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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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Nota tempus in quo facta sunt
 
Erat enim incipiens quasi annorum triginta, vt dicit Lucas.
 
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Tercium miraculum, de Aqua in vinum conuersa.
 
Quartum miraculum, de quinque milibus hominum satisfactis in deserto.
 
Quare magi Ierusalem venerunt ad honorandum Christum. Iohannes Crisostomus.
 
Prima causa quare Herodes fuit iratus in adwentu magorum Ierusalem.
 
Secunda causa quare Herodes timuit & iratus fuit de aduentu Christi.
 
Tercia causa quare Herodes fuit iratus.
 
Quare magi ducatum stelle ammiserunt ingredientes Ierusalem.
 
Secunda causa quare stellam amiserunt.
 
Tercia causa quare ducatum stelle ammiserunt.
 
Qualis fuit stella que apparuit. Remigius.
 
De situ, fulgore & motu dicte stelle.
 
De misterio trium munerum, Primo de Auro.
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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.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Erat enim incipiens quasi annorum triginta, vt dicit Lucas.

In flem Iordan þis ilk day,
And on hym liȝt þe Holi Gost
And faders voice als herd in fay
from heuen blis þer he is most.
So that I may sothly say
this day þe holi Trinite
shewide hym hole as God verray,
And eke also in persouns thre.
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ffor quen he spak from heuen blis
And saide, ‘my louede son is her,’
the faders voys was herde i-wys
And so by speche he con aper,
The son also in flesch & blode,
that baptiȝet was in water cler,
Aperide þer for monnus gode
verray God & mon in fer,
the holi Gost on hym con light
In liknes of a dovue i-wis,
thus shewide hym verray God almyȝt
In thre persons þat on God is.
Et ob hoc vocatur hoc festum theophania, a theos, quod est deus, & phanos, apparicio, quia tunc deus trinitas apparuit, Pater in voce, filius in carne, spiritus sanctus in columbe specie.
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