The Legendary History of the Cross: A Series of Sixty-four Woodcuts from a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483 — John Shaqi
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
men / and fro thennes hit was brought ageyne into my countreye / & it
was left to me by my parentes by rightful herytage / & this was done
in y^e yere of our lord ſeven honderd and fifty / and thenne alle the
Iewes halowed[41] their ſynagogues in to chirches and therof cometh the
cuſtoume that Chirches ben hallowed / For tofore that tyme the aultres
were but halowed only / and for this myracle the chirche hath ordeyned
/ that the fyfte Kalendar of december / or as it is redde in another
place / the fyfthe ydus of Novembre ſhold be the memorye of the paſſyon
of oure lord / wherfor at Rome the chirche is halowed in thonoure of
our ſavyour whereas is kepte an ampulla with the ſame blood / And there
a ſolempne feſte is kepte and done / and there is proved the ryght
grete vertue of the croſſe unto the paynyms and to the myſbylevyd men
in alle thynges /.
[Sidenote: 42 _Fiend._]
[Sidenote: 43 _Power._]
[Sidenote: 44 _Each or every one._]
[Sidenote: 45 _Attendants._]
[Sidenote: 46 _Drew._]
[Sidenote: 47 _Jeſt._]
[Sidenote: 48 _Kiſs._]
[Sidenote: 49 _In this wiſe._]
And ſaynt Gregory recordeth in the thirdde booke of his dyalogues /
that whanne andrewe Biſſhop of the Cyte of Fundane ſuffred an holy
noune to dwelle with him / the fende[42] thenemy beganne temprynte
in his herte the beaulte of her / in ſuch wiſe / that he thought in
hys bedde wycked and curſyd thynges / and on a daye a Iewe cam to
Rome / and whanne he ſawe / that the day fayled / and myghte fynde no
lodgynge / he wente that nyght / and abode in the Temple of appolyn /.
And bycauſe he doubted of the ſacrylege of the place / how be hit /
that he hadde no faythe in the Croſſe / yet he markyd and garnyſſhed
hym wyth the ſigne of the Croſſe / then at mydnyght whan he awoke /
he ſawe a companye of evylle ſprytes / whiche went to fore one / like
as he hadde ſomme auctoryte puyſiance[43] above thother by ſubiection
/ and thenne he ſawe hym ſytte in the myddes among the others / and
beganne to enquyre the cauſes and dedes of everyche[44] of theſe evylle
ſprytes / whyche obeyed hym / and he wold knowe / what evylle everyche
had doo / But Gregory paſſyth the maner of this vyſyon / bycauſe of
ſhortnes / But we fynde ſemblable in the lyf of faders / That as a man
entryd in a Temple of thydolles / he ſawe the devylle ſyttynge / and
all his meyny[45] aboute hym. And one of theſe wycked / ſprytes cam /
and adouryd hym / and he demaunded of hym / Fro whens comeſt thow /
and he ſayd / I have ben in ſuch a provynce / and have moeved grete
warres / and made many trybulacions and have ſhedde moche blood / and
am come to telle it to the / and Sathan ſayd to hym / in what tyme
hath thow done this / and he ſayd in thyrtty dayes and Sathan ſayd /
why haſt thow be ſoo longe there aboutes / and ſayd to them that ſtode
by hym / goo ye and bete hym / and all to laſſhe hym / Thenne cam the
ſecond and worſſhiped hym / & ſayde Syre I have ben in the ſee / and
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