Articles
Subject page: Lost books
Lost Book of Elchasai behind patristic fragment witnesses
A Jewish-Christian prophetic book visible through hostile ancient witnesses.
Weak/ambiguous attestation · High warrant · Medium specificity · Medium reconstruction dependence · Source-backed
The lost Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus
A lost Jewish-Christian dialogue tradition visible through testimonia and fragment scholarship
Directly attested edge case · High warrant · High specificity · Medium reconstruction dependence · Source-backed
The vanished source corpus inside the Yongle Encyclopedia
A Codex-origin draft about works recoverable only through a mostly lost Ming compilation.
Low attestation · High warrant · Medium specificity · High reconstruction dependence · Source-backed
The Sasanian Book-of-Kings layer behind Khwaday-Namag
A Codex-origin draft about a lost historical transmission matrix, not a simply recoverable book.
Weak/ambiguous attestation · High warrant · Medium specificity · High reconstruction dependence · Source-backed
The lost Noachic writing behind Book of Noah traditions
A Codex-origin draft about a source layer inferred from Second Temple Noachic witnesses.
Weak/ambiguous attestation · High warrant · Medium specificity · Medium reconstruction dependence · Source-backed