John Trevisa
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| Born | John Trevisa 1342 Trevessa, Queen's College, Oxford |
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John Trevisa (or John of Trevisa;
Trevisa was born at Trevessa in the parish of
He translated into English for his patron the Latin
A fellow of
Subsequently, he translated a number of books of the Bible into French for Lord Berkeley, including a version of the Book of Revelation, which his patron had written up onto the ceiling of the chapel at Berkeley Castle. Trevisa's reputation as a writer rests principally on his translations of encyclopaedic works from Latin into English, undertaken with the support of his patron, Thomas (IV), the fifth Baron Berkeley, as a continuous programme of enlightenment for the laity.[6]
John Trevisa is the 18th most frequently cited author in the Oxford English Dictionary and the third most frequently cited source for the first evidence of a word (after Geoffrey Chaucer and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society).[7]
References
- ^ The Cornish Language and Its Literature – Peter Berresford Ellis 1974
- ^ "Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translation of John Trevisa, and of an unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century edited by Rev. Joseph Rawson Lumby, Vol. III". The Athenaeum (2282): 108–109. 22 July 1871.
- ^ https://www.academia.edu/3439905/The_Cornish_Bible_of_John_Trevisa
- ^ https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/855/1/Grigg_the%20cornish_2021.pdf
- ISSN 0026-8232.
- ^ Oxford DNB http://www.oxforddnb.com.ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/view/article/27722
- ^ Top 1000 sources in the OED
- David C. Fowler (1993) John Trevisa, Ashgate ISBN 0-86078-370-7
- David C. Fowler (1995) The Life and Times of John Trevisa, Medieval Scholar, Seattle: University of Washington Press ISBN 0-295-97427-3
- ISBN 0-904387-20-8
External links
- John of Trevisa, Online Companion to Middle English Literature
- John Trevisa, Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–21) – see also the previous and following pages.
- Trevisa, John de, Dictionary of National Biography, 1899
- Jane Beal, John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon (2012) – book examining Trevisa's rhetorical strategies to establish his own authority in his Polychronicon, a universal history of the world, with additional consideration of his letter to Lord Berkeley, "Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk," and interpolated notes as well as his other translations. The final chapter considers the reception of the English Polychronicon in the Renaissance.
- Works by John Trevisa at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Trevisa at Internet Archive
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.- Digital view of Trevisa's On The Properties of Things, from the British Library
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