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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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STANZAIC LIFE OF CHRIST
 
[Prologue.]
 
Petrus in Historiis Scolasticis de incarnacione Christi.
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[Nativity.]
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De circumcisione domini nostri Ihesu Christi.
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De epiphania. Epiphania dicitur ab epi, quod est supra, & phanos, apparicio, quia tunc desursum stella apparuit siue ipse Christus per stellam.
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De purificacione beate Ma{ri}e
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De occisione Innocencium & de Herode Ascalonica & eius vxore.
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Petrus in Histore capitulo xlvo.
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De septuagesima & eius institucione.
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De sexagesima & eius institucione.
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De quinquagesima & eius institucione.
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De quadragesima & eius institucione.
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De ieiunio quatuor temporum.
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De imperatoribus. Martinus. Anno gracie xvjo, Tiberius erectus est in imperatorem post mortem Octouiani.
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De passione Christi. Anno gracie xxxo, Tiberii xviijo.
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De resurrectione Christi.
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De letania Maiori & Minori.
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De ascensione domini.
 
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Primo vnde ascendit.
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Circa secundum, quare scilicet statim, vt resurrexit, non ascendit, sed per quadraginta dies expectare voluit.
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Circa tercium qualiter Ascendit.
 
Circa quartum cum quibus ascendit.
 
Circa quintum, quo scilicet Ascendit.
 
Est enim celum materiale, rationale, intellectuale & [super] substantiale.
 
Nota quod vii sunt celi, scilicet celum aereum, ethereum, Olimpium, igneum, siderium, cristalinum & empirium & celum sancte trinitatis supra omnes.
 
Item celum intellectuale est Angelus. Angeli enim dicuntur celum, quia ad instar celi sunt sanctissimi, vt patet inferius.
 
Quarto celum sup[er]substanciale est equalitas diuine excellentie.
 
Quod ascendit super celos rationales.
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Circa sextum quare ascendit notandum.
 
Hec Augustinus vbi prius. Tercia vtilitas sue ascensionis est meritum fidei.
 
Hec Augustinus. Quarta est nostra securitas.
 
Quinta vtilitas est nostra dignitas
 
Sexta est spei nostre soliditas.
 
Septima est vie ostensio.
 
Octaua vtilitas est ianue celestis [a]per[i]cio.
 
Nona vtilitas est preparacio gaudiorum loci.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Sexagesme is bygynyng
opon þat selue Sononday
that we this offys con syng,
Exurge domine, in gode fay,
next after septuagesme suyng,
And in pasch weke endes ay
on Wednesday, by acountyng,
As I shal ful sone say.

Instituta est sexagesima propter recompensacionem, significacionem & representacionem, vt patet inferius.

Sexagesme wel ordeynt was
first in recompensacioun
of fastyng þat popes conen whace
by gode deliberacioun,
And also as boke mynd mas
In representacioun
of our forbying to þat plas
that we so lost aȝeyn resoun.
The thrid cause was in tokenyng,
As I shal ful sone telle,
of wydowhode, with-out lesyng,
that holi chirch in con dwelle.
Holi chirche wydohode
I may calle, as thinkes me,
time that apostles bode
the holi gost with hert fre
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After Cristes ascencioun
quyl thay wer in hor praier,
that widohode we calle moun
of holi chirch, as ȝe shyn her.
But ȝet by sum opinioun
holi chirch widohode
Mich larger may be tane
then that time that þai so abode,
That is from þe ascencioun
euen into þe worldes ende,
qven Crist shal deme vs by resoun
And all þat gode ben with hym wende.
Then Crist & holy chirch also
shyn be feghet both in fer,
As I shal er þat I go
sone declar owe more cler.
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