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 May 25, 2025.
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CCCXLI. Gloriandum non est de dictis vel factis.
Valerius tellis þat when̛ Sophocles wex ane alde
man̛, he sent a man̛ of his, at he luffid̛
passand̛ wele, vnto a iustyng; and þer he wan̛
þe victorie aboue aƚƚ oþer. And when̛ he
hard̛ teƚƚ þeroff, he tuke so mekuƚƚ
comfurtℏ & ioy vnto hym̛, þat evyn̛ sodanlie
he feƚƚ down̛ & dyed̛.
...Gloria vana semper est fugienda. Infra de vanitate.
...Gloria vana oritur aliquando ex bonis operibus.
Supra Barnardi.
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