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Preces Quotidianae

Thanksgiving for Temporal Blessings

The author gives thanks for honorable birth, sound body and mind, education, Christian faith, deliverance from dangers, and freedom from flattery and debt.

Of honorable family; of sound mind; with sound senses and limbs; well brought up; educated; a Christian; delivered from dangers and from disgrace, in days of peace,1 from an honorable fortune, not from a bad crow,2 a bad egg, not dull-witted, neither blind nor deaf, neither lame nor maimed, not abandoned, not a mechanic, not a pagan,34 not swallowed up by those things, nor by that,5 not tossed about in storms, so that I don't need to flatter, nor to borrow,

Thanksgiving for Spiritual Gifts

The author gives thanks for forgiveness, redemption, graces, gifts, calling, nature, and fortune.

Freed from many sins, Redemption, Graces6 Endowed with gifts Calling7 Nature,8 Fortune.9

Prayer for New Birth and Heavenly Inheritance

The author prays to God who, according to His great mercy, has given new birth into a living hope through Christ's resurrection, to an imperishable inheritance kept in heaven.

who, according to Your great mercy,✦10 you have given us new birth into a living hope,✦ through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,✦ to an inheritance that cannot perish,✦ and undefiled, and unfading, kept for us in heaven.✦

Editorial Notes

These are editorial marks indicating page or section references.

1 f.11 i.12 3.13

Prayer of Blessing and Comfort

The author prays to God who has blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ and comforted in all trouble.

You who have blessed me with every blessing spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms✦ in Christ.✦ You who have comforted me in all my trouble,✦

Read the original Latin

Ex honesta parentela, Sensatus, Integris sensibus, menbris, Educatus, Literatus, Christianus, Erutus e periculis, ex infamia, in diebus pacis,

ex honesta fortuna,

mali corvi non

malum ovum, non bardus, neque cecus neque surdus, neque claudus neque mancus, non expositus, non mechanicus, non Paganus,

illis, non absorptus ab, illa,

non jactatus in procellis, ut neque adulari opus habeam,

neque mutuo accipere,

Multis peccatis liberatus,

Redemptio,

Gratize

Donatus donis

Vocatio, -

Naturz,

ἰ Fortune.

Qui, secundum misericordiam 'Tuam magnam,

regenerasti nos in spem vivam,

per resurrectionem JESU CHRISTI,

in hereditatem incorruptibilem,

et incontaminatam,

et immarcessibilem,

conservatam in coelis pro nobis. 1 f. i. 3.

Qui benedixisti mihi in omni benedictione

spiritual in coelestibus

in Christo. Qui consolatus es me in omni tribulatione mea,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩1Pet.1.3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
  2. ↩1Pet.1.3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
  3. ↩1Pet.1.3-1Pet.1.4 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1Pet.1.4 — to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you
  4. ↩1Pet.1.3-1Pet.1.4 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1Pet.1.4 — to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you
  5. ↩1Pet.1.4 — to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you
  6. ↩Eph.1.3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
  7. ↩Eph.1.3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
  8. ↩2Cor.1.4 — who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Latin menbris is taken as membris (limbs/members); the printed form looks like a simple orthographic corruption.
  2. 2 ↩Fragment of the proverbial stock-phrase mali corvi malum ovum (“from a bad crow, a bad egg”); with the following section it likely means “not from bad stock / not a bad egg from a bad crow.” Rendered here as the genitive phrase alone: “not of a bad crow.”
  3. 3 ↩malum ovum may be proverbial ('bad crow, bad egg') with the preceding section; rendered here as the surface phrase 'a bad egg'.
  4. 4 ↩expositus can mean cast out/abandoned (foundling) or merely laid open; mechanicus can mean craftsman/manual laborer, sometimes pejoratively.
  5. 5 ↩Latin is fragmentary and oddly punctuated (illis, non absorptus ab, illa,). Rendered as the most plausible list-item sense continuing the surrounding 'non + participle' mercies: non absorptus ab illis / ab illa — 'not swallowed up (or engrossed) by those [things], nor by that.'
  6. 6 ↩Source surface is 'Gratize', not standard Latin. Rendered as Graces on the most plausible intended reading Gratiae (or Gratia), fitting the neighboring short titles Redemptio and Donatus donis.
  7. 7 ↩Source is a bare lemma/heading fragment ('Vocatio, -'), not a full sentence; rendered as the natural English for vocatio (calling/vocation) in a private-devotion title list.
  8. 8 ↩Source surface 'Naturz,' is almost certainly corrupt OCR; rendered as English heading 'Nature,' by analogy with neighboring list items (Vocatio; Fortune).
  9. 9 ↩Source reads «ἰ Fortune.» The leading «ἰ» looks like encoding/OCR corruption, not a usable Greek or Latin form. The only intelligible content is the English word Fortune, which matches the neighboring fragmentary «Naturz,» (likely Natura/Nature) as a parallel label.
  10. 10 ↩Source shows a stray apostrophe before Tuam (`misericordiam 'Tuam`); translated as the intended misericordiam Tuam magnam.
  11. 11 ↩Surface '1 f.' does not read as continuous Latin prayer prose; likely an editorial mark, folio/reference, or apparatus token rather than devotional text.
  12. 12 ↩Surface 'i.' is likely a section letter, Roman numeral, or reference marker, not a complete Latin sentence.
  13. 13 ↩Surface '3.' is likely a numbered heading, verse/section index, or editorial numeral rather than prayer wording.

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