Bibliography of European historiography (to the Enlightenment) in the collections of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies

Compiled by Greg Bak for Brian Ogilvie, Spring 2002

Early Print Items

Bacon, Francis. Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seuenth. 1622. fol. 2 copies

Baker, Richard. A Chronicle of the Kings of England. 1684. fol.

Biondi, Giovanni Francesco. An History Of The Civil VVarres of England, Between the two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke. Volume I only. 1641. fol.

Calderwood, David. True History of the Church of Scotland. 1678. fol.

Camden, William. Historie of the most renowned and victorious princesse Elizabeth late Queene of England. 1630. fol.

Cherbury. Life and reign of King Henry VIII. 1683. fol.

Daniel, Samuel. Collection of the history of England. 1621. fol.

-----. Collection. 1626. fol.

-----. Collection. 5^th ed. 1685. fol.

Drummond, William. History of Scotland. 1681. 4to.

Dugdale, William. Short view of the late troubles in England. 1681. fol.

Foxe, John. Actes and Monuments. I-III. 1610.

Fuller, Thomas. Historie of the Holy Warre. 1647

-----. Holy State and Profane State. 1651. fol.

Guicciardini, Francesco. The historie of Gvicciardin. Geoffrey Fenton, trans. 1618. fol.

History of the city and county of Norwich. 1788. 8vo.

Holinshed, Raphael. The Historie of Scotland. 1577. fol. [blackletter]

-----. Chronicles. 1587. fol.

-----. Chronicles. I-VI. 1807. fol.

Josephus, Flavius. The Famous and Memorable workes of Josephus. Thomas Lodge, trans. 1609. fol.

Kennett, Basil. Antiquities of Rome. 6^th ed. 1717. 4to.

Kennett, White. History of the convocation. 1702. 4to.

Lambarde, William. A Perambulation of Kent. 1596. 4to

Livy. The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Phelemon Holland, trans. 1659. fol.

Malvezzi, Virgilio. Discourses upon Cornelius Tacitus. Sir Richard Baker, trans. 1642. fol.

Parival. History of this Iron Age. B. Harris, trans. 1656. fol.

Plutarch. Lives. Thomas North, trans. 1631. fol.

Raleigh, Walter. The History of the World. 1614. fol.

-----. The Marrow of Historie, or an Epitome. A.R. ed. 1650. 8vo.

Selden, John. Historie of Tithes. 1618. 4to.

Speed, John. Historie of Great Britaine. 1632. fol.

Spottiswood, John. History of the church and state of Scotland. 1677. fol.

Stow, John. Annales … continued … by Edmund Howes. 1631. fol. [blackletter] 2 copies

Strype, John. Annals of the Reformation and establishment of religion. I-II. 1735. fol.

Tacitus, Cornelius. The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus ; The description of Germanie. Richard Greenwey, trans. 1640. fol.

-----. The end of Nero and beginning of Galba ; Foure bookes of the histories of Cornelius Tacitus ; The life of Agricola. Henry Savile, trans. 1640. fol.

Froissart, Jean. Chroniques. 1574. fol.

Pliny. Histoire du monde. 1608. fol.

Buchanan, George. Rerum Scotica rum historia. 1582. fol.

Camden. [lots of various titles]

Paris, Matthew. Historia major. 1684.

-----. Historia. 1589.

Blundeville, Thomas. The true order of wryting and reading hystories. 1574.

Boece, Hector. Chronicle of Scotland. 1540.

Caesar, Julius. Martiall exploytes in Gallia. 1565.

Cambini, Andrea. Two commentaries: the one of the originall of the Turcks thother of the warre of the Turcke against George Scanderbeg. 1562.

Caradoc, of Llancarvan. The historie of Cambria. 1584

Chronicles of England. 1480.

Clapham, John. The historie of Great Britannie. 1606.

Curtius Rufus, Quintus. The actes of the Greate Alexander. 1553.

Doddridge, John. The history of the ancient and moderne estate of ... Wales … Cornwall, and ... Chester. 1630

Du Bec, Jean. he historie of the great Emperour Tamerlan. 1597.

Froissart, Jean. The first volum of Sir Johan Froyssart of The chronycles of Englande/Fraunce/ Spayne. 1523. [We have both volumes]

Hall, Edward. The union of the two noble families of Lancaster and York. 1550.

Hardyng, John. The chronicle from the firste begynnyng of Englande, 2 parts. 1543.

Fletcher, Giles. Of the Russe Commonwealth. 1591.

Ogilby, John. Britannia, vol.I or, An illustration of ye kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, by a geographical & historical description of the principal roads.

1675.

Polybius. The histories of the cronographer Polybius. 1568.

Schedel, Hartmann. Chronicle of the world: the complete and annotated Nuremberg chronicle of 1493. [German]