List of English translations from medieval sources: D

The list of English translations from medieval sources: D 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 DA–DE Dadīshōʿ Ḳaṭrāya. Dadīshōʿ Ḳaṭrāya (7th century) was a Nestorian monk and author of ascetic literature in Syriac.Nicholas Sims-Williams, "Dadīshōʿ Qaṭrāya". Encyclopædia Iranica, online only.

A treatise on solitude by Dadīshōʿ Ḳaṭrāya (1934). Edited and translated by Iraqi historian Alphonse Mingana (1878–1937).Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Alphonse Mingana (1878-1937)". In Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshūni, Volume VII (1934), pp. 70–143, 201–247.Mingana, A., Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel)., John Rylands Library. (1927). Woodbrooke studies: Christian documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshūni. Cambridge [Eng.]: W. Heffer & sons limited. Dafydd ap Gwilym. Dafydd ap Gwilym (c. 1315 – c. 1370) was one of the leading Welsh poets in the Middle Ages and was a contemporary of Chaucer's.

Poems translated from the Welsh of Dafydd ap Gwilym (1818). By William Owen Pughe (1759–1835).Griffith John Williams (1959). Pughe, William Owen (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet. In Dictionary of Welsh Biography. In Cambrian register,Pughe, W. Owen (William Owen)., E. and T. Williams (Firm). (17961818). Cambrian register. London: Printed for E. and T. Williams, Strand. Volume III (1818), pp. 436–468. Translations into English verse from the poems of Davyth ap Gwilym, a Welsh bard of the fourteenth century (1834).Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1. cent. (1834). Translations into English verse from the poems of Davyth ap Gwilym, a Welsh bard of the fourteenth century. London: H. Hooper. By a translator only identified as Maelog, with A sketch of the life of Davyth ap Gwilym. Dedicated to William Owen Pughe. The poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym (1925). Translated by E. C. Knowlton. In Poet lore.,Poet lore. Bethesda, MD, etc.: Writer's Center, etc. Volume XXXVI (1925), pp. 415–433. Dafydd ap Gywilym: fifty poems (1942). Translated by Harold Idris Bell (1879–1967)Bell, Harold Idris (1879-1967). WorldCat Identities. and David Bell. In Y Cymmrodor, Volume XLVIII (1942). Dane saga of Breda. A late fifteenth- or early sixteenth Middle Dutch cross legend (in verse) from the town of Breda, outlining the local presence and pursuits of ‘viking’ mariners.

"The Dane saga of Breda: A Late Medieval Account of Viking Endeavour and Vernacular Devotion", edited and translated by Christian Cooijmans, in The Medieval Low Countries, 11 (2024).Christian Cooijmans, ed. and trans. (2024) "The Dane saga of Breda: A Late Medieval Account of Viking Endeavour and Vernacular Devotion". The Medieval Low Countries 11. pp. 155-236Daniel the Pilgrim. Daniel the Pilgrim (fl. c. 1107), also known as Daniel the Higumenos (abbot), was an eastern Christian who travelled from Kievan Rus’ to the Holy Land. He documented his travels in his .

The pilgrimage of the Russian abbot Daniel in the Holy Land, 1106–1107 AD (1895). Translated and edited by British archaeologist Charles W. Wilson (1836–1905). In the library of Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (PPTS), Volume IV, Part 3.Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (London, E. (1897). The library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. London: [publisher not identified].Dante Alighieri. Dante Alighieri (c. 1265 – 1321) was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher, author of the Divine Comedy.Edmund Garratt Gardner (1908). "Dante Alighieri". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company.Arthur John Butler (1911). "Dante". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 7. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 810-817. A relatively small sample of biographies and translations of Dante are shown below, with various bibliographies.

The earliest lives of Dante (1901). By Italian humanist, historian and statesman Leonardo Arentino Bruni (c. 1370 – 1444).Burke, Edmund (1908). "Leonardo Bruni". In Catholic Encyclopedia. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bruni, Leonardo". Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 684. Translated from the Italian of Giovanni Boccaccio and Lionardo Bruni Aretino [Leonardo Arentino Bruni] by James Robinson Smith (1876–1954).Smith, Robinson (1876-1954). WorldCat Identities. In Yale Studies in English,(1898). Yale studies in English. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co.. Volume 10 (1901). The early lives of Dante (1904).Wicksteed, P. Henry., Villani, F., Bruni, L., Boccaccio, G. (1904). The early lives of Dante. London: The De La More Press. By Leonardo A. Bruni. Translated by English economist and medievalist Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844–1927),Ian Steedman (2004). "Wicksteed, Philip Henry (1844–1927)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Wicksteed, Philip Henry (1844-1927). WorldCat Identities. derived from the translation of J. R. Smith. Dante (1900).Gardner, E. Garratt. (1900). Dante. London: J.M. Dent & Co.. By English scholar of Italian literature Edmund Garratt Gardner (1869–1935).Jonathan Usher (2004). "Gardner, (John) Edmund Garratt (1869–1935)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio (1902),Dante Alighieri, 1., Gardner, E. Garratt., Wicksteed, P. H. (Philip Henry)., Giovanni, d. Virgilio. (1902). Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio. Westminster: A. Constable & co., ltd.. by Philip H. Wicksteed and Edmund G. Gardner. Il Fiore and Il Fiore and Detto d'Amore (2000). A late 13th-century Italian translation of the Roman de la Roseattributable to Dante Alighieri. Edited and translated by Santa Casciani and Christopher Kleinhenz. The new life: (La vita nuova) (1907).Dante Alighieri, 1., Symonds, J. Addington., Brogan, J. C.., Rossetti, D. Gabriel., Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1., Boccaccio, G., Petrarca, F. (1907). The new life: (La vita nuova). Éd. de luxe. New York: The National Alumni. An edition of La vita nuova, translated by English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882),Frederic George Stephens and Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton (1911). "Rossetti, Dante Gabriel". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 23. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 747-751. with an introduction by American author Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908).Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Norton, Charles Eliot". Encyclopædia Britannica. 19. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 797-798. Also includes: One hundred sonnets, by Francesco Petrarch; La fiammetta, by Giovanni Boccaccio; and Poems, by Michelangelo Buonarroti. De vulgari eloquentia: Dante's book of exile (1990).Shapiro, M., Dante Alighieri, 1. (1990). De vulgari eloquentia: Dante's book of exile. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. A translation of Dante's Latin essay De vulgari eloquentia (1302-1305) by Marianne Shapiro. The Convivio of Dante Alighieri (1903).Dante Alighieri, 1., Wicksteed, P. H. (Philip Henry). (1903). The Convivio of Dante Alighieri. London: J. M. Dent and co.. An edition of Convivio (The Banquet), translated by Philip H. Wicksteed. De monarchia (1879). In Dante: An essay,Church, R. W. (Richard William)., Dante Alighieri, 1., Church, F. J. (Frederick John). (1879). Dante: An essay. London: Macmillan and co by Richard William Church (1815–1890).Henry Charles Beeching (1901). "Church, Richard William". In Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement. 2. London. pp. 6-9.Arthur Christopher Benson (1911). "Church, Richard William". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 6. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 325-326. Includes an edition of De monarchia, translated by Frederick John Church (1854–1888).Church, Frederick John (1854-1888). WorldCat Identities. The vision: or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri (1892).Dante Alighieri, 1., Cary, H. Francis., Cary, H. Francis. (1892). The vision : or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri. London and New York: F. Warne. A later edition of the first English language translation of the Divine Comedy, first published in 1782, by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844).Richard Garnett (1887). "Cary, Henry Francis". In Dictionary of National Biography. 9. London. pp. 243-244. With a life of Dante, chronological view of his age, additional notes, and an index. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1867–1871).Dante Alighieri, 1., Longfellow, H. Wadsworth. (18671871). The divine comedy of Dante Alighier i. Boston: Fields, Osgood. Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882).Thomas Davidson (1911). "Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.) Encyclopædia Britannica. 16. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 977-980. Inferno: a translation from Dante Alighieri, into English blank verse (1812).Dante Alighieri, 1., Hume, J. (1812). Inferno: a translation from Dante Alighieri, into English blank verse. London: Cadell & Davies. A translation of the Inferno by Joseph Hume (1777–1855).Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hume, Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica. 13. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 884. The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri (1912).Dante Alighieri, 1., Okey, T., Oelsner, H., Wicksteed, P. H. (Philip Henry). (1912). T he Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri. London: J.M. Dent & sons ltd. An edition of Purgatorio. Edited by H. Oelsner, responsible for the Italian text and notes at the end of the cantos. Translated into English by Italian translator Thomas Okey (1852–1935),Jonathan Usher (2004). "Okey, Thomas (1852–1935)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. with contributions by Philip H. Wicksteed. The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri (1912).Dante Alighieri, 1., Oelsner, H., Wicksteed, P. H. (Philip Henry). (1912). The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri. London: J. M. Dent and co.. An edition of Paradiso, edited and translated by Philip H. Wicksteed, with Herman Oelsner (born 1871).Oelsner, Herman (1871-?). WorldCat Identities. Eclogae Latinae (1902). A critical edition of Eclogae, in Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio (1902), by Philip H. Wicksteed and Edmund G. Gardner. Dante: Quaestio de aqua et terra (1909).Dante Alighieri, 1., Shadwell, C. Lancelot. (1909). Dante: Quaestio de aqua et terra. Oxford: at the Clarendon press. Dante's work, dated 1320, is a Latin discussion in Latin of a problem in medieval cosmology, is edited and translated by Charles Lancelot Shadwell (1840–1919).L. R. Price, revised by M. C. Curthoys (2004). "Shadwell, Charles Lancelot (1840–1919)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Catalogue of the Dante collection, 2 volumes plus addition (1898–1900).Cornell University. Libraries., Fowler, M., Koch, T. Wesley., Fiske, W. (18981900). Catalogue of the Dante collection presented by Willard Fiske. Ithaca, N. Y.. Presented by American librarian Willard Fiske (1831–1904) and compiled by Theodore Wesley Koch (1871–1941). Additions (1898–1920) compiled by Mary Fowler, curator of the Dante and Petrarch collections from 1907 to 1920. Includes works by Dante and works about Dante. Dante in America (1896–1897).Koch, T. Wesley. (18961897). Dante in America. Boston: Ginn and company. Includes a bibliography of American translations and studies of Dante. By Theodore W. Koch. Reprinted from the Fifteenth annual report of the Dante Society (1896).Dante Society of America. Dante studies: with the annual report of the Dante Society. Cambridge, Mass. [etc.]: Dante Society of America [etc.].