Medieval and early modern texts:
The texts in this section are English translations or transcriptions unless otherwise noted
(I hope). I have listed them in three groups, alphabetically arranged:
the first, for works with named authors arranged by surname (or place name)
if any, otherwise by Christian name;
the second for anonymous works arranged by place name;
and the third for anonymous works arranged by subject matter.
A Victorian catalogue of medieval sources is itself available online:
- Thomas Duffus Hardy,
Descriptive catalogue of materials relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland, to the end of the reign of Henry VII
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050191-4)
PDF format (Rolls Series 26, vols 1-3 (in 4 parts); 1862-1871)
(1) Works arranged by author: A-G
- Thomas Agnellus:
Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum.
De expugnatione terrae sanctae libellus.
Thomas Agnellus De morte et sepultura Henrici regis Angliae junioris.
Gesta Fulconis filii Warini.
Excerpta ex otiis imperialibus Gervasii Tileburiensis
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050317)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Joseph Stevenson
(Rolls Series 6; 1875)
- William Albon:
- John Amersham:
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Annales monasterii S. Albani, a Johanne Amundesham, monacho, ut videtur, conscripti, (A.D. 1421-1440), ... Volume 1. (1870) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 5. With a chronicle of events in the monastery of St Albans, 1422-1431, of unknown authorship.
[Other copies at: gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France.]
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Annales monasterii S. Albani, a Johanne Amundesham, monacho, ut videtur, conscripti, (A.D. 1421-1440), ... Volume 2. (1871) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 5.
[Other copies at: gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France.]
- Bernard André:
- Aneurin, Y Gododin. A poem on the Battle of Cattraeth ... (Project Gutenberg)
Welsh text and English translation, with an introduction and notes, from the edition of John Williams (1852).
- Asser
- Roger Bacon:
Fr. Rogeri Bacon Opera quaedam hactenus inedita
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050167)
PDF format; Latin texts, with a life of Bacon from Wood's
Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis,
from the edition of J. S. Brewer
(Rolls Series 15; 1859)
- Bede
-
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
(Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
Images of Corpus Christi College MS 279B; Old English translation, early 11th century
-
The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation published in 1910,
apparently the text by L.C. Jane, published in 1903
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
(Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Calvin College)
English translation by A.M. Sellar (1907)
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Vita Cuthberti (Oxford Text Archive)
Latin text; source "not recorded"
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The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation from J.A. Giles,
Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (1910)
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The Lives of The Holy Abbots of Weremouth and Jarrow:
Benedict, Ceolfrid, Easterwine, Sigfrid, and Huetberht
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation from J.A. Giles,
Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (1910)
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Epistola Bede ad Ecgbertum Episcopum(Oxford Text Archive)
Latin text from Charles Plummer,
Venerabilis Baedae Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum,
Historiam abbatum, Epistolam ad Ecgberctum, una cum Historia abbatum
auctore anonymo (1896)
- Henry de Blandford:
- Peter of Blois:
- Extracts from Peter of Blois
on
William Rufus and
Henry I
(John Jay Phillips, Conquest)
[not available, 19 April 2015; see the Internet Archive's
copy of this page, from September 2013]
English translations, from Henry T. Riley,
Ingulf's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland
with the Continuation of Peter of Blois (1854)
- Edward Kylie, translator and editor, The English Correspondence of Saint Boniface ... (1911) (Susan Rhoads, Elfinspell)
English translation of correspondence of the eighth-century missionary to the Germans.
- Henry T. Riley, ed., Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland with the continuations by Peter of Blois and anonymous writers (1854 etc) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
English translation of a pseudonymous manuscript from the 13th or 14th century, earlier attributed to Ingulph, with continuations to the late 15th century.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 ; 7 ; 8 .]
- Robert Blondel, De reductione Normandiae,
in Narratives of the expulsion of the English from Normandy, M.CCCC.XLIX.-M.CCCC.L [1449-1450]
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050232)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of the Rev. Joseph Stevenson
(Rolls Series 32; 1863)
- William Stewart,
The buik of the croniclis of Scotland, or a metrical version of the History of Hector Boece
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050150, N050152)
PDF format; text (incomplete) from the edition of William B. Turnbull (Rolls Series 6, vols 1 and 3; 1858)
- Alain Bouchart, Les croniques annalles des pays d'Angleterre et Bretaigne (1531)
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N052235)
PDF format (in French)
- Gilles le Bouvier ("Berry"),
Le Recouvrement de Normandie,
in Narratives of the expulsion of the English from Normandy, M.CCCC.XLIX.-M.CCCC.L [1449-1450]
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050232)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of the Rev. Joseph Stevenson
(Rolls Series 32; 1863)
- Henry of Bracton [attributed]
- Henrici de Bracton de legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae:
libri quinque in varios tractatus
distincti, ad diversorum et vetustissimorum codicum
collationem typis vulgati
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050328, N050333)
PDF format; Latin text (incomplete) from the edition of Sir Travers Twiss
(Rolls Series 70, vols 1 and 6; 1887, 1883)
- De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (On the Laws and Customs of England) (Cornell Law School and collaborators)
Latin text of George Woodbine, and English translation by S. E. Thorne.
- Jocelin of Brakelond,
Chronicle of the Abbey of St Edmund's (1173-1202)
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation from L.C. Jane, ed.,
The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond Monk of St. Edmundsbury:
A Picture of Monastic and Social Life on the XIIth Century (1907)
- John of Bridlington,
in Political poems and songs relating to English history,
composed during the period from the accession of Edw. III to that of Ric. III
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050165, N050166)
PDF format; texts - in various languages - from the edition of Thomas Wright
(Rolls Series 14, vols 1 and 2; 1859-1861)
- Thomas de Burton:
Chronica monasterii de Melsa, a fundatione usque ad annum 1396
auctore Thoma de Burton ... accedit continuatio ad annum 1406 a monacho quodam ipsius domus
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050266, N050268)
PDF format; Latin text (incomplete) from the edition of Edward A. Bond
(Rolls Series 43, vols 1 and 3; 1866, 1868)
- Gervase of Canterbury,
The historical works of Gervase of Canterbury
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050339)
PDF format; Latin text (incomplete) from the edition of William Stubbs
(Rolls Series 73, vol.1 (of 2); 1879)
- Francis Charles Hingeston, ed. The Chronicle of England by John Capgrave (1858) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Rolls Series, number 1. English text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- John Capgrave,
Chronicle of England (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050143)
PDF format; text from the edition of the Rev. Francis Charles Hingeston
(Rolls Series 1; 1858)
- John Capgrave,
Liber de illustribus Henricis
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050153)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of the Rev. Francis Charles Hingeston
(Rolls Series 7; 1858)
- Richard of Cirencester:
- Ralph of Coggeshall:
Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum.
De expugnatione terrae sanctae libellus.
Thomas Agnellus De morte et sepultura Henrici regis Angliae junioris.
Gesta Fulconis filii Warini.
Excerpta ex otiis imperialibus Gervasii Tileburiensis
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050317)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Joseph Stevenson
(Rolls Series 6; 1875)
- Philippe
de Commynes,
The Reign of Louis XI 1461-83 (Richard III Society American Branch - Primary Source Materials)
Extracts from Books 1-6; from the English translation by Michael Jones (1967)
- Bartholomew de Cotton,
Historia anglicana (A.D. 449-1298): necnon ejusdem liber de archiepiscopis et episcopis Angliae
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050168)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Henry Richards Luard
(Rolls Series 16; 1859)
- Walter of Coventry:
The historical collections of Walter of Coventry
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050302, N056360, N056361)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of William Stubbs
(Rolls Series 58, vols 1 and 2; 1872, 1873)
- Reginald of Durham,
Life of St. Goderic [12th Cent]
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation from
G.G. Coulton, ed., Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to
the Reformation (1918)
- Thomas of Eccleston,
De adventu fratrum minorum in Angliam,
in Monumenta franciscana
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050147, N050148)
PDF format; Latin texts from the edition of J. S. Brewer
and Richard Howlett (Rolls Series 4, vols 1 and 2; 1858, 1882)
- Charles Hardwick, ed., Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis, by Thomas of Elmham, formerly monk and treasurer of that foundation (1858) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Rolls Series number 8. Latin text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Thomas of Elmham
- Historia monasterii S. Augustini cantuariensis
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050154)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Hardwick (Rolls Series 8; 1858)
- Versus rhythmici in laudem regis Henrici quinti,
in Memorials of Henry the fifth, king of England
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050159)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Charles Augustus Cole
(Rolls Series 11; 1858)
- Ethelwerd
- Adam of Eynsham,
Magna vita S. Hugonis episcopi Lincolniensis
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050245)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of the Rev. James F. Dimock
(Rolls Series 37; 1864)
- Robert Fabyan, The
Concordaunce of Hystoryes (Richard III Society American Branch - Primary Source Materials)
Extract from English text of Fabyan's chronicle covering 1482-1485
- Abbo of Fleury,
The Martyrdom of St. Edmund, King of East Anglia, 870
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation by Kenneth Cutler (1998)
from the Anglo-Saxon text in Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer (1961)
- John Foxe, Acts and Monuments ('Foxe's Book of Martyrs')
- Jean Froissart,
- Chroniques
French text - vols 1-14, 16, 18 and 20-25 of the 25-volume
edition of Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove (1867-77), in PDF format,
on the gallica site; numbers for "Recherche libre" field:
N038922-N038935, N038937, N038939, N038941-N038946
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The Chronicles of Froissart
(Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia) [not available, 19 June 2022; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from August 2008]
Extracts from the 16th-century English translation by John Bourchier, Lord Berners,
from the edition of G.C. Macaulay (1910)
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Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henri IV [1857]
(Making of America, University of Michigan)
English translation by Thomas Johnes; choice of images, PDF files or text,
with a search facility (but beware of sometimes inaccurate text conversion)
- Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV. (Susan Rhoads, Elfinspell)
Text of the English translation by Thomas Johnes (1848), in progress; with an Introduction by the transcriber.
- Tales
from Froissart (Steve Muhlberger, Nipissing University)
Extracts from the English translation by Thomas Johnes (1805)
- Les Chroniques de Sire Jean Froissart
Modern French translation by J. A. C. Buchon (3 vols; 1835), in PDF format,
on the gallica site; numbers for "Recherche libre" field:
N029759-N029761
- Gildas
- John Gower, several poems,
in Political poems and songs relating to English history,
composed during the period from the accession of Edw. III to that of Ric. III
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050165, N050166)
PDF format; texts - in various languages - from the edition of Thomas Wright
(Rolls Series 14, vols 1 and 2; 1859-1861)
- James Gairdner The historical collections of a citizen of London in the fifteenth century. (1876) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Royal Historical Society, Camden Society, new series, volume 17. Containing: I: John Page's poem on the siege of Rouen. II: Lydgate's verses on the kings of England. III: William Gregory's chronicle of London [to 1469].
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 .]
- Edward Grim,
The Murder of Thomas Becket
(Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University)
English translation by Dawn Marie Hayes,
from the text published in James Robertson, ed.,
Materials for the History of Thomas Becket
(Rolls Series 67; 1875-1885)
- Robert Grosseteste: [Bishop of Lincoln, d.1253] Letters
- Letters (the Electronic Grosseteste, University of Leeds) [not available, 12 December 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
Latin texts of 130 letters, from the edition of Henry Richards Luard (Rolls Series 25; 1861). The same site also contains texts of Grossesteste's scholarly and devotional works, an outline biography, links and bibliography.
- Roberti Grosseteste episcopi quondam Lincolniensis epistolae
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050190)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Henry Richards Luard
(Rolls Series 25; 1861)