The Sacramentary of Hadrian gives two Collects for Our Lady's Birthday; one without title, the other marked "Ad Missas" – for Mass. The first is Supplicationem servorum tuorum, which the Dominicans and mediæval English Uses used; the second is Famulis tuis quæsumus, later used in the Roman Missal (still maintained to-day, with but a slight alteration) also by the extinct English order of the Gilbertines.
Supplicationem servorum tuorum, Deus, miserator exaudi: ut, qui in Nativitate Dei Genetricis et Virginis congregamur, ejus intercessionibus [SH included: complacatus] a te de instantibus periculis eruamur. Per eumdem...
Famulis tuis, *quæsumus* [SH omitted], Domine, cælestis gratiæ munus inpertire: ut, quibus beatæ Virginis partus exstitit salutis exordium, Nativitatis ejus †votiva solemnitas† [modern: festivitas], pacis tribuat incrementum. Per...
For what it's worth, I prefer the first Collect – which, it could be argued, is part of that elusive Patrimony that incoming Anglicans like to go on about! Curiously enough, things Dominican are often quite closely related to things Sarum...
The Neo-Gallican Paris Missal of 1738 instead was given a new Collect, redolent of Scripture, in the manner then fashionable:
Deus, qui secundum propositum voluntatis tuae [Eph 1:5], mundum tibi reconciliare voluisti [II Cor 5:19]: praesta quaesumus, ut qui Nativitatem Virginis Mariae, de qua natus est nobis Christus Salvator [Mt 1:16; Lk 2:11], cum gaudio celebramus; ipsam quam Filius operatus est, salutem Matris intercessione consequamur. Per eumdem...
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