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Language English, Middle (1100-1500)

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1. John Porter manuscript.

John Porter manuscript.
Creator:
Porter, John, fl. 1445–1485
Date:
circa 1450
Physical Description:
1 v. (72 leaves) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Forty chess problems.

Forty chess problems.
Date:
circa 1450
Physical Description:
1 v. (10 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The miner and the rose / written and composed by Robert Donnelly ; [arranged by W.T. Webb].

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Creator:
Donnelly, Robert
Date:
[189-?]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

4. Here fynyssheth the boke yf [sic] Eneydos / compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij. Clxxxx. The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth.

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Creator:
Virgil
Date:
[not before 23 June 1490]
Physical Description:
[172] p. ; 26 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [Proof for the Kelmscott Chaucer, pages 223-224].

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Creator:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Date:
1896
Physical Description:
[2] pages : illustration ; 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Here begynneth the prohemye vpon the reducynge, both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute.

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Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Date:
... the xij day of August the yere of our lord MCCCClxxxj [12 Aug. 1481]
Physical Description:
[240] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Grete thankynges, lawde, & honoure we merytoryously ben bounde to yelde and offre vnto wryters of hystoryes, whiche gretely haue prouffyted oure mortal lyf, that shewe vnto the reders and herers by the ensamples of thynges passyd, what thynge is to be desyred.

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Creator:
Higden, Ranulf, -1364
Date:
[after 2 July, 1482]
Physical Description:
[20], CCCCxxviij, [1] leaves ; 28 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Sir Orfeo.

Sir Orfeo.
Date:
1980
Physical Description:
[25] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 39 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The craft of venery.

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Creator:
Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:
circa 1450
Physical Description:
1 v. (7 p.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Thus endeth the prologue of this book named. Cordʻyal. Whiche treteth of the four last and final thinges that ben to come. ...

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Creator:
Gerardus, de Vliederhoven, active 14th century
Date:
... fiinisshed on the euen of thannunciacion of our said bilissid Lady fallyng on the wednesday the xxiiij daye of Marche. In the xix yeer of Kying Edwarde the fourthe [24 Mar. 1479]
Physical Description:
[156] p. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts