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1. Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende : for lyke as passeth golde in valewe all other metallys so this legende excelleth all other bookes.

Here begynneth the legende named in Latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysshe The golden legende : for lyke as passeth golde in valewe all other metallys so this legende excelleth all other bookes.
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
[8 January 1498/99?]
Physical Description:
2 parts in 1 volume ([1], lij, [1], [MC]CCClxxxxviii [i.e. CCC.lxxxix], [1] leaves) : illustrations (woodcuts) 29cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The Canterbury tales.

The Canterbury tales.
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1483]
Physical Description:
[312] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...

Here in thys boke afore ar contenyt the bokys of haukyng and huntyng with other plesuris dyuerse as in the boke apperis and also of cootarmuris a nobull werke. ...
Creator:
Berners, Juliana, 1388?-
Date:
[1486]
Physical Description:
[180] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde or thymage of the same.

No cover image available
Date:
1481]
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Here begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye / composed and drawen out of dyuerce bookes of latyn in to frensshe by the ryght venerable persone and worshipfull man, Raoul le ffeure, preest and chapelayn vnto the ryght noble gloryous and myghty prynce in his tyme Phelip duc of Bourgoyne of Braband [et]c in the yere of the incarnacion of our lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure, and translated and drawen out of frenshe in to englisshe by Willyam Caxton mercer of ye cyte of London, at the comau[n]deme[n]t of the right hye myghty and vertuouse pryncesse hys redoubtyd lady. Margarete by the grace of god, Duchesse of Bourgoyne of Lotryk of Braband [et]c., whiche sayd translacion and werke was ... fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the. xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen [et]c. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Lefèvre, Raoul, active 1460
Date:
[1473 or 1474]
Physical Description:
[704] pages ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Here begynneth the boke intituled Eracles, and also of Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the conquest of the holy londe of Jherusalem ...

No cover image available
Creator:
William, of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre, approximately 1130–approximately 1190
Date:
20 Nov. 1481
Physical Description:
[144] leaves ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Canterbury tales.

No cover image available
Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1477]
Physical Description:
[748] p. ; 25 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Riche and pore have like cu[m]mynge into this worlde & lyke outgoying but their liuyng in this worlde is unlike : what shulde confort a pore man ayenst grutchyng and what wyckednesses folowe louers of richesses ...

No cover image available
Date:
5 July 1493
Physical Description:
[488] p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Here begynneth the lyf of Saint Katherin of Senis the Blessid Virgin.

No cover image available
Creator:
Raymond, of Capua, 1330–1399
Date:
[1492?]
Physical Description:
[192] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. [Chronicles of England with the Fruit of times].

No cover image available
Date:
[1485 or 1486]
Physical Description:
[580] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Scala perfecc[i]onis.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hilton, Walter, -1396
Date:
1494]
Physical Description:
[298] p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Abridgement of cases]

No cover image available
Creator:
Statham, Nicholas, -1472
Date:
[1490?]
Physical Description:
380 pages ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Here begynneth the prologue or prohemye of the book callid Caton : whiche booke hath ben translated in to Englysshe by Mayster Benet Burgh, late Archedeken of Colchestre and hye chanon of saint stephens at westmestre ... and by cause of late cam to my hand a book of the said Caton in Frensshe, whiche reherceth many a fayr lernynge and notable ensamples, I haue translated it oute of frensshe in to Englysshe, as al along here after shalle appiere, whiche I presente vnto the cyte of london.

No cover image available
Date:
[1484]
Physical Description:
[160] p. ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Here begynneth a shorte & a breue table on these Cronycles ...

No cover image available
Date:
and newely in the ye[a]r of Our Lord God 1497 ..
Physical Description:
[452] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The holy apostle and doctour of the peple saynt Poule sayth in his epystle.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288–1322
Date:
[1483]
Physical Description:
[165] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. [The cronycles of Englond].

No cover image available
Date:
[1482]
Physical Description:
[364] pages ; 25 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. [T]o the moste excellente, moste redoubted and most crysten kyng, Kyng Edward the fourth / Johan Kay hys humble poete lawreate ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Caoursin, Guillaume, d. 1501
Date:
1482?]
Physical Description:
[48] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Here foloweth the copye of a lettre whyche Maistre Alayn Charetier wrote to hys brother whyche desired to come dwelle in Court : in whyche he reherseth many myseryes [and] wretchydnesses therin vsed for taduyse hym not to entre in to it leste he after repente like as hier after folowe : and late translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe / whyche copye was delyuerid to me by a noble and vertuous erle at whos instance [and] requeste I haue reduced it in to Englyssh.

No cover image available
Creator:
Chartier, Alain, active 15th century
Date:
[approximately 1483]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Incipiu[n]t exe[m]pla sacre sc[ri]pture ex utroq[ue] testame[n]to secund[dum] ordin[em] l[itte]ra[rum] coll[e]c[t]a [et] p[rimo] de abstine[n]tia.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hannapes, Nicolas de, 1225?-1291
Date:
anno d[omi]ni m.cccc.lxxxi [1481]
Physical Description:
[176] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Bartholomeu[s] de proprietatib[us] re[rum].

No cover image available
Creator:
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century
Date:
[approximately 1495]
Physical Description:
[956] pages : illustrations ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres ...

No cover image available
Date:
[not after 18 November 1477]
Physical Description:
[78] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Policronicon.

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Creator:
Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:
ended the thyrtenth daye of Apryll the tenth yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth. And of the incarnacyon of our lord: MCCCC lxxxxv [13 April 1495]
Physical Description:
[50], CCCxxxvi, CCCxxxvi-CCCxlvi, [1] leaves : illustrations, music ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Diues & pauper.

No cover image available
Date:
3 Dec. 1496
Physical Description:
[392] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Here begynneth the table of the rubryshys of the boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye : whiche sayd boke is departyd in to foure partyes ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364–approximately 1431
Date:
14 July 1489]
Physical Description:
[288] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. That this is writen in this lytel boke ought the prestes to lerne and teche to theyr parysshes : and also it is necessary for symple prestes that understode not the scriptures : and it is made for symple peple and put into englisshe ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Roye, Guy de, Abp., ca. 1345–1409
Date:
7 May 1489
Physical Description:
[184] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Vitas patrum.

No cover image available
Date:
the yere of Our Lorde MCCCClxxxxv ... [1495]
Physical Description:
[8], CCCxlvii [that is, 348] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. [T]o the right noble, right excellent prince George duc of Clarence ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288–1322
Date:
31 Mar. 1474
Physical Description:
[144] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts