Young—Officium Past or urn. 
319 
rn.esponsiO': Nunc puerum Npistnm genuit, gremioqwe locauit. 
Te Deum 1 audamus. 1 
A longer form of the dialogue appears in the following : 2 3 
a wte Te Dowm eaudamws. 
Quid regina poli facial, nunc dissere nobis ? 
lam puerum Npistum genuit, gremioqwe locauit. 
Quern puerum genuit nobis, gremio<q>ue locauit? 
Qui Deus est et homo processit Yirginis aluo; 
Emmanuhel dictum leti cognoscite natum. 
In spite of its dramatic content, this dialogue seems never to 
have advanced further toward genuine drama. 
Although not primarily dramatic, the following text deserves 
a place among the illustrative materials now before us: 
s uesponsorium: V erbum caro factum est et habitabit in 
nobis, cuiws gloriam uidimws quasi unigeniti a Patre, plenum 
gratia, i et ueritate. versus: In principio erat uerbum et uer- 
bum erat aput Deum, et Dews erat Verbum. Plenum. Gloria 
Patri usQue secwlorwm amew. 
einito isroxo uesponsorio et ge on a vatvi, vesponsoriuM a 
PHNCIPIO REPETATWr. CUm QUO DESCENDIT AD MEDlUm EC- 
clesm cum. PrOCESSIONE ET DUOBUS CANDELABmS PrOCEDEWTI- 
BUS CEREIS ACCEWSIS, IBI CA^TATtTUr UOrSUS ISTI: 
Quern ethera et terra atqwe mare no n preualent totum ca- 
pere, 
Asine presepe infans implet, celos regews, ubera <fol. 
' 30 v > sugens. 
Factor matris f actus hodie est de Ma£re. 
1 St. Gall, Ms. 388, Liber Responsalis Sangallensis saec. xii, p. 57. 
This dialogue is found also in the Responsdle Hartkeri (St. Gall, Ms. 
390-391, saec. x), as was pointed out by W. Meyer, Fragmenta Burana, 
Berlin, 1901, pp. 35-36. The dialogue may, perhaps, be considered a 
trope of the Te Deum, as Gautier (p. 170, note) remarked. Meyer 
characterizes these lines as Versus sacerdotales'. My own observation 
is that the versus sacerdotales are found, usually, after the Te Deum. 
2 St. Gall, Ms. 390-391, Responsale Hartkeri sae'c. x, p. 8. Page 8 
occurs in the part of the manuscript added by a hand of the thirteenth 
.century. 
3 Munich, Staatsbibliothek, Cod. lat. 5546, Brev. Diessen. saec. xv, 
fol. 30r-30u 
