Moulins, Guyart des, c 1251-c 1297 (French monk, scholar and translator of Latin Biblical texts)
Person
Dates
- Existence: ? 1251 - ? 1297
Biography
Guyart des Moulins was a medieval monk. He is famous for being the author of the Bible Historiale, the first Bible translation into French, including a French translation of Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
MS 19: Bible Historiale by Guyart des Moulins, 1314-1315
Item
Identifier: MS 19
Contents
This manuscript is the earliest dated copy of the Bible Historiale of Guyart Desmoulins. It is a French translation of the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor (which was originally in Latin), combined with the first full translation of the vulgate Bible into French. Guyart Desmoulins originally translated this in circa 1295. Because the Bible Historiale is in the vernacular, it made both...
Dates:
1314-1315