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dated c. 1200 or in the early thirteenth century. Both the Caroline and
the Insular ef-abbreviation have been used; the latter is unbarred.
Punctuation is by the median point. There is nothing particularly
Icelandic about this fragment, except for the Icelandic rubric of f. (1 )r,
first line, Prefacia. The stub of the fragment, f. (2), is rather puzzling.
The text of its verso page has been written upside down. Also, except
for the fragment of the nuptial rite found in it, the texts do not appear
in any identifiable sequence. Were they written as a supplement to a
previously existing book? See Plates 42-45.
Contents:
Prefacia. VD eteme deus pro annua dedicatio(ne) tabemaculis (sic) (i)r
huius honorem tibi gratiasque referre. per christum dominum nostrum.
Cuius uirtus magna. pietas copiosa. Respice quesumus domine de celo
et uide et uisita domum istam ut siquis in ea nomini tuo supplicauerit
libenter exaudias et satis facientibus elementer ignoscas per eundem
christum dominum nostrum per quem maiestatem tuam laudant angeli.
cf. Tc 3732 = MS T2 = Reims 213, written towards 869: In anniuersario
dedicationis basilicae. Cuius uirtus... ignoscas. (with minor variant readings)
= Roma MS Vallicellan. B 24, f. 75r, a missal written in Subiaco in 1075; see A.
Ebner, Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte des Missale
Romanum im Mittelalter. Iter italieum (Freiburg B. 1896), p. 196, beginning ‘Et pro
annua dedicatione’.
This is only the first part of a longer preface in anniuersario dedicationis ecclesiae,
found in the Gallican and Gelasian sacramentaries (see P. de Puniet, EL 51, p. 120),
and in post-Caroline books, e.g. Sp 436*, Grme, and GrU 1267.
(Ordo pro sponsis)
Asperges me. Deus misereatur nostri. Beati omnes per totum. Gloria
patri. Saluum fac seruum et ancillam tuam. deus meus sperantes in te.
Mitte eis domine auxilium de saneto et de sion tuere eos. Nichil
proficiat inimicus in eis et filius iniquitatis non apponet nocere eis.
Esto illis domine. A facie inimici. Dominus custodiat uos/ ab omni (i)v
malo custodiat animas uestras dominus. Dominus custodiat introitum
uestrum et exitum uestrum ex hoc nunc et usque in seculis. Dominus
uobiseum.
Oratio. Deus abraham deus isaac deus iacob benedic adolescentes
istos et semina semen uite eteme in mentibus eorum ut quicquid pro