322 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
now, the Introit not of the third Christmas Mass (Puer natus 
est), hut of the first Mass (Dommus dixit). Whether or not the 
Words iuxta altare represent an intention of mise en scene / the 
text stops far short of genuine dramla, for it bears, certainly, no 
sign of impersonation. 
Substantially the same text, from the same church, appears 
in another manuscript as follows: 
COFEICUTM PASTORIJM SECUNDUM USUM ECCLE- 
SIAE CATHEDRALIS CLAPOMOXTEXSIS > 1 2 
<fol. 40 T > quo 3 d^cto, duo puen cantent iuxta altare 
versum: 
Quem qneritis in presepe, Pastures, dicite? 
pastores versum: 
Saluatorem dominum, 
infantem paraiis inuolutum, 
secundum scrmonem angclicum. 
pum versum: 
Ades£ hie pemiulus cum Maria matre sua, 
de qua dudum uaticinando Ysaias dixerat prophefa: 
Ecce virgo concipiet- et pariet filium, 
et nunc euntes dicite quia natus est. 
pastores: 
AlMn-ia, alleluia! 
Iam uere scimus Xp istum natum in terris; 
canite omnes cum prophe^a dicentes: 4 
<I)ominus dixit> 5 6 
The only additional interest provided by this text is found in 
the word Pastores of the rubrics. This simple word clearly 
1 See above, pp. 306-311, and below, pp. 334 ff. 
2 Bibl. Nat., MS. lat. 1274, Breviarium Claromontense saec. xiv, fol. 
40 v . For a complete text of Matins and Lauds see below, Appendix A. 
3 Preceded immediately by: Psalmus : Te Deum. 
4 Followed immediately by the rubric: Quo finito, chori prouisores 
incipiawt ad Missam in Gallicantu. 
6 Beginning of the Introit of the first Mass of Christmas, i. e. Missa 
in Gallicantu. 
