List of English translations from medieval sources: F–Z

The list of English translations from medieval sources: F–Z 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, Old French, Old Norse, Latin, Arabic, Greek, Persian, Syriac, Ethiopic, Coptic, Armenian, 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

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Geoffrey of Monmouth. Geoffrey of Monmouth  (1095 – c. 1155) was a  Catholic cleric from Monmouth, Wales, and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.Burke, Edmund Hubert (1908). "Geoffrey of Monmouth". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

The History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae) (c. 1136).Geoffrey of Monmouth. (1911). Histories of the kings of Britain. London, J. M. Dent & sons.

Geography. Medieval works on geography and cartography include the following.

Compendium of Ancient Geography, 2 volumes (1742).Anville, J. Baptiste Bourguignon d'. (1810). Compendium of ancient geography. London: Printed for J. Faulder [etc.]. By French geographer and cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782).Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 157-158.Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782)". Translated with an interesting discussion on translation. Translated from the French by British antiquarian John Horsley (c. 1685 – 1732)Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Horsley, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 739. Illustrated with maps, carefully reduced from those of the Paris atlas, in imperial folio; with a map of Roman Britain, and with prolegomena and notes by the translator. Contributions to the history of geography (1891–1892), by American Semitic scholar Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1862–1936). In the American journal of Semitic languages and literatures,University of Chicago. Dept. of Semitic Languages and Literatures. (1895-1941). The American journal of Semitic languages and literatures. [Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Volume VII,pp. 39–55, Volume VIII, pp. 65–78. A volume in the autograph of Yāqūt the geographer (1951).Arberry, A. J. (Arthur John)., Ahmad ibn Fāris, a. (1951). A volume in the autograph of Yāqūt the geographer (574-626/1179-1229): A brief description with a reproduction of the manuscript of the Tamām Fasīh al-kalām of Ibn Fāris. London: E. Walker. By Arthur John Arberry (1905–1969), a British orientalist.Elwell-Sutton, E. P. "Arberry, Arthur John". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. II, Fasc. 3, pp. 278-279.Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Arthur John Arberry (1905-1969)". A brief description of the work of Arab scholar Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229),Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Yāqūt". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 904. with a reproduction of the manuscript of the Tamām Fasīh al-kalām of Ahmad ibn Fāris.Fleisch, H., “Ibn Fāris”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Ptolemy's geography (1908)Stevens, H. Newton., Ayer, E. Everett. (1908). Ptolemy's geography: a brief account of all the printed editions down th 1730, with notes on some important variations observed in that of Ulm 1482, including the recent discovery of the earliest printed map of the world yet known on modern geographical conceptions in which some attempt was made to depart from ancient traditions. 2d ed. London: H. Stevens, son and Stiles. A brief account of all the printed editions of Ptolemy's Geography down to 1730, with notes on some important variations observed in that of Ulm 1482, including the recent discovery of the earliest printed map of the world yet known on modern geographical conceptions in which some attempt was made to depart from ancient traditions. By Henry Newton Stevens (1855–1930).Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Henry Newton Stevens (1855-1930)". Now preserved in the library of Edward Everett Ayer (1841–1927). Gesta Romanorum. 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.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gesta Romanorum". Encyclopædia Britannica. 11. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 910.

The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum (1879).Herrtage, S. J. H. (Sidney John Hervon). (1879). The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum. London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press. First edited by Sir Frederic Madden for the Roxburghe Club, and now re-edited from the manuscripts in the British Museum (Harl. 7333 & Addit. 9066) and University Library, Cambridge (Kk. 1. 6), with introduction, notes, and glossary by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage.Herrtage, Sidney John Hervon. WorldCat Identities. In Early English Text Society, Extra Series, 33.

Gilbert, Humphrey. Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 1583) was an adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. He was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and Ireland. He was a maternal half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh.Charles Henry Coote (1890). "Gilbert, Humphrey". In Dictionary of National Biography. 21. London. pp. 327-330.

Queene Elizabethes achademy (1869).Furnivall, F. James., Oswald, E., Rosetti, W. Michael., Gilbert, H. (1869). Queene Elizabethes achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert): A booke of percedence. The ordering of a funerall, &c. Varying versions of The good wife, The wise man, &c. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner. 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, Extra Series, 8.

Giovanni de' Marignolli. Giovanni de' Marignolli, known as John of Marignolli (fl. 1338–53), was a notable 14th-century Catholic European traveller to medieval China and India.Henry Yule and Charles Raymond Beazley (1911). "Marignolli, Giovanni de'". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.) Encyclopædia Britannica. 17. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 717-718Girolamo Golubovich (1914). "Giovanni de' Marignolli". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 16. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

John de Marignolli's recollections of Eastern travel (1338–1353). In Cathay and the way thither: being a collection of medieval notices of China (1913–1916),Yule, H., Gois, B. de., Ibn Batuta, 1., Marignolis, J. de., Balducci Pegolotti, F., Rashīd al-Dīn, Odorico, d. Pordenone., Cordier, H. (191316). Cathay and the way thither: being a collection of medieval notices of China,. New ed., London,: Printed for the Hakluyt society. Volume II, Chapter V. New edition of a translation by Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889),Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Yule, Sir Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 946. revised by French orientalist Henri Cordier (1849–1925).Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Henri Cordier (1849-1925)". Printed for the Hakluyt society, Second series, Volumes 33, 37, 38, 41. The Minor Friars in China (1917). By British sinologist Arthur Christopher Moule (1873–1957).Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Arthur-Christopher Moule (1873-1957)". Extracts from the chronicle of Giovanni de' Marignolli written c. 1354 and letters from the khan to pope Benedict XII, with the pope's replies. In Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. (1917), pp. 1–36.

Godfrey of Bouillon. Godfrey of Bouillon (1060–1100) was a French nobleman and one of the leaders of the First Crusade. He was the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, serving from 1099 to 1100, and using the title Advocatus sancti sepulchri as opposed to king.Ernest Barker (1911). "Godfrey of Bouillon". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 12. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 172-173.Louis René Bréhier (1909). "Godfrey of Bouillon". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Godeffroy of Boloyne: The siege and conqueste of Jerusalem (1893).William, o. Tyre., Colvin, M. Noyes., Caxton, W. (1893). Godeffroy of Boloyne, or, The siege and conqueste of Jerusalem. London: Pub. for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, TrübnerLeila K. Norako. The Crusades Project: Medieval Insular Literature. "William Caxton's Godeffroy of Boloyn". By William, archbishop of Tyre (c. 1130 – 1186).Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "William, archbishop of Tyre". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 677. Translated from the French by English printer and writer William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491),Lee, Sidney (1887). "Caxton, William". In Dictionary of National Biography. 9. London. pp. 381-389.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caxton, William". Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 587-588. and printed by him in 1481. Edited from the copy in the British museum, with introduction, notes, vocabulary, and indexes, by Mary Noyes Colvin.Colvin, Mary Noyes. WorldCat Identities. Taken from a French translation of William's Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum (History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea). In Early English Text Society, Extra series, Volume 64. Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The recovery of Jerusalem (1818).Tasso, T., Fairfax, E. (1818). Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The recovery of Jerusalem: done into English heroical verse, from the Italian of Tasso. 5th ed., reprinted from the original folio of 1600. London: Printed for Edwards and Knibb. Done into English heroical verse, from the Italian, by English translator Edward Fairfax (c. 1580 –1635).Arthur Henry Bullen (1889). "Fairfax, Edward". In Dictionary of National Biography. 18. London. pp. 131-132. Errata appended, 1904.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fairfax, Edward". Encyclopædia Britannica. 10. (11th ed.) Cambridge University Press. p. 130. The first complete English translation of La Gerusalemme liberata, by Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595).Symonds, John Addington (1911). "Torquato Tasso" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 443-446. The work is a reinvention of the First Crusade, with Godfrey of Bouillon lionized as the ideal military leader, using both the 1464 work of Benedetto Accolti,Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Accolti, Benedetto". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 121. De Bello a Christianis contra Barbaros, and other available original sources. The history of Helyas, Knight of the Swan (1901).Hoe, R., Worde, W. de., Copland, R., Grolier Club. (1901). The history of Helyas: Knight of the Swan. New York: The Grolier Club. Translated by Robert Copland (fl. 1508–1547).Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Copland, Robert". Encyclopædia Britannica. 7. (11th ed.) Cambridge University Press. p. 101. The story of the Knight of the Swan (Chevalier au Cygne) is a medieval tale reworked in the Crusader cycle to have the hero a legendary ancestor of Godfrey of Bouillon.