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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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Primo vnde ascendit.
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Circa secundum, quare scilicet statim, vt resurrexit, non ascendit, sed per quadraginta dies expectare voluit.
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Circa tercium qualiter Ascendit.
 
Circa quartum cum quibus ascendit.
 
Circa quintum, quo scilicet Ascendit.
 
Est enim celum materiale, rationale, intellectuale & [super] substantiale.
 
Nota quod vii sunt celi, scilicet celum aereum, ethereum, Olimpium, igneum, siderium, cristalinum & empirium & celum sancte trinitatis supra omnes.
 
Item celum intellectuale est Angelus. Angeli enim dicuntur celum, quia ad instar celi sunt sanctissimi, vt patet inferius.
 
Quarto celum sup[er]substanciale est equalitas diuine excellentie.
 
Quod ascendit super celos rationales.
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Circa sextum quare ascendit notandum.
 
Nota quod ascensionis domini ix sunt fructus siue vtilitates.
 
Hec Augustinus vbi prius. Tercia vtilitas sue ascensionis est meritum fidei.
 
Hec Augustinus. Quarta est nostra securitas.
 
Quinta vtilitas est nostra dignitas
 
Sexta est spei nostre soliditas.
 
Septima est vie ostensio.
 
Octaua vtilitas est ianue celestis [a]per[i]cio.
 
Nona vtilitas est preparacio gaudiorum loci.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Quod quinque vicibus sanguinem suum pro nobis fudit.

ffyue sith I fynde his blode he shed
ffor vs, as I shal sone say.
the first was this day quen he bled
In crach & childhode as he lay,
A gode bigynnyng þer he mas
to forbie vs with his bl,
ffor old laȝe that thenne vset was
ffulfille he wold, þat frelie fode.
The secunde time that blode shed he
was bifore that he was tane
with Iewes, as wel reden we,
when his gret passioun bigan,
ffor quen he hade made mavnde
with his disciples euerychone,
Into a ȝerde þen went he
And alle þai, as witnes sayn Ion,
And þer he praiet in gret tristesse,
that blody swote from hym ran doun,
In-as-mich as he mon wes,
for drede of his gret passioun.
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