English
7 manuscripts
Tyndale New Testament 1526
The first printed New Testament in English, translated by William Tyndale and printed at Worms in 1526 in pocket size for smugglin...
Coverdale Bible 1535
The first complete printed Bible in English, translated and published by Miles Coverdale in Antwerp in 1535. Working from German a...
Geneva Bible 1560
The Bible of Shakespeare and the Pilgrims, printed in Geneva in 1560 by English exiles with verse numbers, italics for supplied wo...
King James Bible 1611
The authorized English Bible printed by Robert Barker in 1611, the work of 47 scholars in six companies. Its cadences shaped Engli...
First Folio Shakespeare
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, published in 1623 by his friends Heminges and Condell. Without it, 18...
Ellesmere Chaucer
An early 15th century manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, prized for its careful text and lavish decoration. Painte...
Pearl Manuscript
Cotton Nero A.x is the sole surviving copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, bound with three other poems, Pearl, Cleanness and ...