Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova Across Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Marjorie Curry Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (New York: Putnam, 1960), ed. by T. H. White (page images at Wisconsin)
- The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
- Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
- A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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Filed under: Latin literature, Medieval and modern- 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
- The General Catalogue of Books, Printed in England Since the Dreadful Fire of London, MDCLXVI to the End of Trinity-Term, MDCLXXX (London: Printed by S. Roycroft for R. Clavell, 1680), by Robert Clavell
- Anecdotae Bedae, Lanfranci, et Aliorum: Inedited Tracts, Letters, Poems, &c. of Venerable Bede, Lanfranc, Tatwin, and Others (in Latin, with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by D. Nutt, 1851), ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at Google)
- Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le Fonti Delle Enciclopedie Latine Del XII Secolo: Saggio Critico (first and only volume published of Primi Studi Sulle Enciclopedie Medioevali, in Italian; Modena: A. Namias, 1897), by Luigi Mario Capelli
- Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages: Essays in the Origin and Early History of Modern Drama (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova Across Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Marjorie Curry Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Wandering Scholars (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927), by Helen Waddell (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Sketch of the Lives and Writings of Dante and Petrarch; With Some Account of Italian and Latin Literature in the Fourteenth Century (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1790), by Thomas Penrose
- Hrotsvithae Opera (in Latin; Berlin: Weidmannos, 1902), by Hrotsvitha, ed. by Paul von Winterfeld
- The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
- Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
- The Golden Legend (unique very early printed copy of selections, missing some pages; 1483), by Jacobus de Voragine, trans. by William Caxton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints, by Jacobus de Voragine, ed. by Frederick Startridge Ellis, trans. by William Caxton (HTML with commentary at Fordham)
- A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- An Alphabet of Tales: An English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum (HTML at Michigan)
- Via Vitae Aeternae (2 volumes in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutij, 1620), by Antoine Sucquet, illust. by Boëce van Bolswert
- The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life, by Richard Rolle, trans. by Richard Misyn (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
- Théâtre de Hrotsvitha, Religieuse Allemande du Xe Siècle: Traduit Pour la Première Fois en Français Avec le Texte Latin Revu sur le Manuscrit de Munich (in French and Latin; Paris: B. Duprat, 1845), by Hrotsvitha, ed. by Charles Magnin
- The Plays of Roswitha (London: Chatto and Windus, 1923), by Hrotsvitha, trans. by Christopher St. John, contrib. by Francis Aidan Gasquet (Gutenberg text)
- Pedantius, by Edward Forset, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML with commentary at the Philological Museum)
- Carmina Illustrium Poetarum Italorum (11 volumes, in Latin; Florence: Apud J. C. Tertinium, et S. Franchium, 1719-1726)
- Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 9: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 10: multiple formats at Google
- Volume 11: multiple formats at Google
- Volumes 1-9: page images at HathiTrust
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Poetae Latini Medii Aevi (partial serial archives)
- The Red Book of Ossory (manscript codex, in Latin, ca. 1678), contrib. by Richard de Ledrede (page images at issuu.com)
- The Complaint of Nature, by Alanus de Insulis, trans. by Douglas Maxwell Moffat (HTML with commentary at Fordham)
- Troy Book: Selections, by John Lydgate, ed. by Robert Edwards (HTML at Rochester)
- Ludvig Holbergs Moralske Tanker (Danish translations and notes on Latin epigrams; Copenhagen: K. Schønberg, 1859), by Ludvig Holberg, ed. by Gotfred Benjamin Rode
- Parody in the Middle Ages: The Latin Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Martha Bayless (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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
- Istorija Septyniu Mokintoju (in Lithuanian; Brooklyn: Spauda Vienybes Lietuvninku, 1912)
- Ratis Raving, and Other Moral and Religious Pieces, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (HTML at Michigan)
- Love and Language: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by Louise K. Horowitz (PDF at Ohio State)
- Studies in the Text History of the Life and Fables of Aesop (Philological Monographs #7; Haverford, PA: American Philological Association, 1936), by B. E. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by K. Sara Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Morall Philosophie of Doni, Drawne Out of the Auncient Writers (aka the Fables of Bidpai, based on the Panchatantra; London: H. Denham, ca. 1570), ed. by Anton Francesco Doni, trans. by Thomas North (HML at EEBO TCP)
- King Horn; Floriz and Blauncheflur; The Assumption of Our Lady (EETS original series #14; Oxford, UK: Early English Text Society, 1901), ed. by J. Rawson Lumby and George Harley McKnight
- An Alphabet of Tales: An English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum (HTML at Michigan)
- The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares, by Jacques de Vitry, ed. by Thomas Frederick Crane (page images in Austria)
- A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
- Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
- The Gobble-Up Stories (revised and augmented edition, 2007), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
- Aesop's Fables (and other tales; from various sources), by Aesop (HTML and RealAudio at aesopfables.com)
- An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable (New York: F. A. Stokes, c1921), ed. by Frederic Taber Cooper, illust. by Paul Bransom (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Fables of Babrius (London: Lockwood and Co., 1860), by Babrius, trans. by James Davies, contrib. by Aesop and George Cornewall Lewis (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Parables From Nature (London: T. Nelson & Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
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