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utilitate sua didicerint hoc facere cupiant per ihesum christum filium
tuum recuperatorem animarum nostrarum. Qui tecvm.
recuperatorem animarum nostrarum] r. hominum vel omnium in aliis
Domine ad te dirigatur ad te oracio mea sicut incensum in conspectu
tue maiestatis. Domine clamaui. (Ps. 140,1-2).
Placed between four note-lines without musical notation.
Oratio. Omnipotens deus qui primos parentes nostros adam et euam
sua uirtute copulauit ipse corda et corpora uestra sanctificet et
benedicat atque in societate et in amore uere dilectionis coniungat qui
in trinitate. per. (lac.)
The only unusual thing about this fragment of the nuptial rite is the
insertion of the chant from ps. 140,1-2; cf. the gradual of the nuptial
Mass of the Romano-German pontifical, ‘Dirigatur oratio mea sicut
incensum in conspectu tuo Domine’.3 Otherwise, the sequence of texts
is that of the ManNor MS O c. 1300 = ed. pp. 20,30-21,2, with
inclusion in our fragment of more of the usual preces. The Anglo-
Norman nuptial rite of ManNor MS O is very close to that of the Bury
Missal, MS Laon 238, written between 1125 and 1135.4 This rite may
have been brought to Norway by Archbishop Øystein of Nidaros
(1161-88), who resided at Bury St. Edmunds for quite a long time
during his exile in England in the early 1180s,5 and the Norwegian
text rendering the rite before the church door may be his work (see
ManNor MS O = ed. pp. 19,18-20,8; DI 2, pp. 328-9).
(2)r D[eus qui iustificas impium et non uis morjtem [peccatoris maiesta-
tem tuam suppliciter deprecamur] ut fa[mulum tuum .N. de tua
misericordia] confide[ntem celesti protegas benigjnus au[xilio et assi-
dua protecjtione [conserues ut tibi iugiter] famu[letur et nullis tempta]-
tioni[bus a te separetur.]
3 See K. Ritzer, Formen, Riten und religioses Brauchtum der Eheschliessung in der
christlichen Kirchen des ersten Jahrtausends = LQ 38 (1962), pp. 187 sqq.
4 See J.-B. Molin & P. Mutembe, Le rituel du mariage en France du XIIe au XVIe
siécle = Théologie historique, 26 (Paris 1974), pp. 289-91.
5 On Archbishop Øystein’s itinerary in England 1180-83, see A. O. Johnsen, Om
erkebiskop Øysteins eksil 1180-83: Det kgl. norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skr., 1950,
no. 5 (Trondheim 1951). See also AN 221 sqq.