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 22, 2025.

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DLII.
Natalis Domini probatur, vjto.

We rede in 'Legenda Lombardica' how þat vppon̛ þat day þer apperid̛ in þe este iij sonnys [Harl. MS. qui paulatim in vnum corpus solare redacti sunt. Eusebius in Cronicis, et Magister in Historia Scolastica dicunt quod non ipso die apparuerint tres soles, sed autem per aliquod tempus, scilicet post mortem Julij Cesaris.] , and somwhat befor̛ þat tyme after þe dead̛ of Iulius Cesar.

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