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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DCLVIII.
Puer non debet eligi in prelatum vel presulem.

[This Exemplum is corrupt and part has been omitted from the Latin versions.] Helinandus tellis how þat Adrianus þe emperour on̛ a tyme wolde algatis make his son̛ emperour in his life. And his princes

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ansswerd hym̛ agayn̛ & sayd̛ þat it longid̛ not alonelie vnto þe blude to hafe rewle; bod rather vnto þe adlyngis & vnto the governance. And so his desyre contynued̛, and efterward he conseyvid̛ in his mynd̛ þat childer sulde furste be broght vpp̛ and excercysed in vertues, at þai mot be provid what gouernance þai wolde be off or þai war putt vnto any wurshup̛.

  • ...Puer a demone temptatur. Supra de blasfemia.
  • ...Puella debet abscondere suam pulcritudinem. Supra de abscondere.
  • ...Puella debet solicite custodiri. Supra de ffilia.

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