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

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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

2. 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. ...

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Creator:
Lefèvre, Raoul, active 1460
Date:
[1473 or 1474]
Physical Description:
[704] pages ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288–1322
Date:
31 Mar. 1474
Physical Description:
[144] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Propositio Johannis Russell : printed by William Caxton circa A. D. 1476 / reproduced in facsimile from the copy preserved in the John Rylands Library, Manchester ; with an introduction by Henry Guppy.

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Creator:
Russell, John, -1494
Date:
1909
Physical Description:
35, [8] p. : facsim. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Date:
[not after 18 November 1477]
Physical Description:
[78] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Canterbury tales.

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Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1477]
Physical Description:
[748] p. ; 25 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The metamorphoses of Ovid / translated by William Caxton, 1480.

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Creator:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:
1968
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Vocabulary in French and English : a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480 / with introductions by J.C.T. Oates and L.C. Harmer.

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Creator:
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
Date:
1964
Physical Description:
xxxv, 49 p. : facsims. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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.

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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

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

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Date:
1481]
Physical Description:
[100] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

12. [The cronycles of Englond].

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Date:
[1482]
Physical Description:
[364] pages ; 25 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

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

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Creator:
Caoursin, Guillaume, d. 1501
Date:
1482?]
Physical Description:
[48] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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.

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Creator:
Chartier, Alain, active 15th century
Date:
[approximately 1483]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288–1322
Date:
[1483]
Physical Description:
[165] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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.

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Date:
[1484]
Physical Description:
[160] p. ; 28 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Date:
[1485 or 1486]
Physical Description:
[580] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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

20. The boke of Saint Albans, by Dame Juliana Berners, containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour: printed at Saint Albans by the schoolmaster-printer in 1486, reproduced in facsimile, with an introduction by William Blades ...

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Creator:
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
32 p., facsim.: 90 l., wdcts. (coats of arms) 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans : a facsimile edition of sigs. a2-f8 of the Boke of St. Albans (1486) / by Rachel Hands.

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Creator:
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Date:
1975
Physical Description:
lxix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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 ...

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Creator:
Roye, Guy de, Abp., ca. 1345–1409
Date:
7 May 1489
Physical Description:
[184] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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 ...

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Creator:
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364–approximately 1431
Date:
14 July 1489]
Physical Description:
[288] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. [Abridgement of cases]

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Creator:
Statham, Nicholas, -1472
Date:
[1490?]
Physical Description:
380 pages ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Raymond, of Capua, 1330–1399
Date:
[1492?]
Physical Description:
[192] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. 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 ...

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Date:
5 July 1493
Physical Description:
[488] p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Scala perfecc[i]onis.

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Creator:
Hilton, Walter, -1396
Date:
1494]
Physical Description:
[298] p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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Creator:
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century
Date:
[approximately 1495]
Physical Description:
[956] pages : illustrations ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Vitas patrum.

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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

30. 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

31. Diues & pauper.

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Date:
3 Dec. 1496
Physical Description:
[392] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

33. 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

34. The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur : notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf & actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : theyr merveyllous enquestes & adventures, thachyevynge of the sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. : which boke was reduced in to Englysshe / by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory.

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Creator:
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. [Here begynneth the legende named in latyn Legenda aurea, that is to saye in Englysse the golden legende].

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
16 Feb. 1503 [i.e. 1504]
Physical Description:
296 leaves : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Stultifera nauis.

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Creator:
Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:
1509 (14 Dec.)]
Physical Description:
[4], CCLXXIIII [i.e. CCLXXIX] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Stultifera Nauis, : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis [et] necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, / è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do. 1570. = The ship of fooles, : wherin is shewed the folly of all states, with diuers other workes adioyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. ; Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay Priest.

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Creator:
Brant, Sebastian, 1458–1521
Date:
[1570]
Physical Description:
[12], 259, [68] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Here begynneth a lytell cronycle / translated & imprinted at the cost & charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde Duke of Buckingham, Yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.

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Creator:
Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235–approximately 1314
Date:
[approximately 1520?]
Physical Description:
[2], xliiii, [1] leaf ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. [The legende named in latyn Legenda aurea that is to say in englysshe the golden legende].

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Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229–1298
Date:
15 Feb. 1512
Physical Description:
406 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Rycharde Rolle hermyte of Hampull in his contemplacyons of the drede and loue of god with other dyuerse tytles as it sheweth in his table.

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Date:
[1519?]
Physical Description:
[72] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Here endeth this presente Cronycle of Englande with the fruyte of tymes, compyled in a boke, & also impry[n]ted by one sumtyme scole mayster of Seynt Albons ...

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Date:
in the yere of oure lorde god MCCCCC and xx [1520]
Physical Description:
[6], Clxiii, [23] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Accidentia ex Sta[n]brigiana editione nuper recognita et castigata lima Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldiensis in florentissimna dromensi academia laureati.

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Creator:
Stanbridge, John, 1463–1510
Date:
anno d[omi]ni MDxxii [1522]
Physical Description:
[32] pages ; 18 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes.

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Creator:
Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531
Date:
1523
Physical Description:
124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Ortus vocabuloru[m] : alphabetico ordine fere omnia que in catholico breviloquo : cornucopia, gemma vocabulo atque medulla gra[m]matice ponu[n]tur, cum vernacule lingue Anglicane expositione continens.

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Date:
1528
Physical Description:
384 p. ; 19 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The iust reckenyng, or, Accompt of the whole nomber of the yeares : from the beginnyng of the world vnto this presente yere of 1547 : a certaine and sure declaracion that the world is at an ende : of the last day of judgment ... and have it shal come to passe / translated out of the Germaine tonge into Englishe by Anthony Scoloker ...

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Date:
1547
Physical Description:
[20] p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A short pathwaye to the ryghte and true vnderstanding of the holye & sacred scriptures / set fourth by that moste famous clerke, Huldrich Zwinglius and now translated out of Laten into Englysshe by Ihon Veron ...

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Creator:
Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484–1531
Date:
1550
Physical Description:
[208] p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

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Creator:
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Date:
MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:
[4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Mediciues for horses.

Mediciues for horses.
Date:
[approximately 1565?]
Physical Description:
[28] pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A newe booke containing the arte of ryding, and breaking greate horses : together with the shapes and figures, of many and diuers kyndes of byttes, mete to serue diuers mouthes. Very necessary for all gentlemen, souldyours, seruingmen, and for any man that delighteth in a horse.

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Creator:
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:
[not before 1566]
Physical Description:
[356] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The fower chiefest offices belonging to horsemanshippe : that is to say, the office of the breeder, of the rider, of the keeper, and of the ferrer. In the first parte wherof is declared the order of breeding of horses. In the seconde howe to breake them, and to make them horses of seruice. Conteyninge the whole art of ryding latelye set foorth, and nowe newelye corrected and amended of manye faultes escaped in the fyrst printing, as well touchyng the byttes as otherwyse. Thirdely, howe to dyet them, aswell when they reste as when they traueyle by the way. Fourthly, to what diseases they be subiecte togither with the causes of such diseases, the sygnes howe to knowe them, and finally howe to cure the same. which bookes are not onely painefully collected out of a number of aucthours, but also orderly dysposed and applyed to the vse of thys oure countrey / By Tho. Blundeuill of Newton Flotman in Norff.

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Creator:
Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561
Date:
[1570?]
Physical Description:
[5], 23, [2], 24-25, [4], 58, [29], 24, [5], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts