Estoire, ed. Sommer, I, p. 4
Ensi comme ie me gisoie en cel lieu dont vos maues oi parler si fu au ieudi absolu. Et quant vint au vendredi beneoit si auoie dit se a nostre seignor plaisoit le seruice que on apele tenebres. Et lors me prinst grant volente de dormir si commenchai a sommeillier et il ne demora pas grantement que vne vois mapelea iiij fois par mon nom si me dist Esueille toi & enten a vne cose iij et de trois coses vne...Et puis si vi deuant moi le plus bel home qui onques fust... Et il sabaissa vers moi si me souffla en mi le vis & lors me fu avis que ie auoie les iex a C double plus clers que onques mais nauoie eu deuant si senti deuant ma bouce vnes grans merueilles de langues...Et lors me dist Naies mie paour car la fontaine de toutes seutes est deuant toi...Apres cel mot me prinst par la main & me bailla j livre ...
And as I lay in that place of which you have heard me speak it was Maundy Thursday. And when Good Friday came it was said that the service of Tenebrae was pleasing to Our Lord. Then a great desire to sleep came over me and I began to doze. Before long a voice called me four times by my name and said to me, "Awake and hear about one in three and three in one"...And then I saw before me the most beautiful man there ever was...And he bent over me and blew in my face and then it seemed to me that my eyes could see 100 times clearer than ever before and I felt marvellous tongues (i.e.languages) in my mouth...And then he said to me "Fear not for the fount of all knowledge is before you"...After saying this he took me by the hand and gave me a book...(translated by Alison Stones)
| Rennes BM 255 (148), f. 1 (made in Paris, c.
1220)
Stones, 1977
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Bonn UB 526, f. 1 (written by Arnulphus de
Kayo in Amiens in 1286)
Loomis, p. 94
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| New Haven, Yale Univ., Beinecke 227, f. 1 (written
by Jehan de Loles of Hainaut in 1357)
Shailor, I, pp. 318-20
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Brussels, BR 9246, f. 2 (special version composed
by Guiillaume de la Pierre for Jean Louis de Savoie, Bishop of Geneva,
in October, 1480)
Loomis, p. 111; Avril and Reynaud, p. 163 (for the related Merlin, Paris, BNF 91)
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