Middle High German · AI translation
Vatikanische Pferdesegen 'Ad pestem equi / Ad equum infusum'
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
68v.1–68v.7
at pestem equi· quot dicitur mort. dic. Johan· was ein man. Fases sîn sun· genas inne des· sô tuo diz ros· des mordes. pater noster. ter.
For the plague of a horse which is called mort. Say: John was a man; Fases his son recovered from it; so may this horse [recover] from the mort. The Our Father, three times.
item at equum infusum· dic· Krist wart an erde geboren· in krippe geworfen· in sluhtere bebunden· sâ verloren·
Likewise, for a foundered horse. Say: Christ was born on earth, thrown into a manger, bound in swaddling bands, soon lost;
der heilige Krist büeze diseme rosse .N. übervangenes· geræhes· des wambîziges· des wurmes. unde
may holy Christ cure this horse, N., of founder, of geræhe, of the colic, of the worm, and
alles des· dê ime
of all that
schadente. sî./ innomine
is harming it. In the name
domini· daz dir zebuoze.
of the Lord. May it be for your cure.
pater noster. post eadem ter.
The Our Father; after that, the same three times.
Translator's note. mort is an unidentified horse disease; Fases is an unidentified name. sluhtere is taken as swaddling bands. übervangen is taken as founder; geræhe may be founder too, or stiffness of the limbs; wambîzic ('belly-biting') is taken as colic.
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M153).