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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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(?a1439), Lydg.FP (Bod 263), section 9.604:
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 , he rase vpp & was whikk.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)