Vida de Jesucrist

The Vida de Jesucrist (Life of Jesus Christ) is a literary work by Francesc Eiximenis in Catalan written in Valencia possibly between 1399 and 1406, though the important scholar Albert Hauf dates it to 23 June 1403.

This style of work is not just a biography, as it is commonly understood, but at the same time a history, a comment taken from the Church Fathers, a series of moral and dogmatic dissertations, of spiritual instructions, of meditations and prayers in connection with the life of Christ, from his birth to his ascension.

The whole book could correspond to the Novè (ninth volume) of his encyclopedic project Lo Crestià, which should deal with Incarnation.

As the prologue states, the purpose of this work is escalfar (to heat up) the believers in the love of Christ and its devotion.

The translation into Spanish (which does not include the two last parts or treatises), was made because of the hieronymite Hernando de Talavera, OSH, who was the first archbishop of Granada after it was reconquered in 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs.

As Josep Romeu i Figueras has proved, the mystery play about the Assumption of Mary of the Valencia Cathedral (c.1425) is directly inspired by this Eiximenis' work.