<P> The German Der Ritter vom Turn was the work of Marquard vom Stein, a member of the Swabian nobility . He himself had two daughters, Elsa and Jakobea, for whose benefit he claims to have translated the French text . William Caxton printed the English version in 1484 . </P> <P> Another English translation older than Caxton's survives in manuscript; British Library, Harley no . 1764 . The manuscript was written in the reign of Henry VI of England . </P>

The book of the knight in the tower