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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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Primo quomodo tribus diebus & tribus noctibus iacuit in sepulcro.
 
Circa secundum sciendum, est quod conueniens fuit, vt non statim, quando mortuus fuit, Christus resurgeret set vsque in diem tercium expectaret, propter quinque raciones & prima hec est.
 
Secundo propter probacionem.
 
Tercio propter sue potestatis ostensionem.
 
Quarta propter restaurandorum purificacionem.
 
Quinto propter triplicis status iustorum representacionem.
 
Circa tercium qualiter resurexit. Nota quod resurexit potenter, feliciter, vtiliter, mirabiliter & veraciter.
 
Secundo surrexit f[elic]iter, quia de-posita omni miseria.
 
Tertio resurexit vtiliter, quia capta preda.
 
Quarto resurexit mirabiliter, quia remanente clauso sepulcro.
 
Quinto resurexit veraciter, quia in corpore vero et proprio.
 
De sancto Dionisii.
 
Circa quartum, quare non expectauit cum aliis resurgere, quando fiet generalis resurrectio.
 
Primo propter corporis dignitatem.
 
Secundo fidei firmitatem.
 
Tercio propter nostre resurrectionis exemplari[ta]tem.
 
Circa quintum propter quid resurexit. nota.
 
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Circa sextum quociens apparuit.
 
Septimo & vltimo qualiter Christus sanctos patres, qui erant in limbo, adduxit & quid ibi egerit.
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De letania Maiori & Minori.
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De ascensione domini.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Secunda causa quare apparuit in specie ignis pocius quam in Alio elemento sumitur penes sue deitatis excellenciam, &c.

The secunde cause quy he don went
In fir lykenes to mon-kynde
helder þen in oþer element,
I shall declare now as I fynde.
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ffor fir is mor excellent
in thre maners, take þis in mynde,
þen ony other elyment,
And mor curiouse in his kynde,
In schappe, in ordre & vertue eke.
& in schappe I shall say quy,
ffor fayren þen fir no mon may seke
þer leghtnes none so louelely;
Be ordre also preue I may
hit passes other mony moo,
ffor herr þen oþer fir is Ay
In settyng & doyng eke also;
& vertu hit has als weterly
mor þen þes other thre,
& strengthe þer he comes by
to maystre hom all, leue ȝe me.
So fares hit of þo Holy Gost
of fayrenes he passes all,
& in rewle & ordre als is moost
ffor of All gostes he is wall,
And of vertue weterly
So excellent þer may none be,
As in Latyn preue will I
ffor clerkes be Autorite:

Sapiencie Septimo: Primo dicitur spiritus sanctus non quoinquinatus, pro secundo capit omnes spiritus intelligibiles, pro tercio habens omnem virtutem, &c.

Tercio sumitur penes multiplicem proprius efficaciam.

Tho thrid cause wele taken is
ffor kyndely profet þat fir has,
And faur kyndes he has I-wis,
Reherse I will now in this plaas.
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