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doser to that of Ceme. Shortened versions very often appear in the late-medieval
psalters and prymers.
Radically shortened versions of this prayer are found in Danish translation in prayer-
books from the late fifteenth century or c. 1500; see MDB 2, nos. 175 and 345,
beginning ‘O søde gudh ihesu christe ther vdh var sænth (thu som wt war send) aff thin
hellige faderss skødh..ibid., 4, no. 837, beginning ‘O altzo sødistæ ihesu christe sand
gud thu som æst vt sændh...’, and no. 931, beginning ‘O leffuendis guds søn tw som
aest sændh aff thin faders skødh. . .’
Ff. (26)v2-(27)v2 = pp. 34, 13-14; Gregorius bqn. Domine exaudi
orationem meam quia hego^ 'iam' cognosco tempus meum prope
esse... ad uitam ueritatis peruenire. |-xncm-| amen'.
Oratio. Peccaui domine et nimis peccaui. . . ad foueam tenebrarum.
Oratio. Precor omnes sanctos angelos et archangelos tuos. precor
(lac.)
The first of these prayers has been edited by M. M. Lårusson, Doktorsvom, pp.
114-15, collated with MS Mazarine 512 from Noyon.
As a rule they appear as one text which was first edited from the eleventh-century
Nonantola Psalter by Bianchini in: Thomasii Opera (Romae 1741), pp. 529 sqq. The
modern editions are:
from the Bury Psalter, by Wilmart, op. cit., pp. 207-10, collated with the Nonantola
text;
from Brit. Mus. MS Arundel 155, with an interlinear Anglo-Saxon gloss, by F. Holt-
hausen, op. cit., pp. 237-42;
from a Milanese manuscript of the early eleventh century, by D. H. Turner, Milan,
pp. 373-74;
from the Portiforium of Saint Wulstan, 2, pp. 12-14.
The rich manuscript tradition of this prayer has been outlined by Wilmart, Le
Manuel, p. 295, no. 97: It is found in ninth-century manuscripts from Nonantola,
Reichenau, Saint-Gall, and Angers. In the Angers Psalter the inscription is to St.
Gregory (as in the Bury Psalter); likewise in the Reichenau and Nonantola manuscripts,
Oratio Sancti Gregorii quam ante altare debes dicere (orare).
To Wilmart’s list of old manuscripts containing this text should be added:
Berlin Staatsbibliothek MS Hamilton 552. Psalterium graecolatinum from the second
half of the ninth century, cited by H. Schneider, Die altlateinischen biblischen Cantica
= Texte u. Arbeiten, hg. Beuron. I: 29/30 (Beuron 1938), p. 108;
Cambridge MS CCC 272. Psalterium Achadei comitis, written in the diocese of
Reims in 883-84; see M. R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the
Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 2 (1912), pp. 27-32, where appears the
injunction (f. 181 v): Dicit S. Gregorius episcopus cognoscatis quicunque hane oratio-
nem omni die cantauerit sic dicit ipse S. Gregorius quod nec malus homo nec diabolus
nocere non potest ipsi homini nec animae nec corpori. A similar injunction is found in
MS Sangallen. 27, in MS Arundel 155, and in the Portiforium of Saint Wulstan;