Alphabet of tales : an English 15th century translation of the Alphabetum narrationum of Etienne de Besançon, from Additional MS. 25,719 of the British Museum / by Etienne de Besançon
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Alphabet of tales : an English 15th century translation of the Alphabetum narrationum of Etienne de Besançon, from Additional MS. 25,719 of the British Museum / by Etienne de Besançon
Author
Etienne de, Besançon, d. 1294
Editor
Banks, Mary Macleod
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., Ltd.
1904, 1905
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"Alphabet of tales : an English 15th century translation of the Alphabetum narrationum of Etienne de Besançon, from Additional MS. 25,719 of the British Museum / by Etienne de Besançon." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AlphTales. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2025.
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CXL. Cecus aliquando audacius pertransit
MS. repeats here, aliquando. malum
passum quam videns.
We rede in 'Libro de Dono Timoris,' how þer was a
blynd̛ man̛ þat had a boy þat led hym̛ be
þe way; & þai come on a tyme vnto a strayte place whar
þer was not bod a little bryg & a strayte, & þis
boy durste not lede hym̛ ouer itt, & stude stiƚƚ &
told̛ hym̛. And þe blinde man̛ bad hym̛ go
ouer it baldlie, and þe boy sayd̛ he durste not; & he
gatt þe boy in his nekk̘ & bad hym̛ poynt
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þe way with his staff, & he suld̛ felow it; & he
did̛ so. & þis blynd̛ man̛ went ouer
þe bryg baldlie be tellyng of þe lityƚƚ boy.
...Cecum esse corporaliter aliquando prodest anime.
Infra de paciencia.
...Cecus eciam inuitus illuminatur a deo. Infra
Invitus.
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