Thomas Rodd (1763–1822) was an English bookseller, antiquarian and Hispanist; Rodd purchased some Greek manuscripts for the

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(e.g. codices: Minuscule 272,

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). He translated some old ballads into English: ''Ancient Ballads from the Civil Wars of Granada and the Twelve Peers of France'' (London, 1801). He also translated part 1 of a Spanish historical novel by Gines Perez de Hita as ''The Civil Wars of Granada'' (London, 1803). Then he published an adaptation of the '' Historia Caroli Magni'': ''History of Charles the Great and Orlando, ascribed to Archbishop Turpin; translated from the Latin in Spanheim’s Lives of ecclesiastical writers: together with English metrical versions of the most celebrated ancient Spanish ballads relating to the twelve peers of France mentioned in Don Quixote'' (London: Printed for T. Rodd and T. Boosey, 1812); Rodd translated

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, ''Los doce pares de Francia'' (''Twelve Peers of France'').

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodd, Thomas 1763 births 1822 deaths 18th-century antiquarians 19th-century antiquarians British Hispanists English antiquarians English booksellers