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 14, 2025.
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DCCXXV. Solitudinem eligere inspiratur a deo.
We rede in 'Vitis Patrum' of one Arsenius, þat was of moste
valow in þe emperours palas, and he besoght God in his prayers
to drys hym̛ into þe way of hele. And a voyce come to
hym̛ & sayd̛; "Fle mans felowshup̛ & þou
saƚƚ be safe." And so he did̛. et c̛.
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