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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.
[Nativity.]
De circumcisione domini nostri Ihesu Christi.
De epiphania. Epiphania dicitur ab epi, quod est supra, & phanos, apparicio, quia tunc desursum stella apparuit siue ipse Christus per stellam.
De purificacione beate Ma{ri}e
De occisione Innocencium & de Herode Ascalonica & eius vxore.
Petrus in Histore capitulo xlvo.
De septuagesima & eius institucione.
De sexagesima & eius institucione.
De quinquagesima & eius institucione.
De quadragesima & eius institucione.
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Quare in hoc numero quadragenario ieiunium obseruamus, triplex racio assignatur.
Secunda causa quare in hoc quadragenario ieiunium obseruamus.
Terciam causam assignat magister Prepositiuus in Summa.
Gregorius in omelia ponit alias tres rationes.
Quare non obseruamus ieiunium eo tempore quo Christus ieiunauit. Magister Iohannes Beleth.
Prima causa. Magister Iohannes Beleth.
Quarta causa, statym post ieiunium debemus corpus domini accipere.
De ieiunio quatuor temporum.
De imperatoribus. Martinus. Anno gracie xvjo, Tiberius erectus est in imperatorem post mortem Octouiani.
De passione Christi. Anno gracie xxxo, Tiberii xviijo.
De resurrectione Christi.
De letania Maiori & Minori.
De ascensione domini.
In die pentecostes.
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A Stanzaic Life of Christ
On a Sonday was don þis dede,
Nota.
And Monday suying bigan he
his fourty days fastyng,
In boke as sothly rede we,
And fiftene kalende of March mone
he endet his fasteng, in gode fay,
so to desert was lad ful sone
And temptide with Sathan, soth to say.
A Stanzaic Life of Christ
