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John Trevisa or
John of Trevisa (
1342 -
1402),
translator, was a
Cornishman, educated at
Oxford, who became Vicar of
Berkeley, Gloucestershire, chaplain to the
4th Lord Berkeley, and Canon of
Westbury on Trym.
He translated for his patron the
Polychronicon of
Ranulf Higden, adding remarks of his own, and prefacing it with a
Dialogue on Translation between a Lord and a Clerk. He likewise made various other translations, including
Bartholomaeus Anglicus'
On the Properties of Things (De Proprietatibus Rerum), a medieval forerunner of the encyclopedia.
A fellow of
Queen's College, Oxford from 1372-76 at the same time as
John Wycliff and
Nicholas of Hereford, Trevisa may well have been one of the contributors to the Early Version of
Wyclif's Bible. The preface to the
King James Version of 1611 singles him out as a translator amongst others at that time:
"even in our King Richard the second's days, John Trevisa translated them [theGospels] into English, and many English Bibles in written hand are yet to be seen that divers translated, as it's very probable, in that age". 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.
Father of Mary Trevisa with wife, Amicia.
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