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DAN MICHEL OF NORTHGATE (ft. 1340)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAN See also:MICHEL OF NORTHGATE (ft. 1340)  , See also:English writer, the author of the Ayenbite of Inwyt . Nothing is known of him except what can be gathered from his See also:work . It is a literal See also:translation in the Kentish See also:dialect of a See also:French See also:treatise entitled Le See also:Somme See also:des vices et des values (also known as Le Miroir du monde or Le Livre des commandemens, &c.), which was written in 1279 by See also:Laurentius See also:Gallus, a Dominican See also:monk and See also:confessor to See also:Philip III. of See also:France . This work was translated into Flemish, Catalonian, See also:Spanish and See also:Italian, and appears in no less than six English See also:translations . See also:Dan See also:Michel's autograph MS. is preserved in See also:Arundel MS . 57, which states that the work was completed in the See also:year 1340 on the See also:eve of the apostles See also:Simon and See also:Jude by Dan Michel of Northgate, a See also:brother of the See also:cloister of St See also:Austin of See also:Canterbury . The value of the See also:book is chiefly philological as an. authenticated and dated example of the See also:southern dialect . The Ayenbite of Inwyt was edited for the See also:Roxburghe See also:Club by the Rev See also:Joseph See also:Stevenson in 1855, and for the See also:Early English See also:Text See also:Soc. by See also:Richard See also:Morris in 1876 .

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