degrees. —In the Prose Life of Alexander (ed. Westlake), Alexander ascends the throne of Cyrus by seven steps made of the following materials: amethist, emerald, topaze, grenade, diamond, gold and clay, which are explained allegorically (ed. 1913, p. 56). In Vincent, Alexander's nativity is told from tables of hyacinth, crystal, diamond, hematite, emerald, sapphire, and ophite (l. IV., ch. ii.).
Mandeville's travels : the Cotton version / from the edition by Paul Hamelius.
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- Mandeville's travels : the Cotton version / from the edition by Paul Hamelius.
- Author
- Mandeville, John, Sir., British Library. Manuscript. Cotton Titus C.16.
- Editor
- Hamelius, Paul, 1868-1922.
- Publication
- London: Published for the Early English text society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
- 1919, 1923
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- Voyages and travels.
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"Mandeville's travels : the Cotton version / from the edition by Paul Hamelius." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/aeh6691. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.