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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.
 
Nota de sexta. Ad quos missus est, ad discipulos, quia fuerunt spectacula mundi.
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Primo Animo commoti &c.
 
Quinto humilitate prediti.
 
Sexto in pace.
 
Septimo contemplacione erecti.
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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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Septimo contemplacione erecti.

Thai weren houen vp on hegh þat day,
ffor clene All hor deuocioun
wos toward heuen be Alway
& all by comtemplacioun.

Spiritum sanctum receperunt superiori cenaculo.

ffor quen þe Holy Gost come down
in A hegh soler þai wer,
þat betokyns hor þoȝt Ay boun
to wilne heuen & noȝt be her.
þen sais þe glose made opon this
þat who-so wilnes the gost to haue,
heghenes of flesch þenkyng of blis
he most Abate hym-selfe to saue.

Qui spiritum sanctum desiderat, carnis domicilium mentis contemplacione transcendens caueat, &c.

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