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French materials from A Roll of the Proceedings of the King's Council in Ireland for a Portion of the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of Richard II A.D. 1392-93

Edited by J. Graves
London 1877
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: King’s Council Ireland

Amys e Amillyoun

Edited by H. Fukui
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1990
Genre: Romance and Epic
AND Bibliography: Amis ANTS

An Anglo-Norman Brut [MS ROYAL 13.A.xxi]

Edited by A. Bell
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1969
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: Brut Royal

French materials from Ancient Petitions relating to Northumberland

Edited by C. M. Fraser
Durham and London, Surtees Society 1966
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Northumb

French materials from Annales Londonienses and Annales Paulini

Edited by W. Stubbs
London, Longman & Co. 1882
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Ann Lond

French materials from Annales Monasterii de Burton [MS. Cotton. Vespas. E. iii.]

Edited by H.R. Luard
London 1871
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Ann Burt

Britton

Edited by F.M. Nichols
Oxford 1865
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: BRITT

Les Gius Partiz des Eschez. Two Anglo-Norman Chess Treatises

Edited by T. Hunt
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1985
Genre: Miscellaneous
AND Bibliography: Eschez ANTS

The Anglo-Norman Chronicle of Wigmore Abbey

Edited by J.C. Dickinson and P.T. Ricketts
Transactions of The Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Vol. 39, 1967-9, pp.413-45
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: Wigmore

Croniques de London depuis l'an 44 Hen III jusqu'Ă  l'an 17 Edw III

Edited by G.J. Aungier
London, Camden Society 1844
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: Cron Lond1

Documents Illustrating the Rule of Walter de Wenlok, Abbot of Westminster

Edited by Barbara F. Harvey
London, Royal Historical Society 1965
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Westm Wenlok

Eighteen Anglo-Norman Fabliaux

Edited by I. Short and R. Pearcy
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society, London 2000
Genre: Miscellaneous
AND Bibliography: Fabliaux

French materials from Foedera

Edited by T. Rymer & R. Sanderson
Vols 1-4 London 1816-1869
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Foedera1

The Anglo-Norman Folie Tristan

Edited by I. Short
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1993
Genre: Romance and Epic
AND Bibliography: Fol Trist ANTS

Fouke le Fitz Waryn

Edited by E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1975
Genre: Romance and Epic
AND Bibliography: Fouke ANTS

John of Gaunt's Register (1371-75)

Edited by S. Armitage-Smith
London, Camden Society 1911
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: GAUNT1

L'Estoire des Engleis by Geffrei Gaimar

Edited by A. Bell
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1960
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: GAIMAR1

La Destructioun de Rome

Edited by L. Formisano
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1990
Genre: Romance and Epic
AND Bibliography: Dest Rome1

La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei

Edited by K.Y. Wallace
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1983
Genre: Hagiography
AND Bibliography: S Edw paris ANTS

La Lumere as Lais by Pierre d'Abernon of Fetcham

Edited by G. Hesketh
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1996-2000
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Lum Lais ANTS

La Passiun de Seint Edmund

Edited by J. Grant
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1978
Genre: Hagiography
AND Bibliography: S Edm Pass ANTS

La Petite Philosophie An Anglo-Norman Poem of the Thirteenth Century

Edited by W. H. Trethewey
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1939
Genre: Philosophy
AND Bibliography: Pet Phil

La Seinte Resureccion from the Paris and Canterbury MSS

Edited by T.A. Jenkins, J.M. Manly, M.K. Pope and J.J. Wright
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1943
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Resur

Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence La Vie de Saint Thomas Becket

Edited by E. Walberg
Paris 1935
Genre: Hagiography
AND Bibliography: Becket1

La Vye de Seynt Fraunceys d'Assise (MS Paris, BNF, Fonds Français 13505)

Edited by D.W. Russell, with the collaboration of A.R. Harden and H.S.F. Collins
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 2002
Genre: Hagiography
AND Bibliography: S Fran ANTS

Le Livere de Reis De Brittanie

Edited by J. Glover
London 1865
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: Reis Britt1

Le Livere de Reis de Engletere

Edited by J. Glover
London 1865
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: Reis Engl1

Le Livre de Catun

Edited by T. Hunt
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1994
Genre: Philosophy
AND Bibliography: CATO ANON ANTS

Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines The Unpublished Devotional Treatise of Henry of Lancaster

Edited by E.J. Arnould
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1940
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Sz Med1

Le livre des psaumes Ancienne traduction française d'après les manuscrits de Cambridge et de Paris

Edited by F. Michel
Paris 1876
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Camb Ps

Le Petit Plet

Edited by B.S. Merrilees
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1970
Genre: Philosophy
AND Bibliography: Pet Plet ANTS

Le Roman de Philosophie in: Les Ĺ’uvres de Simund de Freine, pp. 1-60

Edited by J. E. Matzke
Paris 1909
Genre: Philosophy
AND Bibliography: Rom Phil

The Anglo-Norman 'Alexander' Le Roman de toute Chevalerie by Thomas of Kent

Edited by B. Foster with the assistance of I. Short
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1976-7
Genre: Romance and Epic
AND Bibliography: Rom Chev ANTS

Le Secré de Secrez by Pierre d'Abernun of Fetcham

Edited by O. A. Beckerlegge
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1944
Genre: Philosophy
AND Bibliography: Secr abernun

Les Proverbes de Salemon by Sanson de Nantuil

Edited by C. C. Isoz
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1988-94
Genre: Philosophy
AND Bibliography: Salemon

Anglo-Norman Letters and Petitions and Petitions from All Souls MS 182

Edited by M. Dominica Legge
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1941
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Lett & Pet

Li Rei de Engleterre Ein anglo-normannischer Geschichtsauszug

Edited by J. Koch
Berlin 1886
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: Reis Britt2

French materials from Liber Albus Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, Vol 1

Edited by H.T. Riley
London 1860
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Lib Alb

French materials from Liber Custumarum with extracts from Cottonian MS Claudius D. II

Edited by H.T. Riley
London 1860
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Lib Cust

Liber Donati A Fifteenth-Century Manual of French

Edited by B. Merrilees and B. Sitz-Fitzpatrick
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1993
Genre: Language Pedagogy
AND Bibliography: Liber Donati

Manières de Langage (1396, 1399, 1415)

Edited by A.M. Kristol
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1995
Genre: Language Pedagogy
AND Bibliography: Man lang ANTS

French materials from Memorials of the Church of SS. Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon

Edited by Joseph T. Fowler
vols 1 and 2, Durham, Surtees Society 1882 and 1886. 1882,1886
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Ripon

Mirour de Seinte Eglyse (St Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum Ecclesiae)

Edited by A. D. Wilshere
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1982
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Mirour Egl

Nominale sive Verbale

Edited by W.W. Skeat
Transactions of the Philological Society, 1903-06, pp. 1*-50* 1906
Genre: Language Pedagogy
AND Bibliography: Nominale

French materials from Northern Petitions illustrative of life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the fourteenth century

Edited by C. M. Fraser
Durham, Surtees Society 1981
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Northern Pet

Phillipe de Thaon, Comput

Edited by I. Short
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1984
Genre: Miscellaneous
AND Bibliography: Comput ANTS

Anglo-Norman Political Songs

Edited by I. S. T. Aspin
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1953
Genre: Miscellaneous
AND Bibliography: Pol Songs

French materials from Private Indentures for Life Service in Peace and War 1278-1476

Edited by M. Jones and S. Walker
London, Royal Historical Society 1994
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Private Indentures

Hue de Rotelande, Protheselaus

Edited by A.J. Holden
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1991-3
Genre: Romance and Epic
AND Bibliography: Proth ANTS

The Anglo-Norman Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle of Williame de Briane

Edited by I. Short
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1973
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: Turpin

Rauf de Linham, Kalender

Edited by T. Hunt
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1983
Genre: Miscellaneous
AND Bibliography: RAUF ANTS

French materials from Register of Daniel Rough Common clerk of Romney, 1353-1380

Edited by K. M. E. Murray
Canterbury, Kent Archaeological Society 1945
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: ROUGH

French materials from Registrum Epistolarum Fratris Johannis Peckham Archepiscopi Cantuariensis

Edited by C.T. Martin
London 1882
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Reg Peckham

An Anglo-Norman Rhymed Apocalypse

Edited by O. Rhys
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1946
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Apoc giffard

Robert le Chapelain, Corset A Rhymed Commentary on the Seven Sacraments

Edited by K.V. Sinclair
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1995
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Corset ANTS

French materials from Royal and Other Historical Letters Illustrative of the reign of Henry III

Edited by W. Waddington Shirley
London, Longmans 1866
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Roy Lett Hen III

An Anglo-Norman Rhymed Sermon on Shrift

Edited by Robin F. Jones
Originally published in Modern Philology Volume 79 1981-2
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Serm DTC Shrift

St. Modwenna

Edited by A.T. Baker and A. Bell
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1947
Genre: Hagiography
AND Bibliography: S Modw

French materials from Testamentata Eboracensia Wills Registered at York, Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics. etc. of the Province of York

Edited by L. Baker and J. Raine
London, Surtees Society 1836, 1855 & 1864
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Test Ebor

French materials from The Anonimalle Chronicle 1307-1334 [From Brotherton Collection MS 29]

Edited by W.R. Childs and J. Taylor
Leeds, Yorkshire Archaeological Society 1991
Genre: Chronicles
AND Bibliography: Anon Chr2

The Black Book of the Admiralty, Vol. 1

Edited by T. Twiss
London 1871
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Blk Bk Adm

The Black Book of the Admiralty, Vol. 2

Edited by T. Twiss
LONDON 1871
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Dom Gip

The Crusade and Death of Richard I

Edited by R. C. Johnston
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1961
Genre: Hagiography
AND Bibliography: Rich I

The Hospitallers' Riwle

Edited by K. V. Sinclair
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1984
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Hosp Rule

The Oak Book of Southampton (c. A.D. 1300)

Edited by P. Studer
2 Vols. Southampton 1910.
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Oak Book

The Oxford Anglo-Norman Psalter [MS Bodleian Douce 320]

Edited by F. Michel
Paris 1876
Genre: Religious and Devotional
AND Bibliography: Oxf Ps1

French materials from The Percy Chartulary

Edited by M.T. Martin
Durham, Surtees Society 1911
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Percy Ch

The Port Books of Southampton 1427-1430

Edited by P. Studer
Southampton 1913
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Port Bk studer

The Red Book of the Exchequer Part III

Edited by Hubert Hall
London, HMSO 1896
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Red Bk

French materials from The Register of Walter de Stapeldon Bishop of Exeter, A.D. 1307-1326

Edited by F. C. Hingeston-Randolph
London 1892
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: STAPELDON

The Romance of Horn by Thomas

Edited by M. K. Pope
Oxford, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1955
Genre: Romance and Epic
AND Bibliography: Horn

French materials from The Statutes of the Realm Vol. 1

London 1810
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: Stats

French materials from The War of Saint-Sardos (1323-1325) Gascon Correspondence and Diplomatic Documents

Edited by P. Chaplais
London, Royal Historical Society 1954
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: St Sard

Vie de Saint Georges in: Les oeuvres de Simund de Freine, pp. 61-117

Edited by J. E. Matzke
Paris 1909
Genre: Hagiography
AND Bibliography: S Geo

The Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan

Edited by I. Short and B. Merrilees
Manchester, MUP 1979
Genre: Hagiography
AND Bibliography: S Brend mup

Walter de Bibbesworth. Le Tretiz

Edited by W. Rothwell
London, Anglo-Norman Text Society 1990
Genre: Language Pedagogy
AND Bibliography: BIBB ANTS

French materials from York Memorandum Book Part I. (1376-1419)

edited by M. Sellers
Durham, London, Berlin, Surtees Society 1912.
Genre: Legal, Administrative and Diplomatic
AND Bibliography: YMB