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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

301–400

The Fourth Century

1 work

c. 366–384

Latin

The Epigrams

Damasus I · c. 305 – 384

Some sixty verse inscriptions composed by a bishop of Rome for the tombs of martyrs in the catacombs, cut in a purpose-designed letterform by the calligrapher Filocalus and set up where pilgrims would read them.

Western · InscriptionsRevelationActs2 TimothyRomansRead elsewhere