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• Aelfric: The Old Testament
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Homilies (15)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Catholic Homilies (II/27.2)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Catholic Homilies (II/29)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Catholic Homilies (II/8)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (14)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (26)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (32)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Lives of Saints (9)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Letter to Sigefyrth
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Letter to Sigeweard ('On the Old and New Testament')
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Letter to Wulfsige
• Aelfric: Aelfric's First and Second Letters to Wulfstan (1)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's First and Second Letters to Wulfstan (2)
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Grammar
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Lives of Saints
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Catholic Homilies I
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Catholic Homilies II
• Aelfric: Aelfric's Preface to Genesis
• Aelfric: De Temporibus Anni
• Aethelwold: The Benedictine Rule
• Aldred: The Durham Ritual
• Aldred: Lindisfarne Gospels
• Alfred: Alfred's Boethius
• Alfred: Alfred's Cura Pastoralis
• Alfred: The Meters of Boethius
• Alfred: Alfred's Preface to Cura Pastoralis
• Alfred: Alfred's Preface to Soliloquies
• Anonymous: Adrian and Ritheus
• Anonymous: Aelred of Rielvaux's De Institutione Inclusarum (3)
• Anonymous: Aelred of Rielvaux's De Institutione Inclusarum (4)
• Anonymous: Alexander's Letter
• Anonymous: Laws (ALFRED)
• Anonymous: Alfred's Introduction to Laws
• Anonymous: Ancrene Wisse
• Anonymous: Andreas
• Anonymous: Apollonius of Tyre
• Anonymous: Documents 2 (Sweet-Whitelock 35)
• Anonymous: The New Testament (Authorized Version)
• Anonymous: The Old Testament (Authorized Version)
• Anonymous: Bede's Death Song
• Anonymous: Bede's Ecclesiastical History
• Anonymous: The Benedictine Rule
• Anonymous: Beowulf
• Anonymous: A Bestiary
• Anonymous: The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun
• Anonymous: Documents 1 (BIRCH 451)
• Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (10)
• Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (12)
• Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (17)
• Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (2)
• Anonymous: The Blickling Homilies (6)
• Anonymous: Bodley Homilies (10)
• Anonymous: Bodley Homilies (12)
• Anonymous: Bodley Homilies (5)
• Anonymous: The Battle of Brunanburh
• Anonymous: Brut (1333)
• Anonymous: Caedmon's Hymn
• Anonymous: Satire on the Consistory Courts (HP6)
• Anonymous: Chad
• Anonymous: The Cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac
• Anonymous: Christ
• Anonymous: Gregory's Chronicle
• Anonymous: Chronicle MS A Early (O2)
• Anonymous: Chronicle MS A Late
• Anonymous: Chronicle MS E (Early)
• Anonymous: Chronicle MS E (Late)
• Anonymous: The Cloud of Unknowing
• Anonymous: A Letter by the Commissioner of Customs (to Lord Clifford)
• Anonymous: A Letter by the Privy Council (to Lord Rochester)
• Anonymous: Cursor Mundi
• Anonymous: Deor
• Anonymous: Depositions
• Anonymous: Dicts of Cato
• Anonymous: Digby Plays
• Anonymous: The Dream of the Rood
• Anonymous: Wulf and Eadwacer
• Anonymous: The Life of St. Edmund
• Anonymous: The Equatorie of the Planetis
• Anonymous: The Trial of the Earl of Essex
• Anonymous: Exodus
• Anonymous: The Fortunes of Men
• Anonymous: The Fox and Wolf in the Well
• Anonymous: Gregory the Great, Dialogues (MS H)
• Anonymous: Genesis
• Anonymous: Documents 1 (HARMER 1)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (HARMER 12)
• Anonymous: Documents 2 (HARMER 18)
• Anonymous: Documents 1 (HARMER 2)
• Anonymous: Documents 1 (HARMER 3)
• Anonymous: Documents 2 (HARMER 4)
• Anonymous: Documents 1 (HARMER 5)
• Anonymous: Documents 2 (HARMER 7)
• Anonymous: Havelok
• Anonymous: The Proclamation of Henry III
• Anonymous: Hali Meidhad
• Anonymous: King Horn
• Anonymous: A Treatise on Horses
• Anonymous: Historical Poems (Harley 2253) (3)
• Anonymous: Historical Poems (Harley 2253) (4)
• Anonymous: Historical Poems (Harley 2253) (5)
• Anonymous: History of the Holy Rood-Tree
• Anonymous: Song of the Husbandman (HP2)
• Anonymous: Indenture
• Anonymous: Laws (INE)
• Anonymous: In Die Innocencium
• Anonymous: Interlude (Appendix to Dame Sirith)
• Anonymous: Judgements, London
• Anonymous: Juliane
• Anonymous: Kyng Alisaunder
• Anonymous: Katherine
• Anonymous: The Kentish Hymn
• Anonymous: The Kentish Psalm
• Anonymous: Kentish Sermons
• Anonymous: Lacnunga
• Anonymous: Laeceboc
• Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (1)
• Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (14)
• Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (15)
• Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (3)
• Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (4)
• Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (7)
• Anonymous: Lambeth Homilies (8)
• Anonymous: Laws (Eleventh Century)
• Anonymous: Laws (LATE)
• Anonymous: The Leiden Riddle
• Anonymous: Vision of Leofric
• Anonymous: The Trial of Lady Alice Lisle
• Anonymous: Letter(s), London (to the King)
• Anonymous: A Letter by the Lords of the Council (to the King)
• Anonymous: Proclamations, London
• Anonymous: Ludus Coventriae
• Anonymous: Mandeville's Travels
• Anonymous: Mankind
• Anonymous: Margarete
• Anonymous: A Passion of St Margaret
• Anonymous: Martyrology
• Anonymous: Marvels
• Anonymous: Maxims I
• Anonymous: A Hundred Mery Talys
• Anonymous: Man in the Moon
• Anonymous: The Earliest Complete English Prose Psalter
• Anonymous: The Metrical Psalms of the Paris Psalter
• Anonymous: The Northern Homily Cycle
• Anonymous: The Trial of Titus Oates
• Anonymous: Ohthere and Wulfstan (MS L)
• Anonymous: Ohthere and Wulfstan (MS G) (3)
• Anonymous: Alfred's Orosius
• Anonymous: The Panther
• Anonymous: The Partridge
• Anonymous: Penny Merriments
• Anonymous: Peri Didaxeon
• Anonymous: History of Sir John Perrott
• Anonymous: Petitions, London
• Anonymous: Petitions (M4), London
• Anonymous: The Peterborough Chronicle
• Anonymous: Phlebotomy
• Anonymous: Phoenix
• Anonymous: The Paris Psalter
• Anonymous: The Pricke of Conscience
• Anonymous: Prognostications (Caligula)
• Anonymous: Prognostications (CCCC)
• Anonymous: Prognostications (Hatton)
• Anonymous: Quadrupedibus
• Anonymous: The Trial of Sir Walter Raleigh
• Anonymous: Returns, London
• Anonymous: Satire on the Retinues of the Great (HP7)
• Anonymous: Riddles
• Anonymous: The Riming Poem
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 1)
• Anonymous: Documents 2 (ROBERTSON 10)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 101)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 103)
• Anonymous: Documents 2 (ROBERTSON 16)
• Anonymous: Documents 4 (ROBERTSON 2)
• Anonymous: Documents 2 (ROBERTSON 26)
• Anonymous: Documents 1 (ROBERTSON 3)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 32)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 41)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 44)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 46)
• Anonymous: Documents 2 (ROBERTSON 6)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 66)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 83)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 87)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 91)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (ROBERTSON 94)
• Anonymous: Documents 4 (Robertson, Appendix 1)
• Anonymous: Documents 4 (Robertson, Appendix 3)
• Anonymous: Documents 4 (Robertson, Appendix 4)
• Anonymous: Sermon (MS Royal 18 B)
• Anonymous: The Ruthwell Cross
• Anonymous: The Seafarer
• Anonymous: Dame Sirith
• Anonymous: The Siege of Jerusalem
• Anonymous: The Life of St. Edmund
• Anonymous: Solomon and Saturn
• Anonymous: Statutes (II)
• Anonymous: Statutes (III)
• Anonymous: Statutes (IV)
• Anonymous: Statutes (VII)
• Anonymous: A Homily for the Sixth (or Fourth) Sunday After Epiphany
• Anonymous: Sawles Warde
• Anonymous: Testaments and Wills, London
• Anonymous: Liber de Diversis Medicinis (Thornton MS)
• Anonymous: The Trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton
• Anonymous: The Thrush and the Nightingale
• Anonymous: Towneley Plays
• Anonymous: Trinity Homilies (12)
• Anonymous: Trinity Homilies (20)
• Anonymous: Trinity Homilies (23)
• Anonymous: Trinity Homilies (5)
• Anonymous: A Letter by the Fellow of Trinity College (to Lord Burghley)
• Anonymous: The Vespasian Psalter
• Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (3)
• Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (32)
• Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (33)
• Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (42)
• Anonymous: Vespasian Homilies (48)
• Anonymous: Vices and Virtues (1)
• Anonymous: The Book of Vices and Virtues (4)
• Anonymous: The Wanderer
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/ES1)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/ES11)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/ES27)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/ES40)
• Anonymous: The Whale
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 13)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 14)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 15)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 16/1)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 19)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 20)
• Anonymous: Documents 3 (WHITELOCK 30)
• Anonymous: Widsith
• Anonymous: The Wife's Lament
• Anonymous: Laws (WILLIAM I)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S16)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S23)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S28)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S32)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S36)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S4)
• Anonymous: English Wycliffite Sermons (I/S43)
• Anonymous: West-Saxon Gospels
• Anonymous: The New Testament (Wycliffe)
• Anonymous: The Old Testament (Wycliffe)
• Anonymous: York Plays
• Armin, Robert: A Nest of Ninnies
• Ascham, Roger: The Scholemaster
• Aungier, Francis: Letter (to Lord Essex)
• Bacon, Francis: The Twoo Bookes of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning
• Barrington, John: Letters (to his mother)
• Barrington, Thomas: Letter (to his mother)
• Beaumont, Elizabeth: Letter (to her husband)
• Bedyll, Thomas: Letter (to Cromwell)
• Behn, Aphra: Oroonoko
• Betson, Thomas: Letter (to his bride) & Letters (to his mother-in-law)
• Blundevile, Thomas: A Briefe Description of the Tables of the Three Speciall Right Lines Belonging to a Circle
• Boyle, Robert: Electricity & Magnetism
• Brinsley, John: Ludus Literarius
• Burnet, Gilbert: The Reign of Charles the Second
• Burnet, Gilbert: Biography of the Earl of Rochester
• Byrhtferth: Byrhtferth's Manual
• Capel, Arthur: Letters (to the King)
• Capgrave, John: Capgrave's Chronicle
• Capgrave, John: Capgrave's Sermon
• Caxton, William: Prologues and Epilogues
• Caxton, William: The History of Reynard the Fox
• Cecil, Robert: Letters (to Sir Thomas Edmondes)
• Cecil, William: Letter (to the University of Cambridge)
• Cely, George: Letters (to his father)
• Cely, Richard: Letters (to his brother)
• Charles II: Letters (to Lord Essex)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: A Treatise on the Astrolabe
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: Boethius
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Wife of Bath's Prologue
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Tale of Melibee
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Merchant's Tale
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Parson's Tale
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Summoner's Tale
• Clowes, William: Treatise for the Artificiall Cure of Struma
• Colville, George: Boethius
• Conway, Edward: Letter (to Lord Buckingham)
• Coverte, Robert: A Trve and Almost Incredible Report of an Englishman
• Cromwell, Gregory: Letters (to his father)
• Cromwell, Thomas: Letter (to the Earl of Chester)
• Cumberland, Eleanor: Letter (to her husband)
• Cynewulf: Fates of Apostles
• Cynewulf: Elene
• Cynewulf: Juliana
• Deloney, Thomas: Jack of Newbury
• Edmondes, Thomas: Letter (to Sir Robert Cecil)
• Edward VI: The Diary of Edward VI
• Elizabeth I: Boethius
• Elizabeth I: Letter (to Sir Thomas Edmondes) & Letter (to Sir Robert Cecil)
• Elyot, Thomas: The Boke Named the Gouernour
• Evelyn, John: Diary of John Evelyn
• Everard, Joan: Letters (to her mother)
• Fabyan, Robert: The New Chronicles of England and France
• Farman: Rushworth Gospels
• Farquhar, George: The Beaux Stratagem
• Ferrar, Nicholas: Letter (to his mother)
• Ferrar, Richard: Letter (to his mother)
• Fiennes, Celia: My Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall
• Fisher, John: Sermon (against Luther) & Sermon (on Good Friday)
• Fitzherbert, Anthony: The Book of Husbandry
• Fitzjames, Richard: Sermo Die Lune in Ebdomada Pasche
• Forman, Simon: Autobiography and Personal Diary of Dr. Simon Forman
• Fox, George: Journal of George Fox
• Fryer, John: A New Account of East India and Persia
• Gawdy, Philip: Letter (to his father)
• Gaytryge, Dan Jon: Dan Jon Gaytryge's Sermon
• Gifford, George: A Handbook on Witches and Witchcraft
• Gloucester, Robert: The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester
• Gower, John: Confessio Amantis
• Haddock, Nicholas: Letter (to his father)
• Haddock, Richard Jr: Letter (to his father)
• Haddock, Richard Sr: Letters (to his wife) & Letters (to his son)
• Harley, Brilliana: Letters (to her husband)
• Harman, Thomas: A Caveat or Warening for Commen Cursetors Vulgarely Called Vagabones
• Hatton, Alice: Letters (to her father)
• Hatton, Anne: Letters (to her father)
• Hatton, Charles: Letter (to his wife)
• Hatton, Elizabeth: Letter (to her son)
• Hatton, Frances: Letter (to her husband)
• Hayward, John: Annals of the First Four Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
• Henry V: Letters (to a Bishop) & Letter (to -)
• Henry V: Letter(s) (to Mayor of London)
• Henry VIII: Letter (to the Earl of Surrey) & Letter (to the citizens of London)
• Henry, Philip: Letter (to his wife)
• Hilton, Walter: Eight Chapters on Perfection
• Hoby, Margaret: Diary of Margaret Hoby
• Hooke, Robert: Micrographia
• Hooker, Richard: Sermon upon part of S. Judes Epistle (1) & Sermon upon part of S. Judes Epistle (2)
• Hoole, Charles: A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole
• Howard, Thomas: Letter (to the King)
• Kempe, Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe
• Knyvett, Thomas: Letters (to his wife)
• Langford, T.: Plain and Full Instructions to Raise All Sorts of Fruit-Trees That Prosper in England
• Latimer, Hugh: Sermon (on ploughers) & Sermon (before Edward VI)
• Layamon: Layamon's Brut
• Leland, John: Itinerary
• Locke, John: Directions Concerning Education
• Machyn, Henry: The Diary of Henry Machyn
• Madox, Richard: Diary of Richard Madox
• Malory, Thomas: Morte Darthur
• Mannyng, Robert: Handlyng Synne
• Markham, Gervase: Countrey Contentments
• Masham, Elizabeth: Letters (to her mother)
• Metham, John: Days of the Moon
• Metham, John: Physiognomy
• Michel, Dan: Ayenbite of Inwyt
• Middleton, Thomas: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
• Milton, John: The History of Britain
• Mirk, John: Festial
• More, Thomas: Letter (to his wife) & Letters (to his daughter)
• More, Thomas: The History of King Richard III
• More, Thomas: Letters (to Cardinal Wolsey)
• Mowntayne, Thomas: The Autobiography of Thomas Mowntayne
• Mull, Thomas: Letter (to his brother-in-law) & Letter (to his relative)
• Norwich, Julian: Revelations of Divine Love
• Orm: The Ormulum
• Osborne, Thomas: Letters (to Lord Essex)
• Oxinden, Elizabeth: Letters (to her mother-in-law)
• Oxinden, Henry: Letters (to his wife)
• Oxinden, Katherine: Letter (to her son)
• Oxinden, Richard: Letters (to his son)
• Paston, Clement: Letters (to his brother)
• Paston, John: Letters (to his brother)
• Paston, Katherine: Letters (to her son)
• Paston, Margaret: Letters (to her husbard)
• Paston, William: Letters
• Paston, William: Letters (to his mother)
• Pepys, Samuel: Diary of Samuel Pepys
• Pettit, Valentine: Letters (to her son)
• Peyton, Mary: Letter (to her daughter)
• Pinney, Jane: Letter (to her daughter) & Letter (to her husband)
• Pinney, John: Letter (to his daughter)
• Plumpton, Agnes: Letters (to her husband)
• Plumpton, Dorothy: Letter (to her father)
• Plumpton, Isabel: Letter (to her husband)
• Plumpton, Robert: Letter (to his mother)
• Plumpton, William: Letters (to his father) & Letter (to his son)
• Preston, Viscount: Boethius
• Proud, Mary: Letter (to her mother)
• Purvey, John: The Prologue to the Bible
• Record, Robert: The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie
• Reynes, Robert: Commonplace Book (Tanner MS 407)
• Rolle, Richard: The Bee and the Stork
• Rolle, Richard: The Psalter or Psalms of David
• Rolle, Richard: Prose Treatises
• Roper, Margaret: Letters (to his father)
• Roper, William: The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, Knighte
• Scrope, Katherine: Letter (to her father)
• Shakespeare, William: The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Shillingford, John: Document(s) (Shillingford)
• Shillingford, John: Letter (to his fellows)
• Smith, Henry: Two Sermons on "Of Usurie" (1) & Two Sermons on "Of Usurie" (2)
• Somers, John: Letter (to the King)
• Spencer, Robert: Letters (to the King's agent)
• Stevenson, William: Gammer Gvrtons Nedle
• Stonor, Elizabeth: Letters (to her husband)
• Stow, John: The Chronicles of England from Brute unto This Present Yeare of Christ
• Strype, John: Letters (to his mother)
• Taylor, Jeremy: The Marriage Ring
• Taylor, John: The Pennyles Pilgrimage
• Tillotson, John: Sermon on "The Folly of Scoffing at Religion" & Sermon on "Of the Tryall of the Spirits"
• Torkington, Richard: Ye Oldest Diarie of Englysshe Travell
• Trevisa, John: Polychronicon
• Tunstall, Cuthbert: Letter (to the King)
• Turner, William: Book of Wines
• Tyndale, William: The New Testament (Tyndale)
• Tyndale, William: The Old Testament (Tyndale)
• Udall, Nicholas: Roister Doister
• Usk, Thomas: Appeal(s), London
• Vanbrugh, John: The Relapse
• Vicary, Thomas: The Anatomie of the Bodie of Man
• Waerferth: Gregory the Great, Dialogues (MS C)
• Walton, Izaak: The Compleat Angler
• Wolsey, Thomas: Letter (to the King)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's 'Institutes of Polity'
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (10C)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (12)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (13)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (17)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (1B)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (2)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (20)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (3)
• Wulfstan: Wulfstan's Homilies (8C)