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
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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 June 7, 2025.
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DCIV. Pauli Apostoli.
We rede in his legend̛ how on̛ a tyme when̛ Pawle
was hostid̛ att þe Ile of Mustelan̛, þer come
ane erdur in-to his skurte and hurte hym̛ noght, & he keste
it in þe fyre. & þe gude man̛ was wrothe, ffor
aƚƚ þat evur was born̛ of the kynred̛ of
þat person̛ at he was at hoste with was neuer hurte with
þase venomos bestis. And when̛ þer childer war
born̛, þai wolde put þies serpentis in þe
creduls with þaim, at þai mot prufe whethur þai wer
þer trew fadurs or nay.
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