Constantynople
Middle English
Proper noun
Constantynople
- Alternative form of Constantinople
- ?a1425, Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982), 5/5 and 10/26:
- At Constantynople es þe spounge and þe rede of whilk þe Iewes gafe oure Lord to drynke. […] Þe emperour of Constantynople […] giffes all þe digniteez of haly kirk in þat cuntree, and he pryues þaim þat him think vnworthy.
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- (?a1439), Lydg.FP (Bod 263), 9.604:
- To Constantynople he hasted hym […] Be Cecile the weie was almost [?read: most] meete.
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- c1450, Alph.Tales (Add 25719), 262/27, 291/5, and 458/6:
- Þis lettre he garte hafe privalie vnto Constantynople & caste it in þe Emperours pales. […] He delyverd þe Holie Lande oute of Saracens handis, and come fro thens-ward be Constantynople. […] Hym happend for to dye at Constantynople, & […] when þai wold hafe opynd hym & sesond hym with spycis at he myght hafe bene carid [read: curid], he rase vpp & was whikk.
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