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O Domina mea Sancta Maria, me in tuam benedictam fidem & singularem
custodiam ac in sinum misericordiæ tuæ hodie & qvotidie atqve in hora exitus
mei animam meam & corpus meum tibi commendo, omnem spem meam, con-
solationes, angustias, miserias & finem vitas meæ committo, rogans ut per
tuam sanctissimam intercessionem & gloriosa merita, omnia mea dirigantur &
disponantur opera, secundum tuam tuiqve filii voluntatem ad meam utilitatem.
Amen.
Cited by F. X. Haimerl, Mittelalterliche Frommigkeit im Spiegel der
Gebetbuchliteratur Siiddeutschlands = Miinchener theologische Studien 1/4
(Miinchen 1952), p. 91, note 539, from the editio princeps of Nicholaus
Salicetus (Weidenbusch), Antidotarius animae (Strassburg 1489), where it
is included among the daily prayers.
This prayer is also found in Oxford Bodi. MS Lat. lit. g. 6, f. 25rv,
preceded by the rubric Commendatio sub protectione et custodia Beate Marie
Virginis.
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[de sancto paulo apostolo]
(28)r [SJancte paule uas electionis per graciam quam meruisti polluto ore
= p. is te deprecor ut me miserum ab angelo sathane eripias et a uentura ira
liberes. per.
polluto] polluta, corr. pollutus cod.
= Ziirich: Sancte paule uas] S. p. apostole doctor gentium et uas miserum] om.
liberes] et [in] celum introducas. et cum omnibus apostolis et euangelistis per nornen filii
dei uiui et per natiuitatem eius. et per aduentum sancti spiritus paraclyti ueni in adiu-
torium mihi peccatrici et omnibus christianis add.
In Alpirsbach, this prayer is preceded by another prayer, ‘Sancte paule apostole
doctor gentium deprecare pro me cunctipotentem deum. .. ualeam apprehendere’, which
appears in the Pontifical of Hugues de Salins, ed. Lemarié 1978, p. 413, no. 52,
beginning ‘O beate Paule’. It is linked to our prayer with an et:
per graciam quam] et per graciam dei quam meruisti] et accepisti et que in te
vacua non fuit sed semper in te mansit add. polluto ore] ore licet polluto
miserum] om. liberes] et in celum introducas (etc., nearly identical to Ziirich, but
with ‘peccatori’) add.
In Bremen, this prayer begins ‘O beate Paule’ as in the Pontifical.
Brit. Mus. MS Harley 211, f. 172, beginning ‘Sancte paule apostole predicator
gencium et uas electionis’, also links together two prayers. One is the ninth-century
prayer to St. Paul, usually beginning ‘Beatissime Paule uas electionis’ (see Gjerløw,
Adoratio Crucis, pp. 137 sq.) till ‘timorem’; the text continues: ei fideliter seruire. Te
precor eciam per graciam quam meruisti ut me ab angelo sathane eripias et a uentura ira
liberes et in celum introducas (etc., nearly identical to Alpirsbach).
Marturi, ed. Lemarié 1981, no. 32, has the above-cited ninth-century text, ‘Beatis-
sime Paule’.