Jofroi of Waterford
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Jofroi of Waterford, Anglo-Irish scribe and translator, fl. 1300?
A native of Waterford, Jofroi was a Dominican, apparently based in Paris, where he wrote commissions in French for French audiences (similar to Samuel 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 by Dares Phrygius
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.
[edit] 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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