The Book of Lore

The Book of Lore comes with Ultima V. It is 54 pages long. In-game, many sources are the authors of the book, and it is often mentioned in-game. In real-life, Richard Garriott, Mark Hamner, Paul Isaac, Stuart Marks, Steve Meuse, John Miles, Toshi Morita, Chris Roberts and Dallas Snell have written the book.

The following topics are part of the book:
 * History of Britannia
 * Terrain
 * Government
 * Shops
 * Travelling guide
 * The classes
 * Transportation
 * Cosmology
 * Runescript
 * Music
 * Combat
 * Weapons and armour
 * Bestiary
 * The Eight Virtues
 * Magic and all its topics
 * Ethics of Blackthorn

Since no one author has "written" the Book of Lore, it reads very much like a real guide for Britannia, which is very good work by the writers. Also it is one of the most versatile of the books, with many topics of different nature. Also, a lot of its topics were never heard of again.

The book is available as a pdf-file. Find it here: The Book