Pierre Bersuire
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Pierre Bersuire, also known as Pierre Bercheure and Pierre Berchoire, was a French author of the Middle Ages. A Benedictine, he was a translator, encyclopaedist, and the author of several works, inclu
Detail of Pierre Bersuire at work, from his translation of Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita, fourteenth century
Translation
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In language, translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction between t
King Charles V the Wise commissions a translation of Aristotle. First square shows his ordering the translation; second square, the translation being made. Third and fourth squares show the finished translation being brought to, and then presented to, the King.
The Rosetta Stone, a symbol of the art of translation
Buddhist Diamond Sutra, translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva – world's oldest known dated printed book (868 CE)
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