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
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Banks, Mary Macleod
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., Ltd.
1904, 1905
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DCCLXIV.
Vanitatem sancti per humilitatem fugiunt.

We rede also in 'Gestis Patrum' how on̛ a tyme a iustice of a lande come for to se ane abbott, and when̛ he hard̛ teƚƚ at he come [MS. adds, and, here.] , he garte clothe hym̛ in sak-clothe and tuke in his hand bread̛ & chese, & sett hym̛ in his ceƚƚ-dure. And when̛ þe iustis saw hym̛ he dispysid̛ hym̛ and sayd̛; "Is not þis þe man̛ at we hafe hard̛ so mekuƚƚ teƚƚ off?" & with þat he went his way & wolde byde no longer.

  • ...Vana gloria appetitur aliquando ex bonis operibus. Supra de elemosina et de abstinencia.
  • ...Vanitas punitur in purgatorio. Supra de ave, i.
  • ...Vaspasianus. Supra de prelato.
  • ...Vanitati possunt adaptari multa que dicuntur supra de laude, gloria, et memoria.

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