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 May 21, 2025.
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DCCIII. Sepultura in ecclesiam quandoque parum
prodest.
Saynt Gregur tellis how som̛ tyme þer was ane yƚƚ
man̛ berid̛ in Saynt Laurence kurk at Rome. And þer
was hard̛ voyces command̛oute of his grafe, sayand̛; "
Ardeo! ardeo! I burn̛! I
burn̛!" And his wyfe, when̛ sho hard̛ teƚƚ of
þis, garte oppyn̛ his grafe & lukid̛ what was
þerin; & þai fand̛ þe clothis at he was
wappid̛ in, bod his body was clene away.
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