From your classmate Bill Wilson:
For my check out tour, I did some research on 2016.14 / Gallery 342 / Coffer with print of the Annunciation, and discovered that the inscription (page glued into the lid) is verses 4 and 5 of Ave Maris Stella – a popular hymn to the Virgin in the Middle Ages.
By the way, the last two words are not complete. The “et” (and) shows up as an “and sign” (like a plus sing) and the “castos” is just a letter C. Perhaps there was not enough room for the full word “castos”, or it was cut off from the original page, or it appeared on the next page — I have seen old manuscripts where words are split from page to page without modern-day-looking hyphens.
– Bill
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AVE maris stella,
Dei Mater alma,
atque semper Virgo,
felix caeli porta.
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HAIL, O Star of the ocean,
God’s own Mother blest,
ever sinless Virgin,
gate of heav’nly rest.
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Sumens illud Ave
Gabrielis ore,
funda nos in pace,
mutans Hevae nomen.
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Taking that sweet Ave,
which from Gabriel came,
peace confirm within us,
changing Eve’s name.
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Solve vincula reis,
profer lumen caecis
mala nostra pelle,
bona cuncta posce.
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Break the sinners’ fetters,
make our blindness day,
Chase all evils from us,
for all blessings pray.
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Monstra te esse matrem:
sumat per te preces,
qui pro nobis natus,
tulit esse tuus.
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Show thyself a Mother,
may the Word divine
born for us thine Infant
hear our prayers through thine.
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Virgo singularis,
inter omnes mites,
nos culpis solutos,
mites fac et castos.
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Virgin all excelling,
mildest of the mild,
free from guilt preserve us
meek and undefiled.
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Vitam praesta puram,
iter para tutum:
ut videntes Iesum
semper collaetemur.
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Keep our life all spotless,
make our way secure
till we find in Jesus,
joy for evermore.
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Sit laus Deo Patri,
summo Christo decus,
Spiritui Sancto,
tribus honor unus. Amen.
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Praise to God the Father,
honor to the Son,
in the Holy Spirit,
be the glory one. Amen.
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