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
Publication
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 7, 2025.
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DCCLXXVI. Videre mulieres vel malos viros non multum
expedit.
Valerius tellis how Democritus put oute his awn̛ een̛ at
he sulde not se gude to be iƚƚ, and Tertulianus [MS. Terculianus.] tellis þat he made hym̛ selfe
blynd̛, for he mot not se wommen̛ withowten̛
concupiscens.
...Visus est cohibendus. Supra de oculo, j, et de
aspectu.
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