Young—Officium Pastorum. 
325 
fied. It is clear, especially through the repetition of the Te 
Deum , that the dramatic text is no longer felt to he a trope of 
the Introit of the succeeding Mass. The stage-setting is a defin¬ 
itely constructed Prcesepe of some sort. 1 Impersonation is 
made particularly explicit in the rubric pueri . . . bar 
culis se sustenantes in similitudine Pastorum. 
Further textual additions and scenic details appear in an¬ 
other text from Rouen: 
cofficium pastorum secundum usum 
ROTHOMAGENSEM > 2 
<fol. 11 V >IN 3 mnctA NOCTE natiuitatis Domini POST TE 
DEUm, AUGeTUS ASSISTED AN<N>UnCIET XPistUM NATUTTl ESSE, 
et HOC DICET : 
Nolite timere, ecce enim evangelizo uobis gaudium mag¬ 
num, qtmd erit omni populo, quia natus est nobis hodie Sal- 
uator mundi in ciuitate Dauid, et hoc uobis signum: In- 
uenietis infantem pannis inuolutum <fol. 12 r > et positum 
in presepio. 
HOC AUDIEUTES VII PUEBI STAUTES in AETO LOCO DICANT : 
Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus' bone 
uoluntatis. 
AUDIEUTES PASTOB.CS EANT HCrSUS PBESEPE CAWTAWTES HOC 
b esponsorium: 
Pax in terris nuuciatur, 
in excelsis gloria. 
Terra fedoratur, 
tnediante gratia 
Mediator, homo, Deus 
descendit in propria, 
ut ascendat homo reus 
ad admissa gaudia. Eya! Eya! 
1 See' below, pp. 334 ff. 
2 Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. lat. 904, Graduate Rotbomagense saec. 
XIII, fol. ll v —14 r . This text is printed by E. de Coussemaker, Drames 
Liturgiques du Moyen Age, Rennes, 1860, pp. 235-241. I reprint from 
the manuscript. 
8 Preceded immediately by the words: Te Deum laudamus , which 
mark the end of Christmas Matins. 
