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According to a bull of 1500 it is an image of the Virgin and St Anne:
Copie Bullarum Concilij Basiliensis et Pape Sixti quarti in materiam
Conceptionis beatissime marie virginis Unacum duabus oratiunculis Sixti Pape
quarte & Alexandri pape sexti de eadem Conceptione ad Mariam Virginem et sanctam
Annam Pluribus indulgentijs dotatis (Heidelberg, c.1500 [Bodleian Auct. VII. Q.
VI. 31])
Alexander Papa sextus concessit decem milia annorum pro mortalibus Et viginti
pro venialibus dicenti hanc sequentem Oracionem trina vice coram ymagine
beatissime virginis Marie & Anne Matris eius
Ave maria Gracia plena Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedicta sit Anna mater tua
Ex qua sine macula et peccato processisti virgo Maria
Ex te autem natus est hiesus cristus filius dei vivi. Amen.
Also, without specification of the image, in Walters Art Gallery, W 258 (prayer
book, Paris, last quarter of the 15th c.), fo. 115:
Legitur quod sancta maria mater domini ihesu christi apparuit cuidam viro sancto
qui ei serviebat devote dicens. Multi sunt qui me propter amorem filij mei
honorant. Sed pauci sunt qui honorent sanctam Annam matrem meam. Ergo a modo si
michi placere desideras volo ut eam aliqua salutatione honores. Quidam etiam
clericus eandem beatam virginem et beatam annam in modum qui sequitur salutabat.
Postea infirmitatem decidit. et morte appropinquante tribus diebus quasi
exanimis iacebat. Cumque amici sui circumsedentes tercia die de eius sepultura
confabularentur. ille subito expergefactus eis dicebat. tacete tacete. Ecce
venit domina mea sancta maria ducens secum sanctam Annam matrem eius. Et hec
dicens expiravit. Sequitur salutatio.
Ave maria gratia plena dominus tecum. Et benedicta sit mater tua sancta Anna. ex
qua sine macula tua caro processit virginea.
versus. Celeste benefitium introivit in Anna. R. de qua nata est nobis pia.
Virgo Maria. Oratio Domine ihesu christe qui omnia condidisti et beatam annam
dignam fuisti . . .
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>From: "Cormack, Margaret Jean"
I just ran across the following, which I thought might be of interest, from an
Icelandic ms. dated 1500-1550. It looks to me a bit too basic to be worth
searching for analogs, but if anyone can suggest any (or perhaps a particular
kind of picture of St. Anne that might have been associated with the prayer) IŽd
love to hear about it.
Pope Alexander the sixth gave all those who recite the following prayer
three times in front of a picture of St. Anne, piously on their knees, twenty
thousand years' indulgence for deadly sins and thirty thousand for venial sins.
The above-named pope confirmed that indulgence in the church of St. Mary major
in Rome.
Ave maria gratia plena dominus tecum. Tua gratia sit mecum. benedicta tu in
mulieribus. et benedicta sit Anna mater tua dequa sine macula. processisti uirgo
Maria exte enim natus est ihesus christus filius dei. Amen.
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