DXXIX.
Mulier virtuosa.
Valerius tellis how þer was a man̛ þat hight Ninus, þat had a wyfe. & when̛ he was dead̛, on̛ a day as scho was byndand̛ vpp
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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- 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 21, 2025.
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DXXIX.
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hur head̛, it was lattyn̛ hur wit þat Babylon̛ defaylid̛ in bataƚƚ. And with þe ta syde of hur heade vnbun vpp̛ sho ran̛ to feght agayn̛ þaim of Babilon̛, & neuer wold sitt at bynd vp hur head̛ vnto aƚƚ was won̛ & þai ffled̛. & þerfor̛ is ane ymage made of hur & sett vp̛ in þis maner of wyse.