Folio 302v

Hours in Commemoration of the Guardian Angel, continued.

Matins, continued.

First lesson, Gloriose princeps inter, continued.



Burnet Psalter image.  University of Aberdeen. ... and expresses his gratitude for the protection the angel offers.

am explicare non tamen despicis luteum et morta\lem hominem natura te minorem ymmo; ad nichi\lum redactum peccatorem sed a nativitate mea in ute\ro curam fragilitatis mee misericorditer suscepi\sti, meque fideli et sollicita protectione custodis.\

Tu autem domine.

Responsum.

Te cor meum doce diligere
que fecisti\ michi recolere
caritati grates rependere.

Versus

Dignas laudes\ dona depromere
et instinctus tuos proficere.

Caritati.

Iu\be domine benedicere.

Benediccio.

Angelica cura, sit mors et vita secura. Amen.\



Second lesson, Quoniam invisibiles adversarii.

The author invokes the Guardian Angel, who protects him against the confusion, flattery and violence inflicted by his invisible enemies, guides him in his conduct ...

Lectio secunda.

Quoniam invisibiles\ adversarii racionem abducere per as\tucias voluntatem allicere per blan\dicias corpus et vires opprimere per violencias\ pro posse nituntur tu me diriges [dirigis] et erudis contra\ falsam astuciam exhortaris et excitas ad bonum\ contra blandicias, ab oppressione defendis con\tra violencias. Tu me iuvas proficere in bono gra\cie, subvenis ut non cadam in malum culpe, si ca\dam ut resurgam, ne tociens vel in tantum cadam\ quociens vel ad quantum hostes invitant, nec\ umquam me deseris eciam peccantem; quin sis para-\



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