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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"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 June 17, 2025.

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DCCXLI.
Suspicio diligenter examinata est falsa.

Saynt Ierom tellis þat it is wreten̛ in þe bukis of Ypocratis how þer was a man̛ þat þoght his wyfe sulde be punysshid̛, & suspecte

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hur becauce sho bare a fayr barn̛ at was not like nowder þe fadur nor þe modir. So þai bathe agreid̛ at a leche sulde essone þe question̛. And a leche come, & he sayd̛ [Latin MSS. Ne forte talis pictura esset in cubiculo. Qua inuenta, mulier a suspicione liberata.] it was like þe clothe at was on̛ the bed when̛ it was getten̛, & þus þe womman̛ was delyverd̛ from̛ hur suspecion̛.

  • ...Suspicione mouentur defacili viri ad vxores. Supra de pulcritudine.
  • ...Suspicio tollitur vel confirmatur per probacionem. Supra de Paulo Reference supplied from the Latin MSS. .

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