Young~Ordo Prophet arum. 
11 
But before we undertake this examination we may pause to observe 
certain variations of content in the extant versions, and certain 
facts concerning its position in the liturgy. 
In some churches the lectio was substantially abbreviated. Thus 
in a French breviary of the thirteenth century 55 it appears as 
Lectio vi of Christmas, but is reduced by almost one-half in length. 
The lesson retains only the introduction, the prophecies of Isaiah, 
Jeremiah, and Daniel, and the concluding prophecy of the Sibyl. 
The shortest form that I have observed is the following from a 
breviary of the fourteenth century from Saintes, used as the sixth 
lectio of Christmas Matins : 56 
Lee tio via 
Vos, inquam, conuenio, o Iudei, qui usqwe in hodiernum diem negastis 
Filium Dei. Nowne uestra uox est ilia quando eum uidebatis miracula 
facientem atqwe temptantes dicebatis: Quousqwe awimas nostras tollis? 
Si tu es Xpistuc, die nobis palam. Ille autem ad consideracionem miracu- 
lorwm uos mittebat dicews: Opera que ego facio ipsa testimonium peri- 
bent de me, ut Xpisfo testimonium dicerewt non uerba set facta. Vos 
astern now agnoscentes Saluatorem qui operabatur salutem in medio 
uestre terre, adiciewfes maledixistis: Tu de te ipso testimowium peribes; 
testimonium tuum now est uerum. Sed ad hec ille quod testimowium 
uobis responderit auertere noluistis: Nowne scriptum est in lege quia 
qwod duorwm hominum <tdstimonium> uerum sit? Preuaricatores legis, 
intewdite legem. Testimonium queritis de Xpisto. In lege uestra scrip¬ 
tum est quod duorwm hominum testimonium uerum sit. Preuaricatores 
legis intendite legem. Testimonium queritis de Xpisto: in lege uestra 
scriptum est quo<d> duorwm hominum <testimonium> uerum sit. 57 
Procedant ex lege now tantum duo s ed eciam plures testes Xpisti cowuiw- 
cant auditores legis et now faefores. 
Die, Ysaya, testimonium de Xpisto. Ecce, inquit, 58 uirgo in utero con- 
cipiet et pariet filium, et uocabitur nomew eius Hemanuel, qwod est inter- 
pretatum nobiscum Dews. 
65 Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Ms. lat. 1255, Breviarium Gallicanum ssec. 
xiii, fol 84r—85r. Sepet (See p. 2, note 1) was familiar with this version. The 
exact provenience of this manuscript I have not been able to determine. In 
Catctlogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regice, Vol III, Paris, 1744, 
p. 99, the content of this manuscript is described as follows: Breviarium ad 
usum monasterii cujusdam Gallicani, ordinis Sancti Benedicti. That this 
breviary is not for monastic use, however, seems to be shown by the presence of 
nine lectiones in Matins of Epiphany. 
56 Paris, Bibl. Nat., Ms. lat. 16309, Breviarium Santonense saec. xiv, fol. 31r. 
This version is now published for the first time. The same manuscript con¬ 
tains (fol. 40v-41v) another excerpt from the pseudo-Augustinian sermo, used 
as the sixth lectio of Matins for the Circumcision. See below, note 77. 
57 1 print the text as it stands in the manuscript, with its obvious repetition. 
“inquit] inquid (Ms.). 
