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 17, 2025.
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CCCLXXIX. Indulgencie valent defunctis. et c̛.
We rede in 'Legenda Lombardica' how on̛ a tyme a legatt of
þe courte of Rome gatt a grete pardon̛ vnto his fadur,
þat was dead̛, of þe pope. And he sent
þer-with a wurthi knyght in-to the contre of Albygensis to a
kurk þer his fadur lay; & þis knyght taryd
þer-with aƚƚ a lentren̛. And þis done,
vppon̛ a nyght his fadur aperyd̛ vnto þis legatt,
clerar þan̛ any light, and thonkid̛ hym̛ hartelie
for his pardon̛ at he was delyverd̛ by.
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