Works like One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights is still unknown and belongs to Before 1700. These works share its status, era, or form, ranked by how much they share.

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Amduat
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An ancient Egyptian netherworld book describing the sun god's journey through the twelve hours of night. Like all Egyptian funerary literature, it names no author.
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Book of Caverns
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An ancient Egyptian netherworld book depicting the sun god's passage over six caverns of the underworld. No author is recorded in the tradition.
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Book of the Dead
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The ancient Egyptian collection of funerary spells guiding the dead through the afterlife. Tradition associates such texts with the god Thoth; no historical author exists in the record.
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Book of the Earth
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An ancient Egyptian funerary composition showing the sun's night journey through the earth god Aker. Anonymous, like all Egyptian netherworld books.
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Book of the Heavens
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A group of New Kingdom compositions charting the sun's passage across the sky and through the body of the sky goddess Nut. No author is recorded.
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Book of the Netherworld
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The family of ancient Egyptian compositions describing the underworld's geography and the sun's night journey. All are anonymous products of priestly tradition.
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Chilam Balam
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The Yucatec Maya books of prophecy, history, and medicine, compiled by unnamed town scribes and attributed by tradition to the priest Chilam Balam.
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Coffin Texts
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The Middle Kingdom corpus of Egyptian funerary spells painted on coffins, ancestor of the Book of the Dead. Composed anonymously within priestly tradition.
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Corpus Hermeticum
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Greek wisdom dialogues from Roman Egypt, pseudepigraphically attributed to the legendary Hermes Trismegistus. Their actual authors are unknown.
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De Dubiis Nominibus
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An early medieval Latin grammatical treatise on nouns of doubtful gender, compiled by an unnamed grammarian.
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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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Heian court diaries by Japanese noblewomen, transmitted in a tradition where several diarists' personal names were never recorded.
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Dresden Codex
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The finest surviving pre-Columbian Maya manuscript, an astronomical and ritual almanac painted by unnamed scribes around the eleventh to thirteenth century.

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