Raoul Lefèvre
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Lefèvre writing the Recueil des histoires de Troyes, image from a 16th-century manuscript
Raoul Lefèvre was the 15th-century French author of a Histoire de Jason (in 1460)[1] and the Recoeil des histoires de Troyes (in 1464).[2] The latter was translated and printed by William Caxton as the Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, and was the first book printed in English in 1473-1474. Lefèvre was the chaplain of Philip the Good, the creator of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which was based on the classical Jason story.[3][4]
The Histoire de Jason is known from 20 manuscripts and 30 different printed editions, and was translated in English in 1477 by William Caxton, and in Dutch in 1485.
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- ^ Lefèvre, R., Munro, J. James., Caxton, W. (1913). The history of Jason. London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., and by H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
- ^ Lefèvre, R., Sommer, H. Oskar (Heinrich Oskar)., Caxton, W. (1894). The recuyell of the historyes of Troye: written in French by Raoul Lefèvre, tr. and printed by William Caxton, (about A.D. 1474) The first English printed book, now faithfully reproduced. London: D. Nutt.
- ^ "Raoul Lefèvre". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French). Larousse. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Raoul Le Fèvre (14..-14..)".
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