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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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Instituta est quinquagesima propter supplecionem, significacionem & representacionem.
 
Secundo institucia est quinquagesna propter significacionem.
 
Qualiter annus iubeleus primo fuerat introductus. Petrus in Historiis Scolasticis.
 
Tercia racio est quare quinquagesima est instituta propter representacionem.
 
Nota quod tria sunt necessaria que proponuntur in epistola & in euangilio huius diei.
 
Secundum est memoria passionis, ut in principio euangelii huius diei.
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Tercium est fydes que intelligitur per illuminacionem ceci, vt in euangelio huius diei.
 
Gregorius: Amor dei non potest esse ociosus, operatur enim magna, si est, si autem operari necgligitur, amor non est.
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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.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Secundum est memoria passionis, ut in principio euangelii huius diei.

In the gospel eke al-so
hit mynnes on Cristes passioun
to excite monnes wille tho
to penaunce and contricion,
And ys sette at bigyn[n]yng
in the selue ewangely,
as I in Latyn schal ou myng,
how Ihesu spake in prophecy:—

Ecce ascendimus Ierosolima &c.

Criste sayde to Ierusalem goynng,
‘lo now we gone to that cite,
fulfyllet sal be althing
of prophetes spoken bifor of me.’
Whit folk he sayd he schuld be hent,
scornet, scourget, sputte opon,
and when he wer schamely schent,
after slayne bothe God and mon;
But rise he wolde the thrydde day,
as he tolde hym-selfe byfore,
so by thys gospel, I may say,
mynde of hys passion meues more
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A mon to penaunce and to pray
for-ȝiuenesse that he s[ynn]et sore
and after by contrite verray,
thenne any leson other lore.
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