The works of the Church Fathers, Clement of Alexandria and Origen.
The Pseudo-Dionysius, translated from the Greek by Erigena.
The encyclopedic collections of some of the last of the scholars of antiquity, like Cassiodorus, Capella, Boëthius, and the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville.
3. The Books most influential philosophically upon the time. These were not necessarily the books most widely read, but the epoch-making books, so to speak. They were as follows:—
Augustine, City of God.
Boëthius, Consolation of Philosophy.
Aristotle, De Interpretatione and the Categories in translation by Boëthius.
Pseudo-Dionysius, translated by Erigena.
Porphyry, Isagoge translated by Boëthius, an introduction to Aristotle’s Categories.
The Three Periods of the Middle Ages.