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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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As to þe sixt poynt sikerly,
how oft he shewid hym, I wil say
fiue sith fully, as rede I,
he apperide the first day.
And fyue sith after witerly,
As I shal telle er I go way,
so that ten sith truly
he shewide hym, that nys no nay.
first he apperide, as sais sayn Ion
And Mathew also beris witnes,
bifore his brether euerychone,
to Mavdelayn that synful wes:

Surgens Ihesus mane prima sabbati apparuit primo Marie Magdalene.

Marcus vltimo.

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