English Language Collections

Here begynneth a lytell treatyse called Ars moriendi  ●  1497

Alcock, John, 1430-1500.  ●  Gallicantus Iohannis alcok epi Eliensis ad co[n]fratres suos curatos in sinodo apud Bernwell  ●  1498

Alcock, John, 1430-1500.  ●  In die Innocencium sermo pro episcopo puerorum  ●  1498

Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364.  ●  The descrypcyon of Englonde Here foloweth a lytell treatyse the whiche treateth of the descrypcyon of this londe which of olde tyme was named Albyon and after Brytayne and now is called Englonde and speketh of the noblesse and worthynesse of the same  ●  1498

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, attributed name.  ●  Hrre [sic] folowyth the interpretac[i]on of the names of goddis and goddesses of this treatyse folowynge as poetes wryte  ●  1498

Orden de Santiago.  ●  In dei nomine amen nouerint vniversi cristifideles qualiter santissimi dominus felicis re  ●  1498

The Doctrynalle of dethe  ●  1498

Mandeville, John, Sir.  ●  Here begynneth a lytell treatyse or booke named Johan Mau[n]deuyll knyght born in Englonde in the towne of saynt Albone [and] speketh of the wayes of the holy londe towarde Jherusalem, [and] of marueyles of Ynde [and] of other dyuerse cou[n]trees.  ●  1499

Peter, of Blois, ca. 1135-ca. 1212.  ●  Here begynnethe a lytyll treatyse whiche is called the .xii. profytes of trybulacyon  ●  1499

Skelton, John, 1460?-1529.  ●  Here begynneth a lytell treatyse named the bowge of courte  ●  1499

Stanbridge, John, 1463-1510, attributed name.  ●  Accedence  ●  1499

Winter, Simon, d. 1448.  ●  The fyrst chapitre is the lyf of saint ierom as it is take of legenda aurea The seconde is of his lyf also as saint austyn wryteth in hys pystill The thyrd is how saint Jerome apperid to sai[nt] Austin in grete ioye ...  ●  1499

The rote or myrour of consolacyon [and] conforte  ●  1499

Betson, Thomas.  ●  Here begynneth a ryght profytable treatyse co[m]pendiously drawen out of many [and] dyuers wrytynges of holy men, to dyspose men to be vertuously occupyed in theyr myndes [and] prayers  ●  1500

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.  ●  The loue and complayntes bytwene Mars and Venus  ●  1500

England.  ●  Anno xi henrici vij Statuta bonu[m] publicum concerne[n]tia edita in parliamento tento apud westmonesterium xiiij die Octobris anno regni illustrissimi Domini nostri regis Henrici septimi.  ●  1500

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, attributed name.  ●  Here endeth a lytyll tratyse named Le assemble de dyeus  ●  1500

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, attributed name.  ●  Here foloweth the interpretacoin [sic] of the names of goddes and goddesses as is reherced in this tretyse folowynge as poetes wryte  ●  1500

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, attributed name.  ●  [Verses on the seven virtues]  ●  1500

Raymond, of Capua, 1330-1399.  ●  Here begynneth the lyf of saint katherin of senis the blessid virgin  ●  1500

[A little gest of Robin Hood]  ●  1500

Kempe, Margery, b. ca. 1373.  ●  Here begynneth a shorte treatyse of contemplacyon taught by our lorde Jhesu cryste, or taken out of the boke of Margerie kempe of lyn[n].  ●  1501

Chertsey, Andrew, attributed name.  ●  Here foloweth a notable treatyse and full necessary to an crysten men for to knowe and it is named the Ordynarye of crystyanyte or of crysten men  ●  1502

Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364. Polycronicon. English. Selections.  ●  Tabula  ●  1502

Arnold, Richard, d. 1521?  ●  In this booke is conteyned the names of ye baylifs custos mairs and sherefs of the cite of londo[n] from the tyme of king richard the furst ...  ●  1503

Mandeville, John, Sir.  ●  Than is there an other yle ye men call Dodye  ●  1503

England and Wales. Sovereign (1485-1509 : Henry VII).  ●  Henricus dei gr̃a Rex Angile [sic] et Francie et dominus Hybernie, Uic. Norff. Suff. salute precipimus vobis tirnuter iniũgentes ...  ●  1504

England and Wales. Sovereign (1485-1509 : Henry VII).  ●  Henricus dei gratia Rex Anglie et Francie dñs Hybernie Uic. Norff. Suff.  ●  1504

Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523?  ●  Here begynneth the boke called the example of vertu  ●  1504

Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552  ●  The castell of laboure  ●  1505

Gringore, Pierre, ca. 1475-1538?  ●  The castell of laboure  ●  1506

Jacobus, de Gruytrode, d. 1472?.  ●  The mirroure of golde for the synfull soule  ●  1506

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?  ●  Here begynneth the temple of glas  ●  1506

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, Medicina stomachi.  ●  Here begynneth a lytell treatyse called the gouernall of helthe with ye medecyne of ye stomacke  ●  1506

Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349, attributed name.  ●  Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.  ●  1506

Natura breuiu[m]  ●  1506

Anon., ca. 1507  ●  The jousts of May and June  ●  1507

Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?  ●  [The tua mariit wemen and the wedo. And other poems]  ●  1507

Hilton, Walter, d. 1396.  ●  Scala perfectionis  ●  1507

Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of, d. 1545, attrib. name.  ●  Here begynneth the Iustes of the moneth of Maye parfurnysshed [and] done by Charles brandon. Thomas knyuet. Gyles Capell, [and] Wyllyam Huffy. The .xxii. yere of the reygne of our souerayne lorde kynge Henry the seuenth.  ●  1507

Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano.  ●  Will[e]mus permissione diuina Ca[n]tuarien[sis] Archiepiscopus toci[us] Anglie primas [et] apostolice sedis legatus [Et] Robertus permissio[n]e diuina Meneuen[sis] e[m]p[t]us in regno et hominijs Anglie s[an]ctissimi domini nostri Julij eiusde[m] nominis Pape secu[n]di ad hec co[m]missarij generales tibi.  ●  1508

Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?  ●  Here begynns ane litil tretie intitulit the goldyn targe compilit be Maister Wilyam dunbar  ●  1508

Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?  ●  The ballade of ane right noble victorius myghty lord Barnard Stewart lord of Aubigny erle of Beaumont ... be Maistir Willyam Dunbar ....  ●  1508

Dunbar, William, 1460?-1520?  ●  [The flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy]  ●  1508

Hendred, William, 1470-1520  ●  The pylgrymage of man  ●  1508

Henley, Walter de.  ●  Boke of husbandry  ●  1508

Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?  ●  Heire begynnis the traitie of Orpheus kyng and how he yeid to hewyn: to hel to seik his quene and ane othir ballad in the lattir end.  ●  1508

Holte, John, grammarian.  ●  Lac puero[rum]. M. holti mylke for chyldren  ●  1508

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?  ●  Here begynns the mayng or disport of chaucer  ●  1508

Mirk, John, fl. 1403?  ●  The festyuall  ●  1508

Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349, attributed name. aut  ●  [The remedy against the troubles of temptations]  ●  1508

Anon., ca. 1507  ●  The fyftene ioyes of maryage  ●  1509

Anon., ca. 1509  ●  Yᵉ lyf of Saynt Ursula  ●  1509

Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552  ●  The shyppe of fooles  ●  1509

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521.  ●  The shyppe of fooles  ●  1509

England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII)  ●  These be the articles folovvynge the vvhiche the kynges grace hathe pardoned  ●  1509

Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.  ●  Here after foloweth a mornynge remembrau[n]ce had at the moneth mynde of the noble prynces Margarete countesse of Rychemonde [et] Darbye moder vnto kynge Henry the. vii. [et] grandame to oure souerayne lorde that nowe is, vppon whose soule almyghty god haue mercy  ●  1509

Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.  ●  This sermon folowynge was compyled [and] sayd in the cathedrall chyrche of saynt Poule within ye cyte of London by the ryght reuerende fader in god Iohn̄ bysshop of Rochester, the body beyinge present of the moost famouse prynce kynge Henry the. vij. the. x. day of Maye, the yere of our lorde god. M.CCCCC.ix. whiche sermon was enprynted at the specyall request of ye ryght excellent pryncesse Margarete moder vnto the sayd noble prynce and Countesse of Rychemonde and Derby  ●  1509

Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523?  ●  A ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght  ●  1509

Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523?  ●  A joyfull medytacyon to all Englonde  ●  1509

Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523?  ●  The co[n]uercyon of swerers  ●  1509

Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523?  ●  The cōuercyon of swerers  ●  1509

Joannes Jacobi, d. 1384. Régime de l'épidémie.  ●  Here begynneth a treatyse agaynst pestele[n]ce [and] of ye infirmits  ●  1509

La Sale, Antoine de, b. 1388?  ●  The fyftene joyes of maryage  ●  1509

Skelton, John, 1460?-1529, attributed name.  ●  [Elegy on the death of Henry VII]  ●  1509

Longe paruula  ●  1509

Anon., ca. 1510  ●  Cocke lorelles bote  ●  1510

Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523?  ●  The example of vertu  ●  1510

Hospital of St. Katherine (Lincoln, England)  ●  [Indulgence in favor of this hospital.]  ●  1510

Jean, d'Arras, 14th cent.  ●  [Melusine a tale of the serpent fairy]  ●  1510

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?  ●  The courte of sapyence  ●  1510

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?  ●  The p[ro]uerbes of Lydgate  ●  1510

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, attributed name.  ●  Here begynneth a treatyse of a galau[n]t  ●  1510

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, attributed name.  ●  The lamentacyon of our lady  ●  1510

Watson, Henry, fl. 1500-1518.  ●  The gospelles of dystaues  ●  1510

Bernardino, da Siena, Saint, 1380-1444.  ●  The chirche of the euyll men and women wherof Lulyfer [sic] is the heed, and the membres is all the players dyssolute and synners reproued.  ●  1511

Catholic Church. aut  ●  B[y] vertue of holy obedyence openly ...  ●  1511

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?  ●  The governaunce of kynges and prynces  ●  1511

Watson, Henry, fl. 1500-1518, attributed name.  ●  [The noble history of King Ponthus.]  ●  1511

Hawes, Stephen, d. 1523?  ●  The comfort of lovers  ●  1512

England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII)  ●  Hereafter ensue certayne statut[es] and ordenau[n]ces of warre made ordeyned enacted [and] establysshed by the most noble victoryous, and moste Cristen prynce our moste drade soueraygne lorde Kynge Henry the. viij  ●  1513

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?  ●  The hystorye, sege and dystruccyon of Troye  ●  1513

Skelton, John, 1460?-1529.  ●  A ballade of the Scottysshe kynge  ●  1513

Simon, anchorite of London Wall.  ●  The fruyte of redemcyon  ●  1514

Anonymous (Moralities)  ●  Hyckescorner  ●  1515

Guild of Our Lady of Scala Coeli (Boston, Lincolnshire, England)  ●  [List in English of privileges of members of the Guild].  ●  1515

Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364. Polycronicon. English. Selections.  ●  Here begynneth a shorte and abreue table on the Cronycles ...  ●  1515

John, of Capistrano, Saint, 1386-1456  ●  [Capystranus]  ●  1515

St. Thomas's Hospital (London, England)  ●  Be it know[n to all c]risten men and women, that thyse be the great indulgence [...]  ●  1515

Fabyan, Robert, d. 1513  ●  Chronicle  ●  1516

Hilton, Walter, d. 1396. Epistle on the medled life.  ●  Here begynneth the kalendre of the newe legende of Englande  ●  1516

Map, Walter, fl. 1200.  ●  Here begynneth a lytel treatyse called the dysputacyon or co[m]playnt of the herte thorughe perced with the lokynge of the eye  ●  1516

More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.  ●  A mery gest how a sergeau[n]t woldel erne [sic] to be a frere  ●  1516

Atkinson, William, d. 1509.  ●  A full deuoute and gostely treatyse of the imytacyon and folowynge the blessed lyfe of our moste mercyfull Sauyour cryste compyled in Laten by the right worshypful Doctor Mayster Iohn Gerson: and translate into Englisshe the yere of owre lorde M.d.ii. by maister william Atkynson Doctor of diuinite: at ye speciall request [and] co[m]maundeme[n]t of the full excellent Pryncesse Margarete moder to our souerayne lorde Kynge Henry the. vii. and Countesse of Rychemount and Derby.  ●  1517

Augustinians.  ●  Uniuersis [et] singulis d[omi]nici gregis pastorib[us] [et] curatis q[ui]bus sapie[n]tis dictamine sui pecoris multu[m] petri iudicio agnoscere iubet[ur] presentiu[m] tenore innotescat [blank] hoc breue testimoniale deferente[m] et canonica[m] fecisse confessione[m] [et] absolucionis beneficiu[m] participasse indulgentiaru[m] virtute in euentuali ecclesia fratrum Augustinensium [blank] celebrataru[m] t[em]p[or]e quadragesimali. Anno salutis romana computatione. M.d.xvii  ●  1517

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino.  ●  Here begynneth the rule of seynt Benet  ●  1517

Catholic Church. Pope (1513-1521 : Leo X)  ●  Be it knowen to all Criste[n] people, that Syr Iohn Pyllet Eng[lysshe] knyght of the holy sepulcre of Criste co[m]mynge from Iherusalem, was t[aken by the] Mauris infidels ...  ●  1517

Anonymous  ●  Mary of Ne[m]megen [1518?]: a machine-readable transcript  ●  1518

Anonymous  ●  Virgilius [1518?]: a machine-readable transcript  ●  1518

Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.  ●  The fyfte eglog of Alexandre Barclay of the cytezen and vplondyshman. Here after foloweth the prologe.  ●  1518