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• History -- To 1500

• Tacitus and Bracciolini: The Annals Forged in the XVth Century (1878), by John Wilson Ross (Gutenberg text)

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• Ossian in Germany: Bibliography; General Survey; Ossian's Influence Upon Klopstock and the Bards (reprint; New York: AMS Press, 1966), by Rudolf Tombo (Gutenberg text)
• Ossian in Germany: Bibliography; General Survey; Ossian's Influence Upon Klopstock and the Bards (Columbia University dissertation, 1901), by Rudolf Tombo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ossian in Germany: Bibliography; General Survey; Ossian's Influence Upon Klopstock and the Bards (Columbia University Germanic Studies v1 #2; New York: Columbia University Press, 1901), by Rudolf Tombo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Chatterton; including his unpublished poems and correspondence. (Partridge & Oakey, 1851), by John Ross Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ossian in Germany : bibliography, general survey, Ossian's influence upon Klopstock and the Bards (AMS Press, 1966), by Rudolf Tombo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The claims of Ossian examined and appreciated: an essay on the Scottish and Irish poems published under that name; in which the question of their genuineness and historical credit is freely discussed: together with some curious particulars relative to the structure and state of poetry in the Celtic dialects of Scotland and Ireland. (Printed for the author, 1825), by Edward Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Chatterton, the marvelous boy; the story of a strange life 1752-1770 (Moffat, Yard & company, 1908), by Charles Edward Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of Thomas Chatterton, with notices of his life, a history of the Rowley controversy, a selection of his letters, notes critical and explanatory, and a glossary. (Little, Brown and company, 1857), by Thomas Chatterton and C. B. Willcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poems of Ossian (E. Kearny, 1846), by James Macpherson and Hugh Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian (P. Hill; [etc., etc.], 1807), by Patrick Graham and William Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Chatterton. (W. Braumüller, 1900), by Helene Richter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The poetical works of Thomas Chatterton : with an essay on the Rowley poems by Walter W. Skeat, and a memoir by Edward Bell (Bell and Daldy, 1871), by Thomas Chatterton, Edward Bell, and Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782), by Edmond Malone, contrib. by James M. Kuist (Gutenberg ebook)

• An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere, Folio 1632, and of Certain Shaksperian Documents Likewise Published by Mr. Collier (London: R. Bentley, 1860), by N. E. S. A. Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays From Early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy of the Folio in the Possession of J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. (New York: Redfield, 1853), by John Payne Collier
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• A Complete View of the Shakspere Controversy, Concerning the Authenticity and Genuineness of Manuscript Matter Affecting the Works and Biography of Shakspere, Published by Mr. J. Payne Collier as the Fruits of His Researches (London: Nattali and Bond, 1861), by C. M. Ingleby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Review of "An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotatated Shakspere, Folio, 1632; and of Certain Shaksperian Documents Likewise Published by Mr. Collier", by N. E. S. A Hamilton (Bentley) (anonymous review attributed to Dixon, with Collier's reply to Hamilton's inquiry; New York: Printed for private circulation by C. W. Frederickson, 1860), by William Hepworth Dixon, contrib. by John Payne Collier
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• Shakespere; a critical biography and an estimate of the facts, fancies, forgeries, and fabrications, regarding his life and works, which have appeared in remote and recent literature. (Houlston and Wright, 1861), by Samuel Neil (page images at HathiTrust)
• J. Payne Collier's alte Handschriftliche emendationen zum Shakspere (H.B. König, 1853), by Nikolaus Delius (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)
• Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350-ca. 1650): Zur autorisierenden und wissensvermittelnden Funktion von Widmungen, Vorworttexten, Autorporträts und Dedikationsbildern (in German; Leiden: Brill, 2014), by Karl A. E. Enenkel (JSTOR ebook)

• Chaucer memorial lectures, 1900. (Asher and Co., 1900), by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) and Percy W. Ames (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die orthographie der Paston letters von 1422-1461. Ein beitrag zur geschichte der englischen orthographie. (N. G. Elwert, 1904), by Georg Karl Neumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bedeutung und Entwicklung der Salutatio in den mittelalterlichen Briefstellern bis zum 14. Jahrhundert. (H. Adler, 1912), by Paul Karl Friedrich Krüger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D.: A New Edition, Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Letters, Etc., Hitherto Unpublished (3 volumes; Westminster: A. Constable, 1895), ed. by James Gairdner (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509: New Complete Library Edition (6 volumes; London: Chatto and Windus; Exeter: J. G. Commin, 1904), ed. by James Gairdner (HTML and zipped PDF at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 1 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 6 (of 6), Part 2 (Index): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 6 (of 6), Part 1 (Letters, Chronological Table): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 5 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 3 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 2 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)

• Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Roger S. Bagnall, Evie Ahtaridis, and Raffaella Cribiore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Emendationum Frontonianarum particula : dissertatio inauguralis quam amplissimi philosophorum ordinis auctoritate atque consensu in Academia Georgia Augusta ad summos in philosophia honores capessendos ([s.l.], 1871), by Rudolf Klussmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Künh ül-Ahbar (880-03 [İstanbul] : Takvimhane-yi Âmire, 1277 [1860]-[1285?] [1868?], 1860), by Mustafa bin Ahmet Âli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der geistige Urheber des Verbrechens : nach dem italienischen Recht des Mittelalters (Engelmann, 1911), by Woldemar Engelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E. (Leiden: Brill, 2020), ed. by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Yannis Stouraitis (Volume Editors), and Lucian Reinfandt (JSTOR ebook)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Des céréales en Italie sous les Romains (Durand, 1859), by L.-A. Joseph Michon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die agrar-rechtlichen Verhältnisse des mittelalterlichen Serbiens. (G. Fischer, 1903), by Milan Z. Vlajinac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Histoire des sciences. La chimie au moyen âge. (Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1893., 1893), by M. Berthelot, Octave Victor Houdas, Rubens Duval, and Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historische general beschreibung von Ober- und Nieder-Elsass samt dem Tundgau ... : nach Anleitung einer accuraten Land-Charte in 15 Taffeln in Quarto (zu finden im Felsseckerischen Buch-Laden, 1734), by M. Julius Friedrich Scharfenstein and Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023), by Abigail Krasner Balbale (JSTOR ebook)

• Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600-1000: The Artefact Evidence (Oxbow Books, 2019), by D. H. Evans (JSTOR ebook)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World (University Press of Colorado, 2015), ed. by Benjamin S. Arbuckle and Sue Ann McCarty (JSTOR ebook)

• Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World (University Press of Colorado, 2015), ed. by Benjamin S. Arbuckle and Sue Ann McCarty (JSTOR ebook)

• Commentarii de i fatti d'Aquileia. (Forni, 1969), by Giovanni Candido (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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