15th century in literature Contents

L'Avision de Christine

The Book of the City of Ladies (Le livre de la Cité des dames)

The Treasure of the City of Ladies (Le trésor de la Cité des dames; also known as The Book of the Three Virtues)

c. 1410

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  Mahathera Bodhiramsi – Cāmadevivaṃsa (Thai: ตำนานจามเทวีวงศ์)
  

1411

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  Thomas Occleve – The Regement of Princes
  

1413

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  Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York – The Master of Game
  

1420

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  John Lydgate – The Siege of Thebes
  
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  Approximate date: Andrew of Wyntoun – Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland
  

1424

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  Bhaskara – Jivandhara Charite
  

1425

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  Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi – Zafar Nama (history of Timur)
  

1429

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  Leone Battista Alberti – Amator
  
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  Radoslav Gospels
  
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  (?) Kashefi – Anvār-e Soheylī (Persian: انوار سهیلی‎‎, "The Lights of Canopus"), a translation of the Panchatantra
  

1430

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  Kallumathada Prabhudeva – Ganabhasita Ratnamale
  

1434

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  Treatise on the Barbarian Kingdoms on the Western Oceans (China)
  
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  Approximate date: John Lydgate – The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr
  

1435

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  Leon Battista Alberti – Della Pittura
  

1436

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  The Marvels discovered by the boat bound for the Galaxy (China)
  

1438

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  The Buik of Alexander
  
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  Gilte Legende, a translation into Middle English
  

1439

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  Kalyanakirti – Jnanachandrabhyudaya
  

1440

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  Zhu Quan – Cha Pu (Tea Manual)
  
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  Santikirtimuni – Santinathacharite
  

1444

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  Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini – The Tale of Two Lovers
  

1447

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  Walter Bower – Scotichronicon (completed)
  

1448

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  Vijayanna – Dvadasanuprekshe
  

1450

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  Reginald Pecock – Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie
  
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  Approximate date: Ballads "A Gest of Robyn Hode" and "Robin Hood and the Monk"
  

1453

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  Antoine de la Sale – Petit Jehan de Saintre
  

1455

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  Padmanābha - Kanhadade Prabandha
  

Pre-1460

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  Turpines Story (Middle English translation of the Historia Caroli Magni)
  

1461

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  François Villon – Grand Testament
  

1467

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  Cardinal Juan de Torquemada – Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae ("Meditations, or the Contemplations of the Most Devout"), the first book printed in Italy to include woodcut illustrations^[14]
  

1469/70

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  Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron (completed 1353)
  

c. 1470–85

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  Pietru Caxaro – Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese language text
  

1471

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  Marsilio Ficino (translator) – De potestate et sapientia Dei, a translation from the Hermetica
  

1472

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  Dante Alighieri – Divine Comedy (written c.1308-21), first printed 11 April in Foligno, Italy, by Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi^[15]
  
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  Johannes de Sacrobosco – De sphaera mundi (written c. 1230), the first printed astronomical book
  
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  Paul of Venice (posthumously) – Logica Parva
  
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  Roberto Valturio – De re militari, the first book with technical illustrations^[14]
  

1472 or 1473

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  Johannes Tinctoris – Proportionale musices (Proportions in Music)
  

1473

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  Avicenna – The Canon of Medicine
  
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  Sir John Fortescue – The Governaunce of England (first published 1714)
  
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  Approximate date: Missale Speciale (Constance Missal)
  

1474

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  Obres e trobes en lahors de la Verge María
  

1475

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  Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, the first book printed in English, by William Caxton in Bruges
  

c. 1475?

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  The Squire of Low Degree
  

1477

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  William Caxton prints the first books in England on a printing press he set up at Westminster in 1476
  
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    Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, a translation by Earl Rivers
    
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    History of Jason, a translation from the French of Raoul Le Fèvre by Caxton
    
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  Bible in duytsche (Delft Bible)
  
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  First printed edition of The Travels of Marco Polo
  
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  Approximate date: Blind Harry – The Wallace (The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, Middle Scots poem)
  

1478

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  Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales
  

1479

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  Rodolphus Agricola – De inventione dialectica
  

1480

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  Pierre Le Baud – Compillation des cronicques et ystoires des Bretons (approximate date of completion)
  
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  John of Capua – Directorium Humanae Vitae, a translation of the Panchatantra
  

1481

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  Mirrour of the Worlde, a translation of 1480 by William Caxton from Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Maius, the first book printed in England to include woodcut illustrations
  
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  The Historie of Reynart the Foxe (first English translation)
  
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  Approximate date: 'Pseudo-Apuleius' – Herbarium Apuleii Platonici, the first printed illustrated herbal^[16]
  

1482

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  Mosen Diego de Valera – Crónica abreviada de España ("Crónica Valeriana")
  
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  Euclid – Elements (in Latin)
  
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  Hans Tucher der Ältere – Beschreibung der Reyß ins Heylig Land
  

1483

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  The Golden Legend, a translation by William Caxton
  
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  Giacomo Filippo Foresti – Supplementum chronicarum
  
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  Das Der Buch Beyspiele, a translation of the Panchatantra
  
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  Theophrastus – Historia Plantarum (first Latin version of Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία translated by Theodore Gaza)
  

1484

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  Aesop's Fables, a translation by William Caxton
  
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  Plato – Opera Platonis (complete works), a translation by Marsilio Ficino
  

1485

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  Leon Battista Alberti – De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–52 and published posthumously), the first printed work on architecture
  
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  Joseph Albo – Sefer ha-Ikkarim (written before 1444)
  
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  Bommarasa of Terakanambi – Sanatkumara Charite
  
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  Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d'Arthur
  

1486

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  Bernhard von Breydenbach – Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam, with illustrations taken from life by the printer Erhard Reuwich
  
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