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Religious and Devotional Hagiography Romance and Epic Chronicles Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic Philosophy Language Pedagogy Miscellaneous Medicine Nature and Geography

Religious and Devotional

Invention li Saincte Croiz

Transcribed by Geert De Wilde
British Library, Egerton 613, fols 25r-27v 2022
AND Bibliography: Invention

Jerome’s Letter to Paulinus and General Preface to the Old Testament

Transcribed by Geert De Wilde
British Library, Royal 1.C.iii, ff. 1-5ra and ff. 5ra-6ra 2023
AND Bibliography: S Jer

La Lumere as Lais by Pierre d'Abernon of Fetcham

Edited by G. Hesketh
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1996-2000
AND Bibliography: Lum Lais ANTS

La Seinte Resureccion from the Paris and Canterbury MSS

Edited by T.A. Jenkins, J.M. Manly, M.K. Pope and J.J. Wright
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1943
AND Bibliography: Resur

Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines The Unpublished Devotional Treatise of Henry of Lancaster

Edited by E.J. Arnould
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1940
AND Bibliography: Sz Med1

Le livre des psaumes Ancienne traduction française d'après les manuscrits de Cambridge et de Paris

Edited by F. Michel
Paris 1876
AND Bibliography: Camb Ps

Les Aprises Salamon

Transcribed by Jennifer Gabel de Aguirre
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 82, ff. 3r-6v 2022
AND Bibliography: Apr Sal

Mirour de Seinte Eglyse (St Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum Ecclesiae)

Edited by A. D. Wilshere
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1982
AND Bibliography: Mirour Egl

Prose Treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins

Transcribed by Geert De Wilde
BL, Cotton Vespasian D.III, ff. 208ra-210rb 2023
AND Bibliography: Pecchez

Prose version of The Gospel of Nicodemus

Transcribed by Jennifer Gabel de Aguirre and Geert De Wilde
BL, Egerton 613, fols 13v-21r 2023
AND Bibliography: Evang Nic Prose2

An Anglo-Norman Rhymed Apocalypse

Edited by O. Rhys
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1946
AND Bibliography: Apoc giffard

Robert le Chapelain, Corset A Rhymed Commentary on the Seven Sacraments

Edited by K.V. Sinclair
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1995
AND Bibliography: Corset ANTS

Sentences from the Fathers

Transcribed by Jennifer Gabel de Aguirre and Geert De Wilde
BL, Egerton 613, fol. 13r-v 2022
AND Bibliography: Sentences

An Anglo-Norman Rhymed Sermon on Shrift

Edited by Robin F. Jones
Originally published in Modern Philology Volume 79 1981-2
AND Bibliography: Serm DTC Shrift

Sermons on Joshua

Edited by Tony Hunt
ANTS Plain Texts Series 12-13, Oxford 1998
AND Bibliography: Joshua Sermons

The Hospitallers' Riwle

Edited by K. V. Sinclair
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1984
AND Bibliography: Hosp Rule

The Oxford Anglo-Norman Psalter [MS Bodleian Douce 320]

Edited by F. Michel
Paris 1876
AND Bibliography: Oxf Ps1

Hagiography

La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei

Edited by K.Y. Wallace
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1983
AND Bibliography: S Edw paris ANTS

La Passiun de Seint Edmund

Edited by J. Grant
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1978
AND Bibliography: S Edm Pass ANTS

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence La Vie de Saint Thomas Becket

Edited by E. Walberg
Paris 1935
AND Bibliography: Becket1

La Vye de Seynt Fraunceys d'Assise (MS Paris, BNF, Fonds Français 13505)

Edited by D.W. Russell, with the collaboration of A.R. Harden and H.S.F. Collins
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 2002
AND Bibliography: S Fran ANTS

St. Modwenna

Edited by A.T. Baker and A. Bell
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1947
AND Bibliography: S Modw

The Crusade and Death of Richard I

Edited by R. C. Johnston
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1961
AND Bibliography: Rich I

Vie de Saint Georges in: Les oeuvres de Simund de Freine, pp. 61-117

Edited by J. E. Matzke
Paris 1909
AND Bibliography: S Geo

The Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan

Edited by I. Short and B. Merrilees
Manchester, MUP 1979
AND Bibliography: S Brend mup

Romance and Epic

Amys e Amillyoun

Edited by H. Fukui
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1990
AND Bibliography: Amis ANTS

Floire et Blancheflur

Edited by Ian Short
ANTS Plain Texts Series 22, Oxford 2020
AND Bibliography: Floire ants

The Anglo-Norman Folie Tristan

Edited by I. Short
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1993
AND Bibliography: Fol Trist ANTS

Fouke le Fitz Waryn

Edited by E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1975
AND Bibliography: Fouke ANTS

La Chanson d'Otinel

Transcribed and edited by Delphine Demelas
Cologny-Geneva, Bibl. Bodmeriana 168, ff. 211ra-222rb (MS 'B') with variants from Paris, BN nouv. acq. franç. 5094, ff. 7-8 (MS 'M') 2024
AND Bibliography: Otinel

La Destructioun de Rome

Edited by L. Formisano
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1990
AND Bibliography: Dest Rome1

Le Donnei des amants

Edited by Anthony J. Holden
ANTS Plain Texts Series 17, Oxford 2013
AND Bibliography: Donn Am

The Anglo-Norman 'Alexander' Le Roman de toute Chevalerie by Thomas of Kent

Edited by B. Foster with the assistance of I. Short
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1976-7
AND Bibliography: Rom Chev ANTS

Hue de Rotelande, Protheselaus

Edited by A.J. Holden
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1991-3
AND Bibliography: Proth ANTS

The Romance of Horn by Thomas

Edited by M. K. Pope
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1955
AND Bibliography: Horn

Chronicles

'Le Petit Bruit' by Rauf de Boun

Edited by Diana B. Tyson
ANTS Plain Texts Series 4, Oxford 1987
AND Bibliography: Petit Bruit

An Anglo-Norman Brut [MS ROYAL 13.A.xxi]

Edited by A. Bell
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1969
AND Bibliography: Brut Royal

The Anglo-Norman Chronicle of Wigmore Abbey

Edited by J.C. Dickinson and P.T. Ricketts
Transactions of The Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Vol. 39, 1967-9, pp.413-45
AND Bibliography: Wigmore

Croniques de London depuis l'an 44 Hen III jusqu'à l'an 17 Edw III

Edited by G.J. Aungier
London, Camden Society 1844
AND Bibliography: Cron Lond1

L'Estoire des Engleis by Geffrei Gaimar

Edited by A. Bell
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1960
AND Bibliography: GAIMAR1

Le Livere de Reis De Brittanie

Edited by J. Glover
London 1865
AND Bibliography: Reis Britt1

Le Livere de Reis de Engletere

Edited by J. Glover
London 1865
AND Bibliography: Reis Engl1

Li Rei de Engleterre Ein anglo-normannischer Geschichtsauszug

Edited by J. Koch
Berlin 1886
AND Bibliography: Reis Britt2

The Anglo-Norman Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle of Williame de Briane

Edited by I. Short
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1973
AND Bibliography: Turpin

French materials from The Anonimalle Chronicle 1307-1334 [From Brotherton Collection MS 29]

Edited by W.R. Childs and J. Taylor
Leeds, Yorkshire Archaeological Society 1991
AND Bibliography: Anon Chr2

Three Anglo-Norman Chronicles

Edited by Peter T. Ricketts
ANTS Plain Texts Series 11, Oxford 2011
AND Bibliography: Three Chronicles

Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic

French materials from A Roll of the Proceedings of the King's Council in Ireland for a Portion of the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of Richard II A.D. 1392-93

Edited by J. Graves
London 1877
AND Bibliography: King’s Council Ireland

French materials from Ancient Petitions relating to Northumberland

Edited by C. M. Fraser
Durham and London, Surtees Society 1966
AND Bibliography: Northumb

French materials from Annales Londonienses and Annales Paulini

Edited by W. Stubbs
London, Longman & Co. 1882
AND Bibliography: Ann Lond

French materials from Annales Monasterii de Burton [MS. Cotton. Vespas. E. iii.]

Edited by H.R. Luard
London 1871
AND Bibliography: Ann Burt

Britton

Edited by F.M. Nichols
Oxford 1865
AND Bibliography: BRITT

Documents Illustrating the Rule of Walter de Wenlok, Abbot of Westminster

Edited by Barbara F. Harvey
London, Royal Historical Society 1965
AND Bibliography: Westm Wenlok

French materials from Foedera

Edited by T. Rymer & R. Sanderson
Vols 1-4 London 1816-1869
AND Bibliography: Foedera1

John of Gaunt's Register (1371-75)

Edited by S. Armitage-Smith
London, Camden Society 1911
AND Bibliography: GAUNT1

Anglo-Norman Letters and Petitions and Petitions from All Souls MS 182

Edited by M. Dominica Legge
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1941
AND Bibliography: Lett & Pet

French materials from Liber Albus Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, Vol 1

Edited by H.T. Riley
London 1860
AND Bibliography: Lib Alb

French materials from Liber Custumarum with extracts from Cottonian MS Claudius D. II

Edited by H.T. Riley
London 1860
AND Bibliography: Lib Cust

French materials from Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon

Edited by Joseph T. Fowler
vols 1 and 2, Durham, Surtees Society 1882 and 1886. 1882,1886
AND Bibliography: Ripon

French materials from Northern Petitions illustrative of life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the fourteenth century

Edited by C. M. Fraser
Durham, Surtees Society 1981
AND Bibliography: Northern Pet

French materials from Private Indentures for Life Service in Peace and War 1278-1476

Edited by M. Jones and S. Walker
London, Royal Historical Society 1994
AND Bibliography: Private Indentures

French materials from Register of Daniel Rough Common clerk of Romney, 1353-1380

Edited by K. M. E. Murray
Canterbury, Kent Archaeological Society 1945
AND Bibliography: ROUGH

French materials from Registrum Epistolarum Fratris Johannis Peckham Archepiscopi Cantuariensis

Edited by C.T. Martin
London 1882
AND Bibliography: Reg Peckham

French materials from Royal and Other Historical Letters Illustrative of the reign of Henry III

Edited by W. Waddington Shirley
London, Longmans 1866
AND Bibliography: Roy Lett Hen III

Tenores Novelli or Treatise of Tenures by Sir Thomas Littleton

Transcribed and edited by Geert De Wilde
London, British Library G.2190(1) 2022
AND Bibliography: Littleton

French materials from Testamentata Eboracensia Wills Registered at York, Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics. etc. of the Province of York

Edited by L. Baker and J. Raine
London, Surtees Society 1836, 1855 & 1864
AND Bibliography: Test Ebor

The Black Book of the Admiralty, Vol. 1

Edited by T. Twiss
London 1871
AND Bibliography: Blk Bk Adm

The Black Book of the Admiralty, Vol. 2

Edited by T. Twiss
LONDON 1871
AND Bibliography: Dom Gip

The Oak Book of Southampton (c. A.D. 1300)

Edited by P. Studer
2 Vols. Southampton 1910.
AND Bibliography: Oak Book

French materials from The Percy Chartulary

Edited by M.T. Martin
Durham, Surtees Society 1911
AND Bibliography: Percy Ch

The Port Books of Southampton 1427-1430

Edited by P. Studer
Southampton 1913
AND Bibliography: Port Bk studer

The Red Book of the Exchequer Part III

Edited by Hubert Hall
London, HMSO 1896
AND Bibliography: Red Bk

French materials from The Register of Walter de Stapeldon Bishop of Exeter, A.D. 1307-1326

Edited by F. C. Hingeston-Randolph
London 1892
AND Bibliography: STAPELDON

French materials from The Statutes of the Realm Vol. 1

London 1810
AND Bibliography: Stats

French materials from The War of Saint-Sardos (1323-1325) Gascon Correspondence and Diplomatic Documents

Edited by P. Chaplais
London, Royal Historical Society 1954
AND Bibliography: St Sard

French materials from York Memorandum Book Part I. (1376-1419)

edited by M. Sellers
Durham, London, Berlin, Surtees Society 1912.
AND Bibliography: YMB

Philosophy

Distichs of Cato, translated by Elie of Winchester

Edited by Tony Hunt
ANTS Plain Texts Series 24, Oxford 2022
AND Bibliography: CATO1

Distichs of Cato, translated by Everard

Edited by Tony Hunt
ANTS Plain Texts Series 24, Oxford 2022
AND Bibliography: cato everard ants

La Petite Philosophie An Anglo-Norman Poem of the Thirteenth Century

Edited by W. H. Trethewey
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1939
AND Bibliography: Pet Phil

Le Livre de Catun

Edited by T. Hunt
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1994
AND Bibliography: CATO ANON ANTS

Le Petit Plet

Edited by B.S. Merrilees
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1970
AND Bibliography: Pet Plet ANTS

Le Roman de Philosophie in: Les Œuvres de Simund de Freine, pp. 1-60

Edited by J. E. Matzke
Paris 1909
AND Bibliography: Rom Phil

Le Secré de Secrez by Pierre d'Abernun of Fetcham

Edited by O. A. Beckerlegge
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1944
AND Bibliography: Secr abernun

Les Proverbes de Salemon by Sanson de Nantuil

Edited by C. C. Isoz
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1988-94
AND Bibliography: Salemon

Language Pedagogy

Liber Donati A Fifteenth-Century Manual of French

Edited by B. Merrilees and B. Sitz-Fitzpatrick
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1993
AND Bibliography: Liber Donati

Manières de Langage (1396, 1399, 1415)

Edited by A.M. Kristol
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1995
AND Bibliography: Man lang ANTS

Nominale sive Verbale

Edited by W.W. Skeat
Transactions of the Philological Society, 1903-06, pp. 1*-50* 1906
AND Bibliography: Nominale

Orthographia gallica (French Version)

Edited by Ronald C. Johnston
ANTS Plain Texts Series 5, Oxford 1987
AND Bibliography: Orth Gall ANTS

Walter de Bibbesworth. Le Tretiz

Edited by W. Rothwell
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1990
AND Bibliography: BIBB ANTS

Miscellaneous

Les Gius Partiz des Eschez. Two Anglo-Norman Chess Treatises

Edited by T. Hunt
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1985
AND Bibliography: Eschez ANTS

Eighteen Anglo-Norman Fabliaux

Edited by I. Short and R. Pearcy
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society, London 2000
AND Bibliography: Fabliaux

Les Proverbes del Vilain

Edited by Keith Busby
ANTS Plain Texts Series 23, Oxford 2021
AND Bibliography: Prov Digby

Phillipe de Thaon, Comput

Edited by I. Short
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1984
AND Bibliography: Comput ANTS

Anglo-Norman Political Songs

Edited by I. S. T. Aspin
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1953
AND Bibliography: Pol Songs

Rauf de Linham, Kalender

Edited by T. Hunt
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1983
AND Bibliography: RAUF ANTS

Medicine

An Anglo-Norman Medical Compendium

Edited by Tony Hunt
ANTS Plain Texts Series 18, Oxford 2014
AND Bibliography: Med Comp ANTS

An Anglo-Norman Pharmacopoeia (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 761)

Edited by Tony Hunt
ANTS Plain Texts Series 19, Oxford 2017
AND Bibliography: Pharmacopoeia

Nature and Geography

Barthélemy l'Anglais, Le Livre des Regions

Edited by Brent A. Pitts
ANTS Plain Texts Series 15, Oxford 2006
AND Bibliography: Liv Regions

Lettre d’Alexandre sur les merveilles de l’Inde

Edited by Brent A. Pitts
ANTS Plain Texts Series 21, Oxford 2019
AND Bibliography: Merveilles Inde

The 'Bestiare' by Philippe de Thaon

Edited by Ian Short
ANTS Plain Texts Series 20, Oxford 2018
AND Bibliography: Best1