Legends of the holy rood; Symbols of the passion and cross poems. In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Edited from Mss. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, with introduction, translations, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris.

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HORAE DE CRUCE [Only the English parts are here given, with the beginnings of the Latin prayers, &c. preceding them.] [[MS Miscell. Liturg. 104. (Bodl. Libr.) temp. Edw. III. or Edw. II. and Isabella (?).]] .

Hic incipiunt matutine de passione domini nostri ihesu cristi antiphona.

Patris sapiencia ueritas diuina deus [&c.] [folio 50] Versiculus. Adoramus te criste [&c.] DOmine ihesu criste filii dei uini pone passionem [folio 50b] crucem et mortem tuam [&c.] Amen.

                                    
                                      Swete ihesu cryst goddis sone of lyue. [folio 51] 
                                    
                                      Þin  [folio 51b] passion þin croys þin ded þin wondes five.
                                    
                                      Beelde us houre sinful soules and þin iugement.
                                    
                                      Nou and in tyme of ded þat we ne be y-schent.
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                                      [D]eyne to ȝeue my[ȝ]t an[d] grace to hem þat moten lyuen.
                                    
                                      And to dare reste here sinnes þou for yyue.
                                    
                                      Mo holi chirche and  [folio 52] kyndom loue and pes þou sende.
                                    
                                      And to vs wreche sinful. lif wyt-outen ende.
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                                      Þat leuest kyng god and man wyt-outin endingge.
                                    
                                      Fader and sone and holy gost to þulke bl[is]se us bringge.

Ad primam horam. [&c.] [folio 52b] HOra prima dominum ducunt ad pilatum. [&c.] Ado|ramus te. Domine ihesu criste. [folio 61]

At prime ihesus was y-lad pilatus byfore. [folio 61b] Many false witnesse on hym were i bore. 12

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Title: Legends of the holy rood; Symbols of the passion and cross poems. In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Edited from Mss. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, with introduction, translations, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris.
Author: Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894,
Canvas: Page 222
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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