No similar composition is of course found in any source, but some come surprisingly close, like the text in GKS 1612 from around 1500, see the complete transcript in the Guide to GkS 1612 (other full-text transcripts are found in the various CHD Guides).
The division in 117 paragraphs is purely practical. In some lines even unlogical, because the presence or absence of one line will exclude another. It has saved me the long quotations otherwise necessary to indicate a variant, but ignores in many lines the intended subdivision of the text. Medieval punctuation and the use of capital letters to indicate a new section was so free and irregular, often spontaneous, that I doubt it is worth while paying attention to, unless it seems to be very unusual, and at the same time also convincingly appears as having been written on purpose.
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1 | Obsecro te domina sancta maria mater dei |
2 | pietate plenissima |
3 | summi regis filia |
4 | mater gloriosissima |
5 | mater orphanorum |
6 | consolatio desolatorum. |
7 | Via errantium salus |
8 | in te sperantium. |
9 | Virgo ante partum |
10 | virgo in partu |
11 | et virgo post partum. |
12 | Fons misericordie |
13 | Fons salutis et gratie |
14 | Fons pietatis et letitie |
15 | Fons consolationis et indulgentie. |
16 | Per illam sanctam ineffabilem letitiam |
17 | qua exultavit spiritus tuus |
18 | in illa hora quando tibi |
19 | per gabrielem archangelum |
20 | annuntiatus et conceptus |
21 | filius dei fuit. |
22 | Et per illud divinum misterium |
23 | quod tunc operatus est (in te) spiritus sanctus. |
24 | Et per illam sanctam |
25 | ineffabilem |
26 | pietatem |
27 | gratiam |
28 | misericordiam |
29 | amorem et humilitatem |
30 | per quas filius tuus descendit |
31 | accipere humanam carnem |
32 | in venerabilissimo utero tuo. |
33 | Et in quibus te respexit |
34 | quando te commendavit |
35 | sancto iohanni apostolo et evangeliste. |
36 | Et quando te exaltavit |
37 | super choros angelorum. |
38 | Et per illam sanctam |
39 | inestimabilem humilitatem |
40 | in qua tu respondisti |
41 | archangelo gabrieli. |
42 | Ecce ancilla domini: fiat michi secundum verbum tuum. |
43 | Et per illa sanctissima |
44 | quindecim gaudia |
45 | que habuisti de filio tuo |
46 | domino nostro ihesu xpristo. |
47 | Et per illam sanctam |
48 | maximam compassionem |
49 | et accerbissimum cordis dolorem |
50 | quem habuisti quando |
51 | (vidisti) filium tuum |
52 | dominum nostrum iesum xpristum |
53 | ante crucem nudatum |
54 | et in ipsa(m) levatum |
55 | vidisti pendentem |
56 | crucifixum vulneratum |
57 | sicientem fel apponi |
58 | (hely) clamantem audisti |
59 | et morientem vidisti. |
60 | Et per quinque vulnera filij tui. |
61 | Et per contractionem viscerum suorum |
62 | pre nimio dolore vulnerum. |
63 | Et per dolorem quem habuisti |
64 | quando vidisti eum vulnerari. |
65 | Et per fontes sanguinis sui |
66 | et per omnem passionem eius |
67 | et per omnem dolorem cordis tui |
68 | et per fontes lacrimarum tuarum. |
69 | Vt cum omnibus sanctis et electis dei |
70 | veni et festina / venias et festines |
71 | in auxilium et consilium meum |
72 | (et) in omnibus orationibus et requestis meis |
73 | et in omnibus angustijs et necessitatibus meis |
74 | et in omnibus illis rebus |
75 | in quibus ego sum facturus |
76 | locuturus aut cogitaturus |
77 | omnibus diebus ac noctibus |
78 | horis atque momentis vite mee. |
79 | Et michi famulo/e tuo/e (N.) impetres |
80 | a dilecto filio tuo complementum |
81 | omni misericordia et consolatione |
82 | omni consilio omni auxilio et adiutorio |
83 | omni benedictione et sanctificatione |
84 | omni salvatione pace et prosperitate |
85 | omni gaudio et alacritate. |
86 | Etiam (h)abundantiam omnium bonorum |
87 | spiritualium et corporalium. |
88 | Et gratiam sancti spiritus |
89 | qui me bene per omnia disponat |
90 | animam meam custodiat |
91 | corpus meum regat |
92 | mentes erigat |
93 | (cursum dirigat) (sensum erigat) |
94 | mores componat actus probet |
95 | vota et desideria mea perficiat |
96 | cogitationes sanctas instituat |
97 | preterita mala indulgeat |
98 | presentia emendet |
99 | futura moderetur. |
100 | Vitam honestam et honorabilem michi tribuat |
101 | et victoriam contra omnes adversitates huius mundi |
102 | veram pacem spiritualem et corporalem michi tribuat |
103 | Bonam spem caritatem fidem |
104 | castitatem humilitatem et patientiam |
105 | (michi tribuat). |
106 | Quinque sensus corporis mei regat et protegat. |
107 | Septem opera misericordie complere me faciat. |
108 | Duodecim articulos fidei |
109 | et decem precepta legis firmiter tenere et credere me faciat. |
110 | Et a septem peccatis criminalibus me liberet et defendat |
111 | usque in finem. |
112 | Et in novissimis diebus meis ostende michi faciem tuam |
113 | et annunties michi diem et horam obitus mei. |
114 | Et hanc orationem supplicem suscipias et exaudias |
115 | et vitam eternam michi tribuas. |
116 | Audi et exaudi me dulcissima virgo maria |
117 | mater dei et misericordie. Amen. |