Major Collections of Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation
Primary Source Texts
Austria
- Fontes rerum austriacarum Österreichisches
Geschichtquellen.
Vienna (1849-1965)
89 vols. (in 3 series)
DB3.F6's
Belgium
- Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de
la
Belgique.
Louvain (1864-1914)
40 vols.
BX1523.A1 A5
Texts important to the study of ecclesiastical Belgian history.
- Publications de la Commission Royale d'Histoire: Uitgaven van de
Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis.
Brussels (1836-date)
250+ vols. (various series)
AS242.B858
Covers the medieval, early modern and modern time periods
France
- Charters et diplômes relatifs à histoire de France.
Paris (1908-date)
18+ vols.
various call numbers
Charters of Carolingians, Capetians and other French dynasties
- Les classiques de l'histoire de France au moyen âge.
Paris (1923-date)
33+ vols.
various call numbers
Critical editions with french translations.
- Collection de textes pour servir â l'etude et â
l'ensignment de l'histoire.
Paris (1886-1974)
51 vols.
DC3.C69
Primarily medieval texts, also called Collection Picard.
- Collection des Chroniques Nationales Francais
Paris (1824-1829)
47 vols.
D113.C69
Chronicles in Old French from the 13th-16th centuries.
- Gallia christiana
Paris (1715-1785, 1856-1865)
16 vols.
BR849.S2
Arranged by ecclesiastical provinces of Gaul. Numerous ecclesiastical
charters contained at the end of each vol.
- Ordonnances des rois de France de la troisième race jusqu'en
1514.
Paris (1723-1814)
21 vols.
64017.M6 (8th flr, at end of J's)
Various continuations have been published.
- Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France.
Paris (1738-1786)
13 vols.
DC3.B7
Continued by Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Paris (1806-1904)
vols.14-24
DC3.B7
Includes narrative sources, charters, legislation and letters up to 1328,
arranged by reign.
- Recueil des historiens de la France.
Paris (1899S1972)
3 series:
Documents financiers
HJ47.A1 A16
Obituaires
CT1001.P23
Pouilles
BX1528.A1 A3
- Publications of the Société de l'Histoire de France.
Paris (1835-1972)
399+ vols.
DC2.S63
Concerning medieval and modern periods.
Germany
- Acta imperii selecta
Innsbruck (1870)
DD3.B66
Imperial documents from 920-1336
- Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters
und der Neuzeit. Freiherr-vom Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe. A:
Mittelalterliche Reihe.
Berlin (1955-date)
37+ vols.
various call numbers
Important narrative texts of the German Middle Ages in Latin with German
translations.
- Bibliotheca rerum germanicarum
Berlin (1864-1873)
6 vols.
DD3.B4
Collection of narrative sources, primarily letters.
- Monumenta Germaniae historica
Hanover, etc. (1826-date)
Various series including:
Scriptores
Leges
Epistolae
Diplomata
Antiquitates
Deutsches Mittelalter
D3.M7's
By far the most extensive collection of sources relation to medieval
German history.
Great Britain
- Cartularium saxonicum: a collection of charters relating to
Anglo-Saxon history.
London (1885-1893)
3 vols.
DA150.B6
Charters from 430-975
- Foedera, conventiones... inter reges Angliae et alios quosvis
imperatores, reges...tractata
London (1816-1869), 4th ed.
7 vols.
DA26.R9
Materials regarding English relations with other nations.
- Monasticon anglicanum.
London (1817-1830), 2nd ed.
6 vols.
microfilm
Repertory of documents concerning monastic and church institutions.
- Pipe Roll Society Publications
London (1884-date)
81+ vols.
DA25.P6
Contains primarily royal financial records for the 12th and 13th centuries.
- Records of the social and economic history of England and Wales
London (1914-1935)
9 vols.<
Continued in Records of Social and Economic History
London (1972-date)
11+ vols.
HC251.B81
- Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154
Oxford (1913-1969)
4 vols.
DA190.67
- Regesta Regum Scottorum, 1153S1424
Edinburgh (1960-1969)
6 vols.
JN1209.A56
- Rerum britannicarum medii aevi scriptores (Rolls Series)
London (1858-1896, 1911)
253 vols.
DA25.B5
Chiefly chronicles but some non-narrative sources.
Hungary
- Monumenta Hungariae historica
Budapest (1857-1948)
87 vols. (in three series)
DB901.M8
Ireland
- Scriptores latini Hiberniae.
Dublin (1955-1979)
10 vols.
various call numbers
Critical editions of Latin narratives by Irish authors or about Ireland.
Italy
- Corpus statutorum italicorum.
Milan (1912-1946)
22 vols.
Central and Northern Italian statures up to 1400
- Fonti per la storia d'Italia
Rome (1887-date)
118 vols.
various call numbers
- Historiae patriae monumenta.
Turin (1836-1899, 1955)
20 vols.
DG403.S24
Narrative and non-narrative sources concerning the Kingdom of
Sardinia-Piedmont.
- Rerum italicarum scriptores.
Milan (1723-1738, 1751)
28 vols.
DG403.M93
Narrative sources.
- Thesarus mundi. Bibliotheca scriptorum latinorum mediae et
recentioris aetatis.
Padua (1950-date)
24+ vols.
PA8585.V21 Z48
Narrative texts, treaties and literary works-- not exclusively Italian.
Poland
- Momumenta medii aevi historica res gestas Poloniae illustrantia.
Cracow (1874-1927)
19 vols.
DK4189.M72
Mostly non-narrative sources from 1153-1530.
Portugal
- Portugaliae monumenta historica a saecula octavo post Christum
usque ad quintumdeimun Lisbon.
Lisbon (1856-1897)
6 vols.
Various continuations, including Portugaliae monumenta...New
Series.
Lisbon (1980-date)
DP503.P8's
Scandinavia
- Corpus Diplomatum regni danici.
Copenhagen (1938)
7 vols.
DL103.C8
Facsimiles of Danish governmental documents from 1135-1340.
- Diplomatarium novegicum
Oslo (1849-1919)
21 vols.
DL403.D59
Materials from 11th century to 1622.
- Scriptores rerum danicarum medii aevi.
Copenhagen (1772S1834)
9 vols.
DL103.L27
- Scriptores rerum suecicaru medii aevi.
Spain
- Colección de documentos ineditos del Archivo General de la
Corona de Aragon
Barcelona (1847-1876, 1910)
41 vols.
DP124.A15
Also includes a lot of material from 14th-15th century Sicily.
- La España sagrada
Madrid (1747S1879, 1918, 1961)
54 vols.
PQ6523.F47
Numerous documents concerning Spanish ecclesiastical history.
- Miscelánea de textos medievales.
Barcelona (1972-date)
DP66.M57
Various types of medieval texts from Spain and Portugal.
Switzerland
- Quellenwerk zur entstehung der Schweizerischen eidenossenschaft.
Aarau (1933-1965)
11 vols.
DQ3.Q4
Contains chronicles, court laws and deeds up to the early 15th century.
Crusade
- Recueil des historiens des croisades.
Paris (1841-1906)
16 vols.
D157.A2
Texts in Latin, Greek, Arabic and Armenian.
Ecclesiastical Texts
- Acta sanctorum.
Antwerp (1643-1770), Brussels (1780-1786), Tongerlo (1794), Brusels
(1845-1941)
68 vols.
BX4655.A2
Extensive collection of saints' lives in order of the saints' days of the
liturgical calendar.
- Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti.
Paris (1668S1701)
9 vols.
Microfilm List 18, Reel 3
Narrative sources concerning saints of the Benedictine orders,
chronological up to the end of the 11th century.
- Bibliteca apostolica vitcana, studie e testi.
Rome (1900-date)
350+ vols.
AS222.V34
- Corpus christianorum. Series latina.
Turnhout (1954-date)
180+ vols.
BR60.C82
Cirtically edited texts of Christian literature from 3rd to mid-8th
centuries.
- Corpus christianorum. Continuatio mediaevalis.
Turnhout (1966-date)
103+ vols.
BR60.C822
Continuation of the previous series, up to the early 12th century.
- Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticarum.
Siegburg (1963-date)
9+ vols.
various call numbers
Monastic customary rules from 8th to 15th centuries.
- Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum.
Vienna (1866-date)
90+ vols.
PA6038.C8
Critial editions of various texts from late Antiquity and early Middle Ages.
- Epistolae pontificum Romanorum ineditae.
Leipzig (1885)
BX863.A4
Papal letters covering period from 493-1198.
- Patrologiae cursus completus sive bibliotheca
universalis...ecclesiae graecae.
Paris (1857-1964)
162 vols.
B630.M5 (nb: IU library does not own complete collection)
Fundamental texts of Christian authors in Greek up to the early 13th century.
- Patrologiae cursus completux sive bibliotheca
universalis...ecclesiae latinae.
Paris (1844-1855, 1862-1864)
222 vols.
B630.M6 (nb: IU library does not own complete collection)
Fundamental texts of Christian authors in Latin up to the early 13th century.
International Relations
- Corps universel diplomatique du droit de gens.
The Hague (1726-1731)
8 vols.
JX132.D8
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