Le Roux de Lincy · 1859 · French · hidden	633	633
Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (Hilkhot Yesodei ha-Torah 2; Hilkhot Teshuvah 10) Hebrew & Jewish · rule/precepts	Meditation	1180	Ex … opere quod Manus fortis inscribitur tractatus tres, I. de jejunio, II. de solennitate Expiationum, III. de solemnit Maimonides, Moses · 1667 · Latin · hidden	631	631
Āryadeva, Catuḥśataka Buddhist · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	200	Catuḥśataka (Sanskrit fragments + Tibetan, ed. V. Bhattacharya) Āryadeva · 1931 · Sanskrit · hidden	630	630
Stephen bar Sudaili, Book of the Holy Hierotheos Syriac & Armenian · mystical-phenomenology	Consciousness	500	The Book of the Holy Hierotheos (Marsh, 1927) Stephen bar Sudhaile · 1927 · English · hidden	619	619
Dahui Yulu (Discourse Records of Chan Master Dahui Zonggao) Chinese · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1163	Discourse Records of Chan Master Dahui Zonggao Dahui Zonggao (宗杲, 1089-1163) · 1585 · Chinese · hidden	616	616
Covarrubias, Emblemas morales Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1610	Emblemas morales Covarrubias · 1604 · Spanish · hidden	616	616
Dahui — Discourse Records (kanhua Chan) Chinese · koan/dialogue	Meditation	1163	Discourse Records of Chan Master Dahui Zonggao Dahui Zonggao (宗杲, 1089-1163) · 1585 · Chinese · hidden	616	616
Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen, De spiritualibus ascensionibus Medieval Latin · stages-of-the-path	Meditation	1390	De spiritualibus ascensionibus Gerardus · 1490 · Latin · hidden	616	616
Judah Halevi, Kuzari (Book III) Hebrew & Jewish · apology/theory-of-practice	Meditation	1140	ha-Kuzari Judah Halevi · 1593 · Unknown · hidden	610	610
Judah Halevi — Kuzari Hebrew & Jewish · dialogue	Consciousness	1140	ha-Kuzari Judah Halevi · 1593 · Unknown · hidden	610	610
Pedro Mexía, Silva de varia lección Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1540	Silva de varia lección Pedro Mexía · 1673 · Spanish · hidden	606	606
Bonnet, Essai analytique sur les facultés de l'âme Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · psychology	Consciousness	1760	Essai analytique sur les facultés de l'âme Bonnet · 1760 · French · hidden	606	606
Prince, The Dissociation of a Personality; Flournoy, Des Indes à la planète Mars Modern European · psychology	Consciousness	1900	The Dissociation of a Personality; Flournoy, Des Indes à la planète Mars Prince · 1908 · English · hidden	600	600
Juan de Mal Lara, Filosofía vulgar Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · commentary	Wisdom	1568	Filosofía vulgar Juan de Mal Lara · 1618 · Greek · hidden	599	599
Bradley, Appearance and Reality Modern European · treatise-on-soul	Consciousness	1893	Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay F.H. Bradley · 1893 · English · hidden	598	598
Counsels of Wisdom (Akkadian) Mesopotamian · instruction	Wisdom	1250 BCE	Babylonian Wisdom Literature W. G. Lambert · 1960 · Akkadian · hidden	594	594
Babylonian Theodicy Mesopotamian · debate/dialogue	Wisdom	1000 BCE	Babylonian Wisdom Literature W. G. Lambert · 1960 · Akkadian · hidden	594	594
Dialogue of Pessimism Mesopotamian · debate/dialogue	Wisdom	1000 BCE	Babylonian Wisdom Literature W. G. Lambert · 1960 · Akkadian · hidden	594	594
Ahiqar Mesopotamian · maxims/aphorisms	Wisdom	650 BCE	The Story of Ahikar from the Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Old Turkish, Greek and Slavonic Versions F. C. Conybeare, J. Rendel Harris & Agnes Smith Lewis · 1913 · English · hidden	590	590
Conrad Heresbach, De educandis principum liberis Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · mirror-for-princes	Wisdom	1570	Heresbach, Conrad: CONRADI HERESBACHII IC.\|\| De educandis atque erudiendis \|\| PRINCIPVM LIBERIS,\|\| REI PVBLICAE GVBER=\|\| Heresbach, Conrad · Unknown · Latin · hidden	581	581
Mark the Ascetic, Opuscula Early Christian & Monastic · ethical-treatise	Wisdom	430	Sancti Patris nostri Marci Eremitae Opuscula qu[a]edam Theologica, qu[a]e in Bibliotheca regia reperta sunt, graecè scri Marcus, Eremita, 36X-43X · 1563 · Latin · hidden	578	578
Harrebomée, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche taal Modern European · sayings-collection/florilegium	Wisdom	1858	Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche taal Harrebomée · 1858 · Unknown · hidden	572	572
Leibniz, Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · epistemology-of-perception	Consciousness	1704	Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1921 · French · hidden	560	560
Alonso Rodríguez, Ejercicio de perfección y virtudes cristianas Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · practice-manual	Meditation	1609	Rodriguez, Alonso: R. P. Alphonsi Roderici E Societate Jesu Aurea Epitome De Disciplina Virtutum Et Exercitiis Christian Rodriguez, Alonso · Unknown · Latin · hidden	554	554
Melanchthon, Liber de anima Renaissance & Early Modern Europe · psychology	Consciousness	1540	Snellius, Rudolph: Rudolphi Snellii In Avrevm Philippi Melanchthonis De Anima, Vel Potivs De hominis Physiologia, libell Snellius, Rudolph · Unknown · Latin · hidden	551	551
Romanes, Animal Intelligence / Mental Evolution in Animals; Lloyd Morgan, Introduction to Comparative Psychology Modern European · psychology	Consciousness	1882	Animal Intelligence / Mental Evolution in Animals; Lloyd Morgan, Introduction to Comparative Psychology Romanes · 1883 · English · hidden	548	548
Nasir al-Din Tusi, Akhlaq-i Nasiri Persian · ethical-treatise	Wisdom	1235	Akhlaq-i Nasiri Nasir al-Din Tusi · 1612 · Turkish · hidden	540	540
Mawardi, Adab al-dunya wa-l-din Arabic · ethical-treatise	Wisdom	1050	Adab al-dunya wa-l-din Mawardi · Unknown · Unknown · hidden	538	538
Cabanis, Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme Modern European · medical/physiological	Consciousness	1802	Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme Cabanis · 1802 · French · hidden	536	536

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Tier	Work	Tradition	Date	Maps	Candidate source	Status
1	Immram Brain (Voyage of Bran) and the aisling tradition Otherworld voyage and vision-poem: the Irish literature of trance and vision.	Norse & Celtic	700	consciousness	The voyage of Bran, son of Febal, to the land of the living; an old Ir survey-named, verified	acquired · 362 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Bonnet, Essai analytique sur les facultés de l'âme Fibre-physiology of sensation and memory; the statue-man before Condillac's fame.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1760	consciousness	Essai analytique sur les facultés de l'ame survey-named, verified	acquired · 606 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Kant, Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht Kant's empirical psychology: obscure representations, the senses, imagination, dreams, mental illness.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1798	consciousness	Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht; survey-named, verified	acquired · 286 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Cabanis, Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme The brain secretes thought as the stomach digests — the physiological programme of the Idéologues.	Modern European	1802	consciousness	Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme survey-named, verified	acquired · 536 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Schubert, Die Symbolik des Traumes Romantic theory of dream as a hieroglyphic language of the soul.	Modern European	1814	consciousness	Die Symbolik des Traumes survey-named, verified	acquired · 298 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Carus, Psyche: zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele 'The key to the conscious life of the soul lies in the unconscious' — the Romantic unconscious systematised.	Modern European	1846	consciousness	Psyche [microform]. Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele survey-named, verified	acquired · 267 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics Consciousness as the condition of all mental phenomena; latent mental modifications.	Modern European	1859	consciousness	Lectures on metaphysics and logic survey-named, verified	acquired · 750 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Maury, Le sommeil et les rêves; Hervey de Saint-Denys, Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger; Delboeuf, Le sommeil et les rêves The French experimental dream literature (hypnagogic images, lucid dreaming) that Freud built on.	Modern European	1861	consciousness	Le sommeil et les rêves; études psychologiques sur ces phénomènes et l survey-named, verified	acquired · 504 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Taine, De l'intelligence Perception as 'true hallucination'; images, signs and the self.	Modern European	1870	consciousness	De l'intelligence survey-named, verified	acquired · 436 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Romanes, Animal Intelligence / Mental Evolution in Animals; Lloyd Morgan, Introduction to Comparative Psychology The Darwinian debate on animal minds and Morgan's canon.	Modern European	1882	consciousness	Animal intelligence survey-named, verified	acquired · 548 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty Mental imagery questionnaires, number-forms, the word-association experiment.	Modern European	1883	consciousness	Inquiries into human faculty and its development survey-named, verified	acquired · 422 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Prince, The Dissociation of a Personality; Flournoy, Des Indes à la planète Mars The classic case studies of multiple personality and mediumistic trance.	Modern European	1900	consciousness	The dissociation of a personality; a biographical study in abnormal ps survey-named, verified	acquired · 600 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
1	Carpenter, The Art of Creation / From Adam's Peak to Elephanta (cosmic consciousness) Universal consciousness and the 'third stage' beyond self-consciousness.	Theosophical & Modern Esoteric	1904	consciousness	The art of creation : essays on the self and its powers survey-named, verified	acquired · 288 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Bahya ibn Paquda, Hovot ha-Levavot The Duties of the Heart — ten gates from unity through reflection, trust and abstinence to love of God; the foundational Jewish contemplative manual.	Hebrew & Jewish	1080	meditation, consciousness	Baḥya Ibn Paquda, Ḥovot ha-Levavot (Warsaw, 1870) (1870, heb) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 324 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Albertano da Brescia, De amore et dilectione	Medieval Latin	1238	wisdom, wisdom	Ms. Codex 0925, De amore et dilectione Dei... (1400, lat) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 1 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Iskandarī, Al-Ḥikam	Arabic	1290	meditation, meditation	Commentary on Hikam al-Ataiyya of Ibn Ata Allah Iskandari IA search, 5 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life A hugely popular guide to lay devotion, notable for extending serious spiritual instruction beyond monastic and clerical readers.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1609	wisdom, meditation	Introduction to a devout life : from the French of St. Francis de Sale (1900, eng) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 400 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Instruction of a Man for his Son A father's counsel praising loyal service to the crown as the surest path to advancement.	Egyptian	1850 BCE	wisdom	Lord Chesterfield's Advice to his son, on men and manners: or, A new s (1815, eng) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 360 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Ludlul Bēl Nēmeqi (Poem of the Righteous Sufferer) Babylonian wisdom poem in which the sufferer's mental/spiritual crisis is resolved through dream-visitations from healing gods.	Mesopotamian	1300 BCE	consciousness	LUDLUL BEL NEMEQI IA search, 3 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Avot de-Rabbi Natan An expanded commentary on Pirkei Avot, elaborating its maxims with additional stories and sayings; survives in two divergent recensions.	Hebrew & Jewish	200	wisdom	Avot De Rabbi-Natan- Rescension B- English Translation by Saldarini, A IA search, 3 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Upatissa, Vimuttimagga The older "Path of Freedom" that Buddhaghosa reworked — survives only in Chinese.	Buddhist	200	meditation	Path Of Freedom ( Vimuttimagga) Arhant Upatissa Tr. N. R. M. Ehara Som IA search, 2 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Definitions of Hermes to Asclepius A collection of aphoristic Hermetic definitions, preserved uniquely in Armenian; the clearest 'wisdom sayings' genre text in the Hermetic corpus.	Hermetic & Gnostic	300	wisdom	New Translations Of The Corpus Hermeticum And The Definitions Of Herme IA search, 2 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra The sūtra that names the ālaya-vijñāna and the three natures — the scriptural charter of Yogācāra theory of mind.	Buddhist	300	consciousness	Hermeneutics And Tradition In The Samdhinirmocana Sutra John Powers ML IA search, 2 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Asaṅga, Mahāyānasaṃgraha The compendium of Mahāyāna: the fullest early treatment of the ālaya-vijñāna as the "knowable basis".	Buddhist	350	consciousness	Mahayanasamgraha By Asanga Etienne Lamotte Tr. Gelongma Karma Migme Ch IA search, 2 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Maitreya/Vasubandhu, Madhyāntavibhāga The unreal imagination (abhūtaparikalpa) and the emptiness that remains — the Yogācāra theory of the mind's construction of duality.	Buddhist	350	consciousness	Study Of The Madhyantavibhaga Bhasya Karika Asanga Sthiramati Of Vasub IA search, 2 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Liber Graduum (Book of Steps) Thirty discourses distinguishing the "upright" and the "perfect"; earliest Syriac stages-of-the-path text.	Syriac & Armenian	400	meditation	Patrologia Syriaca 1.3 Liber Graduum (1926) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 409 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Damascius / Olympiodorus, Commentaries on the Phaedo The last ancient lectures on the immortality of the soul, with Damascius' doxography of the soul's vehicles and Olympiodorus' theory of purification.	Hellenistic & Late Antique	530	consciousness	Olympiodorus Commentaries On Platoʼs Phaedo IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum One of the most widely copied early medieval florilegia of patristic and scriptural sayings, organized by moral topic.	Early Christian & Monastic	700	wisdom	HM 36337, Liber scintillarum... (1200, lat) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 64 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Śaṅkara, Upadeśasāhasrī Śaṅkara's only independent treatise: the "I" that persists through the three states, the teacher–pupil dialogue on the witness.	Indian	750	consciousness	Sengaku Mayeda A Thousand Teachings: The Upadesasahasri Of Sankara Sta IA search, 2 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Sureśvara, Naiṣkarmyasiddhi The pupil's systematic account of self-knowledge and the removal of ignorance.	Indian	800	consciousness	நூல் - The Naiskarmyasiddhi of Suresvara IA search, 2 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Khordeh Avesta (daily prayer book)	Zoroastrian	1000	meditation	Khordeh Avesta A Daily Prayer Book For Parsi Children 1966 Nasik P. N. IA search, 4 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Makkī, Qūt al-Qulūb	Arabic	1000	meditation	An Evaluation Of The Qut Al Qulub Of Al Makki With An Annotated IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 278 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Miskawayh, Javidan Khirad Miskawayh's cross-cultural anthology of Persian, Indian, Arab and Greek wisdom sayings ('Eternal Wisdom').	Arabic	1010	wisdom	Javidan Khirad - Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn-i Miskawayh, Taqiuddin Muhamma IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Nahj al-balagha The core scriptural-adjacent wisdom anthology of Shia Islam: sermons, letters and aphorisms on justice, governance and the soul.	Arabic	1010	wisdom	Nahj Ul Balagha Peak Of Eloquence IA search, 2 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Avicenna, al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt (namaṭ 9–10 on the mystics’ stations) Avicenna’s late philosophical phenomenology of the ʿārif’s states — the missing bridge between falsafa and Sufi psychology.	Arabic	1030	consciousness	Kitāb al-ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt : al-juzʼ al-awwal / li-Abī ʻAlī al-Ḥu (1892, ara) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 230 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Mivhar ha-Peninim (Choice of Pearls) An aphorism anthology on wisdom and character, drawing on Arabic gnomic literature and long attributed to Ibn Gabirol.	Hebrew & Jewish	1050	wisdom	Sefer mivḥar ha-peninim. (1920, heb) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 58 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Hovot ha-Levavot (Duties of the Heart) A systematic ten-gate treatise on the inner, heart-based duties of religious life, one of medieval Judaism's most influential ethical works.	Hebrew & Jewish	1080	wisdom	Baḥya Ibn Paquda, Ḥovot ha-Levavot (Warsaw, 1870) (1870, heb) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Aḥmad Ghazālī, Sawāniḥ The Persian metaphysics of love as the state of the soul.	Persian	1114	consciousness	Sawanih - Inspirations from the world of pure spirits by Ahmad Ghazali IA search, 3 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Nizami Aruzi, Chahar Maqala 'Four Discourses' — an advice manual for princes on the four indispensable court professions (secretaries, poets, astrologers, physicians), rich in literary anecdote.	Persian	1156	wisdom	Chahar Maqala Persian Literature Lithograph Missing Pages Nizami Aruzi IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 210 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Jīlānī, Sirr al-Asrār	Arabic	1160	meditation	Sirr Ul Asrar Jilani Bengali IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Maimonides, Hilkhot De'ot Maimonides's codification of character ethics and the 'golden mean' as halakha (Jewish law) within his great legal code.	Hebrew & Jewish	1180	wisdom	Hilkhot ta'aniyot Rabbi Mosis Ben Majemon Tractatus de Jejuniis Hebræo (1662, Latin) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 51 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Suhrawardī (Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar), ʿAwārif al-Maʿārif	Arabic	1180	meditation	Urdū tarjamah 'Awārif al-ma'-ārif (1890, urd) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 366 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Mkhitar Gosh, Fables The other major medieval Armenian fabulist besides Vardan Aygektsi, better known for his law code but also the author of a substantial fable collection.	Syriac & Armenian	1184	wisdom	Ar'akk' ew otanawork' xratakank' [Fables and Moral Poems] IA search, 2 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Hōnen — Senchakushū Founding text of Jōdo Shū, arguing for exclusive nembutsu recitation as the sole practice.	Japanese	1198	meditation	SENCHAKUSHU - Honen Shonin IA search, 2 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Sefer ha-Yashar (medieval ethical work) A medieval Hebrew ethical treatise on repentance and moral self-examination, sometimes attributed (likely wrongly) to Rabbeinu Tam.	Hebrew & Jewish	1200	wisdom	Sefer ha-yashar, or, The book of Jasher : referred to in Joshua and Se (1840, eng) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 312 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Sefer Hasidim The Rhineland pietist rule — penance, prayer-word counting, contemplative fear — Judah he-Hasid's handbook.	Hebrew & Jewish	1200	meditation	Sefer Ḳehal ḥasidim : ʻim sipure anshe shem : ... ṿonderlukhe mayśes̀ (1910, yid) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 166 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Marzban ibn Rustam / Varavini, Marzban-nama An animal-fable mirror-for-princes in the Kalila wa-Dimna mold, written in ornate Persian prose.	Persian	1225	wisdom	Marzbān-nāma [The Tales of Marzuban] IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Freidank, Bescheidenheit A vast rhymed collection of German gnomic proverbs and moral sayings by an obscure 13th-c. poet.	Medieval Latin	1229	wisdom	Freidank's Bescheidenheit : Spruchsammlung aus dem 13. Jahrhundert (1861, ger) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 126 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Abraham Maimonides, Kifayat al-ʿAbidin Jewish-Sufi path — solitude, sobriety, prostration, dhikr-like recitation — the High Ways to Perfection of the Egyptian pietists.	Hebrew & Jewish	1230	meditation	[Kifayat al-'Abidin, ḳeṭʻa] (1300, jrb) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Shādhilī, Ḥizb al-Baḥr	Arabic	1230	meditation	Hizb al-Bahr of Shadhili IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Nasir al-Din Tusi, Akhlaq-i Nasiri The most influential Persian ethical treatise of the post-classical period, synthesizing Miskawayh's Aristotelian ethics with household and political philosophy.	Persian	1235	wisdom	Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī (1612, tur) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 540 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione Franciscan novice-manual on the seven stages from beginner to perfection.	Medieval Latin	1250	meditation	De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione secundum triplicem st (1899, Latin) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 441 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Giles of Rome, De regimine principum The most widely read medieval mirror-for-princes, a systematic Aristotelian handbook of royal education and governance.	Medieval Latin	1277	wisdom	Marston MS 139, De regimine principum. (1300, lat) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 210 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Hugo von Trimberg, Der Renner A vast didactic German poem cataloguing vices and virtues, one of the most widely copied Middle High German texts.	Medieval Latin	1300	wisdom	Der renner (1908, ger) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 723 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Ps.-Bonaventure, Meditationes vitae Christi "Place yourself in the scene" — the model for Ignatian composition of place and Ludolph's Vita Christi.	Medieval Latin	1300	meditation	Meditationes vitae Christi (1490, lat) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 148 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Fiore di virtù A hugely popular Italian florilegium of virtues and vices illustrated with animal exempla, printed across Europe under many vernacular titles.	Medieval Latin	1320	wisdom	Tributo di lagrime alla memoria di Violante Alimena fiore di leggiadri (1856, Italian) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 24 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Thiền Uyển Tập Anh (Outstanding Figures of the Vietnamese Thiền Community) Foundational Vietnamese Zen (Thiền) hagiographical collection recording early masters' teachings and practice.	Korean & Vietnamese	1337	meditation	Thiền uyển tập anh ngữ lục 禪苑集英語錄 (1715) (1715, chi) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Kitāb al-Rūḥ The Ḥanbalī compendium on the spirit: its nature, sleep, dreams, the soul’s state in the grave and meetings of the souls of sleepers and the dead.	Arabic	1340	consciousness	Kitab al-ruh by Ibn al-Qayyim Jawziyyah IA search, 4 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Dṛg-dṛśya-viveka Forty-six verses: the seer and the seen — form is seen by the eye, the eye by the mind, the mind by the witness which nothing sees.	Indian	1350	consciousness	Drg-Drsya-Viveka IA search, 3 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Nicholas Cabasilas, The Life in Christ Sacramental interiority for lay contemplatives; the non-monastic face of hesychasm.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1360	meditation	Meditations on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ (1875) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 470 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	al-Jīlī, al-Insān al-kāmil Systematisation of Ibn ʿArabī’s perfect man with chapters on spirit, heart, intellect, imagination and the soul.	Arabic	1400	consciousness	Abd Al Karim Al Jili İnsan I Kamil IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Hasdai Crescas — Or Adonai (Light of the Lord) Critique of Aristotelian/Maimonidean intellect-theory, reasserting will and soul over pure intellect.	Hebrew & Jewish	1410	consciousness	[Or Adonai]. (1904, heb) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 204 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Ikkyu's Kyounshu (Mad Cloud Anthology) Provocative, often erotic and irreverent Zen poetry by the eccentric monk Ikkyu Sojun.	Japanese	1481	wisdom	Poetry Of The Kyounshu Crazy Cloud Anthologyof Ikkyu Sojun Thesis IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Johann Agricola, Sprichwörter	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1529	wisdom	Moralische Sprichwörter der Deutschen: Welche die wichtigsten Maximen (1822, German) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 196 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Thomas Elyot, The Governour An early English mirror-for-princes/education treatise, part of the same Renaissance courtly-advice tradition as Guevara's pseudo-Marcus Aurelius.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1531	wisdom	The Boke Named the Governour (1907, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 352 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Pedro Mexía, Silva de varia lección A hugely popular Spanish miscellany of curious and moral knowledge.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1540	wisdom	Silva de varia leccion (1673, spa) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 606 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Sebastian Franck, Sprichwörter	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1541	wisdom	Sprichworter, Schöne, Weise Klugreden : Darinnen Teutscher und andere (1575, ger) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 866 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Tongmong Sonsup (Preliminary Learning for the Young) Korean primer of elementary Confucian ethics for children, a Korean counterpart to the Sanzijing.	Korean & Vietnamese	1543	wisdom	Tongmong sonsup (1797, kor) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 38 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Heywood, A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1546	wisdom	A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the (1561, Middle English) IA search, 7 shared title tokens	acquired · 67 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1555	wisdom	Refranes o proverbios en romance (1621) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 804 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Juan de Ávila, Audi filia Direction for a devout laywoman: self-knowledge, meditation on the Passion, resisting spiritual pride.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1556	meditation	Primera parte del Libro espiritual sobre el verso Audi filia et vide & (1604, spa) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 496 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Juan de Mal Lara, Filosofía vulgar A learned philosophical commentary explaining popular Spanish proverbs.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1568	wisdom	Refranes o prouerbios en romance, que coligio, y glossò el comendador (1618, Greek) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 599 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Melchor de Santa Cruz, Floresta española	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1574	wisdom	Floresta Española, de apotegmas, ó sentencias, sabia y graciosamente d (1790, Spanish) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 310 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Reshit Hokhmah (de Vidas) A major Safed-Kabbalistic musar (ethical) work systematizing the spiritual life around the fear of God and the sefirot.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1575	wisdom	Sefer Reshit hokhmah (1579, heb) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 944 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Sohak Onhae (Korean Vernacular Translation of Elementary Learning) Official Korean vernacular (hangul) translation of Zhu Xi's Xiaoxue.	Korean & Vietnamese	1587	wisdom	Sohak choryak onhae : oepyon (1768, kor) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 76 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Rollenhagen, Froschmeuseler A beast-epic (frog-mouse war) with extensive moralizing digressions.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1595	wisdom	Froschmeuseler (1876, ger) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 390 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Antonio Pérez, Aforismos	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1598	wisdom	Aforismos de las relaciones y cartas primeras y segundas (1787, spa) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 303 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Dādū Dayāl Vānī Sayings of the sant poet Dādū, founder of the Dādūpanth, in the same nirguṇa bhakti gnomic tradition as Kabir.	Indian	1600	wisdom	Hindi Book= Shri Dadu Dayal Ji Ke Vani IA search, 3 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Rahīm Dohe Hindi gnomic couplets by the Mughal courtier-poet Rahim, paired in school tradition with Kabir’s dohas.	Indian	1600	wisdom	रहीम के दोहे Rahim Das Ke Dohe With Meaning In Hindi IA search, 2 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Joseph Hall, The Arte of Divine Meditation The first Protestant methodical treatise on meditation, adapting Mombaer's scala.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1606	meditation	The arte of divine meditation: ... 1607 (1607, eng) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 215 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Covarrubias, Emblemas morales	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1610	wisdom	Emblemas morales de Don Iuan de Horozco Covarruuias... (1604, spa) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 616 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Sirhindī, Maktūbāt-i Imām Rabbānī	Persian	1620	meditation	Maktubat Imam Rabbani \| Letters of Ahmad Sirhindi IA search, 4 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Quevedo, Sueños (Dreams)	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1627	wisdom	Los Sueños (1916, spa) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 298 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Koçi Bey, Risale (Ottoman nasihatname) A classic Ottoman 'advice for kings' treatise diagnosing imperial decline and proposing reform — the Ottoman nasihatname genre's best-known example.	Turkic	1630	wisdom	Risale: Eḥvāl-i Selāṭīn-i 'Os̲māniyān (1700, Turkish) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Francis Quarles, Enchiridion	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1640	wisdom	Enchiridion... 1680 (1680, Middle English) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 199 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia The pinnacle of Spanish Baroque aphorism, later translated into German by Schopenhauer as the Handorakel — the highest-value single gap in the survey.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1647	wisdom	Gracian Baltasar, Oraculo Manual Y Arte De Prudencia (1647, spa) IA search, 6 shared title tokens	acquired · 702 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Bhāminī-vilāsa Sanskrit collection of gnomic and erotic verse by the celebrated Mughal-court poet-critic Jagannātha.	Indian	1650	wisdom	Bhamini Vilasa Jagnnatha Poona IA search, 2 shared title tokens	no source found
2	Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest Part IV is the classic Puritan directory for "heavenly meditation" by set times and the use of the senses.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1650	meditation	The saints everlasting rest, ... 1654 (1654, Middle English) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 1,079 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Friedrich von Logau, Sinngedichte	Modern European	1654	wisdom	Friedrich von Logaus Sinngedichte (1874, German) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 149 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Bihārī Satsaī Collection of 700 ornate Hindi dohās (satsaī) on love and worldly observation.	Indian	1662	wisdom	Bihari Satsai By Girijdutt Shukla With Commentary By Shri Vidyabhaskar IA search, 2 shared title tokens	no source found
2	John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1670	wisdom	A collection of English proverbs, ... 1670 (1670, Middle English) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 305 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals Browne's late aphoristic sequel to Religio Medici.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1675	wisdom	Religio medici: its sequel, Christian morals (1844, eng) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 236 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Madame de Sablé, Maximes	Modern European	1678	wisdom	Esprit de madame de Genlis, ou portraits, caractères, maximes et pensé (1806, French) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 352 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Fénelon, Explication des maximes des saints Pure love and passive prayer defended in forty-five articles; condemned 1699.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1697	meditation	Explication des maximes des saints sur la vie intérieure (1697, fre) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 316 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Fénelon, Les Aventures de Télémaque A narrative mirror-for-princes disguised as a mythological novel, written for the young Duke of Burgundy.	Modern European	1699	wisdom	Les aventures de Télémaque : suivies des Aventures d'Aristonoüs (1873, fre) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 322 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Oxenstierna, Pensées sur divers sujets	Modern European	1720	wisdom	Pensées sur divers sujets : avec les Réflexions morales du même auteur (1756, fre) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 328 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Sacred Edict (Amplified Instructions) Imperial moral edicts promulgated for public recitation across the Qing empire, teaching filial piety, thrift, and civic obedience to the general population.	Chinese	1724	wisdom	The sacred edict, containing sixteen maxims of the Emperor Kang-He: am (1817, English) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 309 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack / The Way to Wealth America's great proverb-almanac, continuing the European gnomic-aphorism tradition in the colonies.	Modern European	1732	wisdom	The way to wealth: as clearly shewn in the preface of an old Pensylvan (1779, English) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 156 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1732	wisdom	Gnomologia: ... 1732 (1732, English) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 312 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Vauvenargues, Réflexions et maximes	Modern European	1746	wisdom	Introduction à la connoissance de l'esprit humain, suivie de reflexion (1747, French) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 404 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Swedenborg, Spiritual Diary (Diarium spirituale) The day-book of Swedenborg's conversations with spirits, including his notes on internal breathing and the states of the mind in vision.	Modern European	1748	meditation	Swedenborg Emanal Spiritual Diary Vol.v (1902) (1902, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Condillac, Traité des sensations The statue awakened one sense at a time — the whole mind built from sensation.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1754	consciousness	Traité des sensations: a Madame la Comtesse de Vassé (1754, French) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 358 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Kant, Träume eines Geistersehers Swedenborg and the limits of a metaphysics of spirits.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1766	consciousness	Träume eines Geistersehers, erläutert durch Träume der Metaphysik (1766, German) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 135 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Diderot, Le rêve de d'Alembert Sensibility as a property of matter; the swarm of bees as a model of the unified self.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1769	consciousness	entretien entre d`alembert et diderot reve de d`alembert suite de l`en (1921, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 206 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Johann Georg Zimmermann, Über die Einsamkeit	Modern European	1784	wisdom	Über die Einsamkeit. 3 (1785, German) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 507 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Knigge, Über den Umgang mit Menschen	Modern European	1788	wisdom	Über den Umgang mit Menschen: in drei Theilen. 1 (1817, German) IA search, 6 shared title tokens	acquired · 243 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Chamfort, Maximes et pensées	Modern European	1795	wisdom	Chamfort maximes, pensees, anacdotes, caracteres & dialogues par P (1857, French) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 333 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	G. H. von Schubert, Die Symbolik des Traumes The Romantic theory of the dream's hieroglyphic language, ancestor of Freud's symbolism.	Modern European	1814	dreams	Die Symbolik des Traumes (1862, German) IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 273 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Testimonies of Mother Ann Lee (Shaker) The Shakers' own compiled sayings and testimony of founder Ann Lee — the movement's actual scriptural core, distinct from the outside expositions the library holds.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1816	wisdom	Testimonies of the life, character, revelations, and doctrines of Moth (1888, eng) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 328 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Ryokan's poetry Simple, warm verse by the beloved hermit-monk Ryokan, celebrated for his humility and love of children and nature.	Japanese	1830	wisdom	Biography, Sky Above The Great Wind The Life And Poetry Of Zen Master IA search, 2 shared title tokens	import failed, will retry
2	Friedrich Hebbel, Tagebücher	Modern European	1835	wisdom	Tagebücher (1905, German) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 480 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Joubert, Pensées	Modern European	1838	wisdom	Pensées, essais et maximes de J. Joubert suivis de lettres à ses amis (1842, French) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 438 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Emerson, The Conduct of Life	Modern European	1860	wisdom	The conduct of life (1860, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 270 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Alfred Maury, Le sommeil et les rêves Experimental self-observation of hypnagogia; the guillotine dream.	Modern European	1861	dreams	Le sommeil et les rêves : études psychologiques sur ces phénomènes et (1861, fre) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 448 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Maudsley, The Physiology and Pathology of Mind Victorian materialist psychiatry; unconscious cerebration and the pathology of will.	Modern European	1867	consciousness	On the method of the study of mind : an introductory chapter to a phys (1865, eng) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 32 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Hervey de Saint-Denys, Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger The first manual of lucid dreaming, from twenty years of a dream journal.	Modern European	1867	dreams	Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques (1867, fre) IA search, 6 shared title tokens	acquired · 516 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Brown, The Dervishes, or Oriental Spiritualism	Modern European	1868	meditation	The Dervishes or Oriental Spiritualism (1868, eng) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 432 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Düringsfeld, Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen	Modern European	1872	wisdom	Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen vergleichend (1872, ger) IA search, 6 shared title tokens	acquired · 654 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Du Bois-Reymond, Über die Grenzen des Naturerkennens (Ignorabimus) Consciousness as the second world-riddle science will never solve.	Modern European	1872	consciousness	Über die Grenzen des Naturerkennens: Die sieben Welträthsel (1907, German) IA search, 6 shared title tokens	acquired · 130 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Blood, The Anaesthetic Revelation Nitrous-oxide mysticism that shaped James's account of mystical states.	Modern European	1874	consciousness	The anaesthetic revelation and the gist of philosophy (1874, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 47 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Tyndall, Belfast Address The chasm between molecular motion and consciousness declared unbridgeable.	Modern European	1874	consciousness	Address delivered before the British Association assembled at Belfast (1874, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 132 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Charcot, Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux (hystérie, hypnotisme) The Salpêtrière stages of grand hypnotisme and hysteria.	Modern European	1880	consciousness	Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux v. 1, 1877 (1877, French) IA search, 6 shared title tokens	acquired · 482 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Ebbinghaus, Über das Gedächtnis The forgetting curve: memory measured experimentally.	Modern European	1885	consciousness	Über das Gedächtnis. Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie (1885, ger) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 185 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Hartmann, Magic, White and Black The Theosophical-Paracelsian treatise on will, imagination and the practice of inner development.	Theosophical & Modern Esoteric	1886	meditation	Magic, White and Black (1890, English) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 301 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Nitobe's Bushido: The Soul of Japan Nitobe Inazo's influential English-language essay codifying and idealizing the samurai ethical code for a Western audience.	Japanese	1900	wisdom	Bushido, the Soul of Japan (1904, English) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 203 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Besant, Thought Power: Its Control and Culture The Theosophical primer on concentration, meditation and the building of character by thought.	Theosophical & Modern Esoteric	1901	meditation	Thought Power: Its Control Amp Culture. (1903, eng) IA search, 6 shared title tokens	acquired · 179 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Fletcher, The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony The complete Hako ceremony with its songs and the priest Tahirussawichi's own explanations.	Native American & Mesoamerican	1904	meditation	The Hako: a Pawnee ceremony (1904, eng) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 411 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Ramacharaka (Atkinson), Hatha Yoga The Yogi philosophy of physical well-being — the first American hatha manual.	Theosophical & Modern Esoteric	1904	meditation	Hatha Yoga IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 260 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Okakura Kakuzō — The Book of Tea (chanoyu as practice) English-language essay presenting the tea ceremony as a Zen-inflected contemplative discipline.	Japanese	1906	meditation	The book of tea (1906, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 180 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Havelock Ellis, The World of Dreams A naturalist's survey of dream phenomena against the psychoanalytic reading.	Modern European	1911	dreams	The world of dreams (1922, eng) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 312 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Abelson, Jewish Mysticism (1913) The first English survey of Jewish mysticism as practice (Merkabah, Hasidism) — the modern reader's entry point, absent.	Hebrew & Jewish	1913	meditation	Jewish mysticism (1913, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 204 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Parker, The Code of Handsome Lake The Longhouse religion's code, from Handsome Lake's trance visions.	Native American & Mesoamerican	1913	meditation	... The code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet (1913, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 208 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	C.A.F. Rhys Davids, Buddhist Psychology The first English synthesis of Abhidhamma as psychology.	Buddhist	1914	consciousness	Buddhist psychology: an inquiry into the analysis and theory of mind i (1914, eng) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 232 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Baudouin, Suggestion et autosuggestion The systematic exposition of the Coué method with exercises of relaxation and "contention".	Modern European	1920	meditation	Suggestion and Autosuggestion (1920, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 352 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism	Modern European	1921	meditation	Studies In Islamic Mysticism Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (1921, eng) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 305 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Ramana Maharshi, Who Am I? (Nan Yar) Ramana Maharshi's foundational instruction in self-enquiry, structured as questions and answers.	Indian	1923	wisdom	Who am I IA search, 3 shared title tokens	searched, no matching scan
2	Lewin, Phantastica The first classification of psychoactive drugs by their effect on consciousness.	Modern European	1924	consciousness	Phantastica : die betäubenden und erregenden Genussmittel für Ärzte un (1924, ger) IA search, 2 shared title tokens	acquired · 394 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Gibran, Sand and Foam Gibran's collection of aphorisms and parables, his most concentrated gnomic-wisdom work.	Arabic	1926	wisdom	sand and foam: a book of aphorisms (1926, eng) IA search, 3 shared title tokens	acquired · 118 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Hebrew Ethical Wills (Abrahams anthology) An anthology of the Jewish 'ethical will' genre — fathers' final testamentary moral instructions to their children — collected across the medieval and early modern periods.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1926	wisdom	Hebrew Ethical Wills (1926, eng) IA search, 4 shared title tokens	acquired · 360 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
2	Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology: Perception The systematic modern survey of every Indian school's theory of perception and mind.	Indian	1934	consciousness	Indian Psychology Volume 3 Epistemology Of Perception Jadunath Sinha 1 IA search, 5 shared title tokens	acquired · 400 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Hugh of St Victor, Didascalicon A foundational 12th-c. guide to the arts of reading and study, structuring the medieval curriculum around wisdom-seeking.	Medieval Latin	1128	wisdom, meditation	DIDASCALICON - Overview And Expanded Index Hugh Of St. Victor (2022, eng) IA search matches but dated 2022: rights check before import	acquired · 774 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Judah Halevi, Kuzari (Book III) Book III describes the pious man's daily regimen of prayer as the soul's nourishment — the Andalusian theory of devotional attention.	Hebrew & Jewish	1140	meditation, consciousness	Judah Halevi The Kuzari (Kitab Al Khazari) (1971, eng) IA search matches but dated 1971: rights check before import	acquired · 610 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	William of St-Thierry, Golden Epistle (Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei) Cell-instruction for Carthusian novices: reading, meditation, prayer, and the three states of the soul.	Medieval Latin	1145	meditation, consciousness	The Golden Epistle of Abbot William of St. Thierry to the Carthusians (1930) IA search matches but dated 1930: rights check before import	acquired · 162 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Luzzatto, Mesillat Yesharim The Path of the Just — watchfulness, zeal, cleanliness, separation, purity, piety, humility, fear of sin, holiness — the ladder that became the textbook of the Musar movement.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1740	meditation, consciousness	mesillat yesharim the path of the upright (1966, eng) IA search matches but dated 1966: rights check before import	acquired · 510 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Freud, Die Traumdeutung Dreams as wish-fulfilment; the royal road to the unconscious.	Modern European	1899	consciousness, dreams	夢の註釈 (フロイド精神分析学全集 1) [Traumdeutung / Freuds Psychoanalytische Werke, B (1940, jpn) IA search matches but dated 1940: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness The study of illumination built round Bucke's own experience — the term "cosmic consciousness" enters the language.	Modern European	1901	meditation, consciousness	Cosmic consciousness: a study in the evolution of the human mind (1946, eng) IA search matches but dated 1946: rights check before import	acquired · 428 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	"Nothing is of Value" A short gnomic Sumerian poem on the worthlessness of material things.	Mesopotamian	1800 BCE	wisdom	The Value of Nothing (1970, eng) IA search matches but dated 1970: rights check before import	no source found
3	Schooldays A vivid narrative of a schoolboy's day, his beatings, and his father's banquet for the teacher — school-life as wisdom-adjacent literature.	Mesopotamian	1800 BCE	wisdom	Tom Browns Schooldays (1951, eng) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Book of Gates Netherworld book depicting the sun god's passage through twelve gates guarded by serpents, paralleling the soul's own passage.	Egyptian	1300 BCE	consciousness	Grady Lee Gates, Jr. IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Neiye (Inward Training) Earliest Chinese breath/qi cultivation text, precursor to neidan.	Chinese	350 BCE	meditation	NEIYE (2023) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Guiguzi Warring States text of persuasion and diplomatic strategy for advisors to rulers, foundational to the 'School of Diplomacy' (Zonghengjia).	Chinese	300 BCE	wisdom	Zhan guo zong heng : Guiguzi de ju. 7, He zong lian heng, Su Qin Zhang (2013, chi) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Itivuttaka Collection of short discourses each introduced "thus was it said" by the Buddha, mixing prose and verse.	Buddhist	300 BCE	wisdom	khuddasikkhā pāḷi-tō--dhammapada pāḷi-tō--udān pāḷi-tō--itivuttaka pāḷ IA search, weak title match — check	acquired · 235 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Udāna Collection of "inspired utterances" of the Buddha, each paired with the narrative occasion that prompted it.	Buddhist	300 BCE	wisdom	Udana Crawford IA search, weak title match — check	found held after all
3	Puggalapaññatti Designation of human types — the Abhidhamma classification of persons by mental disposition.	Buddhist	250 BCE	consciousness	Bimala Charan Law - Designation of Human Types - Puggalapannatti (1924, eng) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Heguanzi Eclectic Warring States-era text on cosmology, strategy, and statecraft, named for its author's pheasant-feather cap.	Chinese	200 BCE	wisdom	Defoort Heguanzi, The Pheasant Cap Master (1996, eng) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Kāśyapaparivarta The Ratnakūṭa sūtra on the middle way of mind-contemplation — the scripture Kamalaśīla and the Tibetan mahāmudrā teachers cite for "not finding the mind".	Buddhist	100	meditation	The Old Tibetan Version Of The Kāśyapaparivarta Preserved In Fragments (2017, eng) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Galen, On the Passions and Errors of the Soul A physician’s programme of daily self-monitoring with a frank friend as external conscience — Stoic-Platonic therapy as medical regimen.	Hellenistic & Late Antique	190	meditation	Galen On The Passions And Errors Of The Soul (1963, eng) IA search matches but dated 1963: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Passion of Perpetua (dream visions) A first-person dream diary from prison: the ladder, the dragon, the fight with the Egyptian.	Early Christian & Monastic	203	dreams	The Passion Of Perpetua And Felicitas In Late Antiquity (2021) IA search matches but dated 2021: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Qianziwen (Thousand Character Classic) A thousand-character rhymed poem using each character exactly once, memorized for centuries as both a literacy primer and a compendium of cosmological and moral maxims.	Chinese	550	wisdom	Sanzijing ;Baijiaxing ;Qianziwen ;Dizigui : pinyin, zhushi jinyi songd (2004, chi) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Tianyinzi Five-stage Daoist meditation manual (fasting, seclusion, meditation, wisdom, sitting-in-forgetfulness).	Chinese	730	meditation	Tianyinzi (Master of Heavenly Seclusion) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Saadia Gaon, Emunot ve-De'ot The foundational work of medieval Jewish philosophy, written in Judeo-Arabic, systematically defending revealed religion through reason — direct forerunner of the whole Judeo-Arabic ethical-philosophi	Hebrew & Jewish	933	wisdom	Emunot ve-De'ot, by Sa'adia Ga'on (Leipzig, 1864) (1864, heb) IA search, weak title match — check	acquired · 188 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Tawhidi (ethical/adab works) Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi's essayistic prose (e.g. al-Imta' wa'l-Mu'anasa, al-Muqabasat) blending philosophy, adab and moral reflection.	Arabic	990	wisdom	Informative Document: M. Tawhidi (1) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Ibn Hazm, al-Akhlaq wa-l-siyar Ibn Hazm's introspective treatise on character and conduct, distinct from his famous Tawq al-Hamama.	Arabic	1030	wisdom	In pursuit of virtue : the moral theology and psychology of Ibn Hazm a (1990, eng) IA search matches but dated 1990: rights check before import	no source found
3	Yusuf Khass Hajib, Kutadgu Bilig The first great work of Turkic literature: a Karakhanid mirror-for-princes in verse, allegorizing justice, fortune, wisdom and contentment as courtiers.	Turkic	1069	wisdom	Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig): A Turko-Islamic Mirror for Prin (1983) IA search matches but dated 1983: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Yūsuf Khāṣṣ Ḥājib, Kutadgu Bilig The Karakhanid mirror for princes in which Intellect, Fortune, Justice and the Ascetic debate — the earliest Turkic philosophical psychology.	Turkic	1069	consciousness	Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig): A Turko-Islamic Mirror for Prin (1983) IA search matches but dated 1983: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Ghazali (attrib.), Nasihat al-muluk 'Counsel for Kings' — a Persian mirror-for-princes attributed to Ghazali, extending his ethics into the register of statecraft.	Persian	1105	wisdom	Ghazali's Book of Counsel for Kings (Nasihat al-Muluk). Translated By (1964, eng) IA search matches but dated 1964: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Xiaoxue (Elementary Learning) Zhu Xi's compiled primer of moral instruction and etiquette for children, foundational to traditional Chinese elementary education.	Chinese	1187	wisdom	Xiaoxue Qu IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Sefer Hasidim (Book of the Pious) A large miscellany of pietistic teachings, exempla and folk-ethical rulings from the German Hasidei Ashkenaz movement.	Hebrew & Jewish	1200	wisdom	God and man in the Sefer hasidim, book of the pious (1966, eng) IA search matches but dated 1966: rights check before import	no source found
3	Attar, Pand-nama A short, widely memorized versified counsel-book traditionally (if doubtfully) ascribed to Attar.	Persian	1210	wisdom	Pand Nama Tarjama Naseehat Nama By Shaih Fareed Uddin Attar (2016, per) IA search matches but dated 2016: rights check before import	acquired · 26 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Thomasin von Zerklaere, Der Welsche Gast An early Middle High German courtly-conduct manual in verse, by an Italian-born cleric writing for a German audience.	Medieval Latin	1216	wisdom	Der "Welsche Gast" des Thomasin von Zerklaere - Neue Perspektiven auf (2022, German) IA search matches but dated 2022: rights check before import	acquired · 640 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Zuimonki (Miscellaneous Talks) Informal recorded talks of Dogen on the spirit of Zen practice, more approachable than the Shobogenzo.	Japanese	1236	wisdom	Shobogenzo-zuimonki (1995, eng) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Konungs skuggsjá (The King's Mirror)	Norse & Celtic	1250	wisdom	The King's Mirror (Speculum Regale-Konungs Skuggsjá) Translated From t (2017, eng) IA search matches but dated 2017: rights check before import	no source found
3	Sūktimuktāvalī Sanskrit anthology of gnomic verses ("String of Pearls of Well-Said Sayings") compiled at the Yādava court.	Indian	1257	wisdom	The Suktimuktavali Of Bhagadatta Jalhana (1938, san) IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Menorat ha-Ma'or (Candelabrum of Light) A vast homiletic anthology of rabbinic ethical teaching organized around the imagery of the Temple menorah.	Hebrew & Jewish	1300	wisdom	Menorat ha-ma'or (1845, heb) IA search, weak title match — check	acquired · 330 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Vietnamese Thiền (Trúc Lâm school) Vietnamese Zen lineage founded by a retired emperor, teaching mind-nature identity within a distinctly Vietnamese Buddhist idiom.	Korean & Vietnamese	1300	consciousness	Lacquered Thiền: A New Face of Thiền Manifested through Sinic-Vietname (2017, eng) IA search matches but dated 2017: rights check before import	no source found
3	Yunus Emre, Dīvān The Anatolian Turkish voice of the annihilated self.	Turkic	1310	consciousness	Yunus Emre Divan (2021, tur) IA search matches but dated 2021: rights check before import	acquired · 167 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Kallistos & Ignatios Xanthopouloi, Century (Directions to Hesychasts) The most detailed late-Byzantine daily rule for the Jesus Prayer, food, sleep and posture.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1390	meditation	`Act out of Stillness': The Influence of Fourteenth-Century Hesychasm (1995, eng) IA search matches but dated 1995: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection Reforming the image of God in faith and in feeling; the English counterpart to the Cloud for lay contemplatives.	Medieval Latin	1390	meditation	The scale of perfection (1953, eng) IA search matches but dated 1953: rights check before import	acquired · 294 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Orchot Tzaddikim (Ways of the Righteous) An anonymous, widely-copied Hebrew ethical manual organized by virtues and vices.	Hebrew & Jewish	1400	wisdom	Orchot Tzaddikim: The Ways Of The Righteous, trans. and introduction b (1982, eng) IA search matches but dated 1982: rights check before import	no source found
3	Gia Huan Ca (Family Instruction Song) Nom-verse family instruction poem traditionally attributed to the statesman-poet Nguyen Trai.	Korean & Vietnamese	1442	wisdom	Khoa Trinh Huan Luyen Giu Tre Ban Ngay Tai Gia (Family Day Care Traini (1987, English) IA search matches but dated 1987: rights check before import	no source found
3	Subhāṣitāvali (Vallabhadeva) Major Sanskrit anthology of gnomic and poetic verses drawn from hundreds of named and anonymous poets.	Indian	1465	wisdom	The Subhāṣitāvalī of Śrīvara (1946, eng) IA search, weak title match — check	acquired · 902 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Guicciardini, Ricordi Guicciardini's collection of hard-eyed political-moral maxims drawn from a life in Florentine statecraft.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1530	wisdom	Maxims and reflections (Ricordi) (1972, eng) IA search matches but dated 1972: rights check before import	acquired · 122 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Luis de Granada, Libro de la oración y meditación Morning and evening meditations for a week — the most-printed Spanish prayer manual, on the Index in 1559.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1554	meditation	Libro de la Oración y Meditación (2017, spa) IA search matches but dated 2017: rights check before import	acquired · 890 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Della Casa, Galateo	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1558	wisdom	Galateo, ovvero de' costumi. A cura di Pietro Pancrazi. (1949, ita) IA search matches but dated 1949: rights check before import	found held after all
3	Tomer Devorah (Cordovero) Cordovero's short, immensely popular ethical treatise on imitating the divine attributes, one of the classic works of Jewish mussar (ethical) literature.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1560	wisdom	The palm tree of Devorah = [Tomer Devorah] (1993, eng) IA search matches but dated 1993: rights check before import	found held after all
3	Cordovero, Tomer Devorah Imitation of the thirteen divine attributes as a daily discipline — Safed's most-read practice manual.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1560	meditation	The palm tree of Devorah = [Tomer Devorah] (1993, eng) IA search matches but dated 1993: rights check before import	acquired · 146 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Teresa of Ávila, Interior Castle Seven mansions from vocal prayer to spiritual marriage — the map most later manuals adopt.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1577	meditation	The interior castle (1979, eng) IA search matches but dated 1979: rights check before import	acquired · 205 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Śukranīti Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, economy and social order attributed to Śukra, with disputed antiquity.	Indian	1600	wisdom	The Sacred Books Of The Hindus ( Tr. By Various Sanskrit Scholars) Vol IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Nu Sishu (Four Books for Women) Ming-compiled anthology bundling Ban Zhao's Nujie with three later women's-instruction texts into a female counterpart to the Confucian Four Books.	Chinese	1624	wisdom	Sishu Palan By Sant Ram 1926 Lahore Saraswati Ashram IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Mīr Dāmād, al-Qabasāt The School of Isfahan’s metaphysics of perpetual creation, teacher of Ṣadrā; represented only inside the hidden Chester Beatty miscellany.	Persian	1625	consciousness	Syihabul Furqon - Toshihiko Izutsu: Metafisika Mir Damad: Pengantar pa (2023, ind) IA search matches but dated 2023: rights check before import	no source found
3	Dārā Shikūh, Majmaʿ al-baḥrayn The Mughal comparison of Sufi and Vedāntic terms for soul, spirit and the states of consciousness.	Persian	1655	consciousness	Dara Shukoh's Contribution To Philosophy Of Religion With Special Refe (1998, eng) IA search matches but dated 1998: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Dizigui (Students' Rules) Qing-dynasty primer of behavioral rules for children and students, revived as a moral-education text in modern China and the diaspora.	Chinese	1670	wisdom	dizigui_zhouyi_com.gingerlabs.Notability_0_109eb29423cd0e8f588bc3b9336 IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Miguel de Molinos, Guía espiritual Acquired contemplation and annihilation of the will; condemned 1687 and thereby the definition of "Quietism".	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1675	meditation	Miguel de Molinos - Guia Espiritual (2023, por) IA search matches but dated 2023: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God A lay-brother's kitchen method: continual conversation with God without technique.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1692	meditation	The practice of the presence of God (1982, eng) IA search matches but dated 1982: rights check before import	acquired · 102 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Hourly devotion for the laity; the Wesleys' and Johnson's formation text.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1729	meditation	A serious call to a devout and holy life ; The spirit of love (1978, eng) IA search matches but dated 1978: rights check before import	acquired · 528 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Mesillat Yesharim (Path of the Upright) A systematic ladder of ethical/spiritual virtues building toward piety and holiness; the most widely studied musar classic to this day.	Hebrew & Jewish	1738	wisdom	mesillat yesharim the path of the upright (1966, eng) IA search matches but dated 1966: rights check before import	no source found
3	Hakuin's writings Writings of Hakuin Ekaku, reviver of Rinzai Zen koan practice and originator of the koan 'What is the sound of one hand?'	Japanese	1770	wisdom	The Zen Master Hakuin: selected writings (1971, eng) IA search matches but dated 1971: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Shneur Zalman of Lyady, Tanya Likkutei Amarim — the Chabad handbook of the two souls and of arousing love and awe by contemplation; the discourses held presuppose it.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1796	meditation	Tanya, the masterpiece of Hasidic wisdom : selections annotated & expl (2010, eng) IA search matches but dated 2010: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Tanya (Shneur Zalman of Liadi) The foundational text of Chabad Hasidic philosophy, systematizing the psychology of the divine and animal souls.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1797	wisdom	Tanya Y. Norwood IA search, weak title match — check	no source found
3	Shivhei ha-Besht (In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov) The foundational hagiographic sayings-and-legends collection about the founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1814	wisdom	In praise of the Baal Shem Tov [Shivhei ha-Besht] : the earliest colle (1972, eng) IA search matches but dated 1972: rights check before import	no source found
3	Leopardi, Pensieri	Modern European	1837	wisdom	Pensieri e Moralisti greci (1932, ita) IA search matches but dated 1932: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	The Way of a Pilgrim (Otkrovennye rasskazy strannika) The lay narrative that carried the Jesus Prayer out of the monasteries: rope, count, breath, and the Philokalia in a knapsack.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1860	meditation	Pilgrim heart : the way of Jesus in everyday life (2006, eng) IA search matches but dated 2006: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Nietzsche, Morgenröte	Modern European	1881	wisdom	Morgenrote (1964, eng) IA search matches but dated 1964: rights check before import	acquired · 346 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Siberian shamanism (Radloff, Aus Sibirien; Bogoras, The Chukchee; Czaplicka, Aboriginal Siberia) The ethnographies that gave 'shamanism' its modern meaning: trance, soul-loss, spirit-flight.	Slavic & Finnic	1884	consciousness	Studies in Siberian shamanism (1963, eng) IA search matches but dated 1963: rights check before import	no source found
3	Ninomiya Sontoku's Evening Talks (Ninomiya Okina Yawa) Recorded sayings of the agrarian moral reformer Ninomiya Sontoku, whose statue (a boy reading while carrying firewood) once stood outside nearly every Japanese school.	Japanese	1887	wisdom	Ninomiya Sontoku; his life and "Evening talks." (1955, eng) IA search matches but dated 1955: rights check before import	acquired · 276 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms Sri Aurobindo's own aphorism-collection, in the classic Indian sutra/subhashita mode.	Indian	1913	wisdom	Thoughts and Aphorisms (1971, eng) IA search matches but dated 1971: rights check before import	acquired · 142 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Tagore, Stray Birds Tagore's own collection of short aphoristic verses, closer to the gnomic-wisdom genre than his other poetry.	Indian	1916	wisdom	Stray birds = Éanlaith strae (2011, eng) IA search matches but dated 2011: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Radin, The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian (Crashing Thunder) The first full Native American first-person narrative of fasting for a vision and of the peyote experience.	Native American & Mesoamerican	1920	meditation	The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian: Life, Ways, Acculturation, an (1963, eng) IA search matches but dated 1963: rights check before import	acquired · 102 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Gibran, The Prophet Kahlil Gibran's collection of poetic-philosophical essays cast as a prophet's parting counsel, one of the best-selling wisdom books of the 20th century.	Arabic	1923	wisdom	The Prophet (1950, eng) IA search matches but dated 1950: rights check before import	searched, no matching scan
3	Inayat Khan, Gayan / Vadan / Nirtan Hazrat Inayat Khan's own aphoristic teachings founding the Universal Sufism movement in the West.	Persian	1923	wisdom	gayan vadan nirtan (1980, eng) IA search matches but dated 1980: rights check before import	acquired · 306 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous The account of Gurdjieff's teaching — self-remembering, the stop exercise, the movements.	Theosophical & Modern Esoteric	1949	meditation	In the Search of the Miraculous (1949) IA search matches but dated 1949: rights check before import	acquired · 426 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
3	Arberry, Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam	Modern European	1950	meditation	sufism an account of the mystics of islam (1950, eng) IA search matches but dated 1950: rights check before import	acquired · 154 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Black Elk Speaks / The Soul of the Indian (Lakota/Dakota oratory) Two of the most widely read accounts of Plains Indian spirituality addressed to a general readership; Eastman's is public domain, Black Elk Speaks is not yet.	Native American & Mesoamerican	1911	wisdom, meditation, consciousness, dreams	Eastman, The Soul of the Indian (1911) is PD; unsure of IA id. Black Elk Speaks (1932) enters US public domain 2028.	searched, no matching scan
4	Najm al-Dīn Rāzī, Mirṣād al-ʿIbād	Persian	1223	meditation, consciousness, consciousness	unsure — Hamid Algar's English trans. or Persian critical ed.; no verified identifier	acquired · 326 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Chester Beatty Dream Book (Papyrus Chester Beatty III) The principal surviving Egyptian dream-interpretation manual, cataloguing dream omens as good or bad.	Egyptian	1275 BCE	consciousness, dreams	unsure — A.H. Gardiner's 1935 edition (Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum, 3rd series) likely still in copyright; no confirmed PD source.	searched, no matching scan
4	Assyrian Dream Book Cuneiform dream-omen series (Zaqīqu) systematically cataloguing dream contents and their portents.	Mesopotamian	700 BCE	consciousness, dreams	unsure — A. Leo Oppenheim's 1956 edition is copyrighted; underlying tablets not independently transcribed here.	no source found
4	John of Dalyatha / Joseph Hazzaya / Simon of Taibutheh (East-Syriac mystics) The Qatar–Mosul school of interior prayer, stages of the soul and "spiritual medicine" of breath and body.	Syriac & Armenian	750	meditation, consciousness	Mingana, Woodbrooke Studies vol. 7 (1934) for Simon of Taibutheh — Internet Archive identifier unsure; Dalyatha and Hazzaya only in modern critical editions (in copyright)	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Symeon the New Theologian, Catecheses & Hymns Insists on conscious experience of the divine light; prototype of hesychast first-person testimony.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1000	meditation, consciousness	Migne, Patrologia Graeca vol. 120 — on Internet Archive (identifier unsure)	acquired · 414 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo Deo & Sermons on the Song of Songs Four degrees of love and the bridal reading of the Song — the Cistercian grammar of affective contemplation.	Medieval Latin	1135	meditation, consciousness	Migne, Patrologia Latina vol. 182–183 — on Internet Archive (identifier unsure); Mabillon Opera 1690 — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Hemacandra, Yogaśāstra The great Jain yoga manual — conduct, prāṇāyāma, the four dhyānas with breath and mantra technique (chs. 5–12).	Indian	1150	meditation, consciousness	Yogaśāstra with svopajña-vṛtti, Bibliotheca Indica 1907–21 — Internet Archive (identifier unsure); GRETIL e-text (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Pascalis Romanus, Liber thesauri occulti A Latin theory of dreams from Constantinople combining Artemidorus, Achmet and medical humoral psychology.	Medieval Latin	1165	consciousness, dreams	Collin-Roset 1963 (AHDLMA) — not PD; no early print (unsure of any scan)	searched, no matching scan
4	Ibn Sīrīn (attr.), Muntakhab al-kalām fī tafsīr al-aḥlām The Arabic dream-book par excellence; every later Islamic taʿbīr manual descends from it.	Arabic	1300	consciousness, dreams	Cairo/Būlāq printings 19th c. on Internet Archive (identifier unsure).	no source found
4	Jamgön Kongtrul, Gdams ngag mdzod & Shes bya kun khyab The Ris med anthology of every Tibetan practice lineage's core instructions — the single most useful Tibetan meditation compendium, not held.	Tibetan	1870	meditation, consciousness	Gdams ngag mdzod (Paro 1979–81) — BDRC W20877 (unsure); Shes bya kun khyab — BDRC (unsure)	no source found
4	Instructions of Ur-Ninurta A royal instruction attributed to a king of Isin.	Mesopotamian	1900 BCE	wisdom	ETCSL c.5.6.2 — same importer pipeline as the held Sumerian texts; not yet imported.	searched, no matching scan
4	Debate between Silver and Copper A disputation poem in the same genre as the held Sumerian debates.	Mesopotamian	1800 BCE	wisdom	ETCSL c.5.3.x, same importer pipeline; not yet imported.	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Debate between Tree and Reed A disputation poem in the same genre as the held Sumerian debates (Hoe & Plough, Grain & Sheep, etc.).	Mesopotamian	1800 BCE	wisdom	ETCSL c.5.3.x, same importer pipeline; not yet imported.	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Father and His Misguided Son A father remonstrates with a delinquent son who has abandoned scribal study — an Eduba-genre companion to the instruction tradition.	Mesopotamian	1800 BCE	wisdom	ETCSL c.5.1.x; not yet imported, exact number unverified.	searched, no matching scan
4	Sumerian Scribal Dialogues (general) The broader corpus of Eduba scribal-school dialogues beyond Eduba C, which is held.	Mesopotamian	1800 BCE	wisdom	ETCSL c.5.4.x; several dialogues unverified/not yet imported.	searched, no matching scan
4	Ballade of Early Rulers A meditation on the inevitability of death, naming vanished rulers of old — a carpe-diem drinking song related in theme to the Egyptian Harper's Songs.	Mesopotamian	1700 BCE	wisdom	ETCSL c.5.2.5.	searched, no matching scan
4	Instructions of Amennakht A scribal instruction from the Deir el-Medina workmen's village, part of the New Kingdom school curriculum.	Egyptian	1150 BCE	wisdom	Posener / Dorn editions, in copyright. TLA has the text.	searched, no matching scan
4	Guanzi / Neiye (Inward Training) Earliest surviving Chinese text on cultivating the heart-mind (xin) and vital essence through stillness; precursor to later Daoist meditation.	Chinese	300 BCE	consciousness	unsure (Chinese Text Project has full text; no PD scan identified).	no source found
4	Teles the Cynic, diatribes The earliest surviving Cynic-Stoic diatribes on exile, poverty and self-sufficiency: the diatribe form Epictetus inherited.	Hellenistic & Late Antique	240 BCE	meditation	Hense, Teletis reliquiae (Teubner 1889; 2nd ed. 1909) — Internet Archive, identifier unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Instruction of Ankhsheshonq A sage imprisoned for a crime he did not prevent writes maxims for his son from his cell — a frame narrative around a long proverb collection.	Egyptian	200 BCE	wisdom	Glanville 1955 edition is in copyright. TLA has the Demotic text only.	searched, no matching scan
4	Papyrus Insinger A late Demotic instruction of moralizing maxims organized by theme, showing wisdom literature's continuity into the Greco-Roman period.	Egyptian	150 BCE	wisdom	Boeser, Transkription und Übersetzung des Papyrus Insinger (Leiden 1922); Lexa, Papyrus Insinger (Paris 1926). TLA has the Demotic text; IA identifiers unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Demotic dream manuals (P. Carlsberg XIII/XIV) Later Demotic-script dream-interpretation papyri continuing the Egyptian oneirocritic tradition.	Egyptian	150 BCE	consciousness	unsure — modern scholarly editions (Volten, Ryholt) are copyrighted; no PD source known.	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Nujie (Lessons for Women) Han-dynasty scholar Ban Zhao's instructions on female virtue and conduct, the foundational text of the Chinese women's-instruction genre.	Chinese	106	wisdom	Preserved in the Hou Hanshu (ctext.org); English: Swann, Pan Chao, 1932 (not PD)	no source found
4	Anban Shouyi Jing (Sutra on the Practice of Mindfulness of Breathing) Earliest Chinese Buddhist breath-meditation manual, foundation of Chinese ānāpānasati practice.	Chinese	150	meditation	unsure — CBETA (cbeta.org) has the Chinese text; no PD English translation found	no source found
4	Hermetic Definitions (Armenian) and the Hermetic Prayer of Thanksgiving (NHC VI,7) Short Hermetic sentences for memorisation and the communal prayer that closes the Ogdoad discourse.	Hermetic & Gnostic	150	meditation	Mahé, Hermès en Haute-Égypte II (1982) — in copyright; no PD source known. unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Ptolemy, On the Criterion and the Ruling Principle (Peri kritēriou kai hēgemonikou) The astronomer's short epistemology of sense, reason and the seat of the hēgemonikon — a rare independent Greek treatise on cognition.	Hellenistic & Late Antique	150	consciousness	Bullialdus, Claudii Ptolemaei De iudicandi facultate et animi principatu (Paris 1663) — Internet Archive / Gallica, identifier unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Kundakunda, Pravacanasāra On knowledge as the soul's nature and omniscience — the third of Kundakunda's trilogy.	Indian	200	consciousness	Kundakunda, Pravacanasāra: IA `pravacanasaraofku00kund` (A.N. Upadhye, Bombay 1935) unsure. (Held Niyamasāra/Pañcāstikāya are 0-page stubs of in-copyright Vijay K. Jain editions.)	searched, no matching scan
4	Faju Jing (Chinese Dhammapada) Early Chinese translation of the Dhammapada verse collection, one of the first Buddhist texts rendered into Chinese.	Chinese	224	wisdom	CBETA T04/T17; Beal, Texts from the Buddhist Canon commonly known as Dhammapada, 1878, on IA — id unsure	no source found
4	Wang Bi, commentaries (Xuanxue) Xuanxue commentator on the Laozi and Yijing whose 'nothingness' (wu) metaphysics reframes questions of mind and spirit.	Chinese	249	consciousness	unsure (ctext.org holds his Laozi zhu; no PD library scan identified).	searched, no matching scan
4	Teachings of Silvanus A father-to-son wisdom instruction blending Gnostic, Stoic, and Jewish wisdom-literature motifs (echoing Proverbs); one of the most conventionally 'wisdom-genre' texts at Nag Hammadi.	Hermetic & Gnostic	250	wisdom	Only in-copyright modern translations exist (e.g. Peel & Zandee in the Nag Hammadi Library, itself in copyright). unsure.	no source found
4	Porphyry, Ad Gaurum (when the embryo is ensouled) The one ancient monograph on the entry of the soul into the body and the embryo's vegetative life.	Hellenistic & Late Antique	270	consciousness	Kalbfleisch, Die neuplatonische fälschlich dem Galen zugeschriebene Schrift Pros Gauron (Abh. Berlin 1895) — Internet Archive, identifier unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Menander Sentences (Syriac gnomic anthology) A gnomic sentence-anthology attributed to Menander that circulated widely in Greek and, in Syriac translation, among Syriac Christian communities.	Syriac & Armenian	300	wisdom	Lagarde, Analecta Syriaca (1858) (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Marsanes (NHC X) A Sethian seer’s account of thirteen seals of ascent and of the letters and vowels as contemplative tools; the codex is not in the library.	Hermetic & Gnostic	300	meditation	No public-domain source: Coptic text only in Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices IX and X (Brill 1977), in copyright. unsure	no source found
4	Marsanes (Nag Hammadi X,1) — Sethian treatise on the soul's ascent and the letters The Platonizing Sethian text on the thirteen seals of ascent and the shapes of the soul — the codex the library does not hold.	Hermetic & Gnostic	300	consciousness	Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Codices IX and X (Brill 1977) — Internet Archive, identifier unsure	no source found
4	Dhyāna sūtras (Zuochan sanmei jing, Dharmatrāta-dhyāna-sūtra, Anban shouyi jing) The Sarvāstivāda yogācāra manuals translated for Chinese meditators — the "how to sit" texts of Indian origin behind Chan.	Buddhist	400	meditation	坐禪三昧經 T614, 達摩多羅禪經 T618, 大安般守意經 T602 — CBETA (certain)	no source found
4	Zuochan Sanmei Jing (Sutra on the Samadhi of Sitting Meditation) Early Chinese Buddhist meditation manual compiled from Indian sources by Kumārajīva.	Chinese	410	meditation	unsure — CBETA T614	no source found
4	Sengzhao, Zhaolun Early Chinese Buddhist treatise applying Madhyamaka emptiness to questions of mind and knowing.	Chinese	414	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Philokalic fathers: Diadochus of Photike, Mark the Monk, Dorotheus of Gaza, Hesychius of Sinai The chapter-collections on watchfulness and holding the name "Lord Jesus" that turn Evagrian method into the Jesus Prayer; none held outside the Philokalia volume.	Early Christian & Monastic	460	meditation	Migne, Patrologia Graeca vol. 65 (Diadochus, Mark), 88 (Dorotheus), 93 (Hesychius) — on Internet Archive (identifier unsure)	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Dignāga, Pramāṇasamuccaya / Ālambanaparīkṣā The founding Buddhist epistemology: perception free of conceptual construction, self-awareness as the result, and the argument that the object of cognition is internal.	Buddhist	500	consciousness	Dignāga, Pramāṇasamuccaya (Tibetan): BDRC Derge Tengyur tshad ma vol. ce unsure; Ālambanaparīkṣā: Chinese 觀所緣緣論 CBETA T31 no. 1624; Sanskrit/Tibetan Yamaguchi 1929 unsure.	import failed, will retry
4	Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad with Gauḍapāda's Kārikā (Vaitathya, the unreality of dream and waking) Waking is as unreal as dreaming: Gauḍapāda's argument that founds Advaita.	Indian	500	dreams	unsure	no source found
4	Damascius, Philosophical History (Life of Isidore) Portraits of the last theurgists (Isidore, Heraiscus, Asclepiodotus) with their trance practices and oracles.	Hellenistic & Late Antique	520	meditation	Asmus, Das Leben des Philosophen Isidoros von Damaskios (1911) — Internet Archive, unsure; Greek in Photius Bibliotheca cod. 242 (Bekker 1824) unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Priscian of Lydia, Metaphrasis in Theophrastum (on sense-perception and imagination) The one surviving late-antique treatise devoted to Theophrastus's psychology, on sense, phantasia and intellect.	Hellenistic & Late Antique	530	consciousness	Bywater, Prisciani Lydi quae extant (Supplementum Aristotelicum I.2, Berlin 1886) — Internet Archive, identifier unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Olympiodorus, Commentary on the Phaedo The late-Alexandrian lecture course on the Phaedo as the text of purification (kathartic virtue) in the school curriculum.	Hellenistic & Late Antique	550	meditation	Norvin, Olympiodori philosophi in Platonis Phaedonem commentaria (Teubner 1913) — Internet Archive, unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Pūjyapāda, Samādhitantra & Iṣṭopadeśa Short Digambara verse manuals on turning attention from body to self — the meditation texts memorised by Jain renouncers.	Indian	550	meditation	Sanskrit with Hindi, Vīra-sevā-mandira eds. (unsure); Champat Rai Jain tr. of Iṣṭopadeśa (IA, unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Xiao Zhiguan / Liumiao Famen (Lesser Calming and Contemplation / Six Wondrous Gates) Zhiyi's shorter, practical manuals condensing Tiantai zhiguan practice for beginners.	Chinese	590	meditation	unsure — CBETA T1915/T1917	no source found
4	Zhiyi, Tiantai works Tiantai founder's theory of mind-moments (yi nian san qian) and calming-and-contemplation meditation.	Chinese	590	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Xinxinming (Faith in Mind) Short gnomic verse-poem on non-dual awareness, one of the earliest and most concise statements of Chan teaching.	Chinese	600	wisdom	CBETA / Kanripo KR6q (Taisho 48/47) — free; Suzuki's Manual of Zen Buddhism 1935 includes it (PD status unsure)	no source found
4	Xinxin Ming (Faith in Mind / Inscription on Trust in the Mind) Terse verse inscription on non-dual mind, among the earliest Chan poetic practice texts.	Chinese	600	meditation	unsure — D.T. Suzuki's translation (Manual of Zen Buddhism, 1935) is standard; PD status of a scan unclear	no source found
4	Yogīndu, Paramātmaprakāśa Apabhraṃśa verses on the supreme self, distinguishing outer, inner and highest self.	Indian	600	consciousness	Yogīndu, Paramātmaprakāśa: A.N. Upadhye ed. 1937 (Bombay) unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Shandao — Commentary on the Contemplation Sutra Foundational Pure Land nianfo commentary establishing recitation-based visualisation practice.	Chinese	650	meditation	unsure — CBETA T1753	searched, no matching scan
4	Xuanzang, Cheng weishi lun Xuanzang's synthesis of Yogācāra 'consciousness-only' theory, the eight consciousnesses and the storehouse-consciousness (ālayavijñāna).	Chinese	659	consciousness	unsure. NB: we hold Xuanzang's Mahāprajñāpāramitā trans. (id 69b99f9b6ed9e0490990af77), a different work.	searched, no matching scan
4	Audacht Morainn The 'Testament of Morann,' advice on kingship given by a legendary judge, one of the oldest Irish wisdom-instruction texts.	Norse & Celtic	700	wisdom	Thurneysen 1917 edition (Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 11). unsure of IA id.	no source found
4	Minor Pahlavi andarz texts (Andarz i Adurbad, Cidag Andarz i Poryotkeshan, Pand-namag i Zardusht) A cluster of short, aphoristic Pahlavi wisdom-instruction texts distinct from the Menog-i Khrad and Denkard VI, none of which are held.	Zoroastrian	700	wisdom	Jamasp-Asana, Pahlavi Texts (Bombay 1897-1913); Freiman/Tarapore translations pre-1929 (unsure)	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Zhengdaoge (Song of Enlightenment) Verse expression of sudden-enlightenment insight by the Chan master Yongjia Xuanjue, a disciple of Huineng.	Chinese	700	wisdom	CBETA / Kanripo KR6q (Taisho 48/47) — free	no source found
4	Fazang, Huayan works Huayan patriarch systematizing 'nature-origination' (xing-qi) mind theory.	Chinese	700	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Qingjing jing (Scripture of Clarity and Tranquility) Short Daoist scripture on quieting the mind and returning to the tranquil, undifferentiated nature.	Chinese	700	consciousness	unsure (Daoist Text Archive / ctext.org).	no source found
4	Zuowang lun (Sitting in Oblivion) Tang Daoist manual on stages of stilling the mind toward the forgetting of self and world.	Chinese	700	consciousness	unsure (may be embedded in a Daozang volume we hold but don't index at this granularity).	no source found
4	Zuowang Lun (Treatise on Sitting in Forgetfulness) Seven-stage Daoist meditation manual on progressive quieting of the mind.	Chinese	720	meditation	unsure — Daozang original via ctext.org	no source found
4	Ibn al-Muqaffa, al-Adab al-kabir / al-saghir Twin manuals of courtly and personal conduct for secretaries and rulers, foundational texts of Arabic adab literature.	Arabic	750	wisdom	Cairo/Beirut editions 1900s-1920s; Arabic only (unsure)	no source found
4	Haribhadra, Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya & Yogabindu The eight "views" of yoga — the first Jain map of contemplative stages, in dialogue with Patañjali and Buddhist bhāvanā.	Indian	750	meditation	Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya ed. L. Suali, Bibliotheca Indica 1912 — Internet Archive (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Guanyinzi Daoist mystical-cosmological text attributed to the legendary keeper of the pass who first received Laozi's teaching.	Chinese	800	wisdom	ctext.org; Kanripo KR3 masters section	no source found
4	Alcuin, De animae ratione The Carolingian digest of Augustine's psychology for Gundrada — the first medieval Latin soul-treatise.	Medieval Latin	800	consciousness	PL 101, cols 639–650 — Internet Archive patrologiaecursu101mign (unsure); Wikisource Latin	searched, no matching scan
4	Kūkai — Ajikan (A-syllable visualisation) Shingon esoteric meditation on the syllable A as the seed of all phenomena.	Japanese	810	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections	searched, no matching scan
4	Zongmi, Yuanren lun Huayan/Chan patriarch's comparative treatise 'On the Origin of Humanity,' ranking theories of mind/spirit across Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist teachings.	Chinese	820	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Muḥāsibī, Al-Riʿāya li-Ḥuqūq Allāh	Arabic	830	meditation	unsure — Arabic critical editions exist on Internet Archive; no verified identifier	searched, no matching scan
4	Kūkai, Jūjūshinron Shingon founder's ten-stage taxonomy of mind, ranking non-Buddhist and Buddhist worldviews as progressive states of consciousness.	Japanese	830	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	al-Muḥāsibī, al-Riʿāya li-ḥuqūq Allāh The founding introspective psychology of Islam: self-examination (muḥāsaba), the thoughts (khawāṭir) and their sources.	Arabic	840	consciousness	Margaret Smith edition (London 1940) not PD (unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Huangbo — Chuanxin Fayao (Essentials of the Transmission of Mind) Recorded sayings of a major Tang Chan master on direct mind-transmission.	Chinese	850	meditation	unsure — CBETA T2012A	searched, no matching scan
4	Huangbo, recorded sayings Chan master's teachings on 'mind is Buddha,' formative for the Linji lineage.	Chinese	850	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Nawadir al-falasifa A gnomologium of maxims attributed to Greek philosophers, compiled by the great Baghdad translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq; survives mainly via its medieval Hebrew and Castilian offshoots.	Arabic	860	wisdom	Loewenthal, Sefer Musre ha-Pilosofim (Hebrew, Frankfurt 1896) + German trans. (1896) (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Junayd al-Baghdādī, Rasāʾil	Arabic	870	meditation	unsure — A.H. Abdel-Kader's Arabic+English edition circulates; no verified identifier	acquired · 212 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Ibn Qutayba, Uyun al-akhbar A vast adab anthology organized by theme (rulership, war, nobility, character, women, food, friendship) mixing anecdote, poetry and proverb.	Arabic	880	wisdom	Brockelmann ed. (Berlin 1900-08) or Cairo Dar al-Kutub 1925 (unsure)	no source found
4	Qusṭā ibn Lūqā, De differentia spiritus et animae The short Galenic–Platonic distinction of spirit and soul that the Latin schools read alongside Aristotle’s De anima.	Arabic	880	consciousness	Barach, Excerpta e libro Alfredi … De differentia animae et spiritus (Innsbruck 1878) — Internet Archive (identifier unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, Bayān al-farq bayn al-ṣadr wa-l-qalb wa-l-fuʾād wa-l-lubb Four-layer anatomy of the heart — the earliest Sufi map of inner faculties; only Ibn ʿArabī’s answers to his questions are held.	Arabic	890	consciousness	Heer edition (Cairo 1958) not PD (unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Senbríathra Fíthail / Bríatharthecosc Con Culainn Two further Old Irish wisdom-instruction texts attributed to legendary judges/heroes, part of the same genre as the Tecosca Cormaic.	Norse & Celtic	900	wisdom	Senbríathra Fíthail: Smith 1928, in copyright. Bríatharthecosc: found within editions of Serglige Con Culainn. unsure.	no source found
4	Tecosca Cormaic (The Instructions of Cormac) A wisdom text of advice from the legendary king Cormac mac Airt to his son, an Irish mirror-for-princes analogue.	Norse & Celtic	900	wisdom	Meyer 1909 ed. on IA — unsure	no source found
4	Pāñcarātra sādhana saṃhitās (Lakṣmī Tantra, Jayākhya) Vaiṣṇava tantric manuals of mantra, nyāsa and yoga (Jayākhya ch. 33 on the eight-limbed yoga) — a whole tradition absent here.	Indian	900	meditation	Jayākhyasaṃhitā, Gaekwad Oriental Series 54 (1931) — Internet Archive (unsure); Lakṣmī Tantra ed. Krishnamacharya, Adyar 1959 (not PD)	no source found
4	Sanas Cormaic (imbas forosnai, teinm laída) Cormac's Glossary preserves the only description of the fili's incubation technique: raw flesh, chanting, darkness, sleep on the palms.	Norse & Celtic	900	meditation	Whitley Stokes, Three Irish Glossaries (1862) — Internet Archive `threeirishglossa00stok` (unsure); Sanas Chormaic tr. O'Donovan 1868 — IA (unsure).	no source found
4	Zhong-Lü Chuandao Ji (Record of the Transmission of the Dao from Zhongli to Lü) Foundational internal-alchemy dialogue attributed to the immortals Zhongli Quan and Lü Dongbin.	Chinese	900	meditation	unsure — Daozang original via ctext.org	no source found
4	Pahlavi Rivāyat / Jāmāsp-nāmag / Hādōxt Nask (separate editions) Secondary Pahlavi texts on the soul’s fate and prophetic vision; Hādōxt Nask is read only inside SBE 23.	Zoroastrian	900	consciousness	Dhabhar, Pahlavi Rivayat (Bombay 1913) — Internet Archive (identifier unsure); Modi, Jâmâspi (Bombay 1903) (unsure); Haug & West, Book of Arda Viraf (1872) appendix has Hādōxt Nask — held.	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Isaac Israeli, Kitāb al-Ḥudūd (De definitionibus) / De elementis Neoplatonic definitions of soul, spirit and intellect; the library holds only his De febribus.	Arabic	930	consciousness	Omnia opera Ysaac (Lyon 1515) — BSB / Internet Archive (identifier unsure).	acquired · 468 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Saadia Gaon — Sefer ha-Emunot ve-ha-Deot First systematic Jewish philosophical treatise, including a section on the soul's nature and faculties.	Hebrew & Jewish	933	consciousness	unsure — Samuel Rosenblatt's 1948 Yale Judaica translation is not PD; no earlier PD English translation known.	import failed, will retry
4	Anglo-Saxon gnomic verse (Maxims I & II, Precepts, Solomon and Saturn) The Old English counterpart to the Hávamál — numbered proverbial statements about the natural and social order, none of which the library holds.	Norse & Celtic	950	wisdom	Grein, Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie (1857-58); Kemble, Dialogue of Salomon and Saturnus (1848); Thorpe, Codex Exoniensis (1842); Cockayne, Leechdoms (1864-66); Proverbs of Alfred — Skeat 190	searched, no matching scan
4	Nītivākyāmṛta (Somadeva Sūri) Jain Sanskrit treatise on statecraft and ethics ("Nectar of Political Maxims"), an important non-Brahmanical entry in the nīti genre.	Indian	950	wisdom	Māṇikacandra Digambara Jaina Granthamālā 22 (1922–23) — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Vācaspati Miśra, Sāṃkhya-tattvakaumudī The standard commentary on the Sāṃkhya-kārikā, on how the witness "sees" through buddhi.	Indian	950	consciousness	Vācaspati Miśra, Sāṃkhya-tattvakaumudī: IA `tattvakaumudi` (Ganganatha Jha tr., Bombay 1896) unsure.	acquired · 176 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Kalābādhī, Kitāb al-Taʿarruf	Arabic	980	meditation	unsure — Arberry's 'The Doctrine of the Sufis' trans. and Arabic eds. on IA; no verified identifier	import failed, will retry
4	Genshin — Ōjōyōshū (Essentials of Salvation) Landmark Pure Land text on visualising Amida and the Pure Land, shaping later nembutsu practice.	Japanese	985	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections; Andrews's English translation not PD	searched, no matching scan
4	al-Busti, gnomic verse Al-Busti's celebrated moralizing qasidas (esp. the 'Tayyibat'), a staple of the Arabic gnomic-poetry canon.	Arabic	1000	wisdom	not specified in report	searched, no matching scan
4	Auvaiyār: Ātticcūṭi / Koṉṟai Vēntaṉ Foundational Tamil primers of one-line ethical maxims for children, still memorized in Tamil schools today.	Indian	1000	wisdom	19th-c. Madras prints on Internet Archive — unsure	acquired · 42 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Old Javanese Nītiśāstra (Kawi) Old Javanese verse adaptation of Sanskrit statecraft-and-conduct material.	Southeast Asian	1000	wisdom	Poerbatjaraka ed. 1933 — unsure	no source found
4	Śubhacandra, Jñānārṇava The Digambara "Ocean of Knowledge": the fullest Jain treatment of piṇḍastha / padastha / rūpastha / rūpātīta dhyāna.	Indian	1000	meditation	Rāyacandra Jaina Śāstramālā ed. 1907 — Internet Archive (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Udayana, Ātmatattvaviveka / Nyāyakusumāñjali The Nyāya refutation of Buddhist no-self and momentariness — the fullest Hindu defence of a permanent knowing self.	Indian	1000	consciousness	Udayana, Ātmatattvaviveka / Nyāyakusumāñjali: Cowell's Kusumāñjali (Calcutta 1864) on IA unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Zhou Gong Jiemeng (Duke of Zhou dream book) Popular Chinese dream-symbol dictionary attributed to the Duke of Zhou, widely circulated in vernacular print culture.	Chinese	1000	consciousness	unsure. NB: catalogue's 'Ausserlesenster... Traum-Tempel' (id 69bda031f6d63c9197485453) is an unrelated German dream-curiosities work — false lead.	no source found
4	al-Dīnawarī, al-Qādirī fī l-taʿbīr The largest medieval Arabic dream manual, synthesising Greek (Artemidorus) and Islamic oneirology.	Arabic	1006	consciousness	No PD printed edition known; manuscripts only (unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Avicenna, Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān and the recitals (Risālat al-ṭayr, Salāmān wa Absāl) Avicenna’s allegory of the soul guided by the active intellect, with the Persian commentary tradition.	Arabic	1023	consciousness	Mehren, Traités mystiques d’Avicenne (Leiden 1889–1899, Arabic + French) — Internet Archive (identifier unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Avicenna, al-Najāt (psychology section) The compact statement of Avicenna’s psychology, source of Rahman’s Avicenna’s Psychology.	Arabic	1027	consciousness	Cairo 1331/1913 edition (Internet Archive, identifier unsure); Rahman 1952 not PD.	searched, no matching scan
4	al-Bīrūnī, Kitāb Bātanjal (Arabic Yoga-sūtra) Bīrūnī’s Arabic paraphrase of Patañjali on the stilling of the mind — the direct Islamic reception of Indian consciousness theory.	Arabic	1030	consciousness	Ritter edition (Oriens 1956) not PD (unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Tikkun Middot ha-Nefesh (Improvement of the Moral Qualities) Ibn Gabirol's Arabic-language ethical treatise systematizing virtues and vices according to the five senses.	Hebrew & Jewish	1045	wisdom	Wise, The Improvement of the Moral Qualities (Columbia 1902, Arabic+English) on Internet Archive, identifier unsure.	no source found
4	Mubashshir ibn Fatik, Mukhtar al-hikam (Bocados de Oro / Dits moraulx / Dicts and Sayings lineage) A gnomologium of sayings attributed to Greek philosophers, which fanned out across medieval Europe as the Castilian Bocados de Oro, French Dits moraulx, and Caxton's English Dicts and Sayings of the P	Arabic	1048	wisdom	Badawi 1958 NOT PD; lineage instead: Bocados de Oro (Knust, Mittheilungen aus dem Eskurial, 1879); Caxton Dictes and Sayings 1477 (Blades facsimile 1877); Dits moraulx Guillaume de Tignonville (MS or	acquired · 135 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Antonius Melissa / Maximus Confessor, Loci Communes A Byzantine monastic 'commonplace' florilegium of patristic and classical moral sentences, organized by topic — a Christian counterpart to Stobaeus.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1050	wisdom	Gesner's 1546 Zurich edition (Sententiae sive loci communes, Greek/Latin) or Migne PG 91/136. IA identifier: unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Mawardi, Adab al-dunya wa-l-din A widely read Sunni manual on the ethics of worldly conduct and religion, pairing pious counsel with practical statecraft.	Arabic	1050	wisdom	Cairo eds. 1900s-1920s (unsure)	acquired · 538 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Zhang Zai, Zhengmeng 'Correcting Youthful Ignorance' — theorizes mind/nature in terms of qi and the 'unity of all things.'	Chinese	1060	consciousness	unsure.	acquired · 875 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Jāmiʿ al-ḥikmatayn / Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī, Rāḥat al-ʿaql Ismāʿīlī philosophy of intellect and soul; only Nāṣir-i Khusraw’s travel book is held.	Persian	1070	consciousness	Corbin–Moʿīn edition (Tehran 1953) not PD; Kāmil Ḥusayn ed. of Rāḥat al-ʿaql (1953) not PD (unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Cheng Hao / Cheng Yi, philosophical writings Cheng brothers' foundational li (principle) theory of mind and nature, source of the Cheng-Zhu school.	Chinese	1080	consciousness	unsure. NB: catalogue's 'Dream of the Red Chamber — Cheng Yi woodblock edition' (id 69bf68dfdd5a136c308e1505) is a false lead — 'Cheng Yi' there names the print edition, not the philosopher.	searched, no matching scan
4	ʿAbdallāh Anṣārī, Manāzil al-sāʾirīn / Munājāt The hundred stations of the wayfarer, the map of Sufi inner states commented on for centuries.	Persian	1080	consciousness	Cairo 1908 Arabic printing (Internet Archive, identifier unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Arabic proverb collections (Maydani / Freytag / Burckhardt / Pococke / Golius) The classical Arabic proverb tradition, epitomized by al-Maydani's great compendium — none of the standard editions (Arabic or European) are held.	Arabic	1100	wisdom	Freytag, Arabum proverbia, 3 vols (Bonn 1838-43); Burckhardt, Arabic Proverbs (London 1830); Pococke, Specimen historiae Arabum (Oxford 1650/1806) (unsure)	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Zuochan Yi (Rules for Zazen) Song-dynasty Chan monastic manual codifying seated-meditation posture and method, model for later Zen zazen manuals.	Chinese	1103	meditation	unsure — CBETA, within Chanyuan Qinggui	no source found
4	Ghazali, Ayyuha al-walad 'O Child!' — a short, intimate epistle of spiritual counsel to a student, one of Ghazali's most personal and most-read minor works.	Arabic	1106	wisdom	Arabic+German Hammer-Purgstall, O Kind! (Vienna 1838)	searched, no matching scan
4	ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī, Tamhīdāt / Zubdat al-ḥaqāʾiq The martyred Sufi’s first-person phenomenology of states beyond reason and of the “light of Muḥammad”.	Persian	1127	consciousness	‘Usayrān editions (Tehran 1962) not PD; no PD edition known (unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Zamakhshari, Atwaq al-dhahab 'Golden Necklaces' — al-Zamakhshari's collection of moral maxims in rhymed prose.	Arabic	1130	wisdom	not specified in report	searched, no matching scan
4	Sana'i, Hadiqat al-haqiqa 'The Walled Garden of Truth' — the first great Persian Sufi didactic mathnawi, the direct model for Attar and Rumi.	Persian	1131	wisdom	Stephenson, First Book of the Hadiqatu'l-Haqiqat (Calcutta 1910) (unsure)	acquired · 352 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Ibn Bājja, Tadbīr al-mutawaḥḥid / Risālat al-ittiṣāl The solitary’s regimen and the conjunction of the intellect with the agent intellect.	Arabic	1135	consciousness	Asín Palacios edition (Madrid 1946) not PD; Munk, Mélanges (Paris 1859) gives the Hebrew summary — Gallica (ark unsure).	no source found
4	Old & Middle English gnomic/proverb poetry (OE Maxims & Precepts; Proverbs of Alfred; Hendyng) The English strand of Germanic gnomic wisdom poetry, related in spirit to the Old Norse Hávamál.	Norse & Celtic	1150	wisdom	IA — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Costa ben Luca / Gundissalinus, De differentia spiritus et animae / De anima The two Toledo texts that separated medical spirit from soul and imported Avicenna's faculties into Latin.	Medieval Latin	1150	consciousness	Costa ben Luca in Barach 1878 Excerpta e libro Alfredi — Internet Archive (unsure); Gundissalinus De anima ed. Muckle 1940, not PD	acquired · 160 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Gampopa, Dwags po thar rgyan (Jewel Ornament of Liberation) Buddha-nature as the cause, the stages of the path — the Kagyü foundation text linking tathāgatagarbha to mahāmudrā.	Tibetan	1150	consciousness	Gampopa, Dwags po thar rgyan (Jewel Ornament of Liberation): BDRC unsure; Guenther tr. 1959 in copyright.	no source found
4	Hongzhi Chanshi Guanglu (silent illumination) Recorded works of the Caodong master who articulated 'silent illumination' meditation, counterpart to Dahui's kanhua.	Chinese	1157	meditation	unsure — CBETA	no source found
4	Bahr al-fava'id An anonymous 12th-century Persian mirror-for-princes, 'the sea of precious virtues', on rulership and ethics.	Persian	1160	wisdom	not specified in report	no source found
4	Basava Vacanas Kannada prose-poems (vacanas) by the social reformer Basava, foundational to Liṅgāyatism and Kannada devotional-ethical literature.	Indian	1160	wisdom	unsure	no source found
4	Aḥmad Yasawī, Dīvān-i Ḥikmet The founding Turkic Sufi poetry of the self and its stations.	Turkic	1160	consciousness	Kazan lithographs 1904 — Internet Archive (identifier unsure).	no source found
4	Isaac of Stella, Epistola de anima The five-step ladder of powers (sensus, imaginatio, ratio, intellectus, intelligentia) matching body and soul — the Cistercian faculty map.	Medieval Latin	1162	consciousness	PL 194, cols 1875–1890 — Internet Archive patrologiaecursu194mign (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Gongguoge (Ledgers of Merit and Demerit) Self-quantifying morality-ledger system for daily tallying of good and bad deeds, part of the same popular shanshu genre as the Taishang Ganying Pian.	Chinese	1171	wisdom	unsure — report lists as NOT HELD without a specific PD source (grouped with Yinzhiwen)	no source found
4	Zhu Xi, Jinsilu / Zhuzi yulei Zhu Xi's curated anthology of Northern Song masters (Jinsilu) and his own recorded conversations (Zhuzi yulei) on mind, nature and principle.	Chinese	1175	consciousness	unsure. NB: we hold Zhu Xi's Sishu Jizhu, a different compilation.	no source found
4	Proverbes au vilain (French medieval proverb collections) An early Old French verse proverb collection framed as a peasant's worldly counsel.	Medieval Latin	1180	wisdom	not identified by the survey — no specific PD source given	searched, no matching scan
4	Guigo II, Scala claustralium (Ladder of Monks) Lectio – meditatio – oratio – contemplatio: the four-rung definition of lectio divina.	Medieval Latin	1180	meditation	Migne, Patrologia Latina vol. 184 — on Internet Archive (identifier unsure) (printed among Bernard's works) — unsure	acquired · 154 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Zhu Xi — jingzuo (quiet-sitting) teaching Zhu Xi's endorsement of half-day quiet-sitting alongside half-day study, foundational for Neo-Confucian contemplative practice.	Chinese	1180	meditation	unsure — ctext.org (Zhuzi Yulei); library holds ~100 vols of 御纂朱子全書 that may contain this material unindexed	searched, no matching scan
4	Lu Xiangshan, philosophical writings Rival to Zhu Xi arguing mind and principle are identical ('the mind is principle'), forerunner of Wang Yangming.	Chinese	1180	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Sinhala Lokopakāraya / Subhāṣitaya Sinhala nīti/gnomic-verse collection paralleling the Sanskrit subhāṣita tradition.	Southeast Asian	1200	wisdom	unsure	no source found
4	Welsh Triads (Trioedd Ynys Prydein) Welsh triadic mnemonic lore, memorializing names and wisdom in groups of three.	Norse & Celtic	1200	wisdom	Myvyrian Archaiology 1801–7 on IA — unsure	no source found
4	Ibn ʿArabī, Risālat al-Anwār	Arabic	1200	meditation	unsure — short treatise, IA copies exist; no verified identifier	no source found
4	Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Kitāb al-Nafs wa-l-rūḥ wa-sharḥ quwāhumā Rāzī’s ethical psychology of the soul and its faculties; with the Maṭālib al-ʿāliya on the soul.	Persian	1200	consciousness	Maʿṣūmī edition (Islamabad 1968) not PD; Maṭālib vol. 7 (Beirut 1987) not PD. unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Saduktikarṇāmṛta Major Sanskrit gnomic-verse anthology compiled in medieval Bengal ("Nectar of Well-Spoken Sayings").	Indian	1205	wisdom	GOS 1938 / Bibl. Indica 1965 eds. — likely still in copyright; unsure	no source found
4	Chen Chun, Beixi ziyi Glossary-treatise systematizing Zhu Xi's key mind/nature terms for students.	Chinese	1220	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Shinran, Kyōgyōshinshō Jōdo Shinshū founder's treatise on faith/mind as the locus of Other-Power salvation.	Japanese	1224	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Edib Ahmed Yükneki, Atabetü'l-Hakayık 'The Threshold of Truths' — an early Turkic didactic poem of religious and ethical maxims, closely following the model of Kutadgu Bilig.	Turkic	1230	wisdom	Arat 1951 not PD; Necib Asım (Istanbul 1918) (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	John of La Rochelle / Alexander of Hales, Summa de anima The first Franciscan systematic psychology, fusing Avicenna, Damascene and Augustine's faculties.	Medieval Latin	1235	consciousness	Alexander Summa theologica Quaracchi 1924–48 (vol. II on soul) — Internet Archive (unsure); La Rochelle Bougerol 1995 not PD	searched, no matching scan
4	Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī / Awṣāf al-ashrāf Persian ethics grounded in a full psychology of the soul’s faculties; Awṣāf on the stages of the mystic. The library holds only Ṭūsī’s mathematics.	Persian	1235	consciousness	Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī Lahore/Bombay lithographs 19th c. — Internet Archive (identifier unsure).	found held after all
4	Nasreddin Hoca, anecdotes The trickster-sage whose short comic-wisdom anecdotes are told across the Turkic, Persian and Arabic worlds — folk wisdom via humor rather than treatise.	Turkic	1250	wisdom	Wesselski, Der Hodscha Nasreddin (Weimar 1911); Barnham, Tales of Nasr-ed-Din Khoja (1923) (unsure)	acquired · 50 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Later haṭha texts (Amṛtasiddhi, Dattātreyayogaśāstra, Khecarīvidyā, Yogayājñavalkya, Haṭharatnāvalī) The corpus between the Nāths and the Pradīpikā — the sources of mudrā, khecarī and the "yoga of the drop" — none held.	Indian	1250	meditation	Yogayājñavalkya, Trivandrum Sanskrit Series 1938 (unsure); the others exist only in in-copyright critical editions (Mallinson) or GRETIL e-texts (unsure)	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Shinran — Tannishō / Kyōgyōshinshō Founding texts of Jōdo Shinshū on faith (shinjin) as the inner disposition replacing formal practice.	Japanese	1250	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections	searched, no matching scan
4	Nikephoros the Monk, On Watchfulness and the Guarding of the Heart The first written breathing method: draw the mind down into the heart with the breath and hold the Jesus Prayer there.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1270	meditation	Migne, Patrologia Graeca vol. 147 — on Internet Archive (identifier unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Ibn al-Nafīs, al-Risāla al-Kāmiliyya (Theologus autodidactus) The physician’s answer to Ibn Ṭufayl: a spontaneously generated man reasons his way to prophecy and the resurrection.	Arabic	1270	consciousness	Meyerhof–Schacht edition (Oxford 1968) not PD (unsure).	no source found
4	Ma'alot ha-Middot (Degrees of Virtue) An Italian rabbi's systematic treatise pairing virtues with their opposing vices, illustrated with rabbinic sources.	Hebrew & Jewish	1287	wisdom	Sefaria (Hebrew).	no source found
4	Natan ben Saʿadyah Harar, Sha'arei Tzedek (Abulafian) The disciple's first-person report of Abulafian letter-permutation — light, trembling, the experience of prophecy — the best account of what the technique did.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1295	meditation	No public-domain printing (Jerusalem 1989 in copyright); Scholem's 1927 excerpts only	searched, no matching scan
4	Ramon Llull, Proverbis de Ramon / Doctrina pueril Llull's own proverb collection, distinct from his larger philosophical and mystical works.	Medieval Latin	1296	wisdom	IA ORL volumes — unsure; Biblioteca de Catalunya	acquired · 162 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Ibn 'Ata' Allah, Kitab al-Hikam The best-known Sufi aphorism collection in the Arabic tradition, still recited and commented on today.	Arabic	1300	wisdom	Arabic with Ibn 'Abbad commentary (Cairo 1900s); Arberry's Sufi Aphorisms (1969) not PD (unsure)	no source found
4	Keizan — Zazen Yōjinki Sōtō patriarch Keizan Jōkin's practical cautions and instructions for zazen practice.	Japanese	1300	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections	searched, no matching scan
4	Gersonides — Milhamot ha-Shem (Wars of the Lord) Gersonides' major work, including extensive treatment of the intellect, prophecy, and immortality of the acquired intellect.	Hebrew & Jewish	1329	consciousness	unsure — no PD English translation known; Seymour Feldman's is modern/copyrighted.	acquired · 162 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Ibn al-Wardi, Lamiyyat (gnomic poem) Ibn al-Wardi's rhymed moral-advice poem, a well-known didactic set-piece in traditional Arabic education.	Arabic	1330	wisdom	not specified in report	no source found
4	Gregory of Sinai, On Stillness and Prayer How to sit, breathe and recite; on the delusion of images; the Athonite teacher who carried the method to the Slavs.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1330	meditation	Migne, Patrologia Graeca vol. 150 — on Internet Archive (identifier unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	John Buridan, Quaestiones de anima The Parisian arts-faculty psychology: the soul's immateriality as faith not proof, the inner senses and the will.	Medieval Latin	1340	consciousness	no early print of the De anima questions; Physics and Ethics questions are held. Zupko/Klima modern edition not PD (unsure of any IA scan)	searched, no matching scan
4	Muso Soseki's Dialogues in a Dream (Muchu Mondoshu) Dialogues between the influential Zen master and garden-designer Muso Soseki and a warrior patron, on Zen practice and its relation to worldly life.	Japanese	1344	wisdom	NDL Digital; English: unsure	acquired · 486 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Traibhūmikathā (Three Worlds of Phra Ruang) The Thai cosmology of the realms as states of mind — the most-copied Siamese Buddhist text.	Southeast Asian	1345	consciousness	Traibhūmikathā (Three Worlds of Phra Ruang, Thai cosmology of the realms of mind): Thai ed. 1912 unsure.	no source found
4	Tsongkhapa, Yid dang kun gzhi'i dka' ba'i gnas Tsongkhapa's early treatise on the difficult points of mind (manas) and ālaya in Yogācāra.	Tibetan	1390	consciousness	Tsongkhapa, Yid dang kun gzhi'i dka' ba'i gnas (on mind and ālaya): BDRC gsung 'bum vol. tsha unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Mingxin Baojian (Clear Mirror of the Heart) Widely circulated florilegium of moral maxims drawn from many earlier philosophers and texts, historically the first Chinese book translated into a European language (Spanish, 16th c.).	Chinese	1393	wisdom	ctext.org/wiki (scans) or Wikisource zh; a Korean Myeongsim bogam-cho woodblock also exists — IA id unsure	no source found
4	Christine de Pizan, Epistre Othea (L'Épître d'Othéa) Advice to a young prince cast as a letter from the goddess Othea, using mythological exempla — Christine's most influential didactic work.	Medieval Latin	1400	wisdom	Gallica (BnF fr. 606 etc.); Caxton's Morale Prouerbes 1478 via facsimile — unsure	acquired · 182 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Suphasit Phra Ruang / Khlong Lokanit / Cpāp’ (Thai–Lao–Khmer nīti texts) Family of Thai, Lao and Khmer verse-maxim traditions parallel to the Burmese Lokanīti.	Southeast Asian	1400	wisdom	mostly 20th-c. prints; unsure	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Mengzhan Yizhi (dream-divination compendium) Ming compendium systematizing methods and precedents for interpreting dreams.	Chinese	1400	consciousness	unsure.	no source found
4	Al-Jazūlī, Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt	Arabic	1450	meditation	unsure — the single most-copied Islamic devotional/dhikr manual; many Ottoman/Maghribi MS & print copies on IA; no verified identifier. Notable absence given the tradition's importance.	searched, no matching scan
4	Orhot Tzaddikim Anonymous Musar classic on the traits of the soul and their cultivation.	Hebrew & Jewish	1450	meditation	Prague 1581 — unsure	no source found
4	Chen Xianzhang — quiet-sitting teaching Ming Neo-Confucian who taught jingzuo as the route to direct apprehension of principle.	Chinese	1460	meditation	unsure — ctext.org	searched, no matching scan
4	Davani, Akhlaq-i Jalali A widely copied Persian ethics treatise that extends the Tusi/Miskawayh akhlaq tradition and was translated into English as 'Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People'.	Persian	1470	wisdom	W.F. Thompson, Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People (London 1839) (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Naehun (Instructions for the Inner Quarters) Korean royal compilation of instruction for women, drawing on Chinese women's-instruction texts and Buddhist sources.	Korean & Vietnamese	1475	wisdom	unsure — report lists as NOT HELD without a specific PD source	no source found
4	Samgang Haengsil-do (Illustrated Conduct of the Three Bonds) Illustrated Korean primer of moral exemplars illustrating loyalty, filial piety, and wifely virtue.	Korean & Vietnamese	1481	wisdom	Kyujanggak / National Library of Korea digital — unsure; the Harvard-Yenching TK rare-book set may hold more	no source found
4	Jan Mombaer, Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium The "chiropsalterium" and scala meditationis — mnemonic hand-diagrams for meditation; Cisneros' immediate source.	Medieval Latin	1494	meditation	Basel 1504 on e-rara / BSB — unsure	no source found
4	Nīti-neṟi-viḷakkam Tamil didactic treatise on the conduct of just kingship.	Indian	1500	wisdom	19th-c. Madras prints on Internet Archive — unsure	no source found
4	Nil Sorsky, Ustav (Rule of Skete Life) First Russian treatise on mental prayer and the stages of temptation (prilog to captivity).	Byzantine & Orthodox	1500	meditation	Russian ed. 1912 (Borovkova-Maikova) — Internet Archive identifier unsure	no source found
4	Naqshbandī order, Rashaḥāt ʿAyn al-Ḥayāt	Persian	1503	meditation	unsure — no verified identifier	searched, no matching scan
4	Solomon Almoli, Pitron Ḥalomot The standard Jewish dream book, drawing on Talmud, Hai Gaon and Arabic oneirocritica.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1515	dreams	Pitron Halomot, Amsterdam 1637 — HebrewBooks.org (unsure)	acquired · 80 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Luo Qinshun, philosophical writings Ming critic of Wang Yangming's mind-monism, defending a qi-based theory of nature.	Chinese	1520	consciousness	unsure.	no source found
4	Franciscan recogimiento: Osuna, Tercer abecedario / Laredo, Subida del Monte Sión The method of recollection and "thinking nothing" that Teresa learned from; the Spanish root of quietism.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1527	meditation	Toledo 1527 / Seville 1535 in the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (BNE) — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Luther, Sprichwörter	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1530	wisdom	MDZ/BSB, ÖNB; IA — unsure (Thiele 1900)	searched, no matching scan
4	Zengguang Xianwen (Expanded Words of Wisdom) Popular anthology of Chinese proverbs and folk wisdom drawn from many sources, widely read as a primer of practical worldly advice.	Chinese	1550	wisdom	zh.wikisource / ctext.org; no IA id known	no source found
4	Joseph Karo, Maggid Mesharim The halakhist's diary of nightly visitations by the maggid — the first-person record of Safed ascetic practice (fasting, mishnah recitation).	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1550	meditation	Lublin 1646 / Amsterdam 1708 — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Toegye (Yi Hwang) / Yulgok (Yi I), Four-Seven debate Landmark Korean Neo-Confucian debate on whether the Four Beginnings and Seven Emotions arise from principle or material force.	Korean & Vietnamese	1560	consciousness	unsure.	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Zhou Gong dream book (Zhougong jiemeng) and Mengzhan yizhi The Chinese dream-omen manuals: Chen Shiyuan's compendium and the popular Duke of Zhou key.	Chinese	1562	dreams	unsure	no source found
4	Paracelsus, Liber de nymphis, sylphis, pygmaeis et salamandris Elemental beings with bodies but no souls — a thought-experiment on what soul and reason are.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1566	consciousness	Probably inside the held but unread Huser 'Bücher und Schrifften' volumes (6a4a5a959050f0b434306399 etc., h 0/0/0); standalone: e-rara / IA — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Toegye's Ten Diagrams (Seonghak Sipdo) Ten diagrams summarizing Neo-Confucian sage-learning, presented by Korea's foremost philosopher as a guide for the young king.	Korean & Vietnamese	1568	wisdom	Kyujanggak / National Library of Korea digital — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Hyujeong — Seonga Gwigam (Mirror for Seon Buddhists) Standard Korean Seon primer summarising Chan/Seon practice for students.	Korean & Vietnamese	1579	meditation	unsure — Tripitaka Koreana database (kabc.dongguk.edu)	searched, no matching scan
4	Bruno, Sigillus sigillorum The Seal of Seals: Bruno's theory of contemplation itself — fifteen contractions of the soul, the ascent from sense to intellect through imagination.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1583	meditation	Opera latine conscripta II.2 (Florence 1890) — Internet Archive `operalatinecons02brungoog` (unsure); the held Latin Works volumes below may already contain it — verify.	searched, no matching scan
4	Coornhert, Zedekunst, dat is Wellevenskunste	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1586	wisdom	DBNL e-texts; scans at KB/Google Books — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Abu'l-Fazl, Iyar-i Danish Abu'l-Fazl's Mughal-court Persian recension of the Kalila/Anvar-i Suhayli fable-cycle, commissioned by Akbar as a simplified, less ornate retelling.	Persian	1590	wisdom	not specified in report	searched, no matching scan
4	Caigentan (Vegetable Root Discourse) Ming-dynasty collection of aphorisms blending Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist wisdom on contentment and moderation.	Chinese	1590	wisdom	zh.wikisource; Japanese Edo editions on NDL — unsure	no source found
4	Vital, Sha'arei Kedushah The one explicit Safed meditation manual: purification, then (part IV) the technique for attaining ruah ha-kodesh — seclusion, name-visualisation, ascent through the worlds.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1590	meditation	Constantinople 1734 / Amsterdam 1715 — HebrewBooks, unsure	acquired · 88 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Sarvajña Vacanas Kannada tripadi (three-line) gnomic verses attributed to the wandering poet-philosopher Sarvajña.	Indian	1600	wisdom	unsure	no source found
4	Spieghel, Hert-spieghel	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1600	wisdom	DBNL e-texts; scans at KB/Google Books — unsure	acquired · 274 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Xiaochuang Youji (Quiet Notes from a Small Window) Ming-dynasty collection of brief reflective notes in the same aphoristic-essay tradition as the Caigentan.	Chinese	1600	wisdom	unsure — report lists as NOT HELD without a specific PD source	no source found
4	Yinzhiwen (Tract of the Silent Way) Popular Ming-era morality book (shanshu) in the same genre as the Taishang Ganying Pian, promising fortune for hidden virtue.	Chinese	1600	wisdom	Carus & Suzuki, Yin Chih Wen, 1906 — on IA, id unsure	no source found
4	Youxue Qionglin (Ocean of Pearls for the Young) Encyclopedic primer organizing allusions, idioms, and general knowledge by topic, memorized alongside the Sanzijing and Qianziwen.	Chinese	1600	wisdom	zh.wikisource / ctext.org; no IA id known	no source found
4	Hayyim Vital — Sha'arei Kedushah (Gates of Holiness) Practical-mystical manual on meditative techniques (kavanot) for attaining prophecy and ruach ha-kodesh.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1600	consciousness	unsure — original Hebrew editions predate copyright; exact identifier unconfirmed. A related but distinct held stub, 'Gate of Intentions' (69b93e2b9ebaf5a80f553c91, 0 pages), is NOT this work.	import failed, will retry
4	Ottoman Taʿbīrnāme (dream books) Turkish adaptations of Ibn Sīrīn and Nābulusī; none held.	Turkic	1600	consciousness	Istanbul lithographs 19th c. (unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Azikri, Sefer Haredim Safed pietist's manual of the commandments as devotional discipline; author of Yedid Nefesh.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1601	meditation	Venice 1601 — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Liaofan Sixun (Liaofan's Four Lessons) Autobiographical moral testament teaching that fate can be reshaped through deliberate merit and self-cultivation — a foundational text of the popular morality-book (shanshu) tradition.	Chinese	1602	wisdom	zh.wikisource; English translation: unsure	no source found
4	Tāj us-Salāṭīn (Crown of Kings) Malay mirror-for-princes treatise on ideal kingship, one of the most influential Malay political texts.	Southeast Asian	1603	wisdom	Roorda van Eysinga, De Kroon aller Koningen, 1827 — unsure	no source found
4	Yiddish musar literature (Brantshpigl, Lev Tov) Popular Yiddish-language ethical instruction manuals, an important vernacular vector for Kabbalistic-ethical ideas among Ashkenazi Jews who lacked Hebrew literacy.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1608	wisdom	Brantshpigl (1596) and Lev Tov (1620); IA ids unsure.	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Gruter, Florilegium ethico-politicum	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1610	wisdom	MDZ/BSB — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Gao Panlong — Kunxue Ji (quiet-sitting essay) Donglin School Neo-Confucian's account of his own quiet-sitting breakthrough.	Chinese	1610	meditation	unsure — ctext.org; library's held Gao Panlong volumes are Yijing/Chunqiu commentaries, not this text	no source found
4	Mullā Ṣadrā, al-Asfār al-arbaʿa (Book IV on the soul; corporeal origination) The summit of Islamic philosophy of mind: the soul “bodily in origination, spiritual in survival”, substantial motion, knowledge as presence — entirely absent from the library.	Persian	1628	consciousness	Tehran lithograph 1282/1865 (4 vols) — Internet Archive (identifier unsure); al-Shawāhid al-rubūbiyya lithograph 1286 (unsure); al-Mashāʿir Corbin 1964 not PD.	searched, no matching scan
4	Takuan's Fudochi Shinmyoroku Takuan Soho's treatise applying Zen insight on 'the mind of no-mind' to swordsmanship, addressed to a samurai student.	Japanese	1638	wisdom	NDL Digital; English: unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Takuan Sōhō — Fudōchishinmyōroku (The Unfettered Mind) Zen master's letters on the 'immovable mind' as applied meditative awareness, addressed to a swordsman.	Japanese	1638	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections	searched, no matching scan
4	French School: Bérulle, Grandeurs de Jésus / Lallemant, Doctrine spirituelle / Surin, Catéchisme spirituel Adherence to the states of Christ, purity of heart and docility to the Spirit — the 17th-c. French method between Ignatius and Quietism.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1640	meditation	Paris 1623 / 1694 / 1661 on Gallica — arks unsure	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Nakae Tōju — quiet-sitting/introspection teaching Japanese Wang-Yangming-school (Yōmeigaku) founder who taught introspective self-examination.	Japanese	1640	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections	searched, no matching scan
4	Suzuki Shōsan — Roankyō Edo-period Zen teacher's vigorous, this-worldly approach to meditation and death-awareness.	Japanese	1648	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections	searched, no matching scan
4	Vemana Padyalu Telugu gnomic quatrains (padyālu) attacking caste and ritual hypocrisy in plain, direct language.	Indian	1650	wisdom	C.P. Brown, Verses of Vemana (1829/1911) — unsure	no source found
4	George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs / Jacula Prudentum	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1651	wisdom	IA (EEBO-derived scans common) — ids unsure	acquired · 77 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Czepko, Sexcenta Monodisticha Sapientum	Modern European	1655	wisdom	MDZ/BSB; IA — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Zhuzi Zhijia Geyan (Master Zhu's Maxims for Managing the Household) Short, widely memorized set of maxims on frugality, diligence, and household management.	Chinese	1660	wisdom	zh.wikisource	no source found
4	Wang Fuzhi, philosophical writings Late Ming/early Qing philosopher reworking Zhang Zai's qi-monism into a theory of mind grounded in concrete practice.	Chinese	1660	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Saint-Évremond, moral essays	Modern European	1670	wisdom	Gallica — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Bankei — Fugoroku (The Unborn) Recorded sermons of Bankei teaching realisation of the innate 'Unborn Buddha-mind' without formal method.	Japanese	1680	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections; a held 1917 Heart Sutra commentary edited by a different 'Tomizu Bankei' is not this work	searched, no matching scan
4	Taiyi Jinhua Zongzhi (Secret of the Golden Flower) Late neidan meditation classic on circulating the light, made famous in the West via Wilhelm's 1931 translation.	Chinese	1680	meditation	unsure — Wilhelm/Baynes English translation (1931) status unclear for PD; held 'Mandala of the Golden Flower' is a Jung case-study booklet, not this text	no source found
4	Niyāzī Miṣrī / İsmail Hakkı Bursevī / Ankaravī (Ottoman Sufi psychology) The Ottoman commentators who turned Ibn ʿArabī and Rūmī into a Turkish science of the self; wholly absent.	Turkic	1680	consciousness	Ankaravī, Şerh-i Mesnevî (Būlāq 1251/1836) — Internet Archive (identifier unsure); Bursevī, Rūḥ al-bayān (Istanbul 1330) (unsure).	needs a human: no author to search by
4	al-Nābulusī, Taʿṭīr al-anām fī taʿbīr al-manām The Ottoman-era alphabetical dream dictionary still in print across the Muslim world.	Arabic	1685	consciousness	Cairo 1857 / Būlāq editions on Internet Archive (identifier unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Abraham a Sancta Clara, Judas der Erzschelm / Etwas für alle Witty, proverb-saturated Baroque preaching by the leading Austrian pulpit moralist.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1686	wisdom	MDZ/BSB, ÖNB — unsure	acquired · 428 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, Advice to a Daughter	Modern European	1688	wisdom	IA — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Bankei's sermons Plainspoken vernacular sermons of the Rinzai master Bankei on the 'Unborn Buddha-mind,' addressed to lay audiences.	Japanese	1690	wisdom	NDL Digital; English: unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Youmengying (Shadow Dreams) Qing-dynasty collection of epigrammatic reflections on nature, art, and daily life, in the aphoristic-essay tradition of the Caigentan.	Chinese	1690	wisdom	unsure — report lists as NOT HELD without a specific PD source	no source found
4	Ifá / Odu divination corpus The vast Yoruba oral corpus of divination verses (odu) recited by babalawo priests, arguably Africa's single richest body of gnomic-wisdom literature; not held in any form.	African	1700	wisdom	No PD corpus exists; Bascom's scholarly editions (1969-) remain in copyright.	searched, no matching scan
4	Japanese proverbs / iroha-karuta collections Traditional Japanese proverb collections, popularly memorized via the iroha-karuta card game pairing each syllable with a proverb.	Japanese	1700	wisdom	NDL; English collections (Buchanan 1965) not PD — unsure	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Mashafa Falasfa (Book of the Wise Philosophers) The Ethiopic 'Book of the Wise Philosophers', an indigenous Ge'ez branch of the same Arabic gnomologium family as Mubashshir's Mukhtar al-Hikam and Hunayn's Nawadir al-Falasifa.	Syriac & Armenian	1700	wisdom	Cornill, Das Buch der weisen Philosophen nach dem Aethiopischen (Leipzig 1875) (unsure)	no source found
4	Wazoku Dojikun (Precepts for Japanese Children) Kaibara Ekken's primer of moral instruction for children.	Japanese	1710	wisdom	NDL Digital (Edo woodblocks); check the held Ekiken Zenshu Vol.2 first	no source found
4	Kaibara Ekken — Yōjōkun (Precepts for Health/Nourishing Life) Japanese Neo-Confucian manual on cultivating body and mind through disciplined daily practice.	Japanese	1712	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections; library's held Kaibara volumes are an unrelated almanac (Nihon Saijiki)	searched, no matching scan
4	Yojokun (Precepts for Health) Kaibara Ekken's popular treatise on nourishing life through moderation, diet, and disciplined habit.	Japanese	1713	wisdom	NDL Digital (Edo woodblocks); check the held Ekiken Zenshu Vol.2 first	no source found
4	Onna Daigaku (Greater Learning for Women) Edo-period primer of moral instruction for women, historically attributed to Kaibara Ekken.	Japanese	1716	wisdom	NDL Digital (Edo woodblocks); check the held Ekiken Zenshu Vol.2 first	no source found
4	Isaac Penington, Works / John Woolman, Journal The two Quaker classics of inward silence beyond Fox.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1720	meditation	Woolman Journal 1774 / Penington Works 1681 on Internet Archive — identifiers unsure	acquired · 338 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Tuinman, De oorsprong en uitlegging van dagelijks gebruikte Nederduitsche spreekwoorden	Modern European	1726	wisdom	IA/Google Books — ids unsure	acquired · 472 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Luzzatto — Derekh Hashem (The Way of God) Systematic kabbalistic theology including the structure and levels of the human soul.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1730	consciousness	unsure — Aryeh Kaplan's 1977 translation is not PD; no earlier PD translation known.	acquired · 119 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Ishida Baigan's Toohi Mondo (Dialogue Between a Scholar and a Tradesman) Founding dialogue of the Shingaku movement, arguing that merchant life is as morally worthy as samurai or scholarly life.	Japanese	1739	wisdom	NDL Digital — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Jean-Pierre de Caussade, L'abandon à la providence divine "The sacrament of the present moment" — Quietist practice made orthodox.	Renaissance & Early Modern Europe	1740	meditation	Ramière ed. 1861 on Gallica — ark unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Hakuin, writings on Zen practice Rinzai reviver's accounts of the 'great doubt' and kensho breakthrough experience.	Japanese	1750	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Hakuin — Yasenkanna & Orategama Hakuin's accounts of meditation sickness/cure and letters on kōan practice, central Rinzai revival texts.	Japanese	1757	meditation	unsure — NDL Digital Collections	searched, no matching scan
4	Baal Shem Tov circle: Tzava'at ha-Rivash, Keter Shem Tov; Maggid Devarav le-Ya'akov Early Hasidic instructions on devekut, prayer with the whole body, elevating stray thoughts — the founding practice texts of Hasidism.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1760	meditation	Zolkiew 1793; Zolkiew 1794; Korzec 1781 — HebrewBooks, unsure	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Dai Zhen, mind-theory works (Yuan Shan / Mengzi ziyi shuzheng) Qing evidential scholar's critique of Song-Ming 'principle' orthodoxy, re-grounding mind/nature in psycho-physical desire.	Chinese	1770	consciousness	unsure. NB: we hold only his edited 考工記圖 (Record of Trades), a technical text, not his philosophical writing.	no source found
4	Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezeritch Foundational early Hasidic teacher whose teachings on nullification of self (bittul ha-yesh) and divine immanence shaped Hasidic psychology of consciousness.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1770	consciousness	unsure — early Hebrew editions (Or Torah, Maggid Devarav le-Ya'akov) are PD; exact identifier unconfirmed. NOT to be confused with the later, unrelated Chabad 'Mitteler Rebbe' Dov Baer Schneersohn, wh	no source found
4	Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher	Modern European	1780	wisdom	IA; Deutsches Textarchiv e-text — unsure (Leitzmann 1902–08 ed.)	searched, no matching scan
4	Alexander Süsskind, Yesod ve-Shoresh ha-Avodah Prayer-by-prayer kavvanah manual for the non-kabbalist — the mitnaggedic counterpart to Hasidic contemplation.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1782	meditation	Novy Dvor 1782 — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Paisius Velichkovsky, On Mental Prayer Defence of the Jesus Prayer for the Slavic world; his Dobrotolubiye translation is held.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1790	meditation	Zhitie i pisaniya moldavskago startsa Paisiya, Optina 1847 — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Nikodemos the Hagiorite, Unseen Warfare (after Scupoli) Scupoli's Combattimento rebuilt around the Jesus Prayer — the Orthodox–Catholic hybrid manual.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1796	meditation	Aoratos polemos, Venice 1796 — unsure; Russian 1892 ed. on Internet Archive — identifier unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Pinhas Hurwitz, Sefer ha-Berit Encyclopaedic bestseller whose second part treats prophecy, hitbodedut and the ascent of the soul as attainable practice.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1797	meditation	Brünn 1797 — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Friedrich Schlegel, Athenäum-Fragmente	Modern European	1798	wisdom	IA / DTA — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Handsome Lake Code / Great Law of Peace The two great Haudenosaunee constitutional-ethical instruction traditions — the founding political constitution and the later Handsome Lake religious-moral reform code — neither held.	Native American & Mesoamerican	1799	wisdom	Parker, The Code of Handsome Lake (NYSM Bulletin 163, 1913); The Constitution of the Five Nations (Bulletin 184, 1916). unsure of IA ids.	no source found
4	Liu Yiming's neidan commentaries Qing-dynasty commentator whose neidan writings (Xiuzhen Bianyao etc.) are a major modern reference for the tradition.	Chinese	1799	meditation	unsure — Daozang xubian via ctext.org	no source found
4	Gungthang, Chu’i bstan bcos / Shing gi bstan bcos (Water & Wood treatises) Popular Tibetan didactic treatises using water and wood as metaphors for virtuous and unvirtuous character.	Tibetan	1800	wisdom	BDRC — unsure	no source found
4	Jeong Yakyong (Dasan), philosophical writings Practical-learning (Silhak) scholar's reworking of Confucian mind/nature theory against Neo-Confucian metaphysics.	Korean & Vietnamese	1800	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Fichte, Die Anweisung zum seligen Leben The Way towards the Blessed Life: lectures on the religious life as inner union with the absolute — German idealism's contemplative manual.	Modern European	1806	meditation	Internet Archive `dieanweisungzums00fich` (unsure); HathiTrust has the 1806 Berlin edition; English tr. in Smith, Popular Works of Fichte (1849) — IA (unsure).	acquired · 416 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Nachman of Bratslav — Likutei Moharan Central Breslov Hasidic text on the mind's struggles, joy, and faith, including extensive treatment of the imagination and inner turmoil.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1806	consciousness	unsure — early Hebrew editions are PD; exact identifier unconfirmed.	searched, no matching scan
4	Likkutei Moharan (Nachman of Breslov) The core teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, a dense, associative masterpiece of Hasidic mystical-ethical teaching.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1808	wisdom	Ostrog 1808 first edition; IA id unsure.	no source found
4	Rivarol, Pensées, maximes	Modern European	1808	wisdom	Gallica — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Nahman of Bratslav: Likutei Moharan; Hishtapkhut ha-Nefesh (hitbodedut) Hitbodedut — an hour a day of secluded spontaneous speech to God, in the fields at night — the most distinctive Hasidic meditation, anthologised in Hishtapkhut ha-Nefesh.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1808	meditation	Likutei Moharan, Ostrog 1808; Hishtapkhut ha-Nefesh, Jerusalem 1904 — HebrewBooks, unsure; Buber's Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman 1906 — Internet Archive, unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Hirata Atsutane, Tama no Mihashira Kokugaku theologian's systematic treatise on the soul's post-mortem destination in the unseen world (kakuriyo).	Japanese	1812	consciousness	unsure (distinct from Motoori's Kojiki-den, held above).	searched, no matching scan
4	Dov Ber Schneuri, Kuntres ha-Hitpa'alut (Tract on Ecstasy) The Chabad taxonomy of ecstasy in prayer and the case for sober contemplation — answered by Avodat ha-Levi.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1814	meditation	Königsberg 1831 — unsure; may be inside Gaster MSS 1351/1355 (unverified)	no source found
4	Hayyim of Volozhin, Nefesh ha-Hayyim The mitnaggedic theory of prayer and Torah study as the highest contemplation, written against Hasidic devekut.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1824	meditation	Vilna 1824 — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Serbian proverb collection (Karadžić) The foundational collection of Serbian folk proverbs, part of Karadžić's broader project of collecting South Slavic oral literature.	Slavic & Finnic	1836	wisdom	Srpske narodne poslovice (1836). unsure of IA id.	searched, no matching scan
4	Native council oratory / Ojibwe wisdom traditions (Schoolcraft, Copway, Brinton) Anthologies of council-oratory and mythological wisdom from the Great Lakes Algonquian peoples, none held.	Native American & Mesoamerican	1839	wisdom	Schoolcraft, Algic Researches (1839); Copway (1850); Brinton, The Lenâpé and their Legends (1885, incl. Walam Olum). unsure of IA ids.	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Finnish proverb collections (Lönnrot) Lönnrot's collection of Finnish proverbs, the dedicated proverb-genre counterpart to his epic-compilation work on the Kalevala.	Slavic & Finnic	1842	wisdom	Suomen kansan sananlaskuja (1842); Kanteletar (1840). unsure of IA id.	searched, no matching scan
4	Sabzawārī, Sharḥ al-Manẓūma (Ghurar al-farāʾid) The Qajar versified summa of Ṣadrian philosophy of mind, with its section on the soul.	Persian	1845	consciousness	Tehran lithograph 1298/1881 — Internet Archive (identifier unsure); Izutsu–Mohaghegh 1969 not PD.	acquired · 492 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Serat Sana Sunu / Panitisastra Javanese didactic texts on proper (and improper) conduct, in the nītiśāstra vein.	Southeast Asian	1850	wisdom	unsure	no source found
4	Serat Wulangreh / Wedhatama / Tripama 19th-c. Javanese court didactic poems (piwulang), among the most quoted Javanese ethical-literary texts.	Southeast Asian	1850	wisdom	unsure	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Musar movement: Salanter, Or Yisrael; Lefin, Heshbon ha-Nefesh Nineteenth-century self-examination technique — Lefin's Franklin-derived daily ledger of traits and Salanter's chanting of Musar texts with emotion.	Hebrew & Jewish	1850	meditation	Lemberg 1808; Vilna 1900 — HebrewBooks, unsure	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Nachman Krochmal — Moreh Nevukhei ha-Zeman Hegelian-influenced Jewish philosophy of spirit (Geist) and national/historical consciousness.	Kabbalistic & Hasidic	1851	consciousness	unsure — 1851 first edition (ed. Zunz) should be PD; exact identifier unconfirmed.	acquired · 463 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Māori proverbial sayings (whakataukī) The dedicated Māori proverb genre, distinct from the mythology/waiata collections the library holds — not itself held.	Oceanian	1857	wisdom	Grey, Ko nga Whakapepeha me nga Whakaahuareka a nga Tipuna o Aotea-roa (Cape Town, 1857); Colenso, Contributions ... Maori Proverbs (TNZI 12, 1879). unsure of IA ids.	no source found
4	Harrebomée, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche taal	Modern European	1858	wisdom	Harrebomée on DBNL — ids unsure	acquired · 572 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Russian proverb collection (Dahl) The classic 19th-century compendium of Russian folk proverbs.	Slavic & Finnic	1862	wisdom	Poslovitsy russkogo naroda (1862). unsure of IA id.	searched, no matching scan
4	Theophan the Recluse, The Spiritual Life / Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ascetical Essays The two 19th-c. Russian bishops who wrote the standard instructions (and warnings) on the Jesus Prayer for laity; Theophan compiled the Russian Dobrotolubiye.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1870	meditation	Asketicheskie opyty 1865; Chto est' dukhovnaya zhizn' 1878 — Internet Archive identifiers unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Huxley, On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata Consciousness as the steam-whistle of the engine — epiphenomenalism stated.	Modern European	1874	consciousness	IA collectedessays01huxl (Method and Results) — unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Muir's Sanskrit Anthologies (Original Sanskrit Texts; Religious and Moral Sentiments) Victorian scholarly anthologies translating and surveying Sanskrit religious, philosophical and ethical verse.	Indian	1875	wisdom	on Internet Archive — id unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Weilu Yehua (Fireside Chats) Late-Qing collection of aphoristic reflections in the household-wisdom genre.	Chinese	1877	wisdom	unsure — report lists as NOT HELD without a specific PD source	no source found
4	Western studies of Zoroastrian and Persian thought (Haug, Jackson, Moulton, Dhalla, Browne, Nicholson, Tholuck, de Boer, Munk, Renan) The orientalist syntheses of Zoroastrian eschatology, Sufi psychology and Arabic philosophy that a reader would expect beside the primary texts; none are held except Goldziher, Macdonald, Kleuker, Mod	Zoroastrian	1878	consciousness	Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language … of the Parsis (1878); Jackson, Zoroaster (1899); Moulton, Early Zoroastrianism (1913); Dhalla, Zoroastrian Theology (1914); Browne, Literary History of Persia (19	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Ashanti/Akan and Swahili proverb collections Dedicated named proverb-collections for two major African language traditions, distinct from the ethnographic volumes the library does hold.	African	1879	wisdom	Christaller, Twi mmebusem (1879); Rattray, Ashanti Proverbs (1916); Steere, Swahili Tales (1870); Taylor, African Aphorisms (1891). unsure of IA ids.	needs a human: no author to search by
4	Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra Widely used printed Sanskrit anthology of gnomic verse ("Treasury of Well-Said Jewels").	Indian	1885	wisdom	Nirnaya Sagar Press eds. (1911, 1929) — unsure	no source found
4	Inoue Enryō, writings on mind and the supernatural Meiji philosopher-monk's rationalist 'mystery studies' (yōkaigaku) debunking folk spirit-belief through psychology.	Japanese	1887	consciousness	unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Golden Dawn, Flying Rolls and Z documents The Order's instructions in skrying, tattva vision, rising on the planes and the Z formula — the source of modern Western visualisation practice.	Theosophical & Modern Esoteric	1892	meditation	Flying Rolls printed in Francis King, Astral Projection, Ritual Magic and Alchemy (1971, not PD); the original typescripts are in the Yorke Collection (Warburg) — no PD scan known (unsure).	searched, no matching scan
4	Külpe, Grundriss der Psychologie; Stout, Analytic Psychology; Ward, Psychological Principles The systematic academic psychologies of the 1890s–1910s (none held).	Modern European	1893	consciousness	IA grundrissderpsyc00kulp; analyticpsycholo01stou; psychologicalpri00ward — all unsure	acquired · 498 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Havelock Ellis, 'Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise' and The World of Dreams Aesthetic description of mescal visions; dream psychology.	Modern European	1898	consciousness	Contemporary Review 1898 (IA); worldofdreams00elli (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Seraphim of Sarov, Conversation with Motovilov / John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ The two best-known modern Russian testimonies of acquired stillness and unceasing prayer.	Byzantine & Orthodox	1900	meditation	My Life in Christ, English 1897 — Internet Archive identifier unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Ledi Sayadaw, Paramattha-dīpanī / Manuals of Buddhism The Burmese Abhidhamma revival: the theory of consciousness that underlies modern vipassanā.	Southeast Asian	1900	consciousness	Ledi Sayadaw, Paramattha-dīpanī / Manuals of Buddhism (Burmese Abhidhamma): IA `manualsofbuddhis00ledi` unsure.	searched, no matching scan
4	Augustin Poulain, Des grâces d'oraison The neo-scholastic taxonomy of mystical prayer with hundreds of extracts — the reference the 20th c. argued with.	Modern European	1901	meditation	English 1910 (Graces of Interior Prayer) on Internet Archive — identifier unsure	searched, no matching scan
4	Ledi Sayadaw, meditation manuals (Ānāpāna Dīpanī, Vipassanā Dīpanī) The founding texts of lay vipassanā in Burma — the lineage behind U Ba Khin and Goenka.	Southeast Asian	1905	meditation	The Manuals of Buddhism (Rangoon, Union Buddha Sasana Council 1965) — Internet Archive (unsure)	searched, no matching scan
4	Nishida Kitarō, Zen no Kenkyū Founding text of the Kyoto School, theorizing 'pure experience' prior to the subject-object split.	Japanese	1911	consciousness	unsure.	acquired · 230 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Yinshizi Jingzuo Fa (Master Yinshi's Method of Quiet Sitting) Influential modern manual blending Daoist neidan and Buddhist breath-counting for lay practitioners.	Chinese	1914	meditation	unsure — likely on archive.org, unverified	no source found
4	Aurobindo, The Life Divine / The Synthesis of Yoga The evolutionary theory of consciousness — supermind, the psychic being, the planes — the largest modern Indian philosophy of mind.	Indian	1919	consciousness	Aurobindo, The Life Divine / The Synthesis of Yoga: serialised in Arya (1914–21), IA `arya` volumes unsure; book editions 1939–55 in copyright.	acquired · 332 pp hidden, not yet transcribed
4	Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah / The Training and Work of an Initiate Dion Fortune's Tree-of-Life meditation system and her description of esoteric training.	Theosophical & Modern Esoteric	1930	meditation	PD in UK/EU only (d. 1946); US editions in copyright. Internet Archive lending copies only (unsure).	acquired · 346 pp hidden, not yet transcribed