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Excerpt from An Alphabet of Tales, Vol. 1: An English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum of Etienne De Besancon; From Additional Ms. 25, 719 of the British Museum; A-H Iyords and letters which have been obliterated or worn away from the ms. Are restored conjecturally in brackets; words and letters inadvertently omitted by the Writer of the ms. Are also conjecturally supplied in brackets, but in italic, to distinguish them from those for which the ms. Leaves a space. Capitals have been given to names of persons and places, and have been left. In some common nouns as they stand in the ms; modern punctuation has been adopted throughout. Scribal errors are corrected by footnotes. Signs standing in earlier mss. For final -e are represented by a small stroke curved to the right or left, only the diminutive curl after short r has been left out. A list of errata. Will be printed with Part II, also an Index to the Tales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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