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liturgy. The evidence is yet to be found, howtever, that the 
interpolations before us ever had a place in this dramatic office. 
Passing on, then, from these collateral developments -within 
the liturgy, let us return to the Introit-trope Quern quceritis in 
prcesepe and trace its development in the new situation at the 
end of Christmas Matins. 
We find the familiar text, still used as a mere trope, in the 
following: 
<Quem queritis secundum usum ecclesiae cathedraeis 
CEABOMONTENSIS > 1 
<fol. 28 v > QUO 2 DICTO., DUO PUERI IUXTA AETARE HUflC P7*0~ 
SEEEum cawtemt, u ersus: 
Quem queritis in presepe, Pastores, dicite? 
versus: 
Saluatorem Ypistum Dominum, 
inf an tern paraiis inuolutum 
secundum sermonem angelicum. 
versus: 
Adest hie paruulus cum Maria matre sua, 
de qua dudum uaticinando Ysaias dixerat prophe/a: 
Ecce uirgo concipiet et pariet filium; 
et nunc euntes dicite quia natus est. 
versus: 
Alleluya, alleluya. 
versus: 
lam uere scimns Xpistfnm natum in terris, 
de quo canite omnes cum propheta dicente<s> : 
QUO EINITO IMMEDIATE inCIPIAUT AD MISS AM OEFICIUm : 
Dominus dixit ad me. 
The word prosellum of the opening rubric indicates clearly 
that we are dealing still with a mere trope, a trope introducing, 
1 Clermont-Ferrand, Bibliotheque d e la Ville, MS. 67, Breviarium 
Claromontense saec. xv, fol. 28u This text first came to my notice 
through the incomplete version given by Twigge in The Dublin Re¬ 
view, Yol. 121 (1897), p. 362. I reprint from the manuscript. 
2 Preceded immediately by: Te Deum laudamus. 
