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.

XI.

THE INVENTION OF THE HOLY CROSS [From Caxton's Golden Legend, third edition [The first edition (1483) is in the British Museum, but was overlooked till this piece and the next were in type.] , 1493].

Of thynuencion of the holy crosse and first of this word Inuencion/

[folio Cxxxi:1] THe Inuencion of the holy crosse is sayd by cause that this daye the holy crosse was founden· for tofore it was founden of seth in paradyse [folio Cxxxi:2] terrestre/Lyke as it shall be sayde here|after: and also it was founden of salamon in the monte of lybane and of the quene of saba/in the temple of salamon And of the Iewes in the water of pyscyne· And on this daye it was founden of Helayne in the mounte of caluarye/

THe holy Crosse was founden two hondred yere after the resurrexcion of our lord· It is redde in the gospell of nychodemus/that whan Adam wexed seek: Seth his sone wente to the yate of paradyse terrestre for to gete the oyle of mercy for to enoynte wyth alle his faders body: Thenne ap|pyered to hym saint mychell thaungell and said to hym/traueyle not the in vayne/for this oyle. for thou mayst not haue it tyll fiue thousand and fyue hondred yere ben passed/how be it that fro Adam vnto the passyon of our lord were but fyue M and [folio Cxxxib:1] xxxiij yere/In another place it is redde that the aungell broughte hym a braunche. and commaunded hym to plante it in the mounte of lybanye. Yet fynde we in another place: that he gaaf to hym of the tree that adam

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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,
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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