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
Publication
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 May 18, 2025.
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CCLXXIV. Diuicie spirituales preponende sunt
corporalibus.
Valerius tellis how þat when̛ Anaxagoras þe
philosophur had traveld̛ far for þe studie of philosophie,
& when̛ he come agayn̛ he fand̛ aƚƚ his gudis
destroyed̛; "Ya," he said̛, "no fors of my gudis & I
hafe conn̄yng & my heaƚƚ of my bodie; for þies two
er wurtℏ mekuƚƚ riches." And so he cowntid̛ more be
riches of connyng & of hele þan̛ he did̛ be riches
of gudis.
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