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

• Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English -- Early works to 1800

• 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
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• 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)

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• Historia septem sapientum. 2 : Johannis de Alta Silva Dolopathos, sive De rege et septem sapientibus (C. Winter, 1913), by de Alta Silva Johannes and Alfons Hilka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia Septem sapientum I. Eine bisher unbekannte lateinische Übersetzung einer orientalischen Fassung der Sieben weisen Meister (Mischle Sendabar) (Carl Winter, 1912), by Alfons Hilka (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anglo-Saxon version of the story of Apolonius of Tyre, upon which is founded the play of Pericles, attributed to Shakespeare (J. and A. Arch, 1834), by Benjamin Thorpe (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)

• John Barclays Argenis. Eine literarhistorische Untersuchung (E. Felber, 1904), by Karl Friedrich Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)

• Set savis de Roma. (Barcelona, 1907), by Ignacio de Janer, Ignacio de Janer, and Barcelona Societat catalana de bibliófils (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seven wise masters. (The Villon society, 1885), by George Laurence Gomme, Wynkyn de Worde, Villon Society, and London Villon Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome, ed. by George Laurence Gomme and Henry B. Wheatley (Gutenberg ebook)

• Libro de'sette savi di Roma. (Libreria Dante, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Istorija Septyniu Mokintoju (in Lithuanian; Brooklyn: Spauda Vienybes Lietuvninku, 1912)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• A critical edition of Fernández De Heredia's translation into Aragonese of Guido Delle Colonne's Cronica troyana (1928), by Guido delle Colonne, Juan Fernández de Heredia, and Robert T. Dunstan (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
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• 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)

• 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)

• Corps d'extraits de romans de chevalrie. (Pissot, 1782), by Louis Elisabeth de La Vergne de Brousain Tressan (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the seven wise masters of Rome. English. ([London : Enprented in flete strete in ye sygne of the sone, by me Wynkyn de Worde, [1506?]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Chevalier au cygne. English. ([Imprinted at London : By me Wyllyam Copland, [ca. 1560?]]), by Robert Copeland (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Tom a Lincoln (London : Printed by Aug: Mathewes, and are to bee sold by Robert Byrde, and Francis Coules, 1631), by Richard Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Devise des armes des chevaliers de la table ronde. English. (London : Imprinted by [R. Jones for] Iohn Wolfe dwelling in Distaffe lane neere the signe of the Castle, 1583), by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• History of King Arthur (London : printed by and for W.O. and sold by the booksellers, [ca. 1697?]), by J. S. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The famous historie of Montelyon, Knight of the Oracle, and sonne to the renowned Persicles King of Assyria Shewing his strange birth, vnfortunate love, perilous adventures in armes, and how he came to the knowledge of his parents. Interlaced, with much variety of pleasant and delightfull discourse. (London : Printed by B. Alsop, and T. Favvcet, dwelling in Grubstreet, neere the lower Pumpe, 1640), by Emanuel Ford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ornatus and Artesia. (London : Printed by Thomas Creede, 1607), by Emanuel Ford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ye hystorye of Olyver of Castylle, and of the fayre Helayne. ([Inprynted at London : In Fletestrete at the sygne of the sonne by wynkyn de worde, The yere of oure lorde. M.CCCCC. and xviij. [1518]]), by Henry Watson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The strange fortunes of two excellent princes in their liues and loues, to their equall ladies in all titles of true honour. (Imprinted at London : By P. Short, for Nicholas Ling, 1600), by Nicholas Breton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The second part of the historie, called The nature of a woman contayning the end of the strife betwixt Perseus and Theseus. Compiled by C.M. (At London : Printed by the Widow Orwin for Clement Knight, and are to be sold at his shop at the little north-doore of S. Paules Church, 1596), by fl. 1596 C. M. and Christopher Middleton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Parismus, the renouned prince of Bohemia. Parts 1-2 ([London : T. Creede, 1604 [i.e. 1605]]), by Emanuel Ford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sir Eglamour. ([Imprinted at London : By William Copland, [ca. 1555?]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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