English Language Collections

Clere-Ville, Bartholomé de.  ●  The copye of the letter folowynge whiche specifyeth of ye greatest and meruelous uisyoned batayle that euer was sene or herde of and also of the letter yt was sent frome the great Turke vnto our holy fad[er] ye pope of Rome  ●  1518

Franciscan Convent (Ipswich, England)  ●  The holy great indulgence pardon of plenary remissio[n] a pena et culpa grau[n]ted by dyuerse popes, newly confirmed with many amplycacions of our most holy father godes vycar vpo[n] erth pope Leo the .x. ...  ●  1518

Hereford Cathedral. Porch and Chantry Chapel.  ●  Be it knowen to all cristen people, that where ther is ... [p]orche of the Cathedrall Churche of Hareforde ...  ●  1518

Mancinus, Dominicus, fl. 1478-1491.  ●  Here begynneth a ryght frutefull treatyse, intituled the myrrour of good maners co[n]teynyng the .iiii. vertues, called cardynall, compyled in latyn by Domynike Mancyn: and translate into englysshe: at the desyre of syr Gyles Alyngton knyght: by Alexander Bercley prest and monke of Ely.  ●  1518

Sargy, J. (John)  ●  These be the articles of the popes Bulle vnder leade translated from latyn into englisshe  ●  1518

Stanbridge, John, 1463-1510, attributed name.  ●  The longe accydence newly correcte  ●  1518

Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.  ●  Cutheberti Tonstalli in laudem matrimonii oratio habita in sponsalibus Mariae potentissimi regis Angliæ Henrici octaui filiæ, et Francisci Christanissimi Francorum regis primogeniti.  ●  1518

Watson, Henry, fl. 1500-1518.  ●  [Here endeth ye hystorye of Olyuer of Castylle, and of the fayre Helayne]  ●  1518

Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.  ●  Familiarium colloquiorum formulae. Et alia quedam per Erasmu[m] recognita  ●  1519

Montenay, Georgette de, 1540-ca. 1581.  ●  A booke of armes, or remembrance wherein ar one hundered godly emblemata, in péeces if brasse very fine graven, and adorned pleasant to bé séen; first by the noble, and industrious minde Georgetta de Montenay, invented and only in the Frenchtongve [sic] elabourated; bot [sic] now, in severall langvages, as; Latin, Spanish, Italian, Highdutch, English, and Lovedutch, meetre or verse wys, of the same manner declared, and augmented.  ●  1519

Anon., ca. 1520  ●  A boke of a ghoostly fader  ●  1520

Anon., ca. 1520  ●  Terens in Englysh  ●  1520

Anonymous (Tudor)  ●  Terens in englysh. The Translacyon out of latin into englysh of the furst comedy of tyrens callyd Andria  ●  1520

Catholic Church. Pope (1513-1521 : Leo X)  ●  Indulgences graunted to all and euery crysten man and whoman in what soeuer party of the worlde they be, entrynge into the fraternyite of Saynt Katheryn in the mounte of Synay  ●  1520

Catholic Church. Pope (1513-1521 : Leo X)  ●  The hole īdulgēce of p̲dō graūted to blessed. S. Cornelis is. vi. score yers. vi. score lēts. ii. M. ix. C. [and] xx. dais of p̲dō for euermore to ēdure.  ●  1520

Catholic Church. Pope (1513-1521 : Leo X)  ●  Unto all maner singuler Cristen people beholdynge or herynge these present letters shall come gretynge ...  ●  1520

Confraternity of St. John (Beverley, England)  ●  These folowynge be the priuyleges pardon and indulgence graunted to the bretherne and susters, [and] benefactours of the College churche of seynt Ioh[a]n Beuerley  ●  1520

Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547  ●  L'envoy of Robert Coplande  ●  1520

England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII)  ●  Henry by the grace of God kyng of Engl[ãd] and of France, and lord of Ireland, to all and syngular archebisshops bysshops, abbattis ... to whome these p̃sent letters shall com sendeth grettyng know ye that of late by the wyng of our humble [su]bgiette Thomas Andrew of the parisshe of Southmymes in the counte of Midd. ...  ●  1520

Goodwin, Christopher  ●  A lytell prosses  ●  1520

Goodwin, Christopher.  ●  Here begynneth a lytell prosses or matter called the Chauc̃e of the dolorous louer newely cõpyled or made by Crystofer Goodwyn the yere of our Lorde God, a. M.ccccc.xx.  ●  1520

Hayton, Frère, ca. 1235-ca. 1314.  ●  Here begynneth a lytell cronycle translated [and] imprinted at the cost [and] charges of Rycharde Pynson. by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde duke of Buckingham, yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.  ●  1520

Hospital of the Holy Ghost (Rome, Italy)  ●  [Indulgences in English in favour of the "Hospital of the Holy Ghost", Rome 1520]  ●  1520

John Rastell  ●  A new interlude and a mery of the nature of the .iiij. elementes  ●  1520

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?  ●  Here begynneth the testame[n]t of Iohn Lydgate monke of Berry which he made hymselfe, by his lyfe dayes.  ●  1520

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?  ●  The vertue of [the] masse  ●  1520

Rastell, John, d. 1536.  ●  A new iuterlude [sic] and a mery of the nature of the .iiii. element declarynge many proper poynt of phylosophy naturall, and of dyuers straunge landys and of dyuers straunge effects [and] causis, whiche interlude yf ye hole matter be playd wyl conteyne the space of an hour and a halfe, but yf le lyst ye may leue out muche of the sad mater as the messengers p[ar]te, and some of experyens p[ar]te [and] yet the matter wyl depend conuenyently, and than it wyll not be paste thre quarters of an hour of length.  ●  1520

Velthoven, Adrian.  ●  The p[ro]nostication of maister Adrian of arte and medicine doctour moost expert maister and excelle[n]t in astronomy For the yere of our lorde. M.D.xx. Cu[m] p[ri]uilegio a regia maiestate i[n]dulto.  ●  1520

Walter, William, fl. 1520  ●  The spectacle of lovers  ●  1520

Here begynneth the lyfe of the blessed martyr Saynte Thomas  ●  1520

Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.  ●  The boke of Codrus and Mynalcas  ●  1521

Bradshaw, Henry, d. 1513  ●  The lyfe of Saynt Radegunde  ●  1521

Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431.  ●  Here begynneth the boke of the cyte of ladyes the whiche boke is deuyded into. iij. partes. The fyrst parte telleth howe and by whom the walle and the cloystre about the cyte was made. The second parte telleth howe and by whom the cyte was buylded within and peopled. The thyrde parte telleth howe and by whom the hyghe battylmentes of the towres were parfytely made, and what noble ladyes were ordeyned to dwell in ye hyghe palayces and hyghe dongeons. And ye fyrst chapyter telleth howe and by whom and by what mouynge the sayd cyte was made.  ●  1521

Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431.  ●  Here begynneth the booke whiche is called the body of polycye And it speketh of vertues and of good maners, and the sayd boke is deuyded in thre partyes. The fyrst party is adressed to prynces. The seconde to knyghtes and nobles: and the thyrde to the vnyuersal people. The fyrst chapytre speketh of the dyscrypcyon of the body of polycye.  ●  1521

Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547  ●  Introductory poem to the passyon of our Lorde  ●  1521

Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547  ●  Introductory verse to the myrrour the chyrche  ●  1521

Edmund, of Abingdon, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, ca. 1170-1240.  ●  The myrrour of the chyrche herefoloweth a deuout treatyse co[n]teyny[n]ge many goostly medytacyons instruccions to all maner of people, necessary confortable to the edyfycacion of the soule body to the loue grace of god.  ●  1521

Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.  ●  The sermon of Ioh[a]n the bysshop of Rochester made agayn the p[er]nicious doctryn of Martin luther w[i]t[h]in the octaues of the asce[n]syon by the assigneme[n]t of the most reuerend fader i[n] god the lord Thomas Cardinal of Yorke [and] legate ex latere from our holy father the pope.  ●  1521

Anonymous (Moralities)  ●  A propre newe Interlude of the worlde and the chylde otherwyse called [Mundus Infans] it sheweth of the estate of Chyldehode and Manhode. Mundus  ●  1522

Catholic Church. aut  ●  The graces folowyng be grau[n]ted to al the bretherne [and] systers benefactours and good doers vnto the hospytall of ye blessyd co[n]fessour Saynt Rocke fou[n]ded [and] establyssyd w[ith]in the cyte Excester the daye that they do say a pater noster an Aue, [and] a crede it is grau[n]ted them that they shal neuer be infecte not greued w[ith] the stroke of ye pestylence as more playnly it dothe appere in hys legende how and whan al myghty god graunted thys petycyon to the sayd blessyd co[n]fessour Saynt Rocke, [and] sent yt by hys angell Raphaell  ●  1522

Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.  ●  De arte supputandi libri quattuor Cutheberti Tonstalli  ●  1522

Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552  ●  The myrrour of good maners  ●  1523

Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531.  ●  Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater: and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes  ●  1523

Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?  ●  Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flau[n]ders: and other places adioynynge. Tra[n]slated out of frenche into our maternall englysshe tonge, by Iohan Bourchier knight lorde Berners: at the co[m]maundement of oure moost highe redouted souerayne lorde kyng Henry the. viii. kyng of Englande and of Fraunce, [and] highe defender of the christen faythe. [et]c.  ●  1523

Honorius, of Autun, ca. 1080-ca. 1156.  ●  Here begynneth a lytell treatyse called the Lucydarye  ●  1523

Rastell, John, d. 1536.  ●  Exposicio[n]es t[er]mi[n]o[rum] legu[m] anglo[rum]. Et natura breuium cu[m] diuersib[us] casub[us] regulis et fundame[n]tis legum tam de libris Magistri Litteltoni qua[m] de aliis legum libris collectis [et] breuit[er] compilatis p[er] iuuinib[us] valde necessariis. The exposicions of [the] termys of [the] law of england [and] the nature of the writts with diuers rulys [and] principalles of the law as well out of the bokis of Mayster Littelton as of other bokis of the law gaderyd and breuely compyled for yong men very necessarye.  ●  1523

Skelton, John, 1460?-1529.  ●  A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell by mayster Skelton poete laureat studyously dyuysed at Sheryshotton Castell. In ye foreste of galtres, where in ar co[m]prysyde many [et] dyuers colacyons [et] ryght pregnant allectyues of syngular pleasure, as more at large it doth apere in ye pees folowynge  ●  1523

The tenuris  ●  1523

Augustinians.  ●  Uniuersis et singulis d[omi]nici gregis pastorib[us] [et] curatis  ●  1524

Bourbon, Jacques de, d. 1527. Grande et merveilleuse, tréscruelle oppugnation de la noble Cité de Rhodes. aut  ●  The begynnynge and foundacyon of the holy hospytall, [and] of the ordre of the knyghtes hospytallers of saynt Johan baptyst of Jerusalem  ●  1524

Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547  ●  Epilogue to The syege of Rodes  ●  1524

Geuffroy, Antoine.  ●  The order of the greate Turckes courte, of hys menne of warre, and of all hys conquestes, with the summe of Mahumetes doctryne. Translated out of Frenche. 1524 [sic].  ●  1524

Alexis, Guillaume, d. 1468?  ●  He [sic] begynneth an interlocucyon, with an argument, betwyxt man and woman whiche of them could proue to be most excelle[n]t.  ●  1525

Alsoppe, Thomas, fl. 1525  ●  The brevyate and short tragycall hystorie of the fayre Custance  ●  1525

Anon., ca. 1520  ●  Mayd Emlyn  ●  1525

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.  ●  Here begynneth y[e] hystory of Tytus Gesyppus translated out of Latyn into Englysshe by Wyllyam Walter, somtyme seruaunte to Syr Henry Marney ...  ●  1525

Boethius, d. 524.  ●  The boke of comfort called in laten Boetius de Consolatione philosophie. Translated in to englesse tonge  ●  1525

Bradshaw, Henry, d. 1513.  ●  Here begynneth the lyfe of saynt Radegunde  ●  1525

Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-ca. 1512.  ●  The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, practysyd [and] compyled by the moost experte mayster Iherome of Bruynswyke, borne in Straesborowe in Almayne ... Item there after he hath authorysed and done it to vnderstande thrugh the trewe sentences of the olde doctours and maysters very experte in the scyence of surgery, as Galienus, Ipocras, Auicenna, Gwydo, Haly abbas, Lancfrancus of mylen, Iamericus, Rogerius, Albucasis, Place[n]tinus, Brunus, Gwilhelmus de saliceto, [and] by many other maysters whose names be wryten in this same boke. ... Item yf ye fynde ony names of herbes or of other thynges wherof ye haue no knowlege, yt shall ye knowe playnly by the potecarys. Item here shall you fynde also for to make salues, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes. Item who so desyreth of this science ye playne knowlege let hym oftentymes rede this boke, and than he shall gette perfyte vnderstandynge of the noble surgery  ●  1525

Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?  ●  Here begynneth the thirde and fourthe boke of sir Iohn̄ Froissart of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spaygne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flaunders, and other places adioynyng, translated out of Frenche in to englysshe by Iohan Bourchier knyght lorde Berners, deputie generall of ye kynges towne of Calais and marchesse of the same, at the co[m]maundement of our most highe redouted souerayne lorde kyng Henry the eyght, kynge of Englande and of Fraüce [sic] [and] highe defender of the Christen faithe. [et]c  ●  1525

Linacre, Thomas, 1460-1524.  ●  [Rudimenta grammatices]  ●  1525

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco, 1470-1533.  ●  Here is co[n]teyned the lyfe of Iohan Picus erle of Myrandula a grete lorde of Italy an excellent connynge man in all sciences, [and] verteous of lyuynge with dyuers epystles [and] other werkes of ye sayd Iohan Picus full of grete science vertue [and] wysedome, whose lyfe [and] werkes bene worthy [and] dygne to be redde and often to be had in memorye.  ●  1525

Rastell, John, d. 1536.  ●  A new co[m]modye in englysh in maner of an enterlude ryght elygant [and] full of craft of rethoryk, wherein is shewd [and] dyscrybyd as well the bewte [and] good propertes of women, as theyr vycys [and] euyll co[n]dicio[n]s, with a morall co[n]clusion [and] exhortacyon to vertew  ●  1525

Rastell, John, d. 1536.  ●  Now she that I louyd trewly beryth a full fayre face hath chosen her ...  ●  1525

Rastell, John, d. 1536.  ●  Of gentylnes and nobylyte A dyaloge betwen the marchaut the knyght and the plowman dysputyng who is a verey gentylman [et] who is a noble man and how men shuld come to auctoryte, compiled in maner of an enterlude with diuers toys [et] gestis addyd therto to make mery pastyme and disport.  ●  1525

Ryckes, John.  ●  The ymage of loue Here foloweth a goostly pamphlete or mater co[m]pendyously extract of holy scrypture, and doctours of ye chyrche, called ye ymage of loue, very necessary for all vertuous persones to loke vpon.  ●  1525

Sallust, 86-34 B.C.  ●  Here begynneth the famous cronycle of the warre, which the romayns had agaynst Iugurth vsurper of the kyngdome of Numidy: whiche cronycle is compyled in latyn by the renowmed romayn Salust. And translated into englysshe by syr Alexander Barclay preest, at co[m]maundement of the right hye and mighty prince: Thomas duke of Northfolke  ●  1525

[Gesta Romanorum]  ●  1525

Anonymous  ●  A .C. mery talys (1526): a machine-readable transcript  ●  1526

Bush, Paul, 1490-1558  ●  The extripacion of ignorancy  ●  1526

Bush, Paul, 1490-1558.  ●  Here begynneth a lytell treatyse in Englysshe, called the extripacion [sic] of ignorancy and it treateth and speketh of the ignorance of people, shewyng them howe they are bounde to feare god, to loue god, and to honour their prince. Which treatise is lately compyled by sir Paule Busshe preest, and bonhome of Edyndon: and dedicate vnto the yong and most hye renomed lady Mary, princes [et] doughter vnto the noble progenytour, our worthy souerayne kyng Henry the eight, kyng of Engla[n]de and of Frau[n]ce, [et] hye defe[n]der of ye christenfaithe. [et]c.  ●  1526

Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.  ●  A deuoute treatise vpon the Pater noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster Erasmus Roterodamus, and tourned in to englisshe by a yong vertuous and well lerned gentylwoman of. xix. yere of age  ●  1526

Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.  ●  A sermon had at Paulis by the co[m]mandment of the most reuerend father in god my lorde legate, and sayd by Ioh[a]n the bysshop of Rochester, vpo[n] qui[n]quagesom sonday, concernynge certayne heretickes, whiche tha[n] were abiured for holdynge the heresies of Martyn Luther that famous hereticke, and for ye kepyng and reteynyng of his bokes agaynst the ordinance of the bulle of pope Leo the tenthe.  ●  1526

Tyndale, William, d. 1536.  ●  A compendious introduccion, prologe or preface vn to the pistle off Paul to the Romayns  ●  1526

Den wirdigen vnd vursichtigen heren burgemeysteren vnd rait mänen der stat Cœlln vnsen lieuë heren vnd besunderen gunstigen guden frunden.  ●  1526

Here begynneth a newe boke of medecynes intytulyd or callyd the Treasure of pore men whiche sheweth many dyuerse good medecines for dyuerse certayn dysseases as in the table of this present boke more playnly shall appere. The boke of medecines.  ●  1526

Andrew, Laurence, fl. 1510-1537.  ●  The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].  ●  1527

Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-ca. 1512.  ●  The vertuose boke of distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of herbes with the fygures of the styllatoryes, fyrst made and compyled by the thyrte yeres study and labour of the moste co[n]nynge and famous mayster of phisyke, Master Iherom bruynswyke. And now newly translate[d] out of Duyche into Englysshe Nat only to the synguler helpe and profyte of the surgyens, phisycyens, and pothecaryes, but also of all maner of people, parfytely and in dewe tyme and ordre to lerne to dystyll all maner of herbes, to the profyte, cure, and remedy of all maner dysseases and infirmytees apparant and nat apparant. And ye shall vnderstande that the waters be better than the herbes, as Auicenna testefyeth in his fourthe conon saynge that all maner medicynes vsed with theyr substance, febleth and maketh aged, and weke. Cum gratia et preuilegio regali.  ●  1527

England.  ●  The statutes prohemium Iohannis Rastell  ●  1527

Feylde, Thomas  ●  The cōtraverse bytwene a lover and a iaye  ●  1527

Feylde, Thomas.  ●  Here begynneth a lytel treatyse called the co[n]traverse bytwene a louer and a jaye lately compyled.  ●  1527

John Rastell  ●  A new cōmedye in englysh in maner Of an enterlude ryght elygant full of craft of rethoryk/wherein is shewd dyscrybyd as well the bewte good propertes of women/as theyr vycys euyll cōdiciōs/with a morall cōclusion exhortacyon to vertew  ●  1527

John Rastell  ●  Of Gentylnes and Nobylyte  ●  1527

Longland, John, 1473-1547.  ●  Ioannis Longlondi Dei gratia Lincolnien[sis] Episcopi, tres conciones reuerendissimo Domino. do. vvaramo Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo totius Angliæ primati merito nuncupatæ.  ●  1527

Skelton, John, 1460?-1529.  ●  Skelton Laureate agaynste a comely coystrowne that curyowsly chawntyd and curryshly cowntred, and madly in hys musykkys mokkyshly made, agaynste the. ix. Musys of polytyke poems [and] poettys matryculat.  ●  1527

Anon., ca. 1528  ●  La conusaunce damours  ●  1528

Anonymous (Moralities)  ●  Everyman  ●  1528

Anonymous (Moralities)  ●  [Temperance and humility]  ●  1528

Aristotle, attributed name.  ●  [Thus endeth the secrete of secretes of Arystotle]  ●  1528

Aristotle.  ●  De cursione lune Here begynneth the course and disposicion of the dayes of the moone in laten and in Englysshe whiche be good: and whiche be badde after the influentes of the moone drawen out of a boke of Aristotiles de astronomiis.  ●  1528

Barlow, William, d. 1568  ●  Rede me and be nott wrothe  ●  1528

Barlow, William, fl. 1527.  ●  Rede me and be nott wrothe for I saye no thynge but trothe I will ascende makynge my state so hye, that my pompous honoure shall never dye. O caytyfe when thou thynkest least of all, with confusion thou shalt have a fall.  ●  1528

Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547  ●  L'envoy and excuse  ●  1528

England. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII)  ●  The proclamacion made and de[vised by the] kynges hyghnesse our soueraygne lorde and his honorable counsaile ...  ●  1528

Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364. Polycronicon.  ●  The Cronycles of Englonde with the dedes of popes and emperours, and also the descripcyon of Englonde  ●  1528

Joannes, de Mediolano.  ●  Regimen sanitatis Salerni This boke techyng al people to gouerne them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englishe by Thomas Paynell. Whiche boke is as profitable [et] as nedefull to be had and redde as any can be to obserue corporall helthe.  ●  1528

Plutarch.  ●  Tho. wyatis translatyon of Plutarckes boke, of the quyete of mynde  ●  1528

Skelton, John, 1460?-1529.  ●  Here folowythe dyuers balettys and dyties solacyous deuysyd by Master Skelton Laureat  ●  1528

Tyndale, William, d. 1536.  ●  That fayth the mother of all good workes iustifieth us before we ca[n] bringe forth anye good worke...  ●  1528

Tyndale, William, d. 1536.  ●  The obedie[n]ce of a Christen man and how Christe[n] rulers ought to governe, where in also (if thou marke diligently) thou shalt fynde eyes to perceave the crafty conveyance of all iugglers.  ●  1528