# 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.
* A treatise on solitude by Dadīshōʿ Ḳaṭrāya (1934). Edited and translated by Iraqi historian Alphonse Mingana (1878–1937). In Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshūni, Volume VII (1934), pp. 70–143, 201–247.
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). In Cambrian register, 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). 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., Volume XXXVI (1925), pp. 415–433.
* Dafydd ap Gywilym: fifty poems (1942). Translated by Harold Idris Bell (1879–1967) and David Bell. In Y Cymmrodor, Volume XLVIII (1942).
Daniel 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 Puteshestive igumena Daniil.
* 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.
Dante Alighieri. Dante Alighieri (c. 1265 – 1321) was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher, author of the Divine Comedy. 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). Translated from the Italian of Giovanni Boccaccio and Lionardo Bruni Aretino [Leonardo Arentino Bruni] by James Robinson Smith (1876–1954). In Yale Studies in English, Volume 10 (1901).
* The early lives of Dante (1904). By Leonardo A. Bruni. Translated by English economist and medievalist Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844–1927), derived from the translation of J. R. Smith.
* Dante (1900). By English scholar of Italian literature Edmund Garratt Gardner (1869–1935).
* Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio (1902), 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). An edition of La vita nuova, translated by English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), with an introduction by American author Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908). 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). A translation of Dante's Latin essay De vulgari eloquentia (1302-1305) by Marianne Shapiro.
* The Convivio of Dante Alighieri (1903). An edition of Convivio (The Banquet), translated by Philip H. Wicksteed.
* De monarchia (1879). In Dante: An essay, by Richard William Church (1815–1890). Includes an edition of De monarchia, translated by Frederick John Church (1854–1888).
* The vision: or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri (1892). 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). With a life of Dante, chronological view of his age, additional notes, and an index.
* The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1867–1871). Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882).
* Inferno: a translation from Dante Alighieri, into English blank verse (1812). A translation of the Inferno by Joseph Hume (1777–1855).
* The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri (1912). 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), with contributions by Philip H. Wicksteed.
* The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri (1912). An edition of Paradiso, edited and translated by Philip H. Wicksteed, with Herman Oelsner (born 1871).
* 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'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).
* Catalogue of the Dante collection, 2 volumes plus addition (1898–1900). 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). 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).
* A chronological list of English translations from Dante, from Chaucer to the present day, 1380–1906. By British Dantean scholar Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855–1932). Reprinted in the Twenty-fourth annual report of the Dante Society (1906).
* Bibliography of works by Dante.
* English translations of the Divine Comedy.
Dares Phrygius. Dares Phrygius, according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. His work was a source of Joseph of Exeter's De bello Troiano ("On the Trojan War").
* Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia. An account in Latin of the destruction of Troy. In Chronicle of the Kings of Britain (1811) by Peter Roberts (c. 1760–1819).
* The History of Troy by Dares Phrygius. In Medieval Narrative: A book of Translations, by Margaret Schlauch.
* ‘The faythfull and true storye of the Destruction of Troy, compyled by Dares Phrygius …’ (1553), John Cawood, London. Translated by Thomas Paynell.
Dastin, John. John Dastin (c.1293 – c.1386) was an English alchemist of the fourteenth century.
* 'The works of John Dastin', in Theatrvm Chemicvm Britannicum, containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language (1652), by Elias Ashmole.
Jalal al-Din al-Dawani. Jalal al-Din al-Dawani (1426–1502) was a theologian, philosopher, jurist, and poet, who is considered to have been one of the leading scholars in late 15th-century Iran.
* A Civil and Military Review in Fārs in 881/1476 (1940). Translated by Vladimir Minorsky.
* Practical philosophy of the Muhammadan people, exhibited in its professed connexion with the European, being a translation of the Akhlāk-i-Jalāly, the most esteemed ethical if Middle Ages (1839). Translated from the Persian by William Francis Thompson.
David ben Sa'del. David ben Sa'del (also known as al-Hiti) was a Karaite Jewish chronicler who flourished (probably in Egypt) in the first half of the fifteenth century CE.
* Ibn Al-Hītī's Arabic Chronicle of Karaite Doctors (1897). Translated by G. Margoliouth.
David von Augsburg. David von Augsburg (early 13th century – 19 November 1272) was a medieval German mystic, and a Franciscan friar.
* Spiritual Life and Progress by David of Augsburg (1240s), transcribed by Dominic Devas.
Day of Judgement. "A description of the Day of Judgement." Welch text of the 15th century, translated by Thomas Powell.
Di composicione chilindri. A Thirteenth- Century Latin Treatise on the Chilindre — "For by my chilindre it is prime of day" (Shipmannes Tale). Edited, with a translation, by Edmund Brock, and illustrated by a woodcut of the Instrument from the Ashmole MS, 1522. In Essays on Chaucer (1868).
De pomo. De pomo (apple) is one of the spurious works that were attributed to Aristotle. Known as The Book of the Apple (Tractatus de pomo et morte incliti principis philosophorum Aristotelis), it is a medieval neoplatonic Arabic work of unknown authorship, sometimes ascribed to Aristotle.
* Ha-Tapnach, an imitation of Plato's Phaedor ascribed to Aristotle the Stagyrite (1885). Translated by Isidor Kalisch.
* The Book of the Apple, ascribed to Aristotle (1892). Translated by D. S. Margoliouth.
* The Targum to "The Song of songs." The book of the apple. The ten Jewish martyrs. A dialogue on games of chance (1908). Translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic by Hermann Gollancz.
De rebaptismate. "Anonymous treatise on re-baptism," translated by Robert E. Wallis. Early Church Fathers, Volume XIII.
Debat des hérauts d'armes de France et d'Angleterre. England and France in the fifteenth century in a contemporary tract presumed by be written by Charles, Duke of Orléans. Entitled "The debate between the heralds of France and England," translated by Henry Pyne (1808–1885).
Debate of the body and the soul. Debate of the body and the soul (Desputisoun bitwen be Bodi and be Soule) is a late 13th century Latin poem. It was updated and translated by Francis James Child.
Decian persecution. "The Libelli of the Decian Persecution ," edited and translated by John R. Knipling. Forty one extant libelli concerning Decian persecution.
Declán of Ardmore. Declán of Ardmore ( died 5th century AD) was an early Irish saint of the Déisi Muman, who was remembered for having converted the Déisi in the late 5th century and for having founded the monastery of Ardmore (Ard Mór).
* Life of St. Declán (1914), edited and translated by the Rev. Patrick C. Power. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, (ed. from ms. in Bibliothèque royale, Brussels), and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, (ed. from ms. in Library of Royal Irish academy).
Désatír. Désatír is a Zoroastrian mystic text written in an invented language. Although purporting to be of ancient origin, it is now generally regarded as a literary forgery, most probably authored in the 16th or 17th century by Azar Kayvan, the leader of the Zoroastrian Illuminationist sect.
* Desatir, or, Sacred writings of the ancient Persian prophets : in the original tongue ... with the ancient Persian version and commentary of the fifth (1818). Mulla Firuz. Sasan. Bombay: Courier press.
Desclot, Bernard. Bernard Desclot (fl. 1300) was a Catalan chronicler whose work covered the reign of Peter III of Aragon (1276–1285), one of the four Catalan Grand Chronicles.
* Chronicle of the Reign of King Peter III of Aragon, 1276–85 (1928). Partially translated by F. L. Critchlow.
Dési genealogies. "The Dési genealogies (from the Book of Ballymore)," edited and translated by John MacNeill.

### DH–DU

Dhahabi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-. Al-Dhahabi (1274–1348) was an Athari theologian, Islamic historian and Hadith scholar. He wrote a work concerning Abdul Qadir Gilani called "Contributions to the Biography of 'Abd al-Kadir of Jilan," translated by D. S. Margoliouth.
Dialogus Athansil et Zachary. An argument between a Christian, Athanasius, and a Jew, Zacharus. "A new second-century Christian dialogue," translated from the Armenian by F. C. Conybeare, The expositor, 5th set. V (1897).
Dialogus inter corpus et animam. "Dialogus inter corpus et animam," translated by Clark Sutherland Northup (1901). A Latin text from the 14th century Debate of the body and the soul.
Dialogus inter militem et clericum. A work by Cornish writer John Trevista (fl. 1342–1402).
* John Trevista (1925). Dialogus inter militem et clericum, Richard FitzRalph's sermon: 'Defensio curatorum' and Methodius 'the bygynnyng of the world and the ende of worldes', by John Trevisa, vicar of Berkeley; now first edited from the mss. Harl. 1900, St. John's College, Camb., H. 1, Add. 24194, Stowe 65, and Chetham's library, with an introduction on the description of the mss., Trevisa's life and works, and a study of the language by Aaron Jenkins Perry. Some work attributed to William Ockham and also to Pierre du Bois. Early English Text Society, No. 167.
Diambiad messe bad ri rëil. "Advice to a prince," edited and translated by Tadhg O'Donoghue. Authorship uncertain. Text from the Book of Leinster.
Diarmait mac Aeda Sláine and Guaire Aldine. The Battle of Carn Conaill in 635 was won by high-king Diarmait mac Áedo Sláine against Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin#Carn Conaill, a king of Connacht.
* "The battle of Carn Conaill," edited and translated by Whitney Stokes. in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, III (1901–1902).
* "The battle of Carn Conaill," in Silva Gadelica (1892), edited and translated by Standish Hayes O'Grady.
* Colman Mac Duach and Guaire, edited and translated by J. G. O'Keeffe (1904)
Dragon myths. Dragons in mythology.
* The Celtic dragon myth (1911). By John Francis Campbell (1821–1885), with the Geste of Fraoch and the dragon, translated with introduction by Scottish Gaelic scholar George Henderson (1866–1912). Illustrations in colour by Rachel Ainslie Grant Duff.
Dream of the Rood. The Dream of the Rood is an Old English Christian poems in the genre of dream poetry and written in alliterative verse. Preserved in the 10th-century Vercelli Book, the poem may be as old as the 8th-century Ruthwell Cross, and is considered as one of the oldest works of Old English literature.
* The Holy Rood, a dream (1866). A translation of the poem Dream of the Rood, once attributed to Cynewulf or Cædmon. In The Ruthwell cross, Northumbria (1866), by English archeologist and philologist George Stephens (1813–1895).
Dryden, John. John Dryden (1631–1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.
* Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems (1721). The third edition of Dryden's 1700 work Fables ancient and modern.
* Dryden's Palamon and Arcite; or The Knight's tale from Chaucer (1899). A Dryden translation, Palamon and Arcite, from his Fables, Ancient and Modern. Edited with notes and an introduction by Percival Ashley Chubb (1860–1959).
* Poetical Miscellanies, The Sixth Part (1709) by Alexander Pope. An edition of Poetical Miscellanies, The Sixth Part by Alexander Pope. Edited by J. Dryden.

## Source material

* Cambrian register
* Fifteenth annual report of the Dante Society
* Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (PPTS), Library of
* Twenty-fourth annual report of the Dante Society
* Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshūni
* Yale Studies in English
* Y Cymmrodor