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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.]
 
Matheus in euangelio: Cum esset desponsata mater Ihesu.
 
Lucas: Exiit edictu.
 
Lucas: Vnde ascendit Ioseph a Nazareth in Bethleem.
 
De mirabilibus contingentibus in die natali domini & circa illud tempus in diuersis mundi partibus. ffrater Bartholomeus in sua compilacione de infancia Christi.
 
Aliud mirabile. Martinus in cronicis suis de mirabilibus Rome.
 
Aliud mirabile. Orosius & Innocencius papa iijus
 
Aliud mirabile. Innocencius papa iijus. de gestis Romanorum.
 
Aliud mirabile. Martinus in cronicis suis.
 
Notandum quod natiuitas Christi fuit mirabiliter facta, multipliciter ostensa, & vtiliter exhibita, sicut inferius declarabitur.
 
Secundo natiuitas Christi fuit mirabiliter facta ex parte geniti.
 
Tercio natiuitas Christi fuit mirabiliter facta ex modo generandi.
 
Secundo ostensa est natiuitas Christi per creaturam que habet esse & viuere, sicut plante & arbores.
 
Quarto per creaturam que habet esse, viuere, sentire & discernere, vt homo.
 
Quinto per creaturam, que habet esse, viuere, sentire, discernere & intelligere, vt Angeli.
 
Tractatus Bernardi de natiuitate domini.
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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.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Aliud mirabile. Orosius & Innocencius papa iijus

Another wonder fel þat day,
As both Oras & Innocent
beren witnes in gode fay,
As I to telle now am in-tent.
A walle of water by Rome þer was,
that al þat day fro morne to nyȝt
was turnet to oile & wallet vp has
oile hastily in mennus siȝt.
Ouerthwert Tiber, þe water of Rome,
hit ran a streme al day ful strong,
of that walle þat thethen come
thurgh-out þe water his way con fong.
So Sibille propheciet bifore,
that oile out of þe erth shuld spryng
quen Goddes son shuld be Ibore,
As soth was founden & no lesyng.
That day was seen als sikerly
thre sonnes on þe firmament,
that afterward ful wonderly
Into one substaunce al þai went.
Quich sight may wel signifye
thre thyngus, as I shal now say her,
saule, flesch, godhede, as leue I,
that þen wer gederet alle in fer,
And thre persouns als spiritualy,
I vnderstonde in gode maner,
to one substaunce wenten in hy,
that verray God was, bout wer.
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