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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.
 
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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Now four prerogatyues her
I wil reherce las & more,
Acordyng to tho four in fer
that I saide riȝt now bifore,
that Ihesu hade & neuer non mo,
ny none miȝt haue, by gode resoun,
saue onely he hade hym-self tho
At his resurrectioun.
The first is þat þe last day
from deth to lyue rise shyn we,
but Ihesu in sepulcre lay
no bot only daies thre.
That oþer prerogatif is this,
that he ros by his owen power,
but ȝif þat we shyn rise I-wys,
his miȝt most help in al maner.
The thridde is þat our flesch shal fall
In-to povder er our risyng,
but his þat deȝet for vs alle
may not roote for no thing.
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The furth poynt is, in gode fay,
that his resurrectioun
dos comfort, þat we leue may
by hit our saule saluacioun,
And that we shyn þe last day,
quen he to deme vs all is boun,
thurȝe hym rise in flesch verray,
for thurȝe our owen miȝt we ne moun.
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