

Bogoroditse Devo, raduisya) which translates as "Rejoice, O Virgin Theotokos" ("Theotokos" being Mother of God). The Church Slavonic equivalent is known as Богородице Дево, радуйся (translit. To these words many additions have been made, both as prayers addressed to the Blessed Virgin (such as that prayed in The Rosary) and as musical texts. Go To Item 16, The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools, textAve Maria (English Hail Mary) is the salutation given by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary at the Annunciation (Luke 1:28): Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum ("Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee").

Go To Item 16, The Debate of the Carpenter’s Tools, introduction Item 15, A PRAYER TO MARY: TEXTUAL NOTE 1 MS: Initial M is two lines tall.įor the terys thou letyst under the rode, These are the prayer “Our Father” and one of the accepted statements of belief used in Catholic liturgy, most commonly the Apostles’ Creed, believed to have been composed by the twelve apostles. See the introduction to this text.ģ7 a Pater Noster and a Crede. The Ave Maria (“Hail Mary”) was a commonly prescribed prayer for penance and daily devotion. Death while in a state of (unconfessed) deadly or mortal sin insured damnation, whereas death in a state of venial sin merited time in purgatory.ģ6 Aves fyve. Mary was sometimes referred to as the Queen of Hell for her ability to rescue the damned see the introduction to The Jealous Wife (item 22).Ģ8 dyghe therin. The Five Joys of Mary were usually considered to be the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Assumption, though in some versions the Epiphany replaces the Ascension.ġ6 hell pyne.

See, for example, lyric 13 in Saupe’s Middle English Marian Lyrics, “I syng of a maiden.”ĩ thi joys fyve. This paradoxical catchphrase appears widely thoughout the Marian tradition as a signal of the mysteriousness of the Incarnation. The text begins roughly one-third down the page of fol. The English translation of the Speculum Christiani in British Library MS Harley 6580 titles the poem A Prayer to Our Lady Seynt Mary. The manuscripts of the Latin Speculum Christiani that give a title to the prayer most frequently call it an Oracio ad virginem Mariam. Item 15, A PRAYER TO MARY: EXPLANATORY NOTES Title No title or incipit.
