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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 ingressu Israel in Egiptum & exitu de Egipto.
 
De festo pentecostes & quare fuit sic vocatum a Iudeis & primo celebratum. Pentecostes dicitur a penta, quod est quinque, & coste, quod est decem, quia quinquies decem dies erant a die agni immolati vsque ad legem datam, & a resurreccione Christi vsque ad missionem spiritus sancti.
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De festo Scenofegie & qualiter fuerat introductum. Quare apparet Senophegia festum tabernaculorum in memoriam quadraginta Annorum quibus fuerant in deserto.
 
De quarto festo vocato encennia niorum.
 
Quinta ratio quare quatuor in anno ieiunamus. Ieronimus & Iohannes Damascenus.
 
Octaua racio. Magister Willelmus Altissiodorensis & Ieronimus.
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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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Et cum iniquis deputatus est.

But ȝet þat one þer sauet was
for his bileue & repentaunce,
that oþer of hom hade no gras
to ask mercy in his penaunce.
Therfore sais Austyn openly
quat testament made Crist on croys,
qvich word now reherce wil I,
that spoken wer with delful voys.

Testamentum Christi in cruce, Augustinus: Auctor ipse pietatis in cruce pendens in secularibus negociis pietatis officia diuidebat, persecucionem apostolis, pacem discipulis, corpus Iudeis, patri spiritum, virgini paranimphum, latroni paradisum, peccatoribus infernum, crucem christianis penitentibus commendabat.

Crist, Auctor & prince of pite,

Nota bene testamentum Christi.


hengyng on croice for monnus syn,
for hor nedis þus ordeynt he
his testament, quen he wold twyn.
Apostles persecucioun,
disciples pes assignet he,
his body þer al redy boun
to Iewes that nailed hym on tre;
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His gost to his fadir he sent,
And to his moder, swete Mary,
A loker forto take entent
to hir then in that gret any;
To þe thef þat þer was lent
That mercy asket mekely
to Paradise he con present,
that oþer to helle went in hy;
And helle to synful men ȝaf he,
that to amende wer not in wille,
With-out ende þer forto be,
His hest for thay wold not fulfille;
To Cristen þat repentaunt wer
his croys he ȝaf with gode entent,
thus at his deth diuiset her
Ihesu Crist his testament.
But to expoun apertly
qvy he his croys assignet so,
hit was forto gete mon mercy,
And for trespas to suffre wo.
For as Bede beres wittenesse,
a cr[os]ce ys penaunce, leue ȝe me,

Crux apte a cruciatu dicitur.


for what thing that may synne restresse,
a verray crosce may callet be.
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