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John of Trevisa , c.1326-c.1402, English writer. He was the vicar of Berkeley. In 1387 he translated into English Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon, a history of the world, and in 1398, Bartholomew de Glanville's De proprietatibus rerum, an encyclopedia of natural science. Both translations became standard authorities of the later Middle Ages and were printed by the early presses.

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Trevisa, John of (?1340–1402), translated the Polychronicon of Higden in 1387, adding a short continuation and an introduction; part of this has become famous as an account of the state of the English language in its time. His principles of translation are declared in two short essays prefixed to the Polychronicon.

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