List of encyclopedias by date

5th century

• Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, introduced the division in seven liberal arts

6th century

• Cassiodorus' Institutiones (full title: Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum), AD 560; first Christian encyclopedia

7th century

• Yiwen Leiju (622), Tang dynasty, Chinese
• St. Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, AD 636; Christian encyclopedia, most influential encyclopedia of the early Middle Ages
• Fa yüan chu lin, AD 668, a Buddhist encyclopedia of 100 volumes, compiled by Tao-shih

8th century

• Venerable Beda, De natura rerum

9th century

• Adab al-katib (The book of knowledge) by Ibn Qutayba (828–889); the earliest Arabic work that could be called an encyclopedia
• Bibliotheke by Patriarch Photius (9th century), the earliest Byzantine work that could be called an encyclopedia
• Hrabanus Maurus, 842. De rerum naturis (On the nature of things), derived from Isidore's text
• De Administrando Imperio, a domestic and foreign policy manual by emperor Constantine VII

10th century

• Suda (10th century)
• Four Great Books of Song (Song Sida Shu) (10th to 11th century), Song dynasty, Chinese
• Wamyō Ruijushō

11th century

• De omnifaria doctrina, by Michael Psellos
• Speculum universale, by Radulfus Ardens

12th century

• De diversis artibus, compiled 1100-1120 by Theophilus Presbyter
• Liber Floridus, compiled in 1120 by Lambert of St. Omer
• Imago mundi, treaty of cosmography and history by Honorius Augustodunensis, about 1110
• Didascalicon, by Hugues de Saint-Victor (1096-1141), proposal of a new classification of sciences and a new method of lecture of the Bible
• Hortus deliciarum, written by Herrade of Landsberg, the first woman to write an encyclopedia, between 1159 and 1175

13th century

• Otia Imperialia by Gervase of Tilbury, 1214
• Guillaume d'Auvergne, De universo creaturarum, 1231.
• Gautier de Metz L’Image du monde, 1246, in Lorrain dialect, based on Honorius Augustodunensis
• Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, 1240; the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the late-medieval period.
• Thomas of Cantimpré, Liber de natura rerum, 1256.
• Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Majus, 1260, the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period, with over 3 million words
• Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor, in French

14th century

• Al-Nuwayri, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (1314–33)
• Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (c.1344)
• Conrad of Megenberg, Buch der Natur (c.1349)
• James le Palmer, Omne Bonum
• Moses ben Judah (or Moses Nagari), Love in Delights (Ahavah ba-Ta'anugim, 1353–56)

15th century

• Ming Dynasty Chinese, Yongle Encyclopedia, 1403–08
• Domenico Bandini of Arezzo, Fons memorabilium universi, early 15th century
• Werner Rolevinck, Fasciculus temporum, 1474
• Alfonso de la Torre, Visio delectable, c.1484
• Jacob Meydenbach, Hortus Sanitatis, 1491

16th century

• Giorgio Valla, De expetendis et fugiendis rebus, 1501
• Domenico Nani Mirabelli, Polyanthea nova, 1503
• Gregor Reisch, Margarita philosophica, 1503
• Johannes Aventinus, Encyclopedia orbisque doctrinarum, hoc est omnium artium, scientiarum, ipsius philosophiae index ac divisio, 1517
• Juan Luis Vives, De disciplinis libri XX, 1531
• Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh, Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia (Basel), 1541
• Conrad Gessner, Historia animalium (Gessner), 1551–58, 1587.
• Charles Estienne, Dictionarium historicum, geographicum et poeticum, 1553.
• Pal Skalic, philosopher born in Zagreb, first to use the term encyclopedia in the current sense.Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum tam sacrarum quam profanarum epistemon, 1559 (Basel, Switzerland), 1571 (Köln, Germany)
• Theodor Zwinger (1533–1588), Theatrum Vitae Humanae, 1588
• Bernardino de Sahagún: La Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España, 1545-1590
• Antonio Possevino, Bibliotheca selecta, 1593
• Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica) (1596), Ming dynasty, Chinese

17th century

American encyclopedias

• Dobson's Encyclopædia (1789–1798; largely a reprint of the Britannica's 3rd edition)

British encyclopedias

• The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary by Jeremy Collier (1701)
• An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (1703)
• Lexicon Technicum (1704)
• Chambers's Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728)
• An Universal History of Arts and Sciences by Dennis de Coetlogon (1745)
• Encyclopædia Britannica (1768, editions 2 and 3 by 1797)
• Chemical Dictionary by William Nicholson (1795)
• Encyclopædia Perthensis (1796–1806, ed 2 by 1816)

Chinese encyclopedias

• Gujin Tushu Jicheng (1725–26), Qing dynasty
• Siku Quanshu (1782), Qing dynasty

French encyclopedias

• Dictionnaire de Trévoux (1704–1771)
• Encyclopédie, by Diderot and D'Alembert (1751–1772)
• Descriptions des Arts et Métiers (1761–1788)
• Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines, Yverdon, (1770–1780)
• Encyclopédie Méthodique by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1782–1832)

German encyclopedias

• Reales Staats- und Zeitungs-Lexicon by Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz (1704)
• Curieuses Natur- Kunst- Gewerk- und Handlungs-Lexicon by Paul Jacob Marperger (1712)
• Allgemeines lexikon der Künste und Wißenschaften by Johann Theodor Jablonski (1721)
• Musicalisches Lexicon by Johann Gottfried Walther (1732)
• Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon by Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (1733–1751)
• Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon by Johann Heinrich Zedler (1751–1754)
• Oekonomische Encyklopädie by Johann Georg Krünitz (1773–1858)
• Deutschen Encyclopädie (1788)
• Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonküstler by Ernst Ludwig Gerber (1790–1792)
• Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten (1796–1808; see Brockhaus)

Italian encyclopedias

• Vincenzo Coronelli Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana (1701–1707)
• Gianfrancesco Pivati Nuovo dizionario scientifico e curioso, sacroprofano (1746–1751)
• Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Idea dell'Universo (1778–1792)

Japanese encyclopedias

• Wakan Sansai Zue (1712)

Polish encyclopedias

• Nowe Ateny (1745)
• Zbiór potrzebniejszych wiadomości (1781)

American encyclopedias

• Minor Encyclopedia (1803), edited by Thaddeus M. Harris, copies much of Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia
• Domestic Encyclopedia (1803–1804), first American edition, expanded to 5 volumes (4 in the British); second American edition 1821
• Low's Encyclopaedia (1805–1811), the first true American encyclopedia
• Encyclopaedia Americana (1829–1833), 13 volumes, editor Francis Lieber.
• New American Cyclopaedia (1857–1863), 16 volumes, editors George Ripley and Charles A. Dana
• American Cyclopaedia (1873–1876), the retitled New American Cyclopaedia
• Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia (1876–1878), 4 volumes; editors Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard and Arnold Henry Guyot
• Cyclopedia of Universal History (1880–1884), world history
• Ridpath's Universal History (1895), world history
• Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia (1893–1897), the retitled Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, edited by Charles Kendall Adams.
• Alden's Library of Universal Knowledge (1879), a reprint of Chambers's Encyclopaedia with American additions
• International Cyclopaedia (1884), initially largely a reprint of Alden's Library of Universal Knowledge, but later editions were improved by editors Harry Thurston Peck, Selim Peabody, Frank Moore Colby, and Daniel Coit Gilman
• People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1881), 3 volumes, 700 pages each,^[1] editor W. H. De Puy. Contains much from Chambers's Encyclopaedia. The 1898 title was The New People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge.

Arabic encyclopedias

• Al-Muhit al Muhit ("The ocean of oceans"), Butrus al-Bustani (1867)

British encyclopedias

• Encyclopaedia Londinensis (1801)
• English Encyclopaedia (1802)
• Domestic Encyclopedia (1802)
• Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia (1802, second edition 1811)
• Rees's Cyclopædia (1802–1819)
• Encyclopædia Perthensis (Perth, Scotland, 1803;1816)
• Encyclopædia Britannica (ed 4, 1810; ed 9 by 1889)
• Edinburgh Encyclopædia (1808–1830)
• British Encyclopaedia (1809)
• Encyclopædia Edinensis (1816)
• Pantologia (1813)
• Encyclopædia Metropolitana (1822–1845)
• Penny Cyclopaedia (1833–1846)
• English Cyclopaedia (1854–1862, supp. 1869–1873)
• Chambers's Encyclopaedia (1860; no relation to Chambers's Cyclopaedia of the 18th century)
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870)
• Dictionary of Political Economy (1894–1899), by Inglis Palgrave
• Pears Cyclopaedia (1897), originally named Pears' Shilling Cyclopaedia
• The People's Select Cyclopedia (1897), by Charles Nisbett
• Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)

Czech encyclopedias

• Riegrův slovník naučný (11 volumes, 1860–1874; supplement vol. 1890)
• Otto's encyclopedia (28 volumes, 1888–1909)

Danish encyclopedias

• Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (19 volumes, 1893–1911)

Dutch encyclopedias

• Winkler Prins Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie (1870–1882; 2nd ed. 1884–1888)

French encyclopedias

• Dictionnaires généraux, universels, encyclopédiques, et autres… - a bibliography of French encyclopedias up to Larousse
• Encyclopédie Méthodique (Panckoucke), (1782–1832)
• Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, François-Joseph Fétis (1835–1844)
• Encyclopédie nouvelle (Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud) (1839–1840)
• Petite Encyclopédie du jeune âge, Larousse (1853)
• Nouvelle Biographie Générale, Ferdinand Hoefer (1853–1866)
• Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle by Pierre Larousse (17 volumes 1866–1877), really an encyclopedia despite its name
• Dictionnaire de chimie pure et appliquée, Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1874–1878)
• Dictionnaire de botanique, Henri Ernest Baillon (1876–1892)
• La Grande Encyclopédie, general secretaries of the editorial board: Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus and André Berthelot (31 volumes 1886–1902)

German encyclopedias

• Oekonomische Encyklopädie (General System of State, City, Home and Agriculture), Editor Johann Georg Krünitz (242 Volumes 1773–1858)
• Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse, G. F. W. Hegel (1817)
• Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste (Ersch–Gruber; 1818–1889, uncompleted)
• Brockhaus (eds. 1–14 by 1900)
• Pierers Universal-Lexikon (1824–1836; 7th ed. 1888–1893)
• Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, "Pauly–Wissowa" (1839–1852, 2nd ed. 1890–1980)
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1839–1855; 5th ed. 1893–1897)
• Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, Johann Jakob Herzog (1853–1868)
• Herders Konversations-Lexikon (1854–1857; 2nd ed. 1875–1879)
• Handbuch der Organischen Chemie, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1880–1882)
• Lexikon der gesamten Technik, Otto Lueger (1st Edition 1894–1899)
• Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Felix Klein (1898–1933)

Hungarian encyclopedias

• Egyetemes magyar encyclopaedia (1859–1876) (→ hu)
• A Pallas Nagy Lexikona (1893–1897)

Japanese encyclopedias

• Koji Ruien (1896–1914)

Polish encyclopedias

• Encyklopedia Powszechna or Encyklopedia Orgelbranda (1st Edition, 28 volumes, 1859–1868)
• Encyyklopedia Kościelna (33 volumes, 1873–1933)

Romanian encyclopedias

• Enciclopedia română (Editor: Constantin Diaconovich, 3 volumes, 1896–1904)

Russian encyclopedias

• Plyushar's Encyclopedic Lexicon (17 volumes, 1834–1841)
• Military Encyclopedic Lexicon (15 volumes, 1837–1852)
• Starchevsky's Spravochny entsiklopedichesky slovar (12 volumes, 1847–1855)
• Encyclopedia of Military and Marine Sciences (8 volumes, 1883–1897)
• Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (86 volumes, 1890–1906)
• Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary (9 volumes, 1891–1903)

Spanish encyclopedias

• Enciclopedia moderna (1851), Francisco de P. Mellado
• Diccionario geográfico, estadístico, histórico, de la isla de Cuba (1863–1866)

Swedish encyclopedias

• Conversations-lexicon (4 volumes, 1821–1826), a translation of Brockhaus 2nd edition
• Svenskt konversationslexikon (4 volumes, 1845–1851), by Per Gustaf Berg
• Nordisk familjebok (20 volumes, 1876–1899; 2nd ed. 1904–1926)

Turkish encyclopedias

• Kamus-ül-Ulûm ve’l-Maarif Editor Ali Suavi,1870
• Lûgaat-i Tarihiye ve Coğrafiye Editor Ahmet Rıfat Efendi, 1881 (7 volumes)
• Sicil-i Osmani Editor Mehmet Süreyya Bey, 1890
• Kamus-ül-Alam Editor » : Şemsettin Sami, 1899 (6 volumes)^[2]

Religious encyclopedias

• The Coptic Encyclopedia (1993)
• Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906)
• Encyclopaedia Judaica
• Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
• Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1914; public domain since 2004)
• St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India (1973,82,2010)
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992)
• Orthodox Encyclopedia (Serbe)
• Encyclopaedia of Islam
• Hastings, James: Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (1908–1926)
• Unitarian-Universalist Encyclopedia^[3]

Specialist encyclopedias

• The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopaedia (1836/1837; 2nd ed. 1849; often cited as Hebert's Encyclopaedia)
• Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures (1852; often cited as Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia)
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1842)
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
• Cyclopaedia of Political Science - Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers] (1881–1899), John J. Lalor
• The Cyclopedia of New Zealand (1897–1908, mainly self-published)