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Gesta Romanorum (c. early 14th century) is a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales ambiguously translated as Deeds of the Romans. It was one of the most popular books of the time used as source material for Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and others. [59] The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum (1879). [60]
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In the late 14th century, probably John Wycliffe and perhaps Nicholas Hereford produced the first complete Middle English language Bible. The Wycliffean Bibles were made in the last years of the 14th century, with two very different translations, the Early Version and the Late Version, the second more numerous than the first, both circulating ...
Also known as Abu'l-Fath (fl. 1335), he was a 14th-century Samaritan chronicler. [138] The Samaritan chronicle of Abu'l Fatah; the Arabic text from the manuscript in the Bodleian Library (1865). [139] English translation by the Rev. Robert Payne Smith (1818–1895). Abū al-Fidā'. Abū al-Fidā' (1273–1331) was a Kurdish geographer and ...
William of Nassyngton came from a family of ecclesiastical administrators from Nassington, Northamptonshire.He was a master of law by 1327 or 1328. He held several church appointments in the Diocese of Exeter in the 1330s, under Bishop John Grandisson, and later in the Diocese of York in the 1340s, under Archbishop William Zouche.
The Dream of the Rood is an Old English Christian poems in the genre of dream poetry and written in alliterative verse. Preserved in the 10th-century Vercelli Book, the poem may be as old as the 8th-century Ruthwell Cross, and is considered as one of the oldest works of Old English literature. The Holy Rood, a dream (1866).
In the late 14th century, the first (known, extant) complete Middle English language Bible was produced, probably by scholars at Oxford University. This New Testament was initially completed by 1380 and the Old Testament a few years later and is a word-for-word translation of the Vulgate suited for scholary reference.
Start of Bartholomew's translation of the Problemata in a 14th-century English manuscript. The red dragon is probably drawn in reference to dragon's blood. Bartholomew of Messina [1] was a Sicilian scholar who worked as a translator of Greek into Latin at the court of King Manfred of Sicily (r. 1258–1266).