Perot de Garbalei

Perot de Garbalei

Perot de Garbalei, fl. c. 1300. Author of "Divisiones Mundi".

Perot states that he "read a very learned book in Latin which many clerics said could not be translated into vernacular rhyme". He took up the challenge as he is confident of obtaining the gratitude of both clerics and laymen, stating that "Purceo s'en est par foi/Perot de Garbalei/Entremis, pur aver/Le gre e le voler/E de clers e de lais".

Apparently from Garballay, or Galbally in Leinster. A translator from Latin, thus he may have being a cleric - there was a Franciscan house at Galbally. The "Divisiones Mundi" is a 935 six-syllable lines in couplets, and a conscise survery of world geography, its sources being "De Philosophia Mundi" and "De Imagine Mundi".

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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