Folio 47r

Miscellaneous prayers, mainly to Jesus Christ, continued.

The author asks for help at the time of his death from the Virgin Mary, the twenty-four elders, the angels, patriarchs, apostles, martyrs, confessors, virgins, saints and the elect. He asks St Michael the Archangel to receive his soul that it may not be led to hell by the lion and dragon. He asks St Peter to open the gates of paradise to him.

liberare digneris animam meam de tenebris exterioribus quod\ in te confido Christe quia opus manuum tuarum sum\ ego ne despicias me.

Rogo sanctam et beatissimam\ matrem tuam virginem Mariam. Rogo vi\ginti quatuor seniores omnes sanctos angelos\ tuos deprecor\ omnes patriarchas tuos supplico.\ Omnes apostolos tuos et martires confessores et vir\gines. Similiter rogo omnes sanctos tuos et elec\tos tuos invoco in auxilium michi in illa hora\ tremenda quando anima mea egressa est de cor\pore meo. Te ergo supplico et deprecor sancte Michael archangele qui ad animas accipiendas\ accepisti potestatem ut animam meam suscipere dig\neris quando de corpore meo erit egressura. Et li\bera eam de potestate inimici ut pertransire pos\sit portas infernorum et vias tenebrarum ut non\ se interponat leo vel draco super eam qui consue\tus est animas in infernum recipere et ad eter\na tormenta perducere. Te deprecor sancte Petre prin\ceps apostolorum qui clavium regni celorum accepisti\ potestatem ut portas paradysi michi aperire dig\