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masculum et feminam, ita creatos, ut prolem generando crescerent,
et multiplicarentur, et impleant terram, magne surditatis est reluctari’,
dicendo scilicet predictam benedictionem non referri ad prolis
multiplicationem. Hec ergo multiplicatio est principalis e·ectus predicte
benedictionis. Sed hec in sola tertia benedictione imprecatur:
ibi enim dicitur: ‘Sit fecunda in sobole’, et nusquam alibi in tota
sollempnitate nuptiali.
9. Nam loquendo de prima benedictione que fit in ostio ecclesie ibi dicuntur
tres orationes, in quarum prima pro sponsis petitur longevitas
secure conversationis, in secunda sagacitas superne cognitionis, in tertia,
condignitas divine acceptationis.
10. Prima oratio incipit: ‘Respice Domine de celo’, etc. Secunda incipit:
‘Deus Abraham, deus Ysaac’, etc. Tertia: ‘Benedicat vos omnipotens
deus’, etc.
11. De benedictione vero anuli nichil ad propositum nostrum.
12. In secunda vero benedictione que fit ante inchoationem misse tres dicuntur
orationes in quarum prima pro sponsis petitur benignitas paternalis
remissionis; in secunda iocunditas filialis consolationis; in tertia
stabilitas visceralis copulationis. Prima oratio incipit sic: ‘Benedicat
vos deus pater’ etc. Secunda sic: ‘Respice Domine propitius super
hunc famulum tuum et hanc famulam tuam’, etc. Tertia sic: ‘Omnipotens
deus, qui primos parentes’ etc.
13. In tertia vero benedictione, que fit post Agnus dei et ante osculum pacis,
dicuntur due tantum orationes: una brevis, in qua pro sponsis petitur
celestis auxilii assistentia, et alia bene prolixa, in qua petitur finalis
matrimonii ecacia. Prima incipit: Propitiare Domine etc. Secunda
incipit: Deus qui potestate virtutis tue, etc.
14. In ista vero ultima oratione, in qua petitur finalis matrimonii ecacia
surditatis] absurditatis Augustine
referri] referi ms. benedictione] benedictio ne ms.
Cf. Manuale ad usum percelebris Ecclesie Sarisburiensis: From the Edition Printed
at Rouen in 1543 . . ., ed. A. J. Collins (Henry Bradshaw Society, 91; London,
1960), 54.
I have not found this exact pattern of blessings, but cf. J.-B. Molin and P.
Mutembe, Le Rituel du mariage en France du XIIe au XVIe si›ecle (Th‹eologie historique,
26; Paris, 1974), 288, 305.
Cf. Manuale, ed. Collins, 49 (where this blessing is placed before the rubric
‘Hic intrent ecclesiam usque ad gradum altaris’); Missale Romanum Mediolani, 1474,
facsimile ed. R. Lippe (2 vols.; Henry Bradshaw Society, 33; London, 1899–1907),
ii. 320. Cf. Manuale, ed. Collins, 50.
Cf. ibid. (which adds ‘sempiterne’ after ‘Omnipotens’).
Ibid. 53; The Gregorian Sacramentary under Charles the Great, ed. H. A. Wilson
(Henry Bradshaw Society, 49; London, 1915), 121; Missale Romanum, ed. Lippe,
ii. 321
Manuale, ed. Collins, 53; Gregorian Sacramentary, ed. Wilson, 121; Missale
Romanum, ed. Lippe, ii. 321. For this prayer see MS BL Add. 41174, fo. 264va–b.