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2 unusual facts about Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers


Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers

Caxton in 1476 travelled to Westminster from Bruges, where he had been running a successful printing business.

In 1473 the knight Lewis de Bretaylle had lent him a French manuscript, Les ditz moraulx des philosophes by Jehan or Guillaume de Thionville, whose turn-of-the-fifteenth-century French translation of a Latin work has a lineage that derives from an Arabic text.



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