Texts by genre

See Text classification for abbreviations and notational conventions.

Law

Document

• Proclamation of Henry III (M2)

Handbook

Astronomy

• The Equatorie of the Planets (?Chaucer) (M3)
• Treatise on the Astrolabe (Chaucer) (M3)
• Metham's Days of the Moon (MX4)

Medicine

• A Late Middle English Treatise on Horses (M3)
• The 'Liber de Diversis Medicinis' in Thornton Ms. (MX4)

Other

• Metham's Physiognomy (MX4)
• The Commonplace Book of Robert Reynes (M4)

Science, Medicine

• A Latin Technical Phlebotomy (M3)
• The Cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac (MX4)

Philosophy

• Tale of Melibee (Chaucer) (M3)
• Boethius (Chaucer) (M3)

Homily

• Lambeth Homilies (MX1), Lambeth Homilies (M1)
• Trinity Homilies (MX1)
• Kentish Homilies (M1)
• The Ormulum (M1)
• Sawles Warde (M1)
• Kentish Sermons (M2)

Sermon

• English Wycliffite Sermons (M3)
• Dan Jon Gaytridge's Sermon (M34)
• Middle English Sermons, Royal Ms. (M34)
• Mirk's Festial (M34)
• Capgrave's Sermon (M4)
• Fitzjames' Sermo die Lune (M4)
• In Die Innocencium (M4)

Rule

• Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione Inclusarum (Vernon ms.) (M23)
• The Rule of St. Benet (M3)
• Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione Inclusarum (Bodley ms.) (M4)
• 1490-caxton-benet (M4)

Religious Treatise

• Vices and Virtues (M1)
• Hali Meidhad (M1)
• Ancrene Riwle (M1)
• Ayenbite of Inwyt (M2)
• Richard Rolle's Prose Treatises (M24)
• Richard Rolle's Epistles (M24)
• Purvey's General Prologue to the Bible (M3)
• Mirror of St. Edmund (Vernon ms.) (M3)
• The Parson's Tale (Chaucer) (M3)
• The Cloud of Unknowing (M3)
• Mirror of St. Edmund (Thornton ms.) (M34)
• Hilton's Eight Chapters on Perfection (M34)
• The Book of Vices and Virtues (M34)
• Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love (M34)
• The Book of Margery Kempe (M4)

Preface/Epilogue

• Caxton's Prologues and Epilogues (M4)

History

• Peterborough Chronicle (M1)
• Cursor Mundi (M23)
• John of Trevisa's Polychronicon (M3)
• The Brut or The Chronicles of England (M3)
• Capgrave's Chronicle (M4)
• Gregory's Chronicle (M4)

Travelogue

• Mandeville's Travels (M3)

Biography, Life of Saint

• Katherine (M1)
• Juliana (M1)
• Margaret (M1)
• Life of St. Edmund (M4)

Fiction

• Tale of Melibee (Chaucer) (M3)
• Caxton's History of Reynard the Fox (M4)

Romance

• Malory's Morte Darthur (M4)
• The Siege of Jerusalem (M4)

Bible

• Earliest Prose Psalter (M2)
• The New Testament (Wycliffe) (M3)
• The Old Testament (Wycliffe) (M3)

Verse

• 1200-brut (M12)