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Dear Chris,

Nice pictures, I'll try to bring my O-level German to bear on this.Anything
to get out of that tedious Monday morning argument about who's got too much
of a tummy ache to go to school. As you say, some of us really haven't got
better things to do.

So here goes:

>Die nachvolgend figur gibt dür zu versteen unnd leret dich wie du den
psalter marie beten ordnen unnd machen solt (shouldn't that be solst?).

The following figure gives you (Dir) to understand and teach you how you
should pray, arrange, and make the
 Psalter of Mary.

>Nÿme[w?]ar
/stuck on this one/

in der nachvolgende figur ist ein Pater noster day hat V >grosse stainlin
und nach eÿnem ÿecklichen grossen stainlin sollent
>sein X klaine.

In the next-following figure is a paternoster that
has five large stones and after each one (einem jeglichen) there should be
ten small.

>Dr erst grosz stainlin under den V ist mangerleÿ farb und bedeüt die >manig
faltikeit deiner sünd.
>
>The first large stone of the five is many colors and signifies >the
manifoldness of your sins.

>Der andere stein ist plaÿche

?bleich

, und bedeüt den ungewisen tod der dir
>gewiszlich zuekünftige ist.

The second stone is pale, and signifies the uncertain
death which certainly is in the future for you.
>
>Der drit stein istt rot, und bedeüt das jungst gericht da de >rechnung
mu[e]szt geben von allem deÿm lebe~.

>The third stone is red, and signifies the Last judgment (das jungste
Gericht) at which you must give reckoning for all of your life.
>
>Der vierd stain under den V ist schwarcz und bedeüt die hell.

>The fourth stone of the five is black, and signifies hell.

>
>Der fünfft stein an der pater noster ist guldin und bedeüt die glori und
freüd der heÿligen welliche glori und freüd verheissen ist den die da halten
die ge pot
=Gebot
 gotes.

>The fifth stone of the paternoster is golden, and signifies the glory >and
joy of the saints: which glory and joy is promised to those who there(?)
keep the commandments of God.
>
>Und das alles ist nit mer de~n ein teÿl des psalters. Wilt du aber ein
gan[z?]en psalter machen so mach den andern und den driten teil >des Pater
nosters geleich als den ersten teil. Und was dir die fünf grossen stei(ne)
bedeüten in dem ersten teÿl des psalters dass sollen
>sÿ dir auch bedeüten in dem anderen und driten teÿl des psalters,
>das hastt du clar in dem nachvolenden oder nachgeschribnem Exempel
>in dem man list wÿe das sanctus Dominicus auf ein zeit einen riter
>beÿcht ho[e]ret und nach der beycht lett er de~ riter den Psalter
>Marie beten und machen als hie geschriben stat.

And this all is not more than a part of the psalter. But if you will make a
complete psalter, so make the second and the third part of the paternoster
[just] like the first part. And what the five big stones signify in the
first part of the psalter, that they should also signify you in the second
and third part[s] of the psalter, as you have them clearly in the reproduced
and written
>example, in one reads (man liest) how the holy Dominic once heard a
>knight's confession and after the confession he ?let the knight pray Mary's
Psalter and make [one] as described here.

Lena Wahlgren-Smith

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