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Reference Shelf

A Guide to Online Textual Resources

Index to the Volumes of the Rolls Series
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, ed. Paul Halsall
ORB Text Library
From time to time, ORB makes available here new transcriptions and/or translations of important medieval texts that have not previously been accessible in print or electronic format.
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World Wide Web Virtual Library/Medieval
Global Catholic Network Library
This search engine will give you access to over 9000 Catholic files available for viewing or FTP. While the purpose of this site is not purely academic, it may provide material on a number of church-related issues.

Individual Documents on the Web: Alphabetical Index:

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A

Adams, Michael/Feudal dictionary/1988/35k [ENGLISH-SERVER]
Aesop/Aesop's fables/Translated by Townsend, George Fyler, 1814-1900/224k/PG21 [WIRETAP] American English Dictionary (NIH)
An Anthology of Chancery English [UVA]
Anonymous/Sir Gawayne and the grene knyght/1400/155k/OTA 1680
Anonymous/The wife Of Ushers well
Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers [CCEL]
Anthony, Denise/Guide to archives on the Internet/1994 [UMICH]
Antoninus: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus [TECH-MIT]
Apollodorus: Pseudo-Apollodorus Library [TECH-MIT]
Aquinas, Thomas: The Summa Theologica
Aristotle: Categories [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: History of Animals [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Metaphysics [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Meteorology [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Dreams [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Interpretation [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Longevity and Shortness of Life [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Memory and Reminiscence [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Prophesying by Dreams [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Sense and The Sensible [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Sleep and Sleeplessness [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On The Gait of Animals [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On The Heavens [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On The Motion of Animals [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On The Parts of Animals [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On The Soul [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: On Youth and Old Age, On Life And Death, On Breathing [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Physics [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Poetics [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Politics [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Posterior Analytics [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Prior Analytics [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Rhetoric [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: The Athenian Constitution [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Topics [TECH-MIT]
Aristotle: Virtues and Vices [TECH-MIT]
Arsenios of Cappadocia: BLESSING-PSALTER [PACHOMIUS]
Artephius/The secret book (alchemy) [WIRETAP]
Ascot, Jackie: Copts through the Ages
Atiya, Aziz S. : The Copts and Christian Civilization
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo/The confessions and enchiridion/1955/Translated by Outler, Albert C. [WIRETAP]
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo/Confessions
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B

BASIL THE GREAT, Eighth Epistle [PACHOMIUS]
BASIL THE GREAT, Second Epistle [PACHOMIUS]
Basil The Great, Seventh Epistle [PACHOMIUS]
Bible (New International Version)
Bible (Revised Standard Version) (searchable HTML at gospe
Biblical View of Slavery
Boethius, Consolatio philosophiae [UVA]
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy [UVA]
Bogart, G./Guide to Christian resources on the Internet/1994 [UMICH]
Boniface VIII/Selected writings [WIRETAP]
Boniface VIII (1294-1303): Encyclical
Brothers Grimm/Tales
Burnt Njal [OMACL]
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C

Carle of Carlisle [CAMELOT]
Carus Lucretius: On The Nature of Things [TECH-MIT]
Catherine of Siena, Saint: The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin [CCEL]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400/Canterbury tales/1993/601k [WIRETAP]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400/The wife of Bath's tale
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Book of the Duchesse [OMACL]
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The House of Fame [OMACL]
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Parliament of Fowles [OMACL]
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Troilus and Criseyde [UVA]
Cibber, Colley: Richard III (18th century adaptation)
CLEMENT OF ROME, First Epistle [PACHOMIUS]
Codex Junius 11 [OMACL] Commentaries on the Classics [WIRETAP]
Cyprian, Exhortation to Martyrdom, to Fortunatus [from American U]
Cyprian, Jealousy and Envy [from American U]
Cyprian, Mortality [from American U]
Cyprian, That Idols Are Not Gods [from American U]
Cyprian, The Dress of Virgins [from American U]
Cyprian, The Good of Patience [from American U]
Cyprian, The Lapsed [from American U]
Cyprian, The Lord's Prayer [from American U]
Cyprian, The Unity of the Catholic Church [from American U]
Cyprian, To Demetrian [from American U]
Cyprian, To Donatus [from American U]
Cyprian, Works and Almsgiving [from American U]
Cyril of Jerusalem: First Catechetical Lecture [PACHOMIUS]
CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: Introductory Lecture [PACHOMIUS]
Cyril of Jerusalem: Second Catechetical Lecture [PACHOMIUS]
Cyril of Jerusalem: Third Catechetical Lecture [PACHOMIUS]
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D

DaSent, George W., trans.: The Story of Burnt Njal [OMACL]
Didache [PACHOMIUS]
Diderot, Denis: Search the Encyclopidie for headwords
Dodd, Omar Stephen/Dictionary of Qur'anic Arabic/1989
Douay-Reims Bible
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E

EPHRAIM OF SYRIA:A Hymn against Bar-Daisan [PACHOMIUS]
EPHRAIM OF SYRIA:THE PEARL: Seven Hymns On The Faith [PACHOMIUS]
EUCHERIUS OF LYONS, On Contempt for the World [PACHOMIUS]
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F

Fawcett, Edgar: The New King Arthur: An Opera Without Music [CAMELOT]
Fisher, Jane, ed.: An Anthology of Chancery English [UVA]
FitzGerald, Edward, trans.: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [WIRETAP]
Fowler, Henry Watson: The King's English (second edition)
Froissart, Jean: The Chronicles of Froissart [UVA]
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G

Galba, Marti Joan de: The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc [GUTENBERG]
Gordon, E. V., ed.: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [UVA]
Gordon, E. V., ed.: Pearl [UVA]
Gower, John: Confessio Amantis [UVA]
The Electronic Grosseteste
Grote, Dale/Study guide to Wheelock Latin [WIRETAP]
Harley Lyrics [UVA]
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H

Hirtle, Peter/Surfing the Internet for the history of medicine/1994 [UMICH]
History of Spain
History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria: Ancient Prefaces [PACHOMIUS]
Hunt, Laura/Sources for women's studies/feminist information on the Internet/1994 [UMICH]
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I

Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Philadelphians [PACHOMIUS]
Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Smyrnaeans [PACHOMIUS]
Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Trallians [PACHOMIUS]
Ignatius of Antioch: Epistle to the Magnesians [PACHOMIUS]
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint: Spiritual Exercises [CCEL]
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J
Jerome, Saint/St. Jerome on marriage and virginity
John of Ruysbroeck: The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage and Other Works [CCEL]
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love [CCEL] Go to Alphabetical Index
K

Kempis, Thomas: The Imitation of Christ [CCEL]
Kessler, John, Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher [FREETHOUGHT]
Khayyam, Omar/Rubayyat/1859/Translated by FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 [WIRETAP]
King Edward III [UVA]
King James Bible
Koranteng-Pipim, Samuel: Searching the Scriptures: Women's Ordination
Krishna, Valerie, ed.: The Alliterative Morte Arthure [UVA]
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L
Lancelot of the Laik [CAMELOT] Lang, Andrew: The Arabian Nights Entertainments [At Wiretap]
Langland, William: The Vision of Piers Plowman [WIRETAP]
Layamon: Brut [UVA]
Lewis, Charlton Miner: Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale [CAMELOT]
Life and Death of Cormac the Skald [GUTENBERG]
Life of St. Januarius [Pachomius]
Luther, Martin: Small Catechism (text files at cuis.edu) Go to Alphabetical Index
M

Marchand, Jim, trans.: De Dialectica (HTML with commentary at Penn)
Marriage of Sir Gawain [CAMELOT]
Martorell, Joanot: The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc [GUTENBERG]
MARTYRDOM OF BARSAMYA [PACHOMIUS]
MARTYRDOM OF ST. PELAGIA OF CAESAREA [PACHOMIUS]
MARTYRDOM OF ST. POLYCARP OF SMYRNA [PACHOMIUS]
McBride, Katie/Guide to German history resources on the Internet/1993 [UMICH]
McSparran, Frances, ed.: Octovian [UVA]
McSparran, Frances, ed.: The Harley Lyrics [UVA]
Meinardus, Otto : The Holy Family in Egypt [Abridged]
Melanchthon, Philip: The Augsburg Confession [GUTENBERG]
Methodius of Olympus, ORATION ON SIMEON AND ANNA [PACHOMIUS]
Moncrief, Charles Scott, trans.: The Song of Roland [OMACL]
More, Thomas: Utopia [ENGLISH-SERVER]
Morville, Peter/Philosophy related resources on the Internet/1994 [UMICH]
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N

New American Standard Bible (searchable HTML at gospelcom.net)
Norweigan Dictionary
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O

O'Donnell, James J.: Augustine (HTML at Penn)
O'Donnell, James J.: Cassiodorus (HTML at Penn)
Octovian [UVA]
On-Line Medieval and Classical Texts [OMACL]
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P

Pater, Walter: Plato and Platonism (IBM-PC program in Australi
Patrick, Saint: The Confession of Saint Patrick [CCEL]
Pearl [UVA]
[CCEL]
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni: Oration on the Dignity of Man
Plotinus: The Six Enneads [TECH-MIT]
Prudentius/Liber peristephanon/1993
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R

Reilly, Bernard F.: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Richardson, Malcolm, ed.: An Anthology of Chancery English [UVA]
Roberts, Alexander, trans.: The Life of St. Martin (annotated
Robinson, Edwin Arlington: Merlin [CAMELOT] Roget's Thesaurus (1911) [GUTENBERG]
Rose, William Stewart, trans.: Orlando Furioso [OMACL]
Rudder, Robert, trans.: The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc [GUTENBERG]
Ruysbroeck, John of: The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage [CCEL]
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S

Saga of Grettir the Strong ("Grettir's Saga") [OMACL]
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832/Ivanhoe/1895/WT [WIRETAP]
Severus, Sulpicius: The Life of St. Martin (annotated HTML at
Shoaf, Richard Allen: Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [UVA]
Sir Tristrem [CAMELOT]
Smith, Charlotte: Saint Monica
Song of Roland [OMACL]
Stefansson, Jon, trans.: The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald [GUTENBERG]
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T

Tasso, Torquado: Jerusalem Delivered [GUTENBERG]
Tertullian, Patience (203 AD) [AMERICAN U]
Tertullian, Prayer (200 AD) [AMERICAN U]
Tertullian, Spectacles (197 AD) [AMERICAN U]
Tertullian, The Apparel of Women (197 AD) [AMERICAN U]
Tertullian, To the Martyrs (197 AD) [AMERICAN U]
The Alliterative Morte Arthure [UVA]
The Alliterative Morte Arthure [UVA]
THEODORE OF STUDIUM: Selected Poems, with the Letter to Casia [PACHOMIUS]
Theodore of Studium: SIXTY-FIRST DISCOURSE [PACHOMIUS]
Theodore of Studium: SIXTY-FIRST DISCOURSE [CAMELOT]
Theodore of Studium: TWENTY-SEVENTH DISCOURSE [PACHOMIUS]
Theologia Germanica [CCEL]
Thomas Aquinas, Saint: Summa Theologica (HTML at knight.org)
Tolkien, J. R. R., ed.: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [UVA]
Towneley Plays [UVA]
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910/A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court/1899/643k/PG86 WT [WIRETAP]
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V

Virgil: The Aeneid [TECH-MIT]
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W
Webster's Dictionary
Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle [CAMELOT]
Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, ed. by Thomas Hah
Welsch, Erwin K./Electronic sources for West European history and culture [UMICH]
Williams, Briony/Resources for adult learners of Welsh [WIRETAP]
Winkworth, Susanna, trans.: Theologia Germanica [CCEL]
World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts
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X,Y,Z

York Plays [UVA]