The Union Catalog of Pre-1600 Books Online: Search Inside

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Phrases

  Phrase    Total Books    Selected Books    Unselected Books  
149214265398110284
16th and 17th centuries925307618
16th and 17th century882662
A Choice of Emblemes481929
A collection of Emblemes33528
A Country Study413
A French-Onondaga Dictionary13013
A Guide to Stoicism303
A Mirovr for Magistrates431
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse734
A Spirituall Consolation532
A Treatise of Daunses761
A Treatise of Witchcraft13211
Aaron of York321616
Abba Mari532924
Abelard681717745043
Abenragel, Haly110
About the contemplative life401030
Abraham Crowley707
Abraham Fraunce25716097
Abraham van der Doort321
Accorso, Mariangelo321
Acosta, Jose de412219
Adalgis412912
Adam Davy493514
Adam de Lanark633
Adam de Tyninghame413
Adam Hepburn, Earl532
Adam of Bremen572321251
Adam, of Bremen1477
Adelaide of Aquitaine110
Adelina17221701552
Adriaen van Bergen101
Adrianus Petit Coclico963
AElfhere24186
Aelfthryth21147
AElfwald I of Northumbria110
Aelius Aristides582434
Aemilia Lanyer110
Aemilius, Paulus422
Aeneid29729572015
Aeschylus486512763589
Aesop23896311758
AEthelred I of Northumbria110
Agnes of Merania201010
Agostino Novello12102
Agricola892826386290
Agricola, Georgius381622
Agueybana15411
Ahmed Ibn Hanbal1468
Aix, Albert of110
Al-Jubba'i927
Al-Khayzuran101
Alabaster, William533419
Alan fitz Walter734
Alan of Tewkesbury644420
Alan, of Tewkesbury321
Alberic of Citeaux440
Alberigo, Fra220
Albert Azzo I202
Albert of Aix765620
Albert of Stade31256
Albert S. Cook386157229
Albert, of Aix211
Alberto d'Este1293
Albigensian1272580692
Albrecht Durer737205532
Alciato, Andrea211
Alcuin423918222417
Aldrovandi, Ulisse241311
Aldus Manutius757373384
Alexander Barclay531258273
Alexander Bur20515
Alexander Comyn, Earl402218
Alexander Craig25853205
Alexander de Bicknor442123
Alexander Essebiensis1046
Alexander Gordon1276319957
Alexander Gordon, Earl642
Alexander Hume488163325
Alexander Lauder752352
Alexander Lauder of Blyth624
Alexander Leslie, Earl471829
Alexander Montgomerie1567086
Alexander Mylne371918
Alexander Nowell346192154
Alexander Stewart, Earl722745
Alexander the Good1165
Alexander the Great14059365310406
Alexander Vaus1037
Alexander, the Good404
Alexander, the Great19652144
Alexandra of Lithuania101
Alexandria and Her Schools1294584
Alexios V Doukas110
Aleyn, Charles241311
Alfani, Domenico1385
Alfonso de Ulloa381424
Alfred of Malmesbury110
Alfred of Sareshel862
Alfrida704129
Alhambra729610136283
Alice of Antioch541
Alighieri, Dante764531
Alix de Montmorency413
Allde, Edward20146
alliterative407313152758
Allott, Robert18144
Am'aq541
Amadeus V694227
Amadis of Gaul724279445
Amalhar936
Amalric of Bena714823
Amalric, of Bena211
Amaru, Tupac1019
Ambroise Pare514119395
American Nation: a history831073
Amerigo Vespucci16605001160
Amias Poulet, Sir110
Ammonio, Andrea541
Amyot, Jacques985840
An Account of Egypt301416
An English Garner18911277
Anastasius III, Pope431
Ancient Britain962283679
ancient china878117761
ancient europe719147572
ancient greece1197623249652
ancient greek981122987513
Ancient Rome1247526299846
Andre Thevet1295475
Andrea Alciato19910
Andrea Ammonio12111
Andrea da Firenze453213
Andrea Tafi1066739
Andreas Capellanus592930
Andreas de Moravia1468
Andrei Rublev514
Andreini, Giovanni Battista1257
Andreoli, Giorgio853
Andrew de Durisdeer110
Andrew Durie351817
Andrew Leslie, Earl101
Andrew Melville1125382743
Andrew Munro611150
Andrewes, Lancelot19795102
Andrewes, Roger404
Androw Myllar1587
Angela Merici1414992
Angela Merici of Brescia1367
Angela of Foligno18533152
Anger, Jane312
Angevin230710421265
Angevins1090457633
Angilbert310201109
Anglicus, Gilbertus110
Anglo Saxon13343151019
Anglo-Norman426517672498
Anglo-Saxon34965546629499
Anglo-Saxons1039024087982
Anglosaxon16361102
Angulo, Gilbert de101
Anjou, Margaret of432320
Anna of Kashin101
Anne Askew524258266
Anne Boleyn533320053328
Anne Dowriche523
Anne Line26197
Anselm of Canterbury504224280
Anselm of Laon16011941
Anselm, Duke110
Anselm, of Canterbury725
Anselm, of Laon1275
Anselm, Saint713536
Anthony Bassano330
Anthony Cope1457372
Anthony Farindon331419
Anthony Munday616415201
Anthony of Padua, Saint27918
Anthony, of Padua, Saint110
Antioch, George of514
Antioch, Theophilus of312
Antipope John XVI972
Antique Maps615
Antoine de la Sale382414
Antoine Despeisses110
Anton Francesco Doni27216
Antonio de Guevara1616695
Antonio de Morga612536
Antonio del Pollaiolo431
Antonio Gallonio1248
Antonio Grimani924151
Antonio Serra491435
Apel, Willi421527
Apicius1273380893
Apollonius of Tyana1225460765
Apollonius, of Tyana251015
Apuleius462716962931
Aquila Cruso1046
Aquila, Peter of202
Aquinas, Thomas876314562
Aquitaine, Eleanor of19217
Arabian Nights13677165312024
Arber, Edward22097123
Arbiter, Petronius1165
Arc, Joan of1437271
Archbishop Arnulf11110
Archbishop Fulk23167
Archbishop Pilgrim523
Archbishop Turpin374178196
Archibald Campbell, Earl722844
Archibald I75471
Archimedes876116747087
Archpoet583919
Arderne, John522824
Argenti, Filippo1192
Argonauts481711073710
Ariosto894926406309
Ariosto, Lodovico1216457
Ariosto, Ludovico1628478
Aristides, Aelius936
Aristophanes1285534339422
Aristotelian863123506281
Aristotelianism1033390643
Aristotile Fioravanti321
Aristotle38955790431051
Arlotto of Prato211
Armin, Robert1028121
Arminius, Jacobus341024
Arminius, James382315
Arnaud Amalric871
Arnaut Daniel1659273
Arnot, David35926
Arnoul Le Ferron220
Arnulf of Chocques220
Arnulf, Archbishop30264
Arte de Escrevir312
Arthour and Merlin1056936
Arthur Barlow22380143
Arthur Brooke310169141
Arthur Golding345216129
Arthurian351511302385
Artillery Through the Ages211
Artur Dall Mac Gurcaigh101
Ascham, Roger718407311
Asjadi1183
Askew, Anne1358451
Asser18129320414925
Assisi, Francis of301218
Assyria13221269110530
Assyrian14783288611897
Assyrians833420416293
Astrik1679
at Perseus662739
Atlantis: the antediluvian world19316
Atotoztli615
Aubert, David651
Aubrey de Vere19294091520
Aubrey, de Vere211
Auchinleck manuscript432320
Auchinleck ms292162130
Aue, Hartmann von954
Augustine, Saint533178355
Aurelian413914922647
Aurelius, Marcus523142381
Authors of Greece30095205
Avila, John of312
Awdelay, John1183
Babylon34014626927745
Babylonian13182276810414
Babylonians670617074999
Bacon, Anne Cooke, Lady110
Bacon, Francis26668431823
Bacon, Roger1318546772
Baconi, Rogeri101
Badew, Richard13103
Baillie, Robert21881137
Baldwin FitzGilbert642
Bale, John401255146
Balk, Hermann110
ballates20010694
Balnaves, Henry523418
Bandello, Matteo1187147
Bane, James26521
Bannatyne, George532528
Bannatyne, Richard362610
Barbosa, Duarte301515
Barbour, John440188252
Barclay, Alexander277146131
Barley, William654520
Barlow, Arthur812655
Barlowe, Jerome523
Barnabe Barnes19414450
Barnabe Rich1088622
Barnes, Barnabe1098623
Barnes, Joseph22727200
Barnfield, Richard16510956
Baron John Beauchamp110
Barry, Lording110
Bartholomaeus740331409
Bartholomew de Burghersh644420
Bartlet, John512328
Bartolomeo Gradenigo954
Basalenque, Diego303
Basile, Giambattista20416
Bassano, Anthony110
Battista Varani23617
Beatrice Cenci985159826
Beatriz, Infanta211
Beauchamp, Richard, Earl321616
Beauchamp, William, Baron110
Beauchesne, Jean de312
Beaumont, Francis655353302
Beaumont, Robert703337
Beaumont, Roger de, Bishop321
Bede, the Venerable478236242
Bedell, William1055352
Bedingfeld, Henry312
Bedingfield, Edmund1091
Bek, Thomas, Bishop422
Belalcazar, Sebastian de1028
Belcari, Feo18135
Bell's Cathedrals13121
Bellarmine, Robert592435
Bellot, Jacques440
Ben Jonson1268436079077
Bena, Amalric of431
Bengt Knutsson220
Benson, John31740277
Benvenuto Cellini35717982773
Benzoni, Girolamo531637
Beorhtric of Wessex15114
Beowulf346912962173
Berengaria of Navarre1397267
Berengaria, of Navarre761
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo29873225
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint321616
Bernard van Orley1105159
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint431
Bernardino Ochino19513362
Bernardo de Vargas Machuca1129
Berners, Juliana723933
Bertha of Burgundy1468
Bertha of Swabia110
Bertha, of Burgundy202
Bertrand de Salignac432914
Bertrand Salignac110
Bertrand, de Salignac110
bestiary562309253
Bethoc783444
Betson, Thomas17107
Bibliotheca Chemica983167
Bibliotheca Madrigaliana653035
Bibliotheca Osleriana707
Bicknor, Alexander de734
Bidpai606218388
Bidun, Walter de743
Bigges, Walter541
Bigod, Roger1056639
Billingsley, Martin972
Billung, Hermann541
Binet, Etienne431
Birger Brosa532
Biringuccio, Vannoccio413
Bishop Athanasius I110
Bishop James Hepburn101
Bishop John Fraser211
Bishop John Guthrie101
Bishop John Laing624
Bishop Percy17496651084
Bishop Robert Crichton303
Bishop Roger de Beaumont110
Bishop Thomas Bek211
Bishop Turpin1276562
Bishop William Gordon1037
Bisticci, Vespasiano da22175
Black Death470913753334
Blackadder, Robert853
Blackburn, Peter281216
Blois, Louis de550
Blois, Louis of211
Blount, James1061789
Boccaccio, Giovanni414197217
Bodel, Jean281612
Bodin, Constantine110
Bodin, Jean20989120
Boece, Hector1467175
Boehme, Jakob421032
Boethius581727063111
Boetius of Dacia440
Bohemond I20155
Bohemond IV of Antioch110
Bohme, Jakob34727
Boiardo, Matteo Maria513120
Bold, Charles the1129
Boleyn, Anne709393316
Bonatti, Guido16142
Bonaventure, Saint311120
Boncompagno da Signa532
Bonet de Lattes321
Bonifacio Bembo880
Book of Curtesye996237
book of days991324667
Book of Leinster464160304
Book of Lismore270113157
Booth, John, Bishop321
Borghese, Ippolito101
Borgia, Lucrezia1418061
Boris I of Bulgaria440
Borrell II, Count110
Bourne, William17947132
Boutell, Charles281117
Bouts, Dirk23815
Bower, Richard261313
Boyd, Zacharie110
Bracciolini, Poggio917219
Brackenbury, Robert13112
Bradford, John551146405
Bradshaw, Henry225100125
Brakelond, Jocelin de1064
Brakelond, Jocelyn de330
Bramhall, John1194475
Brandon, Samuel382216
Brant, Sebastian1026042
Braose, William de513219
Brathwaite, Richard844935
Bremen, Adam of14113
Brerewood, Edward582335
Breton Lais312011
Breton, Nicholas26217983
Bricius de Douglas312
Bridgeman, Edward312
Bridges, John23078152
Brooke, Arthur1166848
Brooke, Samuel502426
Brother Leo442140302
Brownswerd, John1275
Brugman, Johannes725
Brunelleschi18226641158
Bruni, Leonardo947222
Bruno, Giordano698274424
Buchanan, George815334481
Bugatto, Zanetto312
Bulfinch, Thomas1202199
Bullinger, Heinrich642836
Bullock, John15924135
Bur, Alexander505
Burghersh, Bartholomew de15123
Burnett, Thomas, Sir202
Burroughs, Jeremiah451134
Burton, Henry27788189
Burton, Robert849317532
Bury, Richard de1457669
Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de21417
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de110
Butler, Charles637108529
Butler, Walter, Earl101
Byrhtferth604812
Byttering752
Byzantine15200361911581
Byzantium818227215461
Cabasilas, Nicholas725
Cabeza de Vaca899154745
Cabeza, de Vaca404
Cabot, John808238570
Cacamatzin431033
Caesar of Naples110
Caius Valerius Catullus491633
Cajetan, Tommaso de Vio945
Calderwood, David1155659
Calfhill, James291712
Calvin, Jean1165363
Calvinist992918978032
Calvinists937721357242
Camaterus, John330
Cambrensis, Giraldus563422
Camden, William586324262
Camoes, Luis de844
Campanella21295581571
Campanella, Tommaso854045
Campbell, Archibald, Earl241113
Campion, Thomas338191147
Camus, Jean-Pierre431
Canerio, Nicolo De110
Canterbury Tales499118753116
Canterbury, Anselm of202
Cantus Firmus33163268
Capac, Mayta211
Capellanus, Andreas541
Capellanus, John440
Capellanus, Robert220
Capgrave, John1208436
Cardeny, Robert de101
Cardinal Gualo412516
Carew, Richard1448955
Carew, Thomas423206217
Carlo Crivelli293103190
Carlone, Taddeo101
Carmichael, George27225
Carrick, John de642
Carta da Companhia110
Carthage23058510117957
Carthaginian645318734580
Cartier, Jacques632155477
Cartwright, Thomas403167236
Casas, Bartolome de las511833
Casaubon, Isaac294160134
Cascia, Rita of110
Case, John45990369
Cassiodorus251712491268
Cassius Dio Cocceianus18612
Castiglione395012862664
Castile, Eleanor of15105
Castile, Isabel Of220
Castile, Isabella Of844
Castillo, Bernal Diaz Del22517
Catherine of Siena, Saint281117
Catherine, of Siena, Saint202
Cavalca, Domenico1055
Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti20146
Cavalcanti, Guido1288147
Cavendish, George1729577
Cavendish, William204100104
Caxton823127705461
Cecil, Richard822755
Cellini, Benvenuto790294496
Celt and Saxon40957352
Cenci, Beatrice1104664
Centurione II Zaccaria110
Cervantes1192522969629
Cesare Ripa25169
Chambers's Book of Days1547183
Champlain, Samuel De47878400
Chandos Herald543816
Chansons de Geste772365407
Chaplain, Hugh the101
Chaplain, Richard the211
Chapman, George1008445563
Charlemagne21584522216362
Charles Aleyn301317
Charles Boutell1313695
Charles Butler14533391114
Charles Estienne1125161
Charles Ferme24177
Charles Fitzgeoffrey24204
Charles Martel285511681687
Charles of Provence27189
Charles the Bold280811811627
Charles Tilney473215
Charles Wriothesley442915
Charles, the Bold16511
Charlotte of Naples202
Chaucer24775610218673
Chauncy, Maurice18144
Cheam, John de211
Chen, Henry le624
Chepman, Walter432419
Chester, Robert1318942
Chettle, Henry23018446
Child, Francis James1333499
Choice emblems, divine1349
Chrestien, Florent1275
Chretien De Troyes365184181
Chretien, de Troyes101
Christiaensen, Hendrick16016
Christian of Stavelot330
Christian of Whithorn110
Christine De Pisan409225184
Christodulus501832
Christopher Goodman1327953
Christopher Marlowe1353627726
Christus, Petrus1578
Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris101
Chrétien de Troyes220
Chuquet, Nicolas101
Churchyard, Thomas23716374
Cicero36884775229132
Ciconia, Johannes1037
Clanvowe, Thomas651
Clari, Robert de422
Clavijo, Ruy Gonzales de422
Clement Maydeston322210
Clement Robinson13610234
Cochlaeus, Johannes1064
Cockburn, Robert28325
Cockeram, Henry1275
Coclico, Adrianus Petit743
Colard Mansion20110299
Colinet de Lannoy220
Collado, Diego532
Colon, Diego291217
Colon, Fernando18513
Colonna, Francesco492128
Colonna, Pietro1688
Comber, Thomas982771
Company of Scriveners311219
Company of Stationers755345410
Comyn, Alexander, Earl725
Conall mac Taidg651
Confessio amantis1174695479
Conny Catching32248
Conqueror, William the231013
Conrad of Wittelsbach1183
Constable, Henry23615581
Constantine Bodin220
Constantine II of Scotland211
Constantine III of Scotland110
Constantine Manasses493118
Constantine, Emperor296123173
Contarini273910361703
Cookrye312
Cooper, Thomas970162808
Coote, Edmund1284
Cope, Anthony211110
Copernicus, Nicolaus853748
Copland, Robert694128
Coquille, Guy734
Corbeil, Peter of110
Coriat, Thomas1174
Coriate, Thomas211
Cornelius Lapide624
Cornelius Nepos23308121518
Cornelius Tacitus616338278
Coryat, Thomas1278047
Coryate, George880
Coryate, Thomas532825
Cosin, John1647787
Costanzo Festa442816
Cotgrave, Randle523220
Council of Trent951827376781
Council, of Trent1046
Count Borrell II101
Count Dipold110
Count Herbert I101
Count Ludwig I312
Count Otto II220
Count Raimbaut101
Count Rampon321
Countess Mariota202
Courtenay, Peter422418
Courtly Love325170155
Coverdale, Miles364218146
Cox, Leonard573126
Craig, Alexander1102981
Crambeth, Matthew de422
Cranmer, Thomas566337229
Creede, Thomas26215
Crescentius the Younger220
Crichton, James984157
Crichton, Robert, Bishop743
Cristyne de Pisan303
Crivelli, Carlo913556
Crooke, Helkiah1367
Crowley, Abraham707
Cruso, Aquila761
Cunha, Rodrigo da101
Cur Deus Homo657238419
Cusa, Nicholas of35269
Cushman, Robert17834144
Cuthbert Lennox1275
Cyril Tourneur387190197
d'Anghiera, Pietro Martire101
d'Aubigny, William220
d'Avanzi, Jacopo202
d'Este, Alberto110
D'Oyly, Robert642
da Vinci864316826961
Daemonologie1275770
Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd211
Dafydd ap Gwilym912467
Dagobert of Pisa220
Daille, Jean22913
Dallington, Robert1394
Damon and Pithias19315043
Danelaw292190102
Daniel of Morley21174
Daniel, Arnaut291613
Daniel, of Morley101
Daniel, Samuel709387322
Danseker21417
Dante39185627232913
Dante Alighieri25157331782
Daphnis and Chloe937266671
Dare, Virginia15942117
Darlington, Adam de101
Dastin, John101
Dati, Giuliano12102
David Arnot1013269
David Aubert23158
David Calderwood1676899
David Ferguson20854154
David Hanmer241311
David Lindsay, Sir505
David Moysie26188
Davidson, John943137806
Davies, John726212514
Davies, John, Sir101
Davison, Francis1057134
Davy, Adam271413
Davys, John572631
Dawson, John54787460
Day, John19364001536
de Balboa954245709
De Graecorum Medicis Publicis523
de la Palma, Luis220
de la Puente, Luis101
De Re Metallica32184237
de Troyes17476851062
Dee, John217116101
Deguileville, Guillaume de633
Dekker, Thomas570330240
Della Casa, Giovanni440
Deloney, Thomas1307951
Delphic Mysteries12210
Delyan, Peter110
Demosthenes16096358212514
Dempster, Thomas883553
Desiderius20761104972
Detmar13222110
Diceto, Ralph de513417
Diego Basalenque927
Diego Collado743
Diego Colon27274198
Diego de Landa982177
Diego Salcedo1257
Digby1177228028970
Digby, Kenelm14946103
Digby, Simon351520
Digges, Dudley1133479
Dio's Roman History21813
Diogenes1203633018735
Dionysius Longinus673037
Dionysus403713382699
Dirk Bouts511437
Dobrynya261214
Doget, John34268
Domenico Alfani23167
Domenico Cavalca27819
Domenico Selvo241311
Domesday604220743968
Don Quixote14691231412377
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres220
Doni, Anton Francesco20128
Donne, John994385609
Doort, Abraham van der101
Douglas, Gawin1086345
Douglas, John, Earl110
Douland, John1073
Douland, Robert211
Dowland, John1849490
Dowland, Robert423210
Dowriche, Anne523
Drake's Great Armada743
Drake, Francis546124422
Drayton, Michael752408344
Drexel, Jeremias770
Drummond, William635244391
Du Perron, Jacques Davy1156
Duarte Barbosa923755
Duarte Pacheco Pereira15411
Duccio699311388
Dudley Digges696251445
Dudley, Robert295163132
Duke Anselm220
Duke Ernest I17611
Duke Henry I1174
Duke William IV341717
Dunbar, William552221331
Duncan Dundas808
Duncan I of Scotland211
Dundas, Duncan523
Dundee, Thomas de101
Dunkeld, Gilbert of101
Durandus, Gulielmus633
Durer, Albrecht16957112
Durham, Simeon of31229
Durie, Andrew20911
Eardwulf of Northumbria734
Earl Adam Hepburn15015
Earl John Douglas220
Earl Patrick Hepburn101
Earl Reginald Grey101
Earl Richard Beauchamp624
Earl Walter Stewart202
earliest times22271408518186
Early Bardic Literature1367
Early Chamber Music31724
Early English music603129
Early History of Singing1587
Early Illustrated Books932073
Early Kings of Norway25656200
early modern938297641
Early Music