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Preces Quotidianae

Heading for Prime

The opening abbreviations and designation of the hour of Prime.

D.1 LEL.2 Prime.3

Thanksgiving for the Dayspring

Praise for the coming of the Dayspring and the creation of visible light.

Through the tender mercies of our God, the Dayspring from on high has visited us.✦4 Glory to you, Lord—glory to you—who created light and gave light to the world. Genesis.56 1.7 ὃ.8 Visible light, the sun's ray, the flame of fire, day and night, evening and morning.

The Light of Knowledge and Scripture

Meditation on intellectual light, the knowledge of God from Romans, and the light of Scripture from the Law, Prophets, Psalms, Proverbs, and Histories.

Intellectual light, What is known of God, Romans.✦9 Chapter 1. Verse 19.✦ What is written in the Law, Luke10 10. 26. the oracles of the Prophets, the melody of the Psalms, the discipline of the Proverbs, the experience of the Histories,

The Unsetting Light

Acknowledgment of the eternal light that never sets and the Lord who shines upon us.

The light that never sets. The Lord is God, and he has shone upon us.

Psalm 118:27

Citation of Psalm 118:27, calling for a solemn feast and referencing the horns of the altar.

Set aside a solemn feast day with leafy branches.✦11 As far as the horns of the altar. Psalm12 11813 27.

Petition for Resurrection

A prayer asking to be raised up through Christ's resurrection into newness of life.

By your resurrection, raise us up. into the newness of life,14

Read the original Latin

D. LEL. PRIM,|E.

PER viscera misericordiz Dei nostri, visitavit Nos Oriens ex alto. Gloria tibiy Domine, tibi gloria, Qui creasti lucem, et illuminasti Mundum, Gen. i. ὃ. Lucem visibilem, Radium Solarem, Flammam ignis, Diem et noctem, Vesperam et mane.

Lucem intellectualem,

Illud quod notum est Dei, om. i. 19.

Scriptum est Legis, Luc. x. 26. Oracula Prophetarum, Melodiam Psalmorum, Proverbiorum disciplinam, Historiarum experientiam,

Lucem inocciduam.

Deus Dominus, et illuxit nobis.

Constituite diem solennem in condensis

Usque ad cornua Altaris. JPsae/. exvin. 27.

Per resurrectionem tuam resuscita nos

In novitatem vitz,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Luke.1.78-Luke.1.79 — because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from on high Luke.1.79 — to shine on those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  2. ↩Rom.1.19 — because what can be known about God is plain among them, for God made it plain to them.
  3. ↩Rom.1.19 — because what can be known about God is plain among them, for God made it plain to them.
  4. ↩Ps.118.27 — The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source is a bare abbreviation or fragment ('D.'). No secure expansion is possible from the supplied Latin alone (e.g. Dominus/Domine/Dies).
  2. 2 ↩Source 'LEL.' has no recoverable Latin (or Greek) sense in this witness; likely OCR/encoding damage.
  3. 3 ↩Normalized source 'PRIM,|E.' is almost certainly a damaged form of PRIMÆ/PRIMA (the first daytime Hour). Rendered as the Hour-name 'Prime' pending witness check.
  4. 4 ↩Source reads misericordiz; translated as misericordiae (mercies), the standard liturgical reading.
  5. 5 ↩Source reads tibiy; translated as tibi.
  6. 6 ↩Terminal Gen. treated as a Genesis citation label, not as prayer wording.
  7. 7 ↩Isolated i. most plausibly a chapter numeral continuing the Gen. citation (Genesis 1).
  8. 8 ↩Greek ὃ. cannot be securely read as Latin prose; left as source surface pending review (possible citation mark or OCR corruption of a verse numeral).
  9. 9 ↩Source abbreviation "om." is almost certainly "Rom." (Romans), matching the citation pattern of the following section (Luc. x. 26) and the Vulgate wording of Rom 1:19 (quod notum est Dei).
  10. 10 ↩Latin Scriptum est Legis is compressed; sense taken as the Lucan question 'What is written in the Law?' (cf. Luke 10:26 In lege quid scriptum est?), not a free paraphrase of later list material.
  11. 11 ↩in condensis follows the Vulgate sense of dense/leafy growth (boughs or thickets), not the Hebrew reading sometimes rendered as cords/ropes.
  12. 12 ↩Source 'JPsae/.' is not readable Latin; treated as a corrupted psalm-citation label (likely Psal./Ps.), not prose.
  13. 13 ↩Source 'exvin.' is not readable Latin; most plausible reconstruction is a damaged Roman numeral for the psalm number (cxviii / 118, or possibly cxvii / Vulgate 117).
  14. 14 ↩Source reads 'vitz'; treated as corrupt/typo for 'vitae' (life), yielding the fixed liturgical/Pauline phrase 'in novitatem vitae'.

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