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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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Nota tempus in quo facta sunt
 
Quare magi Ierusalem venerunt ad honorandum Christum. Iohannes Crisostomus.
 
Prima causa quare Herodes fuit iratus in adwentu magorum Ierusalem.
 
Secunda causa quare Herodes timuit & iratus fuit de aduentu Christi.
 
Tercia causa quare Herodes fuit iratus.
 
Quare magi ducatum stelle ammiserunt ingredientes Ierusalem.
 
Secunda causa quare stellam amiserunt.
 
Tercia causa quare ducatum stelle ammiserunt.
 
Qualis fuit stella que apparuit. Remigius.
 
De situ, fulgore & motu dicte stelle.
 
De misterio trium munerum, Primo de Auro.
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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.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Quare in hoc numero quadragenario ieiunium obseruamus, triplex racio assignatur.

Now wol I telle wherfore and whi
fourty dayes fasten we,
th[r]e causes here apertelye
I finde be good autorite.
the furst cause says saint Austyn
whi fourte dayes fasten we
ny no mo ny ther-withynne,
But euen fourty, ȝe schun se.
Matheu in his euangely
from Abraham til Crist comen was
Generacions euen fourty
He settes, as book, mynd maas,
And fro Crist light in-to mon-kynde
in fourty generacioun
vs of bale to vnbynde
And to blis make vs boun,
Right as he that tyme doun light
vs to deliuer in-to lee
out of pyne [we] wer in pyght
Thurgh dethe opon the rode tre,
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So that tyme we shul us dyght
thurght good life wit him to be,
and aȝayn oure foo to fight,
that maad us bonde that furst wer fre.
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