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
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 12, 2025.

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CCCCXCIV.
Minucio. Minucione aliquando perditur sciencia prius habita Heading supplied from Harl. MS..

Cesarius tellis how som tyme þer was a clerk þat was wele and sufficientlie letterd̛. And on̛ a tyme he garte latt hym̛ blode, and

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when̛ he had bled̛ he loste aƚƚ his letteraƚƚ connyng, right evyn̛ as he [MS. repeats, he.] had loste þaim be blode-lattyng [MS. blode lastyng.] , so þat he knew not a lettre nor cuthe not vnderstand̛ a lattyn̛ wurd̛; not-withstondyng he was refte no thyng els. And þis he tolde vnto many men̛. So þer was a man̛ on̛ a tyme cownceld̛ hym̛ & sayde, "þe same day twelmo[n]th at þou was lattyn̛ blude on̛, and þe same howre," he sulde lat hym̛ blude agayn̛, and so peraventur he sulde gytt agayn̛ his connyng. And so he did, & he requoverd̛ hys connyng agayn̛ als wele as evur he had it.

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