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A lost work is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia produced some time in the past, of which no surviving copies are known to exist. It can only be known through reference. This term most commonly applies to works from the classical world, although it is increasingly used in relation to modern works. A work may be lost to history through the destruction of an original manuscript and all later copies.
  • Specific titles 

  • Unnamed works 

  • Amerindian texts and codices 

  • Ancient Chinese texts 

  • Ancient Indian texts 

  • Ancient Egyptian texts 

  • Gnostic texts 

  • Pahlavi/Middle-Persian texts 

  • Manichaean texts 

  • Lost Biblical texts 

  • Lost texts referenced in the Old Testament 

  • Lost works referenced in Deutero-canonical texts 

  • Lost works referenced in the New Testament 

  • Lost works pertaining to Jesus 

  • 2nd century 

  • 3rd century 

  • 5th century 

  • 6th century 

  • 7th century 

  • Anglo-Saxon works 

  • 12th century 

  • 14th century 

  • 15th century 

  • 16th century 

  • 17th century 

  • 18th century 

  • 19th century 

  • 20th century 

  • Lost literary collections 

  • Rediscovered works 

  • Lost works in popular culture