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 April 27, 2025.
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DCCXCIX. Christianus. Christiani mali magis puniuntur
in inferno quam infideles.
We rede in þe 'Life of Saynt Macharie' how on̛ a day he
fand a dead man̛ head̛, & he spak þerto &
askid̛ whose hede it was, & it ansswerd̛ agayn̛
& sayd̛ it was þe head̛ of a paynom̛. And he
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askid̛ whar þe saule þer-of was, & it sayd̛
in heƚƚ; & he axkid̛ how depe, and it said̛, als
depe as fro hevyn̛ to erde. And he axkid̛ if þer was
any dipper þan̛ it, and it sayd̛ ya, aƚƚ fals
crysten̛ men̛, þai er depeste in heƚƚ.
...Christus. Christi ymago. Supra de ymagine.
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