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
have moeved grete wyndes and tormentes / & drowned many ſhippes / &
ſlayn many men / and Sathan ſayde how longe haſt thow ben aboute thys /
& he ſayd +vvii+ dayes / & Sathan ſayd haſt thou done no more in this
tyme / & commanded that he ſhold be beten / and the third cam / & ſaid
/ I have ben in a Cyte & have mevyd ſtryves and debate in a weddynge /
and have ſhed moche blood / & have ſlayne the hoſbond / & am come to
telle the / & ſathan ſayd / in what time haſt thou done this / & he
ſaid in ten dayes / & he ſayd haſt thou done no more in that time / &
commanded them that were aboute hym to bete hym alſo / Thenne cam the
fourth & ſayd / I have ben in the wylderneſs fourty yere / and have
laboured aboute a monke / & unnethe at the laſte I have throwen & made
hym falle in the ſynne of the fleſſhe / & when ſatan herd that / he
aroos fro his ſete / & kyſſed hym / & tooke hys crowne of his hede /
& ſet it on his hede / & made hym to ſytte with hym / & ſayde / thou
haſt done a grete thynge / & haſt laboured more / than all thother /
and this may be the maner of the vyſyon / that ſaynt gregorye leveth /
whan eche had ſayd / one ſterte up in the myddle of them alle / & ſeyd
he hadde mevid Andrewe ageynſte the name / & had mevyd the fourth part
of his fleſhe agenſt her in temptacion / & therto / y^t yeſterday he
drough[46] ſo moche his mynde on her / that in the hour of evenſonge he
gaf to her in Iapping[47] a buſſe[48] / & ſeid pleynly y^t ſhe muſt
here it that he wold ſynne with her / thenne the mayſter commanded hym
that he ſhold perform y^t he had begonne / & for to make hym to ſynne
he ſhold have a ſyngular Vyctory and reward among alle the other /. And
thenne commaunded he that they ſhold goo loke who that was that laye
in the Temple / And they wente / & loked / And anone they were ware
/ that he was marked with the ſigne of the croſſe / And they levynge
aferd eſcaped / and ſayd / veryly this is an empty veſſel / alas / alas
/ he is marked /. And with[49] thus wys alle the company of the wykked
ſprytes vanyſſhed awaye / And thenne the Iewe al amoevyd cam to the
biſſhop / and told to hym all by ordere what was happend / And whan
the biſſhoppe herd this / he wept ſtrongly / and made to voyde all the
wymmen oute of his hows / And thenne he baptyſed the Iewe.
[Sidenote: 50 _Bit._]
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