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As of writing, the Bodleian has digitized 475 incunabula for the Polonsky Project. Most of them are in Latin, because most incunabula are in Latin; Maximilian Dörrbecker's breakdown of the language data in the Incunable Short Title Catalogue indicates that about 70% of catalogued incunabula are in Latin. Because today is Whan That Aprille Daye 2016—a day for celebrating old languages and paleography—we would like to call attention to the other 30%: pre-1501 printed books in medieval and early modern forms of modern European languages. This is not a complete list—we've digitized 67 incunabula in Italian alone—but it provides a few places to start.
Auct. 1Q 5.28: Revelation of St Nicholas to a Monk of Eynsham
Douce 180: Christine de Pisan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie
Douce 218: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Douce V 245: The hystorye of Reinard the foxe
Inc. d. E1.13: Statues of Henry VII
S. Seld. d.4: Chronicles of England
S. Seld. d.5: The Myrrour of the Worlde
S. Seld. d.6: The Play of Chess
S. Seld. d.10: The Life of Our Lady (with English marginalia)
S. Seld. d.11: The Art and craft to know well to die
S. Seld. d.17, The Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Heraldry and Chronicles of England
8° Rawl. 167*: The Ghost of Guy (fragment)
Ashm. 1768: Jacobus de Voragine's Sermonen op die evangelien van de zondagen door dat gehele jaar
Auct. V 3.6-7: Bible
Auct. 2Q 5.7: Jacobus de Cessolis's Boek dat men hiet scaecspel [The Play of Chess]
Auct. 2Q inf. 2.76: Vocabularius, Gemmula vocabularum, cum addito (Latin and Dutch)
Inc. e. N14.3: Ordinancie Van der Munten
Auct. 2Q 2.29: Flavius Josephus's De la bataille judaique
Auct. 2Q 4.4: La première partie de Lancelot; La seconde partie de Lancelot
Auct. 2Q 4.5: La tierce partie de Lancelot; La partie du Saint Graal; La dernière partie de la Table Ronde
Auct. 2Q 5.5: Catholicon abbreviatum (Latin and French)
Douce 38: Quatres Choses
Douce 161: Compost et kalendrier des bergiers
Douce 177: Ponthus et la belle Sydonie
Douce 224: Le roman du noble et vaillant Chevalier Tristan
Douce L subt. 64: Les vigilles de la mort de Charles VII
Auct. 3Q 4.33: Die Ordnung der Gesundheit
Auct. 6Q 6.87: Proverbia communia metrice conscripta (Latin and Low German)
Bib. Germ. 1485 d.1: Bible
Douce 66: Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff
Douce 184: Barlaam et Josaphat
Douce 262: Stephan Fridolin's Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils
Auct. 1Q 5.71: Hieronymus Savonarola's Predica fatta il sabato dopo la seconda domenica di quaresima l'anno 1497
Auct. 2Q 4.30: Petrarch's Canzoniere et Trionfi
Auct. 2Q 6.79: Caesar Tortus's Sonetti ed altre poesie
Auct. 2Q 6.84: Sonetti e canzoni
Auct. 2Q inf. 2.43: Antonio Cornazzano's Dell'arte militare
Auct. 4Q 3.22: Guilelmus de Saliceto's La ciroxia vulgarmente fata
Auct. 4Q 5.69: Giordano Ruffo's Arte di conoscere la natura dei cavalli
Auct. 6Q 6.13*: Ars memorativa
Auct. 6Q 6.30: La storia di Merlino
Auct. 7Q 6.34: Catharina Senensis's Epistole (XXXI)
Don. d.131: Giovanni Boccaccio's La Fiammetta
Douce 244: Bible
Inc. d. I4.1480.1: Guido de Cauliaco's Chirurgia
Inc. e. I22.1493.1: Baverius de Baveriis's Reggimento nel tempo della peste
Inc. f. I9.1496.1: Johannes Bernardus's Vocabulista ecclesiastico (Italian and Latin)
S. Seld. c.2: Giovanni Boccaccio's Decamerone and Masuccio Salernitano's Novellino
Inc. d. S4.1491.1: Las obras de Seneca
Inc. d. S6.1500.1: Leyes del estilo
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