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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 ingressu Israel in Egiptum & exitu de Egipto.
 
De festo pentecostes & quare fuit sic vocatum a Iudeis & primo celebratum. Pentecostes dicitur a penta, quod est quinque, & coste, quod est decem, quia quinquies decem dies erant a die agni immolati vsque ad legem datam, & a resurreccione Christi vsque ad missionem spiritus sancti.
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De festo Scenofegie & qualiter fuerat introductum. Quare apparet Senophegia festum tabernaculorum in memoriam quadraginta Annorum quibus fuerant in deserto.
 
De quarto festo vocato encennia niorum.
 
Quinta ratio quare quatuor in anno ieiunamus. Ieronimus & Iohannes Damascenus.
 
Octaua racio. Magister Willelmus Altissiodorensis & Ieronimus.
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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.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Quod sex sunt etates seculi, septima morientium, octaua resurgentium.

Sex eldis I fynd in world þer wer

Nota.


and þer nemmet I no mo,
And in þis skyl þat I saide her
to hom I teȝet oþer two,
Of qvich two deth is þat one.
that oþer general risyng,
In qviche elde we euerychone
shyn come bifore þat heghest kyng,
Ihesu Crist, þat callet ys
a stone, & circumciset be,
that is to wit forsoth i-wys,
be hym clanset alle be we
Of that we han done her amys,
And thurgh penaunce made wel his gre,
but tho that wold noȝt be hys
to pyne euer-lestyng, leue ȝe me.
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