User:Shells-shells/Collections/The Portable Medieval Reader

Selections are listed in the order given in the book, except that when multiple selections from the same work are given, only the first instance is entered into the table.

Publication details

Full title	The Portable Medieval Reader
Publisher	Penguin (under Viking imprint)
Date	1977
Edition	Reprint of 1949 edition
Editors	James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin
ISBN	ISBN 978-0-14-015046-9

Selections

Author	Selection	Status	Links
John of Salisbury	Policraticus
Peter Damiani	Opuscula varia
William of Malmesbury	Chronicle	Proofread	Index:William of Malmesbury's Chronicle.djvu
Jordan of Giano	Chronicle[1]		first edition, various printings in 1918 and 1919 https://archive.org/details/sociallifeinbri00coul https://archive.org/details/sociallifeinbrit00couluoft https://archive.org/details/sociallifeinbrit00coulrich https://archive.org/details/b29828624
Salimbene	Chronicle		https://archive.org/details/fromstfrancistod00couluoft (1906, first edition) https://archive.org/details/fromstfrancistod00couliala (1908, second edition)
John Busch	"Autobiography of John Busch"[2]		https://archive.org/details/sim_british-magazine-and-register-of-religious_1841-04-01_19 (first part) https://archive.org/details/sim_british-magazine-and-register-of-religious_1841-05-01_19 (second part)
Giraldus Cambrensis	Itinerary through Wales[3]		https://archive.org/details/historicalworkso00girauoft and https://archive.org/details/b24867329 (1881 collected works - same translator for the Itinerary as Everyman's Library edition)
John Capgrave	Life of St. Gilbert[4]		https://archive.org/details/johncapgravesliv00capguoft (Middle English)
Ordericus Vitalis	Ecclesiastical History[5]		https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalhi01ordeuoft https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalhi02ordeuoft https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalhi03ordeuoft https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalhi04ordeuoft
Odo of Rigaud	Regestrum visitationum archiepiscopi Rothomagensis[6]
Robert de Sorbonne	Chartulary of the University of Paris
John of Garland	Morale Scholarium[7]
Díaz de Gámez	The Unconquered Knight[8]
Galbert of Bruges	Histoire du meurtre de Charles le Bon[9]
Geoffrey le Baker	Chronicon Galfridi le Baker[10]		https://archive.org/details/chronicongalfrid00bakeuoft (Latin)
Jörg von Ehingen	The Diary of Jörg von Ehingen[11]
Andreas Capellanus	The Art of Courtly Love[12]
Jean Froissart	Chronicles[13]		https://archive.org/details/chronicletransla01froiuoft (vol. 1 of different translation) https://archive.org/details/chronicleoffrois02froi (different scan of same volumes)
John Russell	"Book of Nurture" in The Babees' Book[14]		https://archive.org/details/babeesbookmediev00furn
[Selected letters]	The Stonor Letters and Papers[15]		https://archive.org/details/stonorletterspap01king https://archive.org/details/stonorletterspap02king
	Seneschaucie[16]		https://archive.org/details/walterofhenleysh00henluoft
William Langland	The Vision of Piers Plowman[17]
Reginald of Durham	Life of St. Godric[18]		https://archive.org/details/b29828624
	The King's Mirror[19]		https://archive.org/details/kingsmirrorspecu00konuuoft
John Arderne	Treatises of Fistula in Ano[20]		https://archive.org/details/treatisesoffistu00ardeuoft and https://archive.org/details/b31350409 (same edition)
	The Goodman of Paris[21]
	Memorials of London[22]		https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951p001039328 and https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000045139445 (poor scans)
Sacchetti	Tales from Sacchetti[23]		https://archive.org/details/talesfromsacchet00sacciala
Pope Gregory X	The Jew in the Medieval World[24]
Jacob von Königshofen	Chronicle[25]
Roger of Wendover	Flowers of History[26]		https://archive.org/details/rogerofwendovers01roge_0 (vol. 1) https://archive.org/details/rogerofwendovers02roge_0 (vol. 2)
	Anonimalle Chronicle[27]		https://archive.org/details/greatrevoltof13800omanuoft (bad scan, some edges cut off) https://archive.org/details/greatrevolt00omangoog (google scan)
Walther von der Vogelweide	I Saw the World
Bernard Gui	Manuel de l'inquisiteur[28]
Henry Knighton	Chronicon Henrici Knighton
	Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris sous Charles VI et Charles VII
Pope Boniface VIII	"Unam Sanctam"[29]
Adam of Usk	Chronicle[30]		https://archive.org/details/chroniconadd00adam (Latin original and English translation)
Pope Pius II	The Commentaries of Pius II
Roger of Wendover	Flowers of History		https://archive.org/details/rogerofwendovers01roge_0 (vol. 1) https://archive.org/details/rogerofwendovers02roge_0 (vol. 2)
Odo of Rigaud	Regestrum visitationum archiepiscopi Rothomagensis
Thomas Becket	St. Thomas of Canterbury[31]
Frederick Barbarossa	"Manifesto of the Emperor"[32]
Otto of Freising	Gesta Friderici I imperatoris[33]
Suger	Vie de Louis VI le Gros[34]
Roger of Wendover	Flowers of History		https://archive.org/details/rogerofwendovers01roge_0 (vol. 1) https://archive.org/details/rogerofwendovers02roge_0 (vol. 2)
Otto of Freising	Gesta Friderici[35]		https://archive.org/details/balzaniitaly00balzrich and https://archive.org/details/b24886336 (same edition)
	Humanism and Tyranny: Studies in the Italian Trecento[36]		https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015000661432
Pierre du Bois	De recuperatione Terre Sancte
Nicholas of Cusa	De concordantia catholica
	Die Reformation Kaiser Sigmunds
Anna Comnena	The Alexiad[37]
Heloise	Abelard and Heloise[38]
Peter the Venerable	"Letter to Heloise"[39]
John of Salisbury	Historia pontificalis
	Archivio della Società Romana di Storia Patria[40]
Giraldus Cambrensis	De rebus a se gestis[41]
Giraldus Cambrensis	De iure et statu Menuensis ecclesiae[42]
Giraldus Cambrensis	Conquest of Ireland[43]		https://archive.org/details/historicalworkso00girauoft and https://archive.org/details/b24867329 (same edition)
Jean de Joinville	Chronicle[44]
Giovanni Villani	Chronicle[45]
Giovanni Boccaccio	in The Early italian Poets[46]
Lorenzo Ghiberti	Quellenbuch zur Kunstgeschichte[47]
Francesco Petrarca	Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters[48]
Philippe de Commines	Memoirs of Philippe de Commines[49]
Giraldus Cambrensis	Topography of Ireland[50]		https://archive.org/details/historicalworkso00girauoft and https://archive.org/details/b24867329 (same edition)
Helmold	Chronicle of the Slavs[51]
	in Ordensritter und Kirchenfürsten[52]
Lambert of Hersfeld	Annales[53]
	Histoire anonyme de la première croisade[54]
Usámah	Memoirs of Usamah[55]
Odo of Deuil	De profectione Ludovici VII
William of Tyre	A History of Deeds Done beyond the Seas
Ramón Muntaner	The Chronicle of Muntaner[56]		Google scans https://archive.org/details/thechronicleoframonmunta1 (vol. 1, 1920) https://archive.org/details/thechronicleoframonmunta2 (vol. 2, 1921)
Matthew Paris	English History[57]		3 volumes https://archive.org/details/matthewparisseng01pari https://archive.org/details/matthewparisseng02pari https://archive.org/details/matthewparisseng03pari
William of Rubruck	Journey of William of Rubruck[58]		https://archive.org/details/journeyofwilliam00ruys (other versions seem to be poor impressions)
John of Monte Corvino	Cathay and the Way Thither[59]		https://archive.org/details/cathaywaythither01yule https://archive.org/details/cathaywaythither02yule https://archive.org/details/cathaywaythither03yule https://archive.org/details/cathaywaythither04yule
John of Marignolli	Cathay and the Way Thither
Francesco Pegolotti	Cathay and the Way Thither
Gomes de Azurara	Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea[60]		https://archive.org/details/chronicleofdisco01zura https://archive.org/details/chronicleofdisco02zura
Aniar MacConglinne	[61]		https://archive.org/details/bardsofgaelgalle00sigeiala (1897 edition) https://archive.org/details/bardsofgaelgalle0000sige (1925 edition, with a memorial preface to the translator)
Peter Abelard	[62]
Bernart de Ventadorn	[63]		https://archive.org/details/livesoftroubadou00farn and https://archive.org/details/livesoftroubadou00farnrich (1896 edition)
	[64]
Gottfried von Strassburg	The Story of Tristan and Iseult[65]
	Tales from the Old French[66]		https://archive.org/details/talesfromoldfren00butl and https://archive.org/details/talesfromoldfren00butl_0 (same edition) https://archive.org/details/talesfromoldfren00butliala and https://archive.org/details/talesfromoldfren00butluoft also look ok; slightly lower resolution
	Romance of the Rose[67]
Saint Francis of Assisi	The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi[68]		https://archive.org/details/writingsofsaintf00fran and https://archive.org/details/writingsofsaintf00fran_0 (same edition)
Guido Guinicelli	[69]		https://archive.org/details/earlyitalianpoet00rossrich and https://archive.org/details/earlyitalianpo00rossuoft (same edition)
Dante Alighieri	[70]
Guido Cavalcanti	[71]
Jacopone da Todi	Lauda I[72]		https://archive.org/details/jacoponedatodipo00underich and https://archive.org/details/jacoponedatodipo00undeuoft (same edition)
Geoffrey Chaucer	[73]
Christine de Pisan	The Book of the Duke of True Lovers[74]	Proofread	Index:The Book of the Duke of True Lovers - 1908.djvu
Johannes Herolt	Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary[75]
William Durandus	Rationale divinorum officiorum[76]
	Quellenbuch zur Kunstgeschichte
	Recueil de textes relatifs à l'histoire de l'architecture en France, XIe et XIIe siècles[77]
	Gesta abbatum sancti Albani[78]
Cennino Cennini	The Craftsman's Handbook[79]
Leonardo da Vinci	The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci[80]
Guillaume de Machaut	"Remède de Fortune"
Otto of Freising	The Two Cities[81]
Hugh of St. Victor	Didascalion
Henri d'Andeli	The Battle of the Seven Arts[82]		https://archive.org/details/TheBattleOfTheSevenArts https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002037328 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003507170
Launoy	in University Records and Life in the Middle Ages
Walter Map	Courtiers' Trifles[83]		https://archive.org/details/denugiscurialiumtupper and hathitrust (google scans)
Roger Bacon	Opus majus of Roger Bacon[84]
Richard de Bury	Philobiblon[85]		https://archive.org/details/b24853008 (1888, trans. Thomas) 1889 Grolier Club limited edition, 3 vols., trans. West https://archive.org/details/philobiblonofric01bury (Latin text) https://archive.org/details/philobiblonofric02bury (English translation by West) https://archive.org/details/philobiblonofric03bury (notes) https://archive.org/details/philobiblon00bury (1899 limited edition, trans. Inglis) https://archive.org/details/loveofbooksphilo00bury (1903, trans. Thomas) https://archive.org/details/loveofbooksphil00bury (identical 1913 edition) https://archive.org/details/b29827371 (1933 Berkeley Book Arts Club edition, trans. Thomas)
Coluccio Salutati	"Letters"[86]
Leonardo Bruni	in The First Century of Italian Humanism[87]
Adelard of Bath	Quaestiones naturales[88]
Gui de Chauliac	La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac[89]
Peter Abelard	Glosses on Porphyry[90]
Saint Thomas Aquinas	Summa contra gentiles[91]
Nicholas of Cusa	De docta ignorantia[92]
Jacopone da Todi	Lauda XC[93]
Margery Kempe	The Book of Margery Kempe
Nicholas of Cusa	The Vision of God[94]

Notes

1. Sourced from G.G. Coulton, Social Life in Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1918).
2. "Autobiography of John Busch", British Magazine, vol. 29, 1841.
3. Trans. R.C. Hoare, 1908 Everyman's Library.
4. Edited by J.J. Munro, Early English Text Society, Orig. Ser., no. 140, 1910.
5. Trans. T. Forester, London, 1853-56
6. Th. Bonnin, ed. (Rouen: A. Le Brument, 1852)
7. Trans. L.J. Paetow (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1927)
8. J. Evans, Routledge, 1926.
9. H. Pirenne, ed. Paris, A. Picard, 1891.
10. E.M. Thompson, Clarendon Press, 1889.
11. M. Letts (London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1929).
12. J.J. Parry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941)
13. T. Johnes (Everyman's Library, 1906)
14. E. Rickert (London: Chatto and Windus, 1923)
15. C.L. Kingsford (London: Camden Society, 3rd series)
16. E. Lamond (London, New York: Longmans Green, 1890)
17. H.W. Wells (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1935)
18. in Social Life in Britain, G.G. Coulton.
19. L.M. Larson (New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1917)
20. D'Arcy Power (London: Early English Texts Society, Orig. Ser., no. 139, 1910)
21. E. Power (London: Routledge, 1928)
22. H.T. Riley (London: Longmans Green, 1868)
23. M.G. Steegmann (London: Dent, 1908)
24. J.R. Marcus (Cincinnati: Sinai Press, 1938)
25. Ibid.
26. Matthew Paris' addition (edition?), J.A. Giles (London: Bohn, 1849)
27. C. Oman, in The Great Revolt of 1381 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906)
28. G. Mollat (Paris: Champion, 1926)
29. Select Historical Documents, E. Henderson (London: Bohn, 1892)
30. E.M. Thompson (London: Murray, 1876)
31. W.H. Hutton (London: D. Nutt, 1889)
32. Select Historical Documents, E.F. Henderson (London: Bohn, 1892)
33. G. Waits (Hanover, 1884)
34. H. Waquet (Paris: Champion, 1929)
35. U. Balzani, Early Chroniclers of Italy (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1883)
36. E. Emerton (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1925)
37. E. Dawes (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1928)
38. A.S. Richardson (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1884)
39. Patrologia Latina, vol. 189
40. E. Monachi (Rome, 1878)
41. J.S. Brewer, Rolls Series, vol. 21
42. H.E. Butler, The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambrensis (London: Cape, 1937)
43. T. Wright (London: Bell, 1881)
44. in Memoirs of the Crusades, Sir Frank Thomas Marzials (Everyman's Library 1908)
45. R.E. Selfe, P.H. Wicksteed (London: Constable, 1906)
46. D.G. Rossetti (London: Smith Elder, 1861)
47. J. Schlosser (Vienna: C. Graeser, 1896)
48. J.R. Robinson and H.W. Rolfe (New York and London: Putnam, 1898)
49. A.R. Scoble (London: Bell, 1896)
50. T. Wright (London: Bell, 1881)
51. F.J. Tschan (New York: Columbia Universtiy Press, 1935)
52. J. Bühler (Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1927)
53. O. Holder-Egger (Hanover: 1894)
54. L. Bréhier (Paris: Champion, 1924)
55. P.K. Hitti (New York: Columbia University Press, 1929)
56. Lady Goodenough (London: Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., vol. 50, 1921
57. J.A. Giles (London: Bohn, 1852)
58. William Woodville Rockhill (London: Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., vol. 4, 1900)
59. H. Yule, 2nd ed., rev. H. Cordier (London: Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., vol. 37, 1914)
60. C.R. Beazley and E. Prestage (London: Hakluyt Society, vol. 95, 1896)
61. G. Sigerson, in Bards of the Gael and Gall (London: Unwin, 1897)
62. Helen Waddell, in Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (New York: Holt, 1938)
63. Ida Farnell, in The Lives of the Troubadors (London: Nutt, 1896)
64. C.C. Abbott, in Early Medieval French Lyrics (London: Oxford University Press, 1932)
65. J.L. Weston (London: Nutt, 1899)
66. I. Butler (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910)
67. F.S. Ellis (London: Dent, 1900)
68. Father P. Robinson (Philadelphia: Dolphin Press, 1906)
69. D.G. Rossetti, in The Early Italian Poets (London: Smith, Elder, 1861)
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid.
72. Mrs. T. Beck in E. Underhill, Jacopone da Todi (London: Dent, 1919)
73. J.S.P. Tatlock and P. MacKaye, The Modern Reader's Chaucer (New York: Macmillan, 1912)
74. Alice Kemp-Welch (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908)
75. C.C.S. Bland (London: Routledge, 1928)
76. J.M. Neale and B. Webb (Leeds: Green, 1843)
77. V. Mortet (Paris: A. Picard, 1911)
78. H.T. Riley, Rolls Series, vol. 28
79. D.V. Thompson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933)
80. E. MacCurdy (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock; London: Cape, 1938)
81. C.C. Mierow (New York: Columbia University Press, 1928)
82. L.J. Paetow (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1914)
83. F. Tupper and M.B. Ogle (London: Chatto and Windus, New York: Macmillan, 1924)
84. R.B. Burke (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1928)
85. E.C. Thomas (London: Chatto and Windus, 1913)
86. Ephraim Emerton, in Humanism and Tyranny: Studies in the Italian Trecento
87. F. Schevill (New York: Crofts, 1928)
88. M. Muller (Münster, 1924)
89. E. Nicaise (Paris: F. Alcan, 1890)
90. R. McKeon, Selections from Medieval Philosophers (New York: Scribner, 1929)
91. English Dominican Fathers (London: Burns, Oates, and Washbourne, 1928)
92. P. Rotta (Bari, Italy: G. Laterza, 1913)
93. Mrs. T. Beck, in E. Underhill, Jacopone da Todi
94. E. Gurney-Salter (London: Dent, 1928)