Modern students of early Tudor literature only rarely encounter extant Sammelbände, most of which were disbound in the nineteenth century.
Yet printed editions of works by (or ascribed to) Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, Richard Rolle, Margery Kempe, Stephen Hawes, John Skelton, and writers involved in Tudor religious controversy from John Wycliffe to William Tyndale may all be traced to such composite volumes [REF].