The prayer below was a popular form of the Rosary

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The prayer below was a popular form of the Rosary during the Middle Ages. 
Continuing on the theme of the previous section on the Rosary, the Rosary came in many forms before it was standardized in the late 16th century to the form we have today. 
The prayer below is a good example of these early forms. It first appeared in the Sarum Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the latter part of the Middle Ages. 
Instead of a meditation associated with each decade, meditations were assigned to each Ave. Each meditation draws from the Gospel accounts of the life and words of Jesus.
 In this regard it resembles the present day Scriptural Rosary, where a passage of Scripture is associated with each Ave.

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✝️ Rosarium ex Horis ad usum Sarum

⚜ Rosary from the Hours, Sarum Use

                 ✝️Latin and ⚜English

✝️ Latin

•Decas Prima

SUSCIPE rosarium,
Virgo, deauratum
Iesu Christi compendium
vita decoratum. Ave Maria.

Quem virgo carens vitio
de flamine concepisti:
dum Gabrieli nuntio
humillime consensisti. 
Ave Maria.

Quo impraegnata citius
cognatam visitasti:
Ioannemque celeriter
in ventre sanctificasti. 
Ave Maria.

Quem in civitate Bethlehem
laetando genuisti:
neque dolorem aliquem
gignendo pertulisti. 
Ave Maria.

Quem regis David genere:
mox natum adorasti:
ac vagientem ubere
virgineo lactasti. 
Ave Maria.

Quem pannis fasciis
constrictum reclinasti:
et suis obsequiis
te totam mancipasti. 
Ave Maria.

Quem magno cum tripudio
angeli laudaverunt:
pacemque cum gaudio
in terris cecinerunt. 
Ave Maria.

Quem pastorem omnium
pastores cognoverunt:
dum in praesepe Dominum
iacente invenerunt. 
Ave Maria.

Qui iuxta ritum hominis
passus circumcisione:
dulcis Iesu nominis
cepit impositionem. 
Ave Maria.

Qui a tribus regibus
ferventer adoratur:
magnisque muneribus
decenter venerant.

Dic unum Pater noster, Credo in Deum, et Ave Maria.

✝️Rosary from the Hours, Sarum Use

⚜ English

• First Decade

ACCEPT, o Virgin,
this golden rosary,
adorned with a summary
of the life of Christ. 
Hail Mary.

He whom thou, a virgin pure,
without vice didst conceive,
as thou to the messenger Gabriel,
didst humbly consent. 
Hail Mary.

When pregnant with Him,
and visiting thy kinswoman,
John in Elizabeth's womb
thou didst sanctify. 
Hail Mary.

He to whom in the city of Bethlehem,
thou didst joyfully give birth,
and didst not suffer
the pains of childbirth. 
Hail Mary.

He who was born of King David,
thou didst then adore,
and at thy maidenly breast
didst nurse Him the crying babe. 
Hail Mary.

He whom, swaddled in cloth,
into the manger thou didst place,
and to Him thou didst surrender
all thyself to His service. 
Hail Mary.

He whom with solemn worship
the angels did praise,
and a song of peace and joy
on earth did raise. 
Hail Mary.

He whom the shepherds did acknowledge
as the shepherd of us all,
when they did find their Lord
lying in a manger. 
Hail Mary.

He who, according to the rites of men,
did suffer circumcision,
and then did receive
the sweet name of Jesus. 
Hail Mary.

He whom the three kings,
fervently adored,
and fittingly honored
with great and costly gifts. 
Hail Mary.

Say an Our Father, the Apostle's Creed and a Hail Mary.

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✝️ Decas Secunda

⚜ Second Decade to be continued .........

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