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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.
 
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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Now speke we of the Innocentȝ,

de innocentibus.


that for Crist martert were
with-outen defaut of any offence
vnder Eroud, as ȝe shin here.
Thre Erodes I fynd there were i-wis
that grete nome haden, that is no nay,
In vr[ec]hedenesse and doyng mysse,
hor nomes here I shal ȝow say.
The furst As-calonita was,
that regnet when that Crist was borne
& slogh the Innocentȝ bout trespas,
for whech dede his saule was lorne.
The secund Erode slogh saint Iohn,
that baptiȝet Crist omnipotent
In the water of flem Iordan
& for to preche byfore him went,
Antipas that Erod hyȝt
& he regnet in Iude
that tyme that Ihesu ful of myȝt
Deghet opon the rode tre.
the thrid Erod Agrippa was
that slogh seint Iame, as rede we,
& prisonet Petur also has,
as be thes verseȝ mon may se:

As-calonuta necat pueros, Antipa Iohannem, Agrippa Iacobum, claudens in carcere Petrum.

but thes two lasȝt now leue wol I
& of the first speke now here,
as I fynd in trew story
how he was kyng now ȝe moun lere.
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