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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DCXIV.
Peccata sunt causa aduersitatum que nobis eveniunt.

We rede in 'Vitis Patrum' how þer was som tyme a gude man̛ þat suffred wrong of a noder, and he compleynyd hym̛ vnto ane olde man̛. And þe old man̛ ansswerd̛ hym̛ agayn̛ & said̛ "He did̛ not þis, bod þi synnys did itt. And þerfor̛ blame not þis man̛ in nothyng at he duse vnto þe, nor at is happend vnto þe, bod say at þi synnys hatℏ adlid̛ þaim."

  • ...Peccatum fetet coram deo et angelis. Supra de Angelo, iij.
  • ...Peccatum onerat hominem et animam. Infra de simia.

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