List of English translations from medieval sources: B

The list of English translations from medieval sources: B provides an overview of notable medieval documents—historical, scientific, ecclesiastical and literature—that have been translated into English. This includes the original author, translator(s) and the translated document. Translations are from Old and Middle English, Norman, Irish, Cornish, Scots, Old Dutch, Flemish Old Norse or Icelandic, Italian, Lombard, Latin, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Ethiopic, Coptic, and Hebrew, and most works cited are generally available in the University of Michigan's HathiTrust digital library and OCLC's WorldCat. Anonymous works are presented by topic.

List of English translations BA–BE Babees Book. The Babees Book (c. 1475), or the Lytyl Reporte of how young people should behave, is the first of a collection of treatises on the manners and meals of the English, published by the Early English Text Society. This was followed by a work under the title Queene Elizabethes achademy that also includes other essays on early English, Italian and German books of courtesy.

The Babees book: Early English Meals and Manners (1838).Furnivall, F. James. (1868). The babees book: Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lytille childrenes lytil boke, the bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c. with some French and Latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England. London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co. Translated and edited by English philologist Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910).Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Furnivall, Frederick James". Encyclopædia Britannica. 11 (11th ed.) Cambridge University Press. p. 366. In Early English Text Society, Original Series, 32. The Babees' book: medieval manners for the young (1923).Naylor, L. J.., Rickert, E., Furnivall, F. James. (1923). The Babees' book: medieval manners for the young. 2d impression. London: Chatto and Windus. Done into modern English from Dr. Furnivall's texts, by American medieval scholar Edith Rickert (1871–1938).

Bacon, Roger. Roger Bacon (c. 1219 – c. 1292), also known as Doctor Mirabilis, was a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism. Bacon's major work was his Opus Majus.Adamson, Robert (1885). "Bacon, Roger". In Dictionary of National Biography. 2. London. pp. 374-378.Witzel, Theophilus (1912). "Roger Bacon". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company.Adamson, Robert (1911). "Bacon, Roger". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 153-156.

The Opus majus of Roger Bacon (1928).Bacon, R., Burke, R. Belle. (1928). The Opus majus of Roger Bacon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania press. A translation by Robert Belle Burke (1868–1944).Burke, Robert Belle (1868-1944). WorldCat Identities. The mirror of alchimy, composed by the thrice-famous and learned fryer, Roger Bachon (1597).Bacon, R. (1597). The mirror of alchimy. London: Printed for Richard Olive [by Thomas Creede]. Also a most excellent and learned discourse of the admirable force and efficacie of art and nature, written by the same author, with certaine other worthie treatises of the like argument. An edition of The Mirror of Alchimy (Speculum Alchemiae). A translation by Tenney L. Davis.Davis, Dr. Tenney L. WorldCat Identities. appears in the Journal of chemical education,American Chemical Society. Division of Chemical Education., American Chemical Society. Section of Chemical Education. (1924). Journal of chemical education. Easton, Pa.: Section of Chemical Education, American Chemical Society. VIII (1931), pp. 1945–1953. Medicina practica, or, Practical physick (1692).Salmon, W., Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7. cent., Ripley, G., Bacon, R., Flamel, N., Artephius., Jābir ibn Ḥayyān., Hermes, T. (1692). Medicina practica, or, Practical physick: containing the way of curing the more eminent and usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : whereunto is annexed, 1. The preparation of the praecipiolum of Paracelsus; 2. The key of Helmont and Lully; 3. The opening of Sol and Luna. London: Printed by W. Bonny . Containing the way of curing the more eminent and usual diseases happening to humane bodies: whereunto is annexed, 1. The preparation of the praecipiolum of Paracelsus; 2. The key of Helmont and Lully; 3. The opening of Sol and Luna. By English medical writer William Salmon (1644–1713),Moore, Norman (1897). "Salmon, William (1644-1713)". In Dictionary of National Biography. 50. London. pp. 209-210. professor of physick. The errors of the doctors, translated by Mary Catherine Welborn (born 1899).Welborne, Mary Catherine (1899–). WorldCat Identities. In Isis,Welborn, Mary Catherine (1932). Isis, XVIII. "The Errors of the Doctors according to Friar Roger Bacon of the Minor Orde r". XVIII (1932–1933), pp. 26–62. Roger Bacon's letter concerning the marvelous power of art and of nature and concerning the nullity of magic, together with notes and an account of Bacon's life and work (1923).Bacon, R., Davis, T. Lombard. (1923). Roger Bacon's letter concerning the marvelous power of art and of nature and concerning the nullity of magic. Easton, Pa.: The Chemical publishing co.; [etc., etc.]. Translated from the Latin by T. L. Davis.

Bahira. Bahira (6th century) was a Christian Arab monk who, according to Islamic tradition, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future as a prophet.Abel, A., "Baḥīrā", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs

A Christian Bahira legend (1898–1903). Syriac and Arabic texts translated by Semitic scholar Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1862–1936). In Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete,Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. (18861938). Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete. Leipzig: O. Schulze. XIII-XV (1898–1900), XVII (1903), passim.

Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda. Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda (c. 1050 – 1120 was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi from Al-Andalus.Kohler, Kaufmann, and Broydé, Isaac. "Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls His principal work was Chovot HaLevavot (The duties of the heart) in Hebrew.

The duties of the heart by Rabbi Bachye (1909).Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda, a. 11th century., Collins, E. (1909). The duties of the heart. New York: E.P. Dutton & co. Translated with introduction by Edwin Collins.Collins, Edwin. WorldCat Identities. The duties of the heart, by Bachya ben Joseph ibn Paquda. Translated from the Arabic into Hebrew by Jehuda ibn Tibbon.Tibon, Yehudah ibn (c. 1120 – c. 1190). WorldCat Identities. Introduction and treatise on the existence and unity of God.With English translation by Hebrew scholar and rabbi Moses Hyamson (1862–1949).Hyamson, Moses (1863-1949). WorldCat Identities. In The Jewish forum,(19181962). The Jewish forum. New York: The Jewish Forum Publishing Co. [etc.]. III–VI (1920–1923).

Baidāwi, 'Abd Allāh ibn 'Umar al-. 'Abd Allāh ibn 'Umar al-Baidāwi, known as Qadi Baydawi (died 1319), was a Persian jurist, theologian and commentator on the Quran.Saleh, Walid, "al-Bayḍāwī", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson.Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Baiḍāwī". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.) Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 214.

Chrestomathia Baidawiana, the commentary of el-Baidāwi on Sura III (1894).Bayḍāwī, Allāh ibn ʻUmar., Margoliouth, D. S. (David Samuel). (1894). Chrestomathia Baidawiana: the commentary of el-Baidāwi on sura III. London: Luzac & Co. Translated and explained for the use of students of Arabic by English orientalist David Samuel Margoliouth (1858–1940).Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "David Samuel Margoliouth (1858-1940)". A discussion of Sura III of the Koran, that of the family of 'Imram.

Baihaki, Abū 'l-Fadl Muhammad ibn Husain. Abu'l-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhakī, known as Abu'l-Faḍl Bayhaqi (died 1077), was a Persian secretary, historian and author.Ḡ.-Ḥ. Yūsofī. "'Bayhaqi, Abu'l-Fazl". Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol. III, Fasc. 8, pp. 889-894.

Táríkhu-s Subuktigin of Baihakí (1869). In History of India, as Told by its Own Historians,Elliot, H. M. (Henry Miers)., Dowson, J. (186777). The history of India, as told by its own historians. The Muhammadan period.: Ed. from the posthumous papers of the late Sir H. M. Elliot .... London: Trübner and Co. The Muhammadan Period, Volume II, pp. 53–154. Translation of the first part by a munshi, and although said to have been revised, it required very extensive correction by the editor, British Indologist John Dowson (1820–1881).Lane-Poole, Stanley (1888). "Dowson, John" In Dictionary of National Biography. 15. London. pp. 407-408. The second part translated by English historian Sir Henry Miers Elliot.Lane-Poole, Stanley (1889). "Elliot, Henry Miers" In Dictionary of National Biography. 17. London. pp. 258-259.

Baile suthain Sith Eamhna. A medieval Irish poem related to the Kingdom of the Isles, copied from an Irish manuscript written c. 1600. Collated with a copy contained in the Book of Fermoy translated c. 1457. Transcribed by William Maunsell Hennessy (1829–1889).Hennessy, William Maunsell (1829-1889). WorldCat Identities. In Celtic Scotland: a history of ancient Alban (1880),Skene, W. F. (William Forbes). (1886-1890). Celtic Scotland: a history of ancient Alban. 2d ed. Edinburgh: D. Douglas. III, Appendix II, pp. 410–427. By Scottish historian and antiquary William Forbes Skene (1809–1892).Mackay, Aeneas James George (1897). "Skene, William Forbes". In Dictionary of National Biography. 52. London. pp. 338-340.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Skene, William Forbes". Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 186.

Bairre. Saint Finbar (in Irish, Fionnbharra, abbreviated to Barra or Bairre), (c. 550 – 623) was bishop of Cork and patron saint of the Diocese of Cork.

The life of St. Finbar of Cork (1893). Translated by Patrick Stanton. In the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society,Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. (1892). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. Cork. II (1893), pp. 61–69, 87–94. Obtained by the Rev. P. Hurley from the Lives of the Irish Saints by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590 – 1643), one of the Four Masters, in the Burgundian Library, Brussels, In a short note at the end, the writer states that he wrote this Life of St. Finbar in the Convent of Friars, Cork, in June, 1629, and that he took it from a vellum book, the property of Daniel Dinneen. The life of Saint Fin Barre (1906). Translated and annotated by Colonel T. A. Lunham,Lunham, T. A. WorldCat Identities. from the Codex Ardmachanus.Dunn, Joseph (1907). "The Book of Armagh". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company. p. 134. In the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, XII (1906), pp. 105–120. Bakhaila, Mikā'ēl. Mikā'ēl Bakhaila (15th century),Bakhayla Mîkâʻêl. WorldCat Identities. known as Zosimas. Author of Le livre des myster̀es du ciel et de la terre (Texte éthiopien).Bakhayla Mîkâʻêl., Grébaut, S., Perruchon, J. (Jules). (194771). Le livre des myster̀es du ciel et de la terre: Texte éthiopien. [Paris: Firmin-Didot.