Folio 298v

Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin, continued.

Vespers, continued.

Hymn, Caste parentis viscera.


Burnet Psalter image.  University of Aberdeen. A hymn to the Virgin Mary (HL, 2, p 142) invoking her sorrow as she beheld the suffering and death of her son; no grief was keener, for no child was dearer.

Caste parentis viscera
pena torquentur\ aspera
dum illum quem
conceperant <conceperat>\
verbo perversi verberant.

Illum
ligant <tractant> at\rociter
cedunt cruentant acriter
hec <hoc> audientis\ anxie
matris crescunt angustie.

Sed
dum <cum> ad\ mortem ducitur
heu <hunc> mater plorans sequitur
pectus\ perfundens fletibus
afficiens verberibus.

In cruce dum\ extenditur
videris mater quod moritur
dolor nullus\ amarior,
nam nullus [nulla] proles carior.

Sit laus\ honor devocio, et cetera.

Versus.

Erat iuxta crucem virgo Maria.\
Et lacrime eius in maxillis eius.

Antiphona Virgo.

Psalmus [Canticle, Luke, 1:46].\ Magnificat anima mea dominum.\

Antiphona.

Virgo passo filio
penam mortis iudicat
sed in ple\bis medio
contra mortem publicat
urgente supplicio\
voces quam mestas repplicat,
que quondam pre gaudio\
cecinit magnificat.



Prayer, Domine Ihesu Christe fili virginis.

A prayer to Jesus Christ, invoking his passion. The author asks that we who share his suffering and that of his mother may be worthy to rejoice with them forever.

Oracio.\

Domine Ihesu Christe fili virginis dilectissime\ qui cum proditore cenasti deinde captus et\ viliter tractatus fuisti presta quesumus ut qui ti\bi et tue compatimur genitrici vobiscum sine ter\mino gaudere mereamur. Qui vivis.

Benedicamus domino.\

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