Preces Quotidianae
Prayer for the City
A petition for the city's well-being, happiness, and deliverance from danger and hardship.
For our city, that they may be well and happy, and that they may be freed from every danger and hardship.
Prayer for the King
A brief intercession for the king's salvation and protection.
For the King: O Lord, save the King.1
Prayer for Civil Authorities and the People
Intercession for the prudence of counselors, integrity of judges, fortitude of the army, and temperance of the people.
For the prudence of the counselors, For the fairness and integrity of judges, the courage of the army, and the self-control and holy simplicity of the people.2
Prayer for the Rising Generation
A prayer for youth in universities and schools to grow in wisdom and grace before God and men.
For the rising generation, whether in3 the universities or in4 the schools: that just as they advance in years, they may also advance in wisdom and grace before God and people.5
Prayer for Benefactors and the Poor
Petitions for those generous to sacred things and the poor, with blessings and a concluding request for eternal reward.
For those who show themselves generous toward sacred things, or toward the poor and the needy.6 Repay them sevenfold into their bosom; may their souls dwell among good things, and may their seed inherit the land.7 Blessed be those who take thought for the needy. — 1.8 That you reward all our benefactors with eternal goods;9 For the benefits they have freely given us on earth,10
Read the original Latin
Urbe nostra,
ut bene beateque se habeant,
et ab omni discrimine et incommodo liberentur. Pro Rege:
Ὁ Domine, salvum fae, N3 "1p t1.
Pro Consiliariorum prudentia,
Judicum zequitate, integritate, Exercitus fortitudine, Populi temperantia, sancta simplicitate. Pro sobole succrescente, sive im. Academiis, sve in. Scholis ; Ut, quomodo setate, proficiant itidem et sapientia et gratia, apud Deum et homines. Qui beneficos se przbent, res sacras, vel erga 1 pauperes et egenos. Redde illis septuplum in sinum eorum, Animz eorum in bonis demorentur, Et semen eorum h:ereditent terram. Beati sint, qui intelligunt super egenum. — 1.
Ut omnibus benefactoribus nostris szeterna bona retribuas;
Pro beneficüs quz nobis largiti sunt in terris,
Notes
- 1 ↩Source is heavily corrupt: «Ὁ Domine, salvum fae, N3 "1p t1.» Read as the traditional royal petition «O Domine, salvum fac regem» (cf. Vulgate Ps 19:10 / Eng. Ps 20:9), fitting the preceding rubric «Pro Rege:» and the following petition for counselors.
- 2 ↩Reading zequitate as aequitate (OCR of ae ligature). Continues the Pro… construction of the previous petition.
- 3 ↩Source breaks mid-phrase: sive im. is taken as sive in, completed by s3–s4 (Academiis… Scholis).
- 4 ↩Reading sve as sive. Fragment continues s2 and leads into Scholis in s4.
- 5 ↩Reading setate as aetate. Ut marks the petition’s purpose clause for the rising generation in schools and universities.
- 6 ↩Reading przbent as praebent. Mid-line 1 is a footnote callout (see s8), not the numeral ‘one’. Parallel at PrecesPriv.1.42.1 supports Pro iis qui beneficos se praebent res sacras, erga pauperes; Pro iis is supplied as the most plausible litany frame.
- 7 ↩Reading Animz as Animae and h:ereditent as haereditent (OCR of ae).
- 8 ↩Source unit is only a footnote marker answering the callout 1 in s5; no footnote body is recoverable in the supplied text.
- 9 ↩Reading szeterna as aeterna (eternal); the printed form looks like a long-s/æ OCR corruption.
- 10 ↩Normalized from corrupt surfaces: beneficüs→beneficiis; quz→quae. Reading taken as Pro beneficiis quae nobis largiti sunt in terris, continuing the petition for benefactors from the previous section.
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