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 April 30, 2025.
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DCXXVIII. Petrus mortuum suscitauit.
We rede also in his Legend how þer was som tyme a
womman̛ in Flawndres, and when̛ sho had born̛ iij
childer sho prayed̛ Saynt Petur for to helpe hur. And sho bare
þe iiij childe and it was d̛ead̛, and sho tuke
þis childe & broght it vnto Saynt Petur & besoght
hym̛ hertelie þerfor̛. And onone þis dead̛
childe become whik̘. And when̛ it was ordand̛
þat at his baptym̛ he sulde be callid̛ John̛,
þe preste, not wittand̛ what he suld̛ say, namyd̛
hym̛ Petur; and þat name remaynyd̛ with hym̛
ewhils he liffid̛.
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