15th Century. A collection of Middle English stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer.

15th Century.

15th Century.

14th Century. A manuscript containing three Middle English poems and a version of the romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

15th Century. The first English translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses completed by William Caxton.

6th Century. King Alfred’s translation of Pastoral Care, regarded as one of the earliest and greatest monuments of Old English prose.

11th Century. A transcript of one of the earliest surviving versions of the Beowulf manuscript.

11-12th Century. A manuscript famous for containing a unique fragment of the Beowulf epic, as well as fragments of The Life of Saint Christopher, Wonders of the East, and Letters of Alexander to Aristotle.

10th Century. An anthology of Old English prose and verse.

9-10th Century. This work contains the oldest known copy of the Old English translation of Orosius’ Historia adversus paganos.

11th Century. Part of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, with unique information regarding the history of England and the Norman Conquest.

9th Century. Cicero’s De Oratore, a Roman dialogue, as scribed by the Abbot Lupus.