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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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Yssay: Plenus sum & ideo holocausta, &c.

And þat schwed wele be one thyng
þat þo Apostels vseden her
After þo Holy Gost comyng
quyll þat þai to-geder wer,
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ffor nothyng propre haden þai,
of all þat euer hom geuen was
In comune dalt was day for day,
none calles his of þat he has.

Nullus suum Aliquid esse dicebat set erant illis omnia communia, &c.

Tho thrid thyng of fulnes was,
ȝif A vessell so full be
þat hit go ouer, ȝe sene wele this,
þer semes shulde be full plente;
So þo Apostels holy lor
ouer schedde, & þer-of oþer token,
ffor mony one þat leueden not befor
folweden hom & filthe for-soken,
ffor Petre preched þat ilke day
& conuerted, leue ȝe me,
thre thowsand & moo to þo fay,
In holy writte as rede we.
Þerfor þo Holy Gost wele may
to A water likened be
þat out of paradise rennes ay,
Fisoun one of faur is he,
þen that water has þis kynde
certayne tymes of þo ȝer,
iche londe befor & behynde
to ouer-flete hom all in fer,
& with þat flode, as I fynde,
ffrutes springen fer & ner,
So don þo frutes in monnes mynd
be Goddes gost in gode maner.

Ecclesiastice xxiijjto: Qui impletus est Phisyn sapiencie. [&] s[i]c[ut].

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