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
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Etienne de, Besançon, d. 1294
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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 9, 2025.

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CCCXLVI.
Gula aliquando in peccatum carnis innocentes inducit.

Petrus Damianus tellis how on̛ a tyme as a monke bare fryed̛ fruturs in-to þe fratur, he was prikkid̛ with glotonny, and onone he withdrew one of þaim, & keste it in his mouthe, & ete it privalie at none of his neghburs saw. And onone after he was strekyn̛ with a luste of his flesscℏ, at he laburd̛ hym̛ selfe in sucℏ form̛ as he did̛ neuer befor̛, vnto so muche, at with his awn̛ hand fretyng he had a pollucion̛ of his sede. And so after þe morseƚƚ at he stale, onone þe fende entird̛ in-to hym̛.

  • ...Gulam refrenare expedit. Supra de Episcopo et Abbate.
  • ...Gulosi cibum sumunt sine benediccione et puniuntur. Supra de benediccione.

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