From time to time, ORB intends to make available new transcriptions and/or translations of important medieval texts that have not previously been accessible in print or electronic format. Those working on such manuscripts are invited to contact the ORB editor, Kathryn Talarico , for more information on electronic publishing.

• MLA Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions.

• In Parentheses, ed. Ross G. Arthur
  A site dedicated to distributing medieval texts, translations, and commentaries.

• Dudo of St. Quentin's Gesta Normannorum, ed. and trans. Felice Lifshitz

  

  • Introduction
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• Geste Francor, trans. Leslie Z. Morgan

• A transcription of Rabanus Maurus'De rerum naturis, ed. Bill Schipper

• John of Hildesheim's The Mirror of the Source of Life, edited by Frank Schaer
  • Introduction
  • Speculum Fontis Vite (Latin text)
  • English translation

• Planctus for William Longsword, edited by Robert Helmerichs.
  -- Based on Jules Lair, Étude sur la vie et la mort de Guillaume Longue-épée, duc de Normandie (Paris: Picard, 1893) 

• Miscellaneous Transcriptions, edited by Angus Graham
  • Albertano of Brescia
  • Godfrey of Winchester's Epigrams (Godefridus Prior, pseudo-Martial, Martialis Coccus)
  • Peter Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis
  • Cassiodorus's Variae, now complete.
  • Alcuin's De Rhetorica (from Halm)
  • Baldo's Novus Esopus
  • Liber Kalilae et Dimnae
  • Book 4 of the Decretals of Gregory IX
  • Martin of Braga's Opera Omnia
  • pseudo-Caecilius Balbus's De Nugis Philosophorum

• Ivo of Chartres' Panormia, edited by Bruce Brasington and Martin Brett. The following files are in PDF format; you will need Adobe Acrobat reader to download the files.
  • Introduction - please read this file first.
  • Panormia 1
  • Panormia 2
  • Panormia 3
  • Panormia 4
  • Panormia 5
  • Panormia 6
  • Panormia 7
  • Panormia 8
  • Appendix

• The Ordinalia, ed. Jim Hall.
  Three plays make up the cycle of Cornish mystery plays known as the Ordinalia; the Origo Mundi, the Passio Domini Nostri and Resurrexio Domini Nostri. They must comprise one of the most complete artefacts of Cornish popular culture to have survived from the Middle Ages and are, as Edwin Norris, their 19th century editor and translator, has it, 'the most important relic known to exist of the Celtic dialect once spoken in Cornwall'.

• A Public Record of the Labor of Isabel de la Cavalleria, 1490, trans. Montserrat Cabre

• Leicester Court Proceedings: The Case of Winter VS Petcher, 1597-98, trans., Alan Roberts

• Appleby Probate Court Inventories, 1530 - 1601 , trans., Alan Roberts

• Deeds of Arms, edited and translated by Steve Muhlberger.
  A collection of accounts of mid and late 14th century formal deeds of arms (jousts, the Combat of the Thirty, tournaments).

• The Electronic Manipulus florum, ed. Chris L. Nighman
  The purpose of this website is to provide an electronically searchable edition of Manipulus florum ("Handful of flowers"), a major collection of authoritative Latin sources compiled at Paris by Thomas de Hibernia at the beginning of the 14th century (c. 1306). It is probably the most important example of the collections known as florilegia that were compiled during the 13th-15th centuries and were primarily used by preachers in composing sermons.