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Religious and Devotional Hagiography Romance and Epic Chronicles Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic Philosophy Language Pedagogy Miscellaneous
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Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines The Unpublished Devotional Treatise of Henry of Lancaster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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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