- Jofroi of Waterford
Jofroi of Waterford,
Anglo-Irish scribe and translator, fl. 1300?A native of
Waterford , Jofroi was a Dominican, apparently based inParis , where he wrotecommissions in French for French audiences (similar toSamuel Beckett some centuries later).Jofroi known works are:
* a co-translation, with Servais Copale, of three prose poems
* translations of the "
Secretum Secretorum "* translation of a history of
Greece byDares Phrygius * translation of a history of
Rome byEutropius His original work is a catalogue of all the known wines and ales of
Europe , which he describes with great relish, especially recommending them to academics and counsellors.References
* "Hiberno-Norman literature",
Evelyn Mullally , in "Settlement and Socity in Medieval Ireland: Studies presented to F.X. Martin", Dublin, 1988.
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