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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. [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

7. Collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves.

No cover image available
Date:
circa 1450-1598
Physical Description:
approximately 2400 leaves : illustrations
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Policronicon.

No cover image available
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