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 June 1, 2025.

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CCCLXXXVII.
Infernalis pena est eterna. Supra de Conuersione.

A tale like vnto þe same tellis Saynt Gregur̛, how on̛ a tyme þer was a fond̛ womman̛ þat somwhatt vnderstude Latyn̛. And on̛ a tyme as sho was in þe kurk at a Dirigie, sho harde þaim syng; " In inferno nulla est redempcio." And when̛ sho had hard̛ it, sho cryed̛ with ane horrible voyce & sayde; "I wiƚƚ neuer com̛ þer, ffor þat is ane iƚƚ place for me to putt my truste in." et c̛.

... Infernalis pena intolerabilis MS. intollerabilis. est. Supra de conuersione.
... Infernales pene horribiles sunt ad videndum. Infra de sciencia nigromancie. et c̛.
... Infernales pene viuis MS. vicijs. Harl. MS. viuis. aliquando ostenduntur. Supra de cruce signatis, v., et infra de sciencia nigromancie.
... Infernales pene sunt multiplices. Supra de elemosina, xj.
...Infideles minus puniuntur in inferno quam mali Christiani. Infra de Christianis.

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...Infideli defuncto valuit oracio Sancti. Infra de oracione, iiij.
...Infidelis a deo occiditur. Infra de vindicta, v.
...Infidelis aliquando bonas leges condit. Infra de lege, j.

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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CCCLXXXVII. Infernalis pena est eterna. Supra de Conuersione.

description Page 267

CCCLXXXVII.
Infernalis pena est eterna. Supra de Conuersione.

Page 267