Hail Mary is the best know of Marian devotions of the Catholic Church. It recalls the Annunciation to Mary the archangel Gabriel as told in the Gospel of Luke, and reached its current form in the sixteenth century.

We have supplemented the text with macrons to mark etymologically long vowels.

The translation is the English version of the prayer.

The text’s transcription emulates the capitalis rustica, a style of the Latin alphabet that was in use in the imperial Rome and Late Antiquity for writing on papyrus or parchment with a reed pen. We made use of Hasan Guven’s typeface Vatican Rough Letters.