I can now send the details from the Motif-Index:
G303.16.2.3.4. A nun eating unblessed lettuce eats a demon. Gregory
the Great Dialogues Bk I Ch. 4 (tr. Edmund Gardner, London, 1911)
17; *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 22; Alphabet No. 108; Spanish
Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda.
We've already gotten the Gregory information, including a ref. to
the Latin in the PL, and this is fairly clear by itself. Here are
the other items:
Krappe, A. H. Les Sources du Libro de Exemplos, Bulletin
Hispanique, XXXIX, pp. 5--54.
Alphabet = Banks, M. M. An Alphabet of Tales, an English 15th
century translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum of Etienne de
Besançon (EETS Nos. 126, 127). 2 vols. London, 1904--05.
Keller, John Esten. Motif-Index of Mediaeval Spanish Exempla.
Knoxville (Tenn.), 1949.
Rotunda, D. P. Motif-Index of the Italian Novella. Bloomington,
Indiana, 1942.
One really interested might also wish to consult Tubach:
Tubach, Frederic C. Index exemplorum: A Handbook of Medieval
Religious Tales. Folklore Fellows Communications 86.204. Helsinki:
Akademia scientiarum fennica, 1969.
Juris
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