Medieval Books in electronic format

Anonymous works

• An Anthology of Chancery English
• Everyman
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Harley Lyrics
• The Alliterative Morte Arthure
• Octovian (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.2.38)
• Octovian (Lincoln, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91)
• The Owl and the Nightingale (Cotton ms)
• The Owl and the Nightingale (Jesus College, Oxford MS 29)
• Pearl
• Sawles Warde: an Early Middle English Homily
• The Siege of Jerusalem
• The Towneley Plays
• The York Plays

Chaucer

• The Canterbury Tales
  Press here for individual tales
• Troilus and Criseyde

DunBar

• The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Women and the Wedo

Gower

• Confessio Amantis

Henryson

• The Testament of Cresseid
• The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian
• The Minor Poems of Robert Henryson
• Orpheus and Eurydice

Langland

• The Vision of Piers Plowman

Layamon

• Layamon's Brut (Cotton Caligula A.IX ms)
• Layamon's Brut (Cotton Otho C.XIII ms)

Paston

• Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, Part I

Other Works:

• The Magna Carta (1215)
• St. Augustine (354-430): Confessions (401) (a translation)
• Beowulf (a translation)
• Concilium Romarici Montis (12th century) (in Latin)
• Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Divina Commedia (in Italian)
• Geoffrey Chaucer (ca 1342-1400): Canterbury Tales
• Annala Rioghachta Eireann (1589-1616) (in Gaelic)
• The King James Bible
• George Silver: Paradoxes of Defence (1599) (includes some images)
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Manuscript Images

• Cotton Vitellius A. xv (Beowulf)
• manuscripts in the Bodleian library also here
• The Book of Kells also here
• various manuscripts of Piers Plowman
• illustrations from Dante's Inferno
• DScriptorium is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.
• from the Duke of Berry's Tres Riches Heures (15th century)

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