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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 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.
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In die pentecostes.
 
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Bernardus: Dedit nobis animam in precium, sanguinem suum in potum, carnem in cibum, &c.
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Secundo quot modis missus est.
 
Iohannis tercio: Spiritus, vbi vult, spirat & vocem eius Audis, set nescis, a quo venit aut quo vadat, &c.
 
Secundo in specie nube.
 
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Canticorum iiijto: Surge, Aquilo, veni, Auster, & perfla, &c. Item spiritus sanctus lenis est Ad flatus demulcendum, &c.
 
Item A spiritu sancto venit remissio.
 
Ad Romanos viijo: Ipse spiritus testimonium reddidit spiritui nostro, vt sumus filii dei. Sin autem filii, & heredes, &c.
 
Domine, Domine non probavimus in nomine tuo, &c.
 
De quinto qualiter missus est.
 
Repleti sunt omnes spiritu sancto.
 
Yssay: Plenus sum & ideo holocausta, &c.
 
Secundo in [l]inguis [ig]neis.
 
Quare pocius in igne quam in alio elemento propter tres causas &c.
 
Secunda causa quare apparuit in specie ignis pocius quam in Alio elemento sumitur penes sue deitatis excellenciam, &c.
 
Ignis iiijor habet naturas, videlicet vrit, purgat, calefacit, illuminat, &c.
 
Sapiencie ixo: Sensum Autem tuum quis sciet, nisi tu crederis sapienciam & miseris spiritum sanctum tuum de altissimis.
 
[Quart]a causa quare pocius Apparuit in specie ignibus quam in alio elemento sumitur Amoris ipsius naturam &c.
 
Item habet vim concordatiuam
 
Iacobus: Lingua nostra est ignis vniuerse iniquitatis.
 
Ysaie lxxxijo: Spiritus domini super quod vincerit me.
 
Secunda prerogatiua data apostolis per spiritum sanctum videlicet Sapiencia.
 
Tercia prerogatiua videlicet humilitas.
 
Quarta prerogatiua videlicet humilitas & pulcra, &c.
 
Nota de sexta. Ad quos missus est, ad discipulos, quia fuerunt spectacula mundi.
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Primo Animo commoti &c.
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De septimo principali, propter quid missus est, quod propter sex causas missus est: primo ad consolandam mestos, Secundo ad viuificandum mortuos, Tercio ad mundandum & sanctificandum immundos, Quarto ad confirmandum Amorem inter discordes, Quinto ad saluandum iustos, Sexto Ad docendum ignaros.

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De quinto qualiter missus est.

Now how þo Holy Gost send was
hit is to wete & knaw I-wis,
with sowene & dyn þer in þat plaas
& tonges of fir, leue wele þis,
And þos tonges forthe-schawyng
syttyng, þat iche mon myȝt see
his felawes on fir flaumyng,
As semed þer to þat meyne.

Sonus fuit repentinus, celestis, vehemens & replens, vt inferius declarabitur, &c.

That sowene wos sodayne, sothe to say,
heuenly, heuyng vp & ouer,
& fulfillyng, in gode fay,
As I shall declar þes four.

Spiritus sanctus nescit tarda molumina.

Sodayn hit wos securly,
ffor þo Holy Gostes gras
is radde & con not come slawly
þer-as he will take his plaas.
Heuenly also wos þat sowene,
ffor qwo-so hit is to sent
is made heuenly be resoun
of heuenly thyng, als fully kent.
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Vnde vehemens, quasi vehat mens.

Heuen[g] vp hit wos also
ffor erthely luf engendret hit
& wayued als euer-lastyng woo,
And wroȝt full wele in monnes witte.
Also hit wos fulfillyng,
ffor þo Holy Gost Al-way
fulfilles hom þat he is In lengyng,
As by this clause knaw mon may:
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