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Lydgate at the Shrine of Edmund. Manuscript illumination, c1461-75

Selected Works of John Lydgate

Isopes Fabules (c.1400?)
[Aesop's Fables, BL MS Harley 2251]
*Introduction - TEAMS
*Complete - TEAMS


The Floure of Curtesye (c.1401)

[The Flower of Courtesy]

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - TEAMS


The Troy Book (written c.1412-1420; pub. 1513)

[aka The Siege of Troy]

*Complete Manuscript - Rylands Library, Manchester
*Complete 1906 Bergen ed. - UVA
*1906 Bergen ed. Vol I - Internet Archive
*1906 Bergen ed. Vol II - Internet Archive
*Selections - TEAMS


The Lyf of our Lady (written c.1420-22?; pub. 1484)

[The Life of our Lady (Stella Maris);
BL Harley MS 629]
(ed. Lauritis, 1961)

*Complete Manuscript Text - British Library
*Complete - UVA
*[O thoughtful hearté, plunged in distress]


The Siege of Thebes (written c. 1421-22; pub. 1495)

[aka The Story of Thebes]

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - UVA

*Introduction - TEAMS
*Prologue - Harvard

*Prima Pars - TEAMS
*Secunda Pars - TEAMS
*Tercia Pars - TEAMS


Guy of Warwick (wr. early 1420s)
(Based on a chronicle history by Gerard of Cornwall)

*Introduction - TEAMS
*Complete - TEAMS


Saint Austin at Compton (c. 1420-40)

*Introduction - TEAMS
*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - Google Books


The Life of Saint Margaret
(written c. 1426? MS. 8 Henry VI; 1430)

*Complete - TEAMS


The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (1426)

[by John Lydgate, A.D. 1426, from the French
of Guillaume de Deguileville;
British Library Cotton MS Tiberius A VII/1; edited by F.J. Furnivall (1899-1904). 3 vols.]

*Complete Manuscript - British Library
*Complete 1904 Furnivall/Locock ed. - Google Books
*Complete 1904 Furnivall/Locock ed. - UVA

*Part I - Internet Archive
*Part II - Internet Archive
*Part III - Internet Archive


Dance of Death (wr. c.1426)
(Based on the anonymous French Danse macabre)

*Complete A- and B-texts - TEAMS


Stans puer ad mensam (pub. 1476)

*Introduction - TEAMS
*Complete 2008 Shuffelton ed. - TEAMS


The Lamentacyon of Our Lady (pub. 1510)

*Complete - Google Books


The Fall of Princes (wr. 1431-1438; pub. 1527)

[Here begynneth the boke of Johan Bochas, discryuing
the falls of princes, princesses and other nobles, translated
into Englysshe by John Lydgate monke of Bury begynnyng
at Adam and Eve and endyng with King Johan of Fraunce
taken prisoner at Poyters by prince Edwarde
]

*Complete - UVA

*[All Stands in Change Like a Midsummer Rose]
*[Bk 1: Canace Condemned to death, to her brother]
*[Bk 1: Of mighty Sampson] - Harvard
*[Bk 7: Description of the Golden Age]
*[Transcription of an Episode] - UVictoria
*[Dance Macabre from the Ellesmere MS.] - Martin Hagstrøm


The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund (c.1433)

*Complete - The Canon of John Lydgate Project


On the Prospect of Peace (1443-4)

[Harleian MS. 2255]
*Complete - Google Books


Verses on Queen Margaret's Entry into London (1445)

*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - UVA


The Chorle and the Birde (pub. 1477)

[The Churl and the Bird]

[Harleian MS. 2407]

*Complete - Google Books


The Temple of Glas [Glass] (pub. 1477)

*Complete Facsimile of the 1477 Caxton ed. - Google Books
*Complete 1891 Schick ed. - Google Books
*Complete 1891 Schick ed. - UVA
*Complete 2007 - TEAMS


The Horse, the Goose, and the Sheep (pub. 1499)

*Complete Facsimile - Google Books


Verses on the Seven Virtues (pub. 1500)

*Complete - EEBO


Here begynnys the mayng or disport of Chaucer (pub. 1508)

[aka The Complaint of the Black Knight;
or, The Complaint of a Lover's Life
]

*Complete Facsimile + Transcript - National Library of Scotland
*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - TEAMS


London Lickpenny

[aka London Lackpenny;
British Library MS Harley 542 fols. 102r-104r]

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - TEAMS


The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage (pub. 1530)

[The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage.
Translation of De conjuge non ducenda]

*Complete - TEAMS


Dietary: or Rules for Health

*Complete - TEAMS
*[Excerpts] - Google Books


Lydgate's Verses on the Kings of England

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - British History Online


Venus-Mass (c. 1450)

[Bodleian MS. Fairfax 16]

*Complete - Google Books


Merita Missæ

[Cotton MS. Titus, A. xxvi, fol. 154. (c. 1470)]

*Complete - Google Books


Vertue of the Masse (pub. 1520)

[Harleian MS. 2254]

*[Entryng the chirche]
*[Be ware ye pristis]
*[The offeratory next comyng]
*[The sanctus sunge thries]


Virtutes Missarum

[Harleian MS. 3954. fol. 76r, col. 2.]

*[Excerpt] - Google Books


Testament of John Lydgate (pub. 1520)

[Here begynneth the testament of John Lydgate monke
of Berry: which he made hymselfe, by his lyfe dayes
.]

*Complete - Google Books

*[Lyk a Lambe Offryd in Sacrifice]


Fabula duorum mercatorum (c1530?)
[aka Tale of Two Merchants]

*Complete - TEAMS


Secrets of Old Philosophers
(unfinished at Lydgate's death, completed by Burgh)

[aka Secrees of Old Philisoffres: A Version of the 'Secreta Secretorum']
[Sloan MS. 2464]

*Complete 1894 Steele ed. - Google Books
*Complete 1894 Steele ed. - UVA
*[2nd Epistle of Alexander to Aristotle] - Harvard


Life of St. Alban and St. Amphibal (pub. 1534)

[Here begynnethe the glorious lyfe and passion of seint
Albon prothomartyr of Englande, and also the lyfe and
passion of saint Amphabel; which converted saint Albon
to the fayth of Christe
]
(Carl Horstmann, ed. 1882)

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - UVA


The Serpent of Division (London, 1559)
[aka Damage and Destruction in Realms]
(Henry MacCracken, ed. 1911)

*Complete - UMich
*[L'Envoy] - UVA




Lydgate's Mummings and Entertainments


A Mumming at Eltham
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 20]
(ed. Humphrey Milford, Oxford 1934)

*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - UVA


Lydgate's Disguising at Hertford Castle
[aka A Mumming at Hertford]
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 20]
(written c.1427; ed. Humphrey Milford, 1934)

*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - UVA
*Complete - Project Gutenberg


A Mumming at London
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 20]
(ed. Humphrey Milford, Oxford 1934)

*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - UVA


The Mumming At Bishopswood
[MS. Bodl. Ashmole 59, ff. 62-64]
(ed. Humphrey Milford, Oxford 1934)

*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - UVA


A Mumming at Windsor (c.1424)
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 20]
(ed. Humphrey Milford, Oxford 1934)

*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - UVA


A Mumming For The Mercers of London
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 20]
(ed. Humphrey Milford, Oxford 1934)

*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - UVA


A Mumming For The Goldsmiths of London
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 20]
(ed. Humphrey Milford, Oxford 1934)

*Complete - TEAMS
*Complete - UVA


Legend of St. George, for the Armouries of London
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 21]

*Complete - TEAMS


Bycorne and Chychevache
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 20]

*Complete - TEAMS


Mesure Is Tresour
[BL MS Harley 2255]

*Complete - TEAMS


Pageant of Knowledge
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 21]

*Complete - TEAMS


A Procession of Corpus Christi (wr. late 1420s?)
[MS. Trin. Coll. Camb., R. 3. 20]

*Complete - TEAMS


Soteltes at the Coronation Banquet (1429)
[BL MS Cotton Julius B.i]

*Complete - TEAMS




Lydgate's Minor Poems


A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate

(J. O. Halliwell-Phillips, ed. 1840)

*Complete - Google Books


The Two Nightingale Poems (1446)

(Otto Glauning, ed. 1900)

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - UVA
*Complete - Internet Archive


The Dolerous Pyte of Christes Passioun

*Complete - Google Books


A Balade in Commendation of our Lady

*Complete - Google Books


To my Soverain Lady

*Complete - Google Books


Epithalamium for Gloucester

*Complete - Harvard


Ballad of Good Counsel

*Complete - Google Books


Beware of Doubleness

*Complete - Google Books


A Goodly Balade

*Complete - Google Books


Go Forth, King

*Complete - Google Books


Reason and Sensuality
[Reson and sensuallyte]
(ed. from Bodleian MS. Fairfax 16 f202r, ff. and BL Add. MS. 29, 729
by Ernst Sieper; 2 vols; London, 1901-03)

*Complete - Google Books


A Ditty of Women's Horns

*[Horns Away!]


King Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London (1432)
[BL Harley MS 565, 114v-124r]
(ed. Humphrey Milford, 1934)

*Complete Manuscript Text - British Library
*Complete - TEAMS
*[Ordenaunces ffor the Kyng] - UVA


The Grateful Dead
*Complete - Google Books




Anonymous Works Attributed to Lydgate


The Assembly of Gods (pub. 1498)

[aka, The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death;
the interpretacon of the names of goddis and goddesses]

*Introduction - TEAMS
*Complete 1999 Chance ed. - TEAMS
*Complete 1896 Triggs ed. - Google Books
*Complete 1896 Triggs ed. - UVA
*Complete - Project Gutenberg


Beware (The Blynde Eteth Many a Flye) (pub. 1561)

[aka A Balade : Warning Men to Beware of Deceitful Women]

*Complete - Google Books
*Complete - TEAMS


Prohemy of a Mariage Betwixt an Olde Man and a Yonge Wife,
and the Counsail
(written c. 1430)


*Complete - TEAMS


The Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt (1415)

*Complete - Google Books


Mumming of the Seven Philosophers (written c.1430)
[Trinity College MS R.3.19]

*Complete - TEAMS





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