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
Publication
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 13, 2025.
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DL. Natalis probatur, iiijto.
Orosius and Innosins [Harl. MS. Innocens iij.] tellis how þat a
weƚƚ in Rome þat same nyght was turned̛ in-to oyle
& ran̛ in-to Tyber, and aƚƚ þe day after
spran̛ habundandlye; ffor Sibilla had prophecyed & said̛
þat our Savyor sulde not be born̛ or a weƚƚ of oyle
sprang oute of þe erthe.
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