Medieval and early modern texts:
(1) Works arranged by author: O-Z
- Augustus Le Prevost, ed., Orderici Vitalis Angligenae, Coenobii Uticensis Monachi, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Libri Tredecim. Volume 1. (1838) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text, with notes in French.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Augustus Le Prevost, ed., Orderici Vitalis Angligenae, Coenobii Uticensis Monachi, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Libri Tredecim. Volume 2. (1840) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text, with notes in French.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Augustus Le Prevost, ed., Orderici Vitalis Angligenae, Coenobii Uticensis Monachi, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Libri Tredecim. Volume 3. (1845) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin text, with notes in French.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
- Augustus Le Prevost, ed., Orderici Vitalis Angligenae, Coenobii Uticensis Monachi, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Libri Tredecim. Volume 4. (1852) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text, with notes in French.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Augustus Le Prevost, ed., Orderici Vitalis Angligenae, Coenobii Uticensis Monachi, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Libri Tredecim. Volume 5. (1855) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text, with notes in French.
- Orderic Vitalis:
The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N094617-N094620)
PDF format; a 19th-century French translation of the 12th-century work,
published under the title Histoire de Normandie by F. Guizot in 4 vols (1826)
- John of Oxenedes:
Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050164)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Sir Henry Ellis
(Rolls Series 13; 1859)
- Matthew Paris
- J. A. Giles, translator, Matthew Paris's English history. From the year 1235 to 1273. Volume 1. (1852) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
English translation.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 .]
- J. A. Giles, translator, Matthew Paris's English history. From the year 1235 to 1273. Volume 2. (1853) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
English translation.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
- J. A. Giles, translator, Matthew Paris's English history. From the year 1235 to 1273. Volume 3. (1854) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
English translation.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 .]
- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 1. The Creation to A.D. 1066. (1872) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
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- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 2. A.D. 1067 to A.D. 1216. (1874) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
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- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 3. A.D. 1216 to A.D. 1239. (1876) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
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- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 4. A.D. 1240 to A.D. 1247. (1877) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
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- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 5. A.D. 1248 to A.D. 1259. (1880) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 6. Additamenta. (1882) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora. Volume 7. Index. Glossary. (1883) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
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- Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica majora, and Liber Additamentorum
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050295-N050301)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Henry Richards Luard
(Rolls Series 57, vols 1-7; 1872-1883)
- Sir Frederic Madden, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum, sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor. Item, ejusdem Abbreviatio Chronicorum Angliae. Volume 1. A.D. 1067-1189. (1866) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
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- Sir Frederic Madden, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum, sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor. Item, ejusdem Abbreviatio Chronicorum Angliae. Volume 2. A.D. 1189-1245. (1866) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Sir Frederic Madden, ed., Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum, sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor. Item, ejusdem Abbreviatio Chronicorum Angliae. Volume 3. A.D. 1246-1253. (1868) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
- Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum: sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050269-N050271)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Sir Frederic Madden
(Rolls Series 44, vols 1-3; 1866, 1869)
- John Peckham:
Registrum epistolarum fratris Johannis Peckham, archiepiscopi cantuariensis
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050346, N050347)
PDF format; Latin text (incomplete) from the edition of Charles Trice Martin
(Rolls Series 77, vols 1 and 2 (of 3); 1882, 1884)
- Reginald Pecock:
The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy, by Reginald Pecock
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050172)
PDF format; text (incomplete) from the edition of Churchill Babington
(Rolls Series 19, vol.1; 1860)
- Benedict of Peterborough:
Gesta regis Henrici secundi benedicti abbatis: the chronicle of the reigns of Henry II and Richard I, A.D. 1169-1192.
known commonly under the name of Benedict of Peterborough
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050277, N050278)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of William Stubbs
(Rolls Series 49, vols 1 and 2; 1867)
- Guillaume de Poitiers:
Vie de Guillaume le Conqu�rant
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N094621)
PDF format; French translation, from the edition of F. Guizot
(1823-1835)
- Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence:
La Vie de Saint Thomas Becket
(The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub)
Original French text (omitting introductory material), from the edition of Emmanuel Walberg (Paris, 1936)
- Sir Walter Raleigh, A Report of the truth concerning the last sea-fight of the Revenge (Susan Rhoads, Elfinspell)
Original text and modernised version of a description of a sea battle in 1591, from The Last Fight of the Revenge At Sea (1902)
- Robert Redman, Vita 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)
- William Rishanger:
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Willelmi Rishanger, quondam monachi S. Albani, et quorundam anonymorum. Chronica et annales ... A.D. 1259-1307. (1865) (gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Rolls Series 28, item 2.
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Ypodigma Neustriæ, a Thoma Walsingham ... conscriptum. (1876) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 7. With a chronicle by William Rishanger, entitled "De duobus bellis apud Lewes et Evesham commissis."
- William Roper,
The Life of Sir Thomas More (Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University)
An account written by More's son-in-law; text from P.F. Collier, The prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli.
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More [etc] (Harvard Classics, vol.36; c1910)
- Dudo of St Quentin, Gesta Normannorum (ORB Online Library)
English translation by Felice Lifshitz. Note that the Latin transcription is missing from the ORB site, so it has been made available by the author, together with an introduction and glossary, on her website.
- Edmund Spenser
A vewe of the present state of Ireland (1596) (Hap Hazard, Cambridge University)
Transcripts, with images of selected pages
- 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)
- Gervase of Tilbury:
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)
- Robert of Torigni:
Chronique de Robert de Torigni. Abbé du Mont-Saint-Michel, ...
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N036182,N036183)
PDF format; Latin text and French critical apparatus,
from the edition of Léopold Delisle (2 vols; 1872, 1873)
- John de Trokelowe:
- Polydor Vergil:
- Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia (1555 edition) (Dana F. Sutton, University of California, Irvine)
Parallel Latin text and English translation, with an introduction.
- Sir Henry Ellis, editor, Polydore Vergil's English History, from an early translation ... Volume 1. ... the period prior to the Norman Conquest (1846) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Camden Society, Old Series, volume 36. From an English translation of the reign of Henry VIII.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Sir Henry Ellis, editor, Three books of Polydore Vergil's English History, comprising the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. From an early translation, ... (1844) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Camden Society, Old Series, volume 29. From an English translation of the reign of Henry VIII.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis)
-
The Description of Wales
(Project Gutenberg)
English translation from the edition of J.M. Dent (1912)
-
The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales
(Project Gutenberg)
English translation by Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1806),
from the edition of J.M. Dent (1912)
- Giraldi Cambrensis opera (gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field:
N050175, N050177-N050181)
PDF format; Latin texts (incomplete) from the edition of J.S. Brewer and others
(Rolls Series 21, vols 1 and 3-7 (of 8); 1861-77)
- William Wallingford:
- Thomas Walsingham:
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Thomæ Walsingham, quondam monachi S. Albani, Historia Anglicana. Volume 1. A.D. 1272-1381. (1863) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 1.
[Other copies at: gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France.]
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Thomæ Walsingham, quondam monachi S. Albani, Historia Anglicana. Volume 2. A.D. 1381-1422. (1864) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 1.
[Other copies at: gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France.]
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Johannis de Trokelowe, et Henrici de Blaneforde, monachorum S. Albani, necnon quorundam anonymorum, chronica et annales ... A.D. 1259-1296; 1307-1324; 1392-1406. (1866) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 3.
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani a Thoma Walsingham ... compilata. Volume 1. A.D. 793-1290. (1867) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 4.
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- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani a Thoma Walsingham ... compilata. Volume 2. A.D. 1290-1349. (1867) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 4.
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- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani a Thoma Walsingham ... compilata. Volume 3. A.D. 1349-1411. (1869) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 4.
[Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips]; gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de France.]
- Henry Thomas Riley, editor, Chronica monasterii S. Albani. Ypodigma Neustriæ, a Thoma Walsingham ... conscriptum. (1876) (Lollard Society)
Rolls Series 28, item 7. With a chronicle by William Rishanger, entitled "De duobus bellis apud Lewes et Evesham commissis."
- John Warkworth,
A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years
of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth
(Richard III Society American Branch - Primary Source Materials)
Text from the edition of James Orchard Halliwell (1839)
- Jehan de Wavrin (or Waurin),
- Anchiennes cronicques d'Engleterre
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N033157-N033159)
PDF format; medieval French text with modern French notes, from the edition of Melle Dupont, 3 vols
(1858-1863); for English translation, see below
- Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne,
à présent nommé Engleterre. To A. D. 1422
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050249-N050252)
PDF format; French text (incomplete) from the edition of William Hardy
(Rolls Series 39; vols 2-5; 1868-1891); for English translation, see next
- A collection of the chronicles and ancient histories of Great Britain, now called England
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050253-N050255)
PDF format; English translation of vols 1-3 of the Recueil des croniques,
from the edition of William Hardy and Edward L. C. P. Hardy
(Rolls Series 40; vols 1-3; 1864-1891)
- Henry O. Coxe, ed., Rogeri de Wendover. Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum. Volume 1. (1841) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Henry O. Coxe, ed., Rogeri de Wendover. Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum. Volume 2. (1841) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Henry O. Coxe, ed., Rogeri de Wendover. Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum. Volume 3. (1841) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Henry O. Coxe, ed., Rogeri de Wendover. Chronica, sive Flores Historiarum. Volume 4. (1842) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Appendix ad Rogeri de Wendover Flores Historiarum ... Matthaeus Parisiensis. (1844) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text.
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- Roger of Wendover, Flowers of history: comprising the history of England from the descent of the Saxons to A.D. 1235, formerly ascribed to Matthew Paris. Volume 1. (1849) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
English translation by J. A. Giles.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 .]
- Roger of Wendover, Flowers of history: comprising the history of England from the descent of the Saxons to A.D. 1235, formerly ascribed to Matthew Paris. Volume 2. (1849) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
English translation by J. A. Giles.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
- C. D. Yonge, translator, The Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the Affairs of Britain ... collected by Matthew of Westminster. Volume 1. (1853) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
English translation.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; melocki.org.uk.]
- C. D. Yonge, translator, The Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the Affairs of Britain ... collected by Matthew of Westminster. Volume 2. (1853) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
English translation.
[Other copies at: melocki.org.uk.]
- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Flores Historiarum. Volume 2. A.D. 1067-A.D. 1264. (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text. Rolls Series 95.
- Henry Richards Luard, ed., Flores Historiarum. Volume 3. A.D. 1265 to A.D. 1326. (1890) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text. Rolls Series 95.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- John Wheathampstead:
- Florence of Worcester:
- Benjamin Thorpe, ed., [Florence of Worcester] Florentii Wigorniensis monachi Chronicon ex chronicis ... (1848) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text. Volume 1 of 2, covering 450-1099.
- Benjamin Thorpe, ed., [Florence of Worcester] Florentii Wigorniensis monachi Chronicon ex chronicis ... (1849) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin text. Volume 2 of 2, covering 1067-1295, with an index to both volumes.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
- Thomas Forester, translator, The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester with the two continuations (1854) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
English translation, with index.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- John of Worcester,
Chronicle
(Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
Images of Corpus Christi College manuscript 157; Latin text, to 1140
- William of Worcester,
Annales rerum Anglicarum, 1324-1491, and collections respecting the wars in Normandy and France,
in Letters and papers illustrative of the wars of the English in France
during the reign of Henry the sixth, king of England
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050183-N050185)
PDF format; texts - with English translations of the French texts -
from the edition of the Rev. Joseph Stevenson
(Rolls Series 22, vols 1 and 2 (in 3 parts); 1861, 1864)
- Frances Neale, editor, William Worcestre: The Topography of Medieval Bristol. (2000) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Bristol Record Society Publications, 51. Latin text and English translation of a 15th-century topographical survey of Bristol.
- Thomas Hearne, ed., Liber Niger Scaccarii nec non Wilhelmi Worcestrii Annales Rerum Anglicarum. Volume 2. (1774) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Latin and French transcripts.
[Other copies at: Google Books [Hints and tips].]
- Charles Wriothesley (William Douglas Hamilton, ed.) A Chronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559. Volume 1. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
- Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Sermon of the Wolf to the English) (Melissa J. Bernstein, University of Rochester) [not available, 19 April 2015; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2006]
Original text and modern English translation of a sermon from c.1014.
- Wykes: Chronicon vulgo dictum chronicon Thomae Wykes (A.D. 1066-1289) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Latin text from the edition of Henry Richards Luard (Rolls Series 36, volume 4; 1869). For index in volume 5, see under "Annals" in Anonymous section.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]