Texts

Latin prayer attested in early Irish or Irish-influenced manuscripts (though probably not of Irish origin).

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 18 
context: Deus deus meus rex omnipotens   Incorporated in Domine Deus omnipotens (al. Deus deus meus (rex) omnipotens.
MS
Cambridge, University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10/ff. 2-99 
rubric: Sancta confessio   incipit: Ante oculos tuos domine reus conscientiae testis   [9]
f. 48r.4–f. 49r.15
Text
Cambridge, University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10/ff. 2-99 
rubric: Sancta confessio   incipit: Ante oculos tuos domine reus conscientiae testis   
f. 48r.4–49r.15  
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 3/ff. 12-67 
incipit: Ante oculos tuos domine reus conscientiae testes adsisto   
f. 18r  
Text
New York, Morgan Library, MS M 641 
rubric: Alias [sic] orationes ante altare   incipit: Ante oculos tuos conscientiae teste reus assisto   Sacramentary of Mont-Michel (11th c.).
f. 40r  
Text
Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 213 

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Strittmatter, Anselm, “An unknown ‘apology’ in Morgan manuscript 641”, Traditio 4 (1946): 179–196.
194–195