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Accedat et alius testis. Die et tu, Iheremia, testimonium Xpisto. Hie 
est <inquit> Deus noster, et non estimabitur alius absqne illo, qui inuenit 
omnem uiam sciencie, et dedit earn Iacob puero suo et Israel dilecto suo. 
Post hec in terris uisus est, et cum hominibns conuersatus est. 
Ecce duo 59 testes ex lege uestra ex quornm testimonio non snnt com- 
puncta corda uestra. 60 
Since this version contains only the nsnal introduction and the 
first two prophecies (Isaiah and Jeremiah), one might surmise that 
other parts of the sermo supplied one or more of the succeeding 
lectiones of Matins at Saintes ; 61 hut such is not the case. 
Somewhat different from the versions previously cited is the 
following Lectio ix for Christmas Matins in a breviary of the four¬ 
teenth century from Carcassonne : 62 
Lectio ix 
Inter pressuras atqne angustias presentis temporis in nostre seruitutis 
officia eogimur, Dilectissimi, non tacere cum pocius expediat flere magis 
quam aliquid dicere. Uerumptamen ne quid minus lucri arche dominice 
accedens dicatur nobis: Serue neqnam et piger tu erogares peccuniam 
meam et ego ueniens cum usuris exigerem. 63 
Procedant ex lege non tantum duo s ed etiam plures testes Xpisti et 
conuinean£ uos Iudeos auditores legis non autem facJores. 
Die, Ysaia, testimonium Xpisto. 
Ecce, inquit, uirgo concipiet et pariet filium et uocabitur nomen eius 
Emanuhel, qztod interpretatur: Nobiscum Dens. 
Accedat et alius testis. Die, Iberemias, testimonium de Xpisto. 
Hie est, inqnit, Deus nosier et non estimabiinr alius absqne illo qni 
inuenit omnem scienfiam et dedit earn Iacob puero suo et Israel dilecto 
suo. 
Quid enim Sibilla uaticinando de Xpisto clamauerit in medium profer- 
amus. Audite quid dixerit: 
59 duo] duos (Ms.). 
60 The sixth responsory follows immediately: Responsorium: Sancti et in- 
maculata uirginitas. 
61 For excerpts from the sermo serving in a series of lectiones see the use of 
Sarum, cited below, note 74. 
62 Paris, Bibl. Nat., ;Ms. lat. 1035, Breviarium Carcassonense ssec. xiv, 
fol. 3 Or— 31r. This text is now published for the first time. In the manuscript 
it is immediately preceded by the following henedictio: Initium et finis, Alius 
Marie uirginis eruat nos a peccatis et uitiis. 
63 This introductory paragraph (Inter pressuras . . . exigerem) consists 
of the opening sentences of the complete Contra Judaeos, Paganos, et Arianos 
Sermo de Symbolo. See above, pp. 2 ff. 
