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• Latin literature, Medieval and modern
• Latin literature -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Early works to 1800
• Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Early works to 1800
• Latin drama, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Early works to 1800
• Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Early works to 1800
• Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800

• Liber Gricismi Ebrardi, poema, ms. 1404 ([Italy, 1404), by de Béthune Evrard, Leo S. Olschki, active 1404 Perus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), H.P. Kraus (Firm), and Italy) Palazzo Raffaelli (Cingoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri de Riga Aurora seu Biblia versificata ([France?, 1250), by approximately 1140-1209 Peter Riga, Katharine Adams, Wilfred Merton, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, W.J. Leighton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Puttick and Simpson, Inc Martin Breslauer, and H.P. Kraus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse doce : atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat ... (In aedibus Aldi Manutii, accuratissime, 1499), by Francesco Colonna, da Trevino Eliseo, Aldo Manuzio, and Leonardo Crasso (page images at HathiTrust)

• Via Vitae Aeternae (2 volumes in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutij, 1620), by Antoine Sucquet, illust. by Boëce van Bolswert
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathTrust
• Antonii Sucquet e Societate Iesu Via vitae aeternae (Apud Henricum Aertssium, 1630), by Antoine Sucquet, Boëce van Bolswert, and Hendrik Aertssens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesavrvs precvm et exercitiorvm spiritvalivm (Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1609), by Thomas Sailly, Adam van Noort, Pieter de Jode, and Théodore Galle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antonii Sucquet è Societate Iesu Via vitae aeternae (Apud Hieronymum et Ioan. Bapt. Verdussen, 1665), by Antoine Sucquet and Boëce van Bolswert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breviary leaf use of Autun ([Autun], [1472?], 1472), by Catholic Church, Gerald Lequyn, and Rare Book Collection (University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heures à l'usage d'Autun : vers 1507 ([Paris] : [Simon Vostre], [1507?]., 1507), by Catholic Church and Simon Vostre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Litany of the saints ([England, in the 14th century), by R. Leicester Harmsworth, Enoch Bailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Inc C.A. Stonehill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Altera colloquia latina, adapted from Erasmus (University Press, 1908), by Desiderius Erasmus and G. M. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colloquia. Selections (Londini : Apud Wynandu[m] de Worde calcographie prelis examinata nouiter: suaq[ue] in domo sub Solis intersignio vendu[n]tur, [1519]), by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Colloquia. English. Selections (London : Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for Nicholas Ling, and are to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-streete, 1606), by Desiderius Erasmus and William Burton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Terentius Christianus, sive Comœdiæ duæ, Terentiano stylo conscriptæ ad vsum scholarum seorsim excusæ. Tobaeus. Iuditha. His accessit pseudostratiotes, fabula iocosa ac ludicra. Authore Cornelio Schonaeo. (Londini : [Printed by Thomas Snodham] ex typographia Societatis Stationariorum, 1620), by Cornelis Schonaeus and Terence (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Baptistes, siue calumnia tragoedia, auctore Georgio Buchanano Scoto. (Londini : Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, typographus, M. D. LXXVII. [1577]), by George Buchanan (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Liber Gricismi Ebrardi, poema, ms. 1404 ([Italy, 1404), by de Béthune Evrard, Leo S. Olschki, active 1404 Perus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), H.P. Kraus (Firm), and Italy) Palazzo Raffaelli (Cingoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri de Riga Aurora seu Biblia versificata ([France?, 1250), by approximately 1140-1209 Peter Riga, Katharine Adams, Wilfred Merton, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, W.J. Leighton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Puttick and Simpson, Inc Martin Breslauer, and H.P. Kraus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virgilius Christianus ... (Sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, 1696), by Laurent Le Brun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act verses (Cantebrigiæ : s.n., 1586. Iuli. 3), by University of Cambridge (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Narcissus. Siue amoris iuuenilis et præcipue philautiæ breuis at que moralis descripto (Londini : Excudebat Thomas Scarlet, 1591), by John Clapham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Matthiæ Leij, Aruillarij vbij Germani, liber De triumphata barbarie ([London : W. Stansby], Anno Domini. 1621), by Matthias Leius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Act verses ([London : s.n., 1577?]), by University of Cambridge and Henry Hawkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Querimonia Europæ diuisa in libros duos, quorum jam exit primus. (Londini : Per Guilielmum Stansby, M D cxxv. [1625]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Benedicti Ar. Montani Hymni et secula.. (Ex officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem Moretum., 1593), by Benito Arias Montano, Jan Moretus, Christophe Plantin, Pedro de Valencia, and Plantijnsche Drukkerij (page images at HathiTrust)

• Piscatoria, et Nautica (Typis Regiis, 1686), by Niccolò Partenio Giannettasio, Francesco Solimena, François de Louvemont, and Italy) Typographia regia (Naples (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eclogæ, cum dissertatione De carmine pastorali (Sumptibus Fratrum Barbou, 1723), by René Rapin, T. Frank Kennedy, and Barbou frères (page images at HathiTrust)

• Orbilius vapulans or A juniper lecture for a moth-eaten scholar By the authour of the Coffee scuffle. (London : [s.n.], printed in the year, 1662), by fl. 1662 Woolnoth (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ab ecclesiastico iudice arbitrante in commissione administrationis bonorum ab intestato decedentium non licet appellare ... ; Sola poenitentia infirmatur testamentum ... (Cantabrigiæ : Ex officina Thomæ Thomasii, Iulij.5.1585 [5 July 1585]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The patterne of painefull aduentures Containing the most excellent, pleasant and variable historie of the strange accidents that befell vnto Prince Apollonius, the Lady Lucina his wife, and Tharsia his daughter. Wherein the vncertaintie of this world, and the fickle state of mans life are liuely described. Gathered into English by Laurence Tvvine Gentleman. (Imprinted at London : By Valentine Simmes for the widow Newman, [1594]), by Thomas Twyne and Laurence Twyne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame (from a facsimile of the 1592 edition; covers about half the Italian text), by Francesco Colonna, trans. by Robert Dallington
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. (D. Nutt, 1890), by Francesco Colonna, Andrew Lang, R. D., Robert Dallington, Robert Dallington, C. Whittingham and Co, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• De historicis latinis. libri III. (ex officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1651), by Gerardus Joannes Vossius (page images at HathiTrust)
• De historicis latinis. libri III (Gregg International Publishers, 1970), by Gerardus Joannes Vossius (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Anecdota Litteraria ex Mss. Codicibus Eruta (4 volumes in Latin; Rome: A. Fulgoni, 1773-1783), ed. by Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi and Giovanni Lodovico Bianconi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Faictz Merveilleux de Virgille: Reimpression Textuello de l'Édition Sans Date, Publiée à Paris, Chez Guillaume Nyverd (in French; Geneva: J. Gay et fils, 1867), ed. by Gustave Brunet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lateinische Litteraturdenkma ler des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts ... (Speyer & Peters, 1891), by Siegfried Szamato lski and Max Herrman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in medieval and renaissance Latin. (The Cath. Univ. of America Press, 1933), by Catholic University of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quellen und Untersuchungen zur lateinischen Philologie des Mittelalters. (C.H. Beck, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parodistische Texte : Beispiele zur lateinischen Parodie im Mittelalter (Drei masken Verlag, 1923), by Paul Lehmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of Latin prose and Latin verse,. (G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1929), by F. A. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Denkmahle des Mittelalters (Scheitlin und Zollkofer, 1844), by Heinrich Hattemer and Labeo Notker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of medieval Latin; an anthology of prose and poetry (Scott, Foresman and company, 1925), by Charles H. Beeson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents inédits pour servir à l'histoire littéraire de l'Italie, depuis le VIIIe siècle jusqu'au XIIIe, avec des recherches sur le moyen âge italien. (H. Welter, 1897), by Frédéric Ozanam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Latin writings of the Italian humanists (C. Scribner's sons, 1927), by Florence Alden Gragg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christiados libri XIII (Ex Officinâ Arnoldi Leers, 1653), by Alexander Ross and Virgil (page images at HathiTrust)
• An anthology of medieval Latin (Macmillan and co., limited, 1925), by S. Gaselee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neue beiträge zur erzählungsliteratur des mittelalters (die Compilatio singularis exemplorum der hs. Tours 468, ergänzt durch eine schwesterhandschrift Bern 679), von dr. Alfons Hilka. ... (G. P. Aderholz, 1913), by Alfons Hilka, Universität Bern. Bibliothek, and Bibliothèque municipale de Tours (page images at HathiTrust)
• Codicem manu scriptum Digby 86, in Bibliotheca Bodleiana asservatum, descripsit, exerpsit (Libraria Orphanotrophei, 1871), by Bodleian Library and Edmund Stengel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neue Beiträge zur Erzählungsliterature des Mittelalters (Die Compilatio singularis exemplorum der Hs. Tours 468, ergänzt durch eine Schwesterhandschrift Bern 679) (Grass, Barth & Comp., 1913), by Alfons Hilka and Schlesische Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Kultur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions adressées par le Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques aux correspondants du Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts. (E. Leroux, 1890), by Léopold Victor Delisle and France. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (page images at HathiTrust)
• Littérature latine & histoire du moyen age. ([s.n.], 1890), by Léopold Delisle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthologie der Geistigen Kultur auf der Pyrenäenhalbinsel (mittelalter) (Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1927), by Wilhelm Giese and Germany) Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Hamburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. A. Boettigeri. Opuscula et carmina latina. (A. Waltheria, 1837), by Karl August Boettinger and Julius Sillig (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of Latin prose and Latin verse : from Cato and Plautus to Bacon and Milton (Dutton, 1929), by F. A. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vox latina, lateinisches Lesebuch für die oberen Klassen, für studierende und für Freunde humanistischer Bildung (Dieterich, 1925), by Paul Dittrich and Otto Stange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Da prudenzio a Dante : manuale per la storia della litteratura in Italia dal sec. IV al sec XIII (G.B. Paravia, 1916), by Luigi Piccioni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellanea Tironiana : aus dem Codex vaticanvs latinvs, Reginae Christinae 846 (fol. 99-114) (B.G. Teubner, 1896), by Biblioteca apostolica vaticana and Wilhelm Schmitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lateinische Litteraturdenkmäler des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts (Weidmann, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung mittellateinischer Texte. (C. Winter, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Latin prose versions contributed by various scholars (Clarendon Press, 1894), by George Gilbert Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lateinische litteraturdenkmäler des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts : 1-19, 1891-1912. (Speyer & Peters, 1891), by Max Hermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intelligenza. (J. Lecoffre et cie, 1850), by Frédéric Ozanam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendium of the literary history of Italy : until the formation of the modern Italian language (T. Clark, 1835), by Francesco Vigilio Barbacovi and Girolamo Tiraboschi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tübinger Dichterhumanisten: Bebel, Frishlin, Flayder : Der Eberhardina Karolina zu ihrem 450 jährigen Jubelfest dargebracht. (H. Laupp, 1927), by Gustav Bebermeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetae ecclesiastici. (A.F. Hurez, 1826), by active 5th century Sedulius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetae ecclesiastici. (A.F. Hurez, 1825), by Tertullian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opuscula et carmina latina. (Libraria aulica Waltheria, 1837), by Karl August Böttiger and Julius Sillig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orationes duae, carmina que nonnulla (Impraessum Venetiis amicorum cura quam potuit fieri diligenter. Praelo Ioan. Tacuini., 1530), by Andrea Navagero and Tacuinus Joannes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Svecia latina : valda prov på svensk medeltids-latinsk och nylatinsk litteratur ([s.n., 1918), by Johan Bergman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdota litteraria ex mss. codicibvs ervta. (apud G. Settarivim, 1773), by Giovanni Lodovico Bianconi and Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cultura medioevale e poesia latina d'Italia nei secoli XI e XII. (La Società Laziale Editrice, 1892), by Umberto Ronca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Kunde der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters (H. H. Sauerländer, 1905), by Jakob Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Pyramus- und Thisbe-Sage in Holland, England, Italien & Spanien. 2. Th. zu Ursprung und Verbreitung der Pyramus- und Thisbe-Sage. Nebst zwei lateinischen Texten aus dem 13. Jahrhundert nach einer Handschrift der Herzogl. Braunschw. Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel. (Buckdruckerei von A. Liesecke, 1891), by Georg Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistolæ Petri Bunelli, Paulli Manutii, Christophori Longolii, Petri Bembi, Jacobi Sadoleti, Aonii Palearii Verulani : partim selectae partim integræ ; brevem narrationem de vv. dd. vitis præmisit, annotatione perpetua in Bunelli epistolas instruxit et indicem duplicem (J.F.J. Dalp, 1837), by Aonio Paleario, Jacopo Sadoleto, Pietro Bembo, Christophorus Longolius, Paolo Manuzio, Pierre Bunel, and Friedrich Andreas Christian Grauff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parerga. (Excudebat Gabriel Martinus, 1686), by Étienne Bachot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vetera Analecta, sive Collectio veterum aliquot operum & opusculorum omnis generis, carminum, epistolarum, diplomatum, epitaphiorum, &c. (Apud Montalant, 1967), by Jean Mabillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca Heinsiana (Apud Johannem de Vive [i.e. Vivié], 1682), by Abraham Elzevir, Johannes du Vivié, and Nicolaas Heinsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• I trattati medievali di ritmica latina (U. Hoepli, 1899), by Giovanni Mari (page images at HathiTrust)
• Da Prudenzio a Dante : manuale per la storia della letteratura in Italia dal sec. IV al sec. XIII : con commento e glossario (G.B. Paravia, 1916), by Luigi Piccioni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dei lavori preparatorî alla nuova edizione dei Rerum italicarum scriptores : communicazione al Congresso internazionale di science storiche (Roma, II-IX aprile MCMIII) (Nella Stamperia dell'editore Scipione Lapi, 1903), by Vittorio Fiorini and Italy) International Congress of Historical Sciences (2nd : 1903 : Rome (page images at HathiTrust)
• A list of text-books from the close of the twelfth century ([Cambridge, 1909), by Charles Homer Haskins and Alexander Neckam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proben der lateninschen novellistik des mittelalters (Renger, 1906), by Jakob Ulrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morceaux choisis de prosateurs latins du moyen âge et des temps modernes (J. Vuylsteke, 1902), by Paul Louis Désiré Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte des Ovidius und anderer römischer Schriftsteller im Mittelalter (Dieterich, 1900), by Max Manitius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sujets et développements de compositions latines données dans les facultés depuis 1858 jusqu'en 1878 pour les examens du baccalauréat ès lettres ... Discours-- lettres-- dialogues-- narrations-- dissertations-- analyses et jugements littéraires-- caractères-- fables imitées. (Hachette et cie, 1878), by Albert Le Roy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistolae selectae. t. 1- (apud Weidmannos, 1916), by Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Deutsches Institut für Erforschung des Mittelalters) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire littéraire de l'Alsace à la fin du XVe et au commencement du XVIe siècle (Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1879), by Charles Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1. Catonis disticha de moribus, 2. Dicta insignia septem sapientum Graeciae, 3. Mimi publiani, sive, Senecae proverbia, Anglo Latina. Cato item Grammatice interpretatus Latinis & vernaculis vocibus pari ordine, sed diversis ut intelligant ... (Printed by J. Wilde, 1719) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse doce : atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat ... (In aedibus Aldi Manutii, accuratissime, 1499), by Francesco Colonna, da Trevino Eliseo, Aldo Manuzio, and Leonardo Crasso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über Hermann von Reun (In Kommission bei C. Gerold's Sohn, 1905), by Anton E. Schönbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Renaissance of the twelfth century. (World Pub. Co., 1957), by Charles Homer Haskins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sbírka pramenů k poznání literárního života československého. Skupina I. Památky řeči a literatury české. Řada 1[b] Sbírka staročeských slovníku. (Nákl. České akademie věd a umění, 1926), by Prague. Třída 3 Česká akademie věd a umění, Václav Flajšhans, and active 14th century Claretus (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1. Catonis disticha de moribus, 2. Dicta insignia septem sapientum Græciæ, 3. Mimi publiani, sive, Senecæ proverbia, Anglo-Latina Cato item grammaticè interpretatus, Latinis & vernaculis vocibus, pari ordine, sed diversis lineis alternatis, quò sc. Ætatula puerilis præcepta vitæ communis ita legant ut intelligant / a Carolo Hoolo ... = 1. Cato's distichs concerning manners, 2. Excellent sayings of the seven wise men of Greece, 3. Publius's stage-verses, or, Seneca's proverbs in Latine and English : likewise Cato construed grammatically, with one row Latine and the other English, whereby little children may understandingly learn the rules of common behaviour / by Charles Hoole ... (London : Printed by B.G. for the Company of Stationers, 1688), by Charles Hoole (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Europa lachrymans poema heroicum / Guglielmi Ballæi. (Londini : Apud Thomam Harperum, 1650), by William Ball (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dionysius Cato his four books of moral precepts translated out of Latine hexameter into English meeter by J.M. (Edinburgh : [s.n.], 1700), by J. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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