Gesta Romanorum : entertaining stories : invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation, and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit, whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others have extracted their plots

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Gesta Romanorum : entertaining stories : invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation, and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit, whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others have extracted their plots

translated by Charles Swan ; with a preface by E.A. Baker

(Broadway translations)

George Routledge & Sons , E.P. Dutton, [1924?]

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Gesta Romanorum

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Includes bibliographical footnotes, and notes (p. 375-472)

Translation of: "Remarkable histories, from the Gesta Romanorum, combined with numerous moral and mystical applications, treating of vices and virtues. Printed, and diligently revised, at the expence of that provident, and circumspect man, John Rynman, of Oringaw; at the workshop of Henry Gran, citizen of the imperial town of Hagenaw. Concluded happily, in the year of our safety, one thousand five hundred and eight: March the 20th" (p. 374)

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