[The lyf of our lady]
- Title
- [The lyf of our lady]
- Author
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Publication
- [Westminster :: Enprynted by Wyllyam Caxton,
- 1484]
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- Subject terms
- Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint.
- Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
- Link to this Item
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- Cite this Item
-
"[The lyf of our lady]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a06558.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
Contents
- table of contents
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poem
- The natyuyte of our lady capitulo primo
- How our lady was offryd in to the temple capitulo tercio
- Of the conuersacion of our lady in the Temple
- How our lady receyuyd the seuen yeftes of the holy ghoost capitulo quinto
- How our lady prayed to god for seuen peticions capitulo quinto
- How Ioseph vsyd the crafte of a carpenter capitulo ix
- How our lady is sette for an ensaunple of virgynyte capitulo decimo
- How mercy and pees rightwysnes and trouthe disputeden for the redempcion of mankynde capitulo vndecimo
- How mercy and pees brought in this plee before the hygh Iuge capitulo xij
- How god the fader of heuyn answerd to mercy and pees capitulo xiij
- How the fader of heuyn accordyd the foure systren capitulo xiiij
- How his sone shold take mankynde capitulo xv
- How gabryel the Aungel was sent to our lady capitulo xvj
- A lamentacion of saynt bernard cayitulo xvij
- A recapitulacion of the wordes of gabriel to our lady how holy men by deuyne liknessis wrote of our lady in cōmendacion of hir ca xviij
- A cōmendacion of our lady capitulo xix
- Autentyke conclusions ayenst vnbeleeful men that sayden that crist myght not be borne of a mayde capitulo xx
- How our lady went to saynt Iohan Baptist moder capitulo xxj
- How our lady made magnificat capitulo xxij
- How our lady after the byrthe of saynt Iohn baptist torned to nazareth capitulo xxiij
- How the maydens that weren attendaunt to our lady comforteden Ioseph capitulo xxiiij
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How the aungel warned Ioseph to
wyth our lady capitulo xxvj - How the bysshop dyd do sompmon Ioseph for our lady was with chylde capitulo xxvij
- How our ladyes frendys wayled and morned whan the bysshoppys made so stronge a preef of hir vyrgynyte capitulo xxxj
- How our lady prayed to god to shewe hir vyrgynyte capitulo xxxij
- How the bysshop and the peple dredde hem of the assaye that was maad to our lady capitulo xxxiij
- A comendacion of chauceres capitulo xxxiiij
- How Cryst was borne after the makyng of the world fyue thousand an hundred four score and xix yere capitulo xxxv
- How Ioseph & our lady went to bethlem to paye trybute capitulo xxxvj
- How Ioseph went to seche a mydwyf to our lady capitulo xxxvij
- A deuout prayer that our lady maad whan cryste was born capitulo xxxviij
- How the mydwyf durst not entre wyth Ioseph in to the hows for a grete light apperyd wythin capitulo xxxix
- How balam prophecyed the sterre that shewid Crystys byrthe capitulo xl
- How our lady receyuyd the mydwyues capitulo xlj
- How the honde of Salome wexyd drye capitulo xlij
- How the aungels apperid to the shepherdis and tolde the birthe of cryst capitulo xliij
- How the shepherdys founden cryst wyth our lady capitulo xliiij
- How god wold not be borne but of a mayde moder and wyf capitulo xlv
- How ysaac prophecyed the byrthe of cryst by towchyng of the clothys of hys sone Iacob capitulo xlvj
- How the garnet appyll is lykened to our lady capitulo xlvij
- How Ioseph fygurid the byrthe of crist capitulo xlviij
- How nature obeyeth to virgynyte ca xlix
- How the chyef temple of rome fyl the nyght of crystys byrthe and other wonderful tokenys capitulo
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How the nyght of crystys by
th a wel e in Rome ranne oyle capitulo lj - How the senatis of rome wold haue holden octauyan her emperour as for her god capitulo lij
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How romayns whan they had domynacion ouer alle the world maden to them an ym
and callyd hit theyr god capitulo l - How wyse sybylle tolde to the senates of rome the byrthe of Cryst capitulo lv
- How the prophetes prophecyed the byrthe of cryst capitulo lvj
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A questyon assoyled whiche is worthyest of kyng wyne or woman capitulo lvij
A questyon assoyled whiche is worthyest of kyng wyne or woman capitulo lvij - How our lady ought worthely to be recommendyd and worshypped for the byrthe of cryst capitulo lviij
- Of liknessis of our lady in commendacion of hir capitulo lix
- How cryst was circumcisyd capitulo lx
- How in four maner of wyses cryst was circumcisid capitulo lxj
- How crist suffryd circumcision in his chosen peple capitulo lxij
- How the peple of god that our Iosue had in gouernaunce weren sauyd by the stedfast beleue of the name of Ihesus capitulo lxiij
- How prophetes and marters suffreden deth for the name of Ihesus capitulo
- How cryst Ihesu was bothe prophete preest kyng and myghty champyon capitulo lxvj
- How by the prophecye of balaam watche was made vpon an hylle capitulo lxvij
- How the thre kynges perceyuyd the sterre capitulo lxix
- How kyng herode sent for the thre kynges capitulo lxx
- Of the ioye that the kynges had when they found cryst capitulo lxxij
- Of vertuous pouerte and mekenesse of our lady capitulo lxxiij
- How the aungel warned the thre kynges to passe not by herodes but by another waye capitulo lxxiiij
- A declaracion of the thre kynges of theyr thre yeftes capitulo lxxv
- How we shold doo this offeryng ghoostly capitulo lxxvi
- How our lady was purifyed capitulo lxxvij
- How Symeon receyuyd crist of our lady in the temple capitulo lxxviij
- How where and whan symeon made Nunc dimittis seruum tuum dnē secundum verbum tuum in pace capitulo lxxix
- Of the ioye that anna the doughter of phanes had whan crist was offryd in to the temple capitulo lxxx
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A profytable declaracion of the propy
tees of the Turtyl / and the douue Capitulo lxxxvj - How candelmasse took first the name capituse lxxxij
- colophon