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Work	License	Credit	Source
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons	Commons
A Warning	Public domain	Twelve	Commons
Amduat	CC BY-SA 3.0	Ignati	Commons
An Essay on the Principle of Population	Public domain	Malthus, Thomas Robert	Commons
Anti-Machiavel	Public domain	Frederick the Great	Commons
Beowulf	Public domain	anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet	Commons
Book of Caverns	Public domain	Unknown authorUnknown author	Commons
Book of Dede Korkut	Public domain	Unknown authorUnknown author	Commons
Book of the Dead	Public domain	n·e·r·g·a·l	Commons
Book of the Earth	Public domain	Unknown authorUnknown author	Commons
Book of the Netherworld	CC BY-SA 4.0	EditorfromMars	Commons
Cantar de Mio Cid	Public domain	Per Abbat (copista)	Commons
Coffin Texts	CC BY-SA 3.0	anonymous	Commons
Common Sense (pamphlet)	Public domain	Scanned by uploader, originally by Thomas Paine.	Commons
Corpus Hermeticum	Public domain	Marsilio Ficino	Commons
Democracy	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons	Commons
Dream of the Red Chamber	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons	Commons
Dresden Codex	Public domain	circa 1200date QS:P,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902	Commons
Elizabeth and Her German Garden	Public domain	Alexander Duncker	Commons
Fantasmagoriana	Public domain	Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès; F. Schoell (publishers)	Commons
Frankenstein	Public domain	Mary Shelley	Commons
Gesta Hungarorum	Public domain	AnonymousUnknown author	Commons
Hurrian hymn to Nikkal	Public domain	Unknown authorUnknown author	Commons
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons	Commons
I Ching	Public domain	Song era print artist	Commons
Instructions of Shuruppak	CC0	Daderot	Commons
Josefine Mutzenbacher	Public domain	Felix Salten (presumed)	Commons
Key of Solomon	Public domain	From Key of Solomon, a grimoire (textbook of magic) incorrectly attributed to King Solomon	Commons
La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons	Commons
Lament for Ur	CC BY-SA 3.0 fr	Rama	Commons
Lazarillo de Tormes	Public domain	Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (Possibly)	Commons
Litany of Re	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons	Commons
Musica enchiriadis	Public domain	No machine-readable author provided. Zman~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).	Commons
Pyramid Texts	CC BY-SA 2.0	Aidan McRae Thomson	Commons
Remarks on Cruelty to Animals	Public domain	Unknown authorUnknown author	Commons
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Public domain	"Gawayin Poet", late 14th century	Commons
Tales of the Dead	Public domain	Sarah Elizabeth Utterson	Commons
Tamerlane and Other Poems	Public domain	Edgar Allan Poe	Commons
The Autobiography of a Flea	Public domain	The Erotica Biblion Society of London and New York	Commons
The Book of Gates	Public domain	Unknown authorUnknown author	Commons
The Second Shepherds' Play	CC BY-SA 3.0	Judith Elbourne	Commons
The Secret History of the Mongols	Public domain	unknown/Ye Dehui(?)	Commons
The String of Pearls	Public domain	Library	Commons
The Way of a Pilgrim	Public domain	Неизвестен	Commons
Theophrastus redivivus	Public domain	AnonymousUnknown author	Commons
Under the Greenwood Tree	Public domain	Hardy/Tinsley	Commons
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation	Public domain	Unknown authorUnknown author	Commons
Voynich manuscript	Public domain	Unknown authorUnknown author	Commons

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