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| x On Sphere-Making |
On Sphere-Making is the title of a lost work by Archimedes, mentioned by Pappus of Alexandria. It is believed to have described the construction of orreries or astronomical clocks akin to the Antikythera mechanism.
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| x The Isle of Dogs |
The Isle of Dogs is a play by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson which was performed in 1597. It was immediately suppressed, and no copy of it is known to exist.
The play was performed, probably by Pembroke's Men, at the Swan Theatre in Bankside in July or...
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| x The Poor Man and the Lady | Destruction by author or creator |
The Poor Man and the Lady was the first novel written by Thomas Hardy. It was written in 1867 and never published. After the manuscript had been rejected by at least five publishers, Hardy gave up his attempts to sell the novel in its original form;...
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| x A Woman of the Sea |
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A Woman of the Sea, also known by its working title Sea Gulls, was an unreleased 1926 silent film produced by the Chaplin Film Company.
The now lost film starred Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Eve Southern and Charles French, and was directed by...
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| x Love's Labour's Won |
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Love's Labour's Won, alternatively written Love's labour's wonne, is the name of a play written by William Shakespeare before 1598. However, it is not known if this play has been lost, or if the title is an alternative name for a known play.
The...
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| x Symphony No. 4 |
The Symphony No. 4 in D major, K. 19, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in London during the Mozart familiy's Grand Tour of Europe in 1765, when Mozart was 9 years old.
Even though the original of Mozart's manuscript has not survived, the set...
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| x The Yellow Nightcap |
The Yellow Nightcap (ￅﾻￃﾳￅﾂta szlafmyca) is a lost 1841 opera by Polish composer Stanisￅﾂaw Moniuszko.
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| x Vase with Five Sunflowers |
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Fire | Aug 6, 1945 |
"Vase with Five Sunflowers" (Arles, August 1888) was an oil painting by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Unfortunately, this painting was destroyed by fire in Japan during WWII on 6 August 1945.
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| x Book of the Wars of the Lord |
The Book of the Wars of the Lord is one of several non-canonical books referenced in the Bible which has now been completely lost. It is mentioned in Numbers 21:14-15, which reads: "From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon,...
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| x Acts of Solomon |
The Acts of Solomon is a lost text that may have been written by the Biblical prophet Iddo, who was the author of other lost texts. The book is described in 1Kings 11:41. The passage reads: "And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did,...
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| x Chronicles of the Kings of Israel |
The book called the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel is one of the Lost books of the Old Testament. The book is described at 1Kings 14:19. The passage reads: "And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are...
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| x Chronicles of the Kings of Judah |
The book called the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah is one of the Lost books of the Old Testament. The book is described at 1Kings 14:29. The passage reads: "Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the...
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| x Book of the Kings of Israel |
The Book of the Kings of Israel is a non-canonical work described in 1Chronicles 9:1-2. The passage reads:
It is referenced again at 2Chronicles 20:34, which reads:
This name is sometimes written The Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
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| x Annals of King David |
The Annals of King David is a lost text that may have been written by the Biblical prophet Nathan, who was one of King David's contemporaries. The book is described in 1Chronicles 27:24. The passage reads: "Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men...
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| x Book of Samuel the Seer |
The Book of Samuel the Seer is a lost text that was probably written by the Biblical Judge/Prophet Samuel. The book is described at 1 Chronicles 29:29. The passage reads: "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in...
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| x Book of Nathan the Prophet |
The Book of Nathan the Prophet is a lost text that claims authorship by the Biblical prophet Nathan. It is described at 1Chronicles 29:29. The passage reads: "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of...
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| x Book of Gad the Seer |
The Book of Gad the Seer is a lost text that was probably written by the Biblical prophet Gad. It is described at 1 Chronicles 29:29. The passage reads: "Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel...
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| x History of Nathan the Prophet |
The History of Nathan the Prophet is one of the lost books of the Tanakh. It may have been written by the Biblical prophet Nathan, who may have been the author of other lost texts. The book is described in 2Chronicles 9:29. The passage reads: "Now...
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| x Prophecy of Ahijah |
The Prophecy of Ahijah is a lost text that may have been written by the Biblical prophet Ahijah. The book is described in 2Chronicles 9:29. The passage reads: "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of...
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| x Visions of Iddo the Seer |
The book called the Visions of Iddo the Seer is a lost text that was probably written by the Biblical Prophet Iddo, who lived at the time of Rehoboam. The book is described at 2Chronicles 9:29. The passage reads: "Now the rest of the acts of Solomon...
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| x Book of Shemaiah the Prophet |
The Book of Shemaiah the Prophet is one of the lost books of the Old Testament. It was probably written by the Biblical Prophet Shemaiah, who lived at the time of Rehoboam. The book is described at 2 Chronicles 12:15. The passage reads: "Now the...
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| x Iddo Genealogies |
The book called the Iddo Genealogies is one of the Lost books of the Old Testament. It was attributed to the Biblical Prophet Iddo, who is said to have lived at the time of Rehoboam. The book is described at 2Chronicles 12:15. The passage reads: ...
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| x Story of the Prophet Iddo |
The Story of the Prophet Iddo is a lost text that was probably written by the Biblical Prophet Iddo, who lived at the time of Rehoboam. The book is described at 2Chronicles 13:22. The passage reads: "And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways,...
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| x Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel |
The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel is one of the lost books of the Old Testament. The book is described at 2 Chronicles 16:11. The passage reads: "And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of...
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| x Book of Jehu |
The Book of Jehu is a lost text that may have been written by the Biblical prophet Jehu ben Hanani, who was one of King Baasha's contemporaries. The book is described in 2 Chronicles 20:34: "Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last,...
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| x Story of the Book of Kings |
The Story of the Book of Kings is one of the Lost books of the Old Testament. The book is described in 2Chronicles 24:27. The passage reads: "Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of...
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| x Acts of Uziah |
The Acts of Uziah is a lost text that may have been written by Isaiah, who was one of King Uzziah's contemporaries. The book is described in 2Chronicles 26:22. The passage reads: "Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the...
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| x Acts of the Kings of Israel |
The Acts of the Kings of Israel is a non-canonical work described in 2Chronicles 33:18. The passage reads: "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God...
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| x Sayings of the Seers |
The Sayings of the Seers, (or Sayings of Hozai, in the Masoretic Text), is a lost text referred to in 2Chronicles 33:19. The passage reads:
"His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein...
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| x Laments for Josiah |
Laments for Josiah is the term used in reference to 2Chronicles 35:25. The passage reads: "And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance...
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| x Epistle to Corinth | ||||
| x Earlier Epistle to the Ephesians | ||||
| x Epistle from Laodicea to the Colossians | ||||
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| x Gospel of Judas |
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The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic gospel purported to document conversations between the apostle Judas Iscariot and Jesus Christ. The document is not claimed to have been written by Judas himself, but rather by Gnostic followers of Jesus. It exists...
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| x Gospel of Mani |
The Gospel of Mani (Evangelion, Greek: Ευαγγελιον, meaning roughly "good news") is a gospel written by Mani, and thus part of the New Testament apocrypha, as well as one of the seven sacred books of the Manichaeans. Mani aimed at a synthesis of the...
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| x Gospel of Matthias |
The Gospel of Matthias is a lost text from the New Testament apocrypha, ascribed to Matthias, the apostle chosen by lots to replace Judas Iscariot (Acts 1:15-26). The content has been surmised from various descriptions of it in ancient works by...
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| x Gospel of Perfection |
The Gospel of Perfection is a currently lost text from the New Testament apocrypha. The text is mentioned in ancient anti-heretical works by the church fathers. It is thought to be a gnostic text, and may in fact be the same as the Gospel of Eve.
In...
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| x Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms |
The Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms is a currently lost text from the New Testament apocrypha.
The content has been surmised from various descriptions of it in ancient works by church fathers. It is thought to be a gnostic text, in which aspects...
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| x Gospel of the Hebrews |
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The Gospel of the Hebrews (see "About titles" below) is a lost gospel preserved only in a few quotations of the Church Fathers. It was written in Aramaic, and was the most widely known of the non canonical gospels. The Gospel of the Hebrews was the...
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| x Gospel of the Seventy |
The Gospel of the Seventy is a currently lost text from the New Testament apocrypha. The title of the text refers to the number of disciples of Jesus after His resurrection, often thought elsewhere to be 72 (a number reflecting the number of...
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| x Gospel of the Twelve |
The Gospel of the Twelve is a currently almost entirely lost text from the New Testament apocrypha. It has been mentioned as existing by various church fathers including Ambrose, Jerome, and Origen. The only surviving fragments that are explicitly...
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| x Memoria Apostolorum |
Memoria Apostolorum, which means (in) memory of the apostles, is one of the lost texts from the New Testament apocrypha.
Given the name, it may be one of the texts which are already known, and for which we have some of the content, such as the...
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| x Secret Gospel of Mark |
The Secret Gospel of Mark refers to a non-canonical gospel which is the subject of the Mar Saba letter, a previously unknown letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria which Morton Smith claimed to have found transcribed into the endpapers of a 17th...
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| x Gospel of Eve |
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The Gospel of Eve is a currently almost entirely lost text from the New Testament apocrypha, which may be the same as the also lost Gospel of Perfection. It is not part of the canonical Bible.
The only known content from it are a few quotations by...
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| x Telecrime | Wiping |
Telecrime was a British drama series that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1938 to 1939 and in 1946. One of the first multi-episode drama series ever made, it is also one of the first television dramas written especially for television not...
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| x Pinwright's Progress | Wiping |
Pinwright's Progress was a British sitcom that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1946 to 1947. Produced in black-and-white, it was the world's first regular half-hour sitcom. The ten episodes, aired fortnightly in alteration with Kaleidoscope...
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| x The Quatermass Experiment |
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The Quatermass Experiment is a British science-fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television in the summer of 1953 and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005. Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, it tells the story of the...
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| x Abigail And Roger | Wiping |
Abigail and Roger was a British sitcom that aired on the BBC Television Service in 1956. It was written by Kelvin Sheldon. Filmed in black-and-white, all nine episodes of Abigail and Roger are thought to have been destroyed.
The programme saw Julie...
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| x The Airbase | Wiping |
The Airbase is a black-and-white British sitcom that on BBC2 in 1965. It was written by John Briley.
The American writer John Briley wrote this sitcom from his own experiences as a soldier stationed in England. The lead character is Sqdn-Ldr...
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| x As Good Cooks Go | Wiping |
As Good Cooks Go is a black-and-white British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1969 to 1970. It stars Tessie O'Shea and was written by John Warren and John Singer.
Blodwen O'Reilly is a cook who works in many different establishments. She turns a...
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| x The Dark Island | Wiping |
The Dark Island is a six part British television miniseries, produced by Gerard Glaister for the BBC. It premiered on July 8, 1962. It was later adapted for radio, which was transmitted in 1969. It was set on the Outer Hebridean island of Benbecula,...
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| x The Gnomes of Dulwich | Wiping |
The Gnomes of Dulwich is a United Kingdom television sit-com originally shown in six episodes from 12 May 1969 to 16 June 1969. Written by Jimmy Perry, the show starred Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, John Clive, Leon Thau, Anne de Vigier and Lynn Dalby as...
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| x Hugh and I Spy | Wiping |
Hugh and I Spy was a black-and-white British sitcom that aired in 1968. It was the sequel of the long running and successful Hugh and I. All the episodes are thought to have been lost after the master tapes were wiped in the 1970s. Hugh and I Spy...
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| x For Richer...For Poorer | Wiping |
For Richer...For Poorer was a 1975 BBC television pilot starring Harry H Corbett as Bert, a union shop-steward who worships Stalin and has dreams of becoming a major politician.
Part of a Comedy Playhouse season, this one-off was broadcast on BBC1,...
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| x Hereward the Wake | Wiping |
Hereward the Wake (c. 1035 – 1072), known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon leader involved in resistance to the Norman conquest of England. According to legend, Hereward's base was in the...
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| x His Lordship Entertains |
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His Lordship Entertains was Ronnie Barker's second sitcom vehicle for his Lord Rustless character, first seen three years earlier in Hark at Barker on ITV. This time though, Rustless had switched channels and was now appearing on BBC2. Hark at...
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| x 199 Park Lane | Wiping |
199 Park Lane is a British television soap opera produced by the BBC in 1965.
The series was a consciously upper-class affair, based around the residents of an exclusive block of apartments in London, and dealt with the intrigues of the Chelsea...
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| x Snap Judgment | Wiping |
Snap Judgment was an American daytime game show airing on NBC from April 11, 1967 to March 28, 1969. The program was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Ed McMahon was host, with Gene Rayburn as an occasional substitute.
The original program...
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