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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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 11, 2024.

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DCI.
Papa. Papa mulier creatur.

We rede in 'Cronicles' how som tyme þer was a yong damyseƚƚ, and a luff of hurs went away with hur & broght hur in mans

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clothyng vnto Rome; and þer sho went vnto þe scule and wex so parfyte in connyng þat sho had no make in aƚƚ Rome. So att þe laste, be ane hole consent, sho was chosyn̛ to be pope and was made pope. And when̛ sho was pope hur luff lay with hur & gatt hur with chylde, so he wiste not at sho was with childe to sho was evyn̛ at travellyng . So hur happend̛ on̛ a day to com̛ in procession̛ fro Saynt Peturs vnto Saynt Iohn̛ Latarenens, and þer sho began̛ at traveƚƚ, and bare hur chylde betwix Colliseum & Saynt Clemett kurk̘; & þer sho dyed̛, & þer þai berid̛ hur. And becauce of þat detestable dead̛, þe pope vsid̛ neuer syne to com̛ þer-away with procession̛, and here-for hur name is not putt emang other popes namys in the Martiloge.

  • ...Papa per diaboli procuracionem creatur. Supra de ambicione.

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