The Legendary History of the Cross: A Series of Sixty-four Woodcuts from a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483
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The Legendary History of the Cross: A Series of Sixty-four Woodcuts from a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483
Church of the Holy Trinity (Stratford-upon-Avon, England); Holy Cross -- Legends -- Art; Incunabula -- Facsimiles
Thenne cryed the devyll in the eyre Iudas what haſt thou doon / thou
haſt doon the contrarye that thother Iudas dyd/. For by hym I have
wonne many ſowles / and by the I ſhal loſe many / by hym I reygned on
the peple / And by the I have loſt my royame / never the leſſe I ſhal
yelde to the this bountee/. For I ſhal ſend one that ſhal punyſſhe the
/ and that was accomplyſſhed by Iulian the apoſtata / which tormented
hym afterward whan he was byſſhop of Iheruſalem / and whan Iudas herde
hym he curſed the devyl and ſayd to hym / Iheſu cryſte dampne the in
fyre pardurable[23]/. After this Iudas was baptyzed and was named
quyryache[G]/. And after was made byſſhop of Iheruſalem/. Whan helayn
had the croſſe of Iheſu criſte / and ſaw ſhe had not the nayles /
Thenne he dyd dygge in therthe ſo longe / that he founde them ſhynyng
as golde/. thenne bare he them to the quene / and anone as ſhe ſawe
them ſhe worſhypped them wyth grete reverence/.
Thenne gafe ſaynt helayn a part of the croſſe to hir ſone / And that
other parte ſhe lefte in Iheruſalem cloſyd in golde / ſylver and
precious ſtones/.
[Sidenote: 24 _Euſebius, Biſhop of Ceſaræa._]
[Sidenote: 25 _Killed._]
And hyr ſone bare the nayles to themperour / And the emperour dyd do
ſette them in hys brydel and in hys helme whan he wente to batayle/.
This referreth Euſebe whiche was byſſhop of Cezayr[24]/ how be it that
other ſay otherwyſe/. Now it happed that Iulyan the appoſtate dyd
doo[25] ſlee quyriache that was byſſhop of Iheruſalem / by cauſe he had
founde the croſſe / for he hated hit ſoo mooche / that where ſomever he
founde the croſſe / he dyd hit to be deſtroyed / For whan he wente in
batayle ageynſte them of perſe / he ſente and commaunded quyriache to
make ſacrefyſe to thydolles / and whan he wold not doo hit / he dyd do
ſmyte of his right honde / and ſayd wyth this honde haſt thou wryten
many letters / by whyche thou repellyd moche folke fro doynge ſacrefyſe
to our goddes/.
[Sidenote: 26 _Mad dog._]
[Sidenote: 27 _Since._]
[Sidenote: 28 _Turn this evil_]
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