Medieval and early modern texts:
(1) Works arranged by author: O-Z
- Augustus Le Prevost, ed., Orderici Vitalis Angligenĉ, Coenobii Uticensis Monachi, Historiĉ Ecclesiasticĉ Libri Tredecim (1845) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
Volume 3. 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
- Matthew Paris's English history from the year 1235 to 1273
(Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project,
Stanford University)
English translation by the Rev J. A. Giles (3 vols [1852-1854]).
PDF files - large downloads (26 MB and more per volume)
- 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)
- Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica majora, and Liber Additamentorum
(Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project,
Stanford University)
Latin text from the edition of Henry Richards Luard
(Rolls Series 57, vols 1-7; 1872-1883).
PDF format - very large downloads (34-60 MB per volume)
- 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)
- Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum: sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor
(Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project,
Stanford University)
Latin text from the edition of Sir Frederic Madden
(Rolls Series 44, vols 1-3; 1866, 1869).
PDF format - large downloads (25-34 MB per volume)
- 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 Conquérant
(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, Chronica et annales,
in Chronica monasterii S. Albani
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; number for "Recherche libre" field: N050203)
PDF format; Latin texts from the edition of Henry Thomas Riley
(Rolls Series 28, vol.3; 1865)
- 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)
Parallel Latin text and English translation, edited and translated
by Felice Lifshitz
- 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 Trevisa:
Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden monachi Cestrensis,
together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050257-N050259, N050261-N050264)
PDF format; Latin and English texts (incomplete) from the edition of Churchill Babington and others
(Rolls Series 41, vols 2-4 and 6-9; 1869-1886)
- Polydor Vergil,
Anglica Historia, Books 23-25
(Richard III Society)
Text from the edition of J. B. Nichols (1846)
- 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)
- Thomas Walsingham, Historia Anglicana and Gesta Abbatum Monasterii S. Albani,
in Chronica monasterii S. Albani
(gallica;
Bibliothèque Nationale de France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050197, N050202, N050198, N050203)
PDF format; Latin texts (incomplete) from the edition of Henry Thomas Riley
(Rolls Series 28; vols 1 and 2 of the Historia and vols 2 and 3 of the Gesta; 1863-1872)
- Henry Thomas Riley, ed., Gesta Abbatum Monasterii S. Albani, a Thoma Walsingham, regnante Ricardo Secundo, ejusdem ecclesiae praecentore, compilata. (1867) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
Latin text. Volume 2 of 3, covering 1290-1349.
- John Warkworth,
A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years
of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth
(Richard III Society)
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)
- 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. (1849) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
English translation by J. A. Giles.
- Benjamin Thorpe, ed., [Florence of Worcester] Florentii Wigorniensis monachi Chronicon ex chronicis ... (1849) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
Latin text. Volume 2 of 2, covering 1067-1295, with an index to both volumes.
- 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)
- Charles Wriothesley,
The Chronicle of England During the reign
of the Tudors from AD 1485 to 1559
(Lara E.Eakins, Tudor History) (temporarily unavailable)
Text from the edition of 1875
- Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Sermon of the Wolf to the English) (Melissa J. Bernstein, University of Rochester)
Original text and modern English translation of a sermon from c.1014.
- Chronicon vulgo dictum chronicon Thomae Wykes (A.D. 1066-1289)
in Annales Monastici
(gallica; Bibliothèque Nationale de
France; numbers for "Recherche libre" field: N050243, N050244)
PDF format; Latin text from the edition of Henry Richards Luard
(Rolls Series 36, vol.4 (indexed in vol.5); 1869)