The First Printed Translations into English 15

The First Printed Translations into English 15

THE MANUELL OF EPICTETUS, translated out of Greeke into French, and

now into English, conferred with two Latin translations. Hereunto are

annexed annotations, and also the apothegms of the same author, by J.

Sanford, 1567.

 

He left no written books, but his doctrines were recorded by

his disciple Arrian, in eight books, four of which have come

down to us.

 

 

=EPICURUS.= B.C. 342-270. =Greek philosopher.=

 

MORALS. _Tr._ John Digby, with an Essay by John Johnson, 1712.

 

EPICURUS MORALS. _Tr._ W. Charlton, 1656. [Collection].

 

 

=ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.= _b._ 1466, _d._ 1536. =Dutch scholar and

philosopher.=

 

APOPHTHEGMES. _Tr._ by N. Udall. [1542.]

 

A BOKE CALLED IN LATYN ENCHIRIDION MILITIS CHRISTIANI AND IN ENGLISH

THE MANUELL OF THE CHRISTEN KNIGHT, replenished with most holsome

precepts to ... the which is added a newe and mervaylous profytable

preface. [This translation is attributed to Tyndale.] (1515.) 1533.

 

AN EXHORTATION; or FAMILIAR DISCOURSE OF D. ERASMUS.... _Tr._ [by W.

Roy?] 1529.

 

LYFE OF SAYNT ERASMUS. Imp. by Julyan Notary. [1520.]

 

A LYTTLE BOOKE OF GOOD MANNERS FOR CHYLDREN. _Tr._ by R. Whytynton.

1522.

 

THE PARAPHRASE OF ERASMUS UPON THE NEW TESTAMENT. 1548.

 

THE PRAISE OF FOLIE. (Moriæ Encomium). (1509.) Englisshed by Sir T.

Chaloner, 1549.

 

A PLAYNE AND GODLY EXPOSITION OR DECLARATIÕ OF THE CÕMUME CREDE

(which in the Latyn tonge is called SYMBOLUM APOSTOLORUM) and OF

THE X CÕMAUNDMENTES by GODDES LAW, newly made and put forth by the

famouse clerke, Mayster E. of Roterdame, etc. [1533.]

 

PREPARATION TO DEATH, a boke as devout as eloquent. 1543.

 

A RYGHT FRUTEFULL EPYSTLE ... IN LAUDE AND PRAYSE OF MATRYMONY,

translated in to Englishe by R. Tavenour, etc. [1530.]

 

Pre-eminent as a restorer of learning. He is considered the

greatest wit and most eminent scholar of the age in which he

lived, and one of the most conspicuous and successful of those

who laboured to restore classical learning and sound philosophy.

 

 

=ERCKMANN, EMIL.= _b._ 1822, _d._ 1899. =CHATRIAN, ALEX.= 1826-90.

=French novelists.=

 

THE BLOCKADE. _Tr._ 1869.

 

CONscRIPT. _Tr._ 1865.

 

DOCTOR MATTHEUS. _Tr._ 1868.

 

MADAME THÉRÈSE (1863). _Tr._ 1868.

 

POLISH JEW. _Tr._ 1870.

 

STORY OF THE PLEBISCITE. _Tr._ 1872.

 

WATERLOO. _Tr._ 1865.

 

YEAR ONE OF THE REPUBLIC. _Tr._ [1873].

 

CITIZEN BONAPARTE. _Tr._ [1874].

 

ALSACIAN SCHOOLMASTER. _Tr._ [1872].

 

CONFESSIONS OF A CLARIONET PLAYER [_Tr._ 1874.]

 

THE BELLS. _Tr._ 1872.

 

THE WILD HUNTSMAN. _Tr._ [1877].

 

FRIEND FRITZ. _Tr._ [1873].

 

BRIGADIER FREDERIC. _Tr._ F. A. Malleson, 1875.

 

THE BROTHERS RANTZAU. 2v. _Tr._ [1873].

 

THE GREAT INVASION OF 1813-14. _Tr._ [1870].

 

WAR. _Tr._ H. L. Williams. [1872].

 

MAN OF THE PEOPLE. _Tr._ 1871.

 

STORY OF A PEASANT. _Tr._ [1871].

 

 

=ESPINEL, VINCENT.= _b._ 1544, _d._ 1634. =Spanish poet and novelist.=

 

THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE SQUIRE MARCOS DE OBREGON. _Tr._ into

English from the Madrid Ed. 1618, by Major Algernon Langton. 2 v.

1618.

 

This novel is generally supposed to have served as a model for

that of Gil Blas.

 

 

=EUCLID.= 3rd century B.C. =Greek geometrician.=

 

THE ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY [containing the xv. books] OF ...

EUCLIDE ... now first translated into the Englishe Toung, by H.

Billingsley. Whereunto are annexed certaine annotations of the best

mathematiciens, etc. 1570.

 

[The first printed Greek text was published in Basle in 1533.]

 

 

=EULENSPIEGEL.=

 

A half-mythical German jester, said to have died in 1350. His

name is perpetuated in a famous chap-book, once very popular

with the peasantry of many nations, and containing many

ludicrous stories. The book was probably written by Thomas

Murner.

 

EULENSPIEGEL (TYLL OWLGLASS).

 

Here beginneth a merye Jest of a man that was called Howleglass and

of many marveylous things and Jestes that he dyd in his lyfe, in

Eastlande and in many other places. [1528].

 

'"Eulenspiegel": a series of amusing trickeries which are

reflected in the English Robin Goodfellow'.

 

 

=EURIPIDES.= _b._ 480, _d._ 406 B.C. =Greek tragic dramatist.=

 

JOCASTA: a Tragedie, translated [from the Phoenissæ] and digested

into Acte by G. Gascoygne and F. Kinwelmershe [1575].

 

JOCASTA. _In_ a hundredth sundrie Flowers, etc. _Tr._ by Geo.

Gascoigne [1572].

 

SELECT TRAGEDIES. _Tr._ [by G. James Bannister]. 1780.

 

THE TRAGEDIES OF EURIPIDES, translated [by R. Potter]. 1781-3.

 

Influenced Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon', Milton's 'Samson

Agonistes', Addison's 'Cato', Byron's 'Cain' and 'Manfred', and

Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'.

 

 

=EUTROPIUS, FLAVIUS.= 364. =Latin historian.=

 

A BRIEFE CHRONICLE OF THE ROMAINE DE LA PUBLIQUE, etc., Englished by

Nicholas Hawarde, 1564.

 

 

=EXETER BOOK= (=CODEX EXonIENSIS=).

 

'This book was presented to his Cathedral by Leofric, the first

Bishop of Exeter, about the middle of the 11th century. It is

preserved in the Cathedral Library at Exeter; the first leaves are

missing, and the last leaves are injured. The hand-writing of the MS.

belongs probably to the first half of the 11th century'.

 

Edited with _Tr._ by B. Thorpe, 1842. I. Gollancz, Poems i to viii,

E.E.T.S., 1895.

 

_Contents_: 1, The Christ. 2, Guthlac. 3, Azarias. 4, Phœnix. 5,

Juliana. 6, Wanderer. 7, Gifts of Men. 8, The Father's Teaching. 9,

Seafarer. 10, Spirit of Men. 11, Widsid (The Singer's Wandering). 12,

Fates of Men. 13, Gnomic Verses. 14, Wonders of Creation. 15, Rhyme

Song. 16, Panther. 17, Whale. 18, Partridge. 19, Address of the Soul

to the Body. 20, Deor. 21, Riddles, 1-60. 22, The Wife's Complaint.

23, The Last Judgement. 24, A Prayer. 25. Descent into Hell. 26,

Alms. 27, Pharaoh. 28, Fragments of a Paternoster. 29, Fragments of

a Didactic Poem. 30, Another form of Riddle, 31, Riddle 61. 31, The

Husband's Message. 32, The Ruin. 33, Riddles 62-89.

 

 

=FARINI, LUIGI CARLO.= _b._ 1812, _d._ 1866. =Italian Statesman.=

 

THE ROMAN STATE FROM 1815-50. Vols. 1-3. _Tr._ W. E. Gladstone. Vol.

4., _tr._ by a Lady 1851-54.

 

 

=FAUSTUS, DR., STORIES OF.= 1587.

 

[1] THE HISTORIE OF THE DAMNABLE LIFE, AND DESERVED DEATH OF DOCTOR

JOHN FAUSTUS. Newly Printed, and in convenient places imperfect

matter amended. _Tr._ by P. F. Gent, etc. 1592.

 

THE SECOND REPORT OF DOCTOR JOHN FAUSTUS, CONTEANING HIS APPEARANCES

AND THE DEEDS OF WAGNER. _Tr._ 1594.

 

[1] Of great interest as being the source of Marlowe's 'Dr.

Faustus' (his greatest play). It is a translation from the

German 'Faustbuch' published at Frankfort, 1587. 'The Second

Report ... (a translation of the 'Wagnerbuch', 1593) is

supposed to have been written by an English gentleman, student

at Wittenberg.

 

 

=FAVINE (FAVYN), ANDREW.= =French writer.=