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The South English Legendary

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I.

[[BANNA SANCTORUM.]]

De circumsicione Domini

Eppiphania Domini

De sancto Hillario

De sancto Wolstano

De sancto Fabiano

De sancto Sebastiano

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De sancta Agneta

[De Sancto Vincencio]

De sancto Iuliano confessore

De sancta Brigida

De sancto Blasio

De sancta Agatha

De sancta Scolastica

De sancto Valentino

De sancta Iuliana virgine

De sancto Matthi[e] apostolo

De sancto Oswaldo

De sancto Ceddo

De sancto Grigorio

De sancto Longio

De sancto Patricio

De sancto Edwardo Rege

De sancto Cuberto

De sancto Benedicto

De anunciacione dominica

De septuagesima

De quatragesima

De sancto Pascha

De sancta Maria Egiptiaka

De sancto Alphego

De sancto Gorgio

De sancto Marco

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Letania maior de rogacionibus

De sancto Petro predicatore

De sancto Philippo

De sancto Iacobo

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[De sancto lingno]

[De inuencione Sancte Creucis]

De sancto Quiriaco

De sancto Donstano

De santo Aldelmo

De sancto Agustino

De sancto Barnaba

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[Sein Theofle was a gret man ]

Miraculum [de Puero]

Miraculum [de Milite]

Miraculum [de milite Emmery]

[Miraculum de Milite]

Miraculum [de Milite Anglie]

Miraculum [de Iude]

De sancto Albano

De sancto Iohanne Baptista. [Decollatio]

De sancto Petro apostolo

De conuersione sancti Pauli

De sancto Switthino

De sancto Kenelmo

[Seinte Margarete was []

De sancta Maria Magdalene

De sancta Cristina

De sancto Iacobo

De sancto Cristoforo

De sancta Martha

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II.

Sancti [O]swaldi regis et martiris

De sancto Laurencio martire

De assumptione sancte Marie matris domini nostri Iesu Christi

De sancto Bartholomeo

Sancti Egidii confessoris et abbatis

De exultatione sancte crucis

De sancto Mattheo apostolo et ewangeliste

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De sancto Michaele in monte Gargano

De sancto Michaele in monte Tomba

De sancto Ieronimo

De sancto Dionisio

De festo sancte Luce ewangeliste

De vndecim milia virginum

De sancto Simonis et Iude

[Seint Quintin þe martir ]

[Alle Halewe day we schulle holde ]

[Alle Soulen day an vrþe ]

[Seint Leonard þe confessour ]

[Seint Martin was ibore ]

[Seint Edmund þe confessour ]

[Seint Edmund þe holi king ]

[Seint Clement was ibore ]

[Seinte Katerine of noble cunne ]

[Seint Andreu þapostle ]

[Seyn Nycholas þe holi mon ]

[Seinte Lucie þe holi maide ]

[Seint Thomas þe gode apostle ]

De sancta Anastacia

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De sancto Steffano

De Inuenione sancti Steffani

De sancto Iohanne ewangelista

De sancto Thoma archiepiscopo et cantuariense

[Translacio Sancti Thome martiris]

[Ivdas was a luþer brid ]

[Pylatus was a luþer man ]

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Nou het he longe þere biuore Moises bi olde dawe
Vpe þe hul of Synay þo he made þe olde lawe
Þat me ssolde ech ȝer þulke tyme sacrefise do
Of a lomb þat clene were [] & at þe hei uol also
Hit bitokneþ al þat he wolde for us imartred be[o]
In þe heiuol [at] þulke time & bugge us on þe tre[o]
Nou moste þis bi eche reson nede be[o] ido

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In þe heiuol of þe mone & bi Friday also

And in oure Leuedi day ek þe s[u]nne was ferst iwroȝt
Þulke day bi eche reson he moste neode be[o] [iboȝt]
Þere [fore] he abod alle þre[o] a[r] he were to deþe ido
Oure Leuedi day & eke Friday and heiuol also
As it fel in þulke ȝere þat Friday it was
And heiuol & oure Leuedi day as oure Louerd ȝaf þat cas

Ac nou wiþinne vale ȝer wel selde ualþ þis
Þe nexte Friday we nimeþ þeruore þat after þe heiuol is
And holdeþ þanne oure Gode Friday & þe þridde day anon
Þere after we nymeþ oure Ester day as ȝe witeþ echon
And oure Louerdes fleiss vnderfongeþ wiþ is holy blode
[Þat] he ȝaf to stronge deþe for us in þe rode
Nou God for is holy body þat for us was inome
Lete us so is fleiss auonge þat we to heuene come
Þe Rouisons ne comeþ neuere biuore sein Markes day
Þer uore we wolleþ of hom telle in þe biginnynge of May