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pears, are represented by artificial figures 1 placed in the Prcesepe, 
which is definitely mentioned as a separate structure. The 
most interesting development shown in this text is the extension 
of the role of the Pastores into the first Mass and into Lauds. 
In the first Mass the Pastores rule the choir and supplant the 
Deacon, Sub-Deacon, and choir in several of their offices. In 
Lauds they take part in a dramatic rendition 2 3 of the first anti¬ 
phon, and conclude the office by singing a verse trope of the 
Benedicamus and a special antiphon. 
The dramatic and festal usages connected with the Oficium 
Pastorum at Rouen are still further clarified by a third text: 
<OEEICIUM PASTORUM SECUNDUM USUM ROTH- 
OMAGrEN SEM> 8 
<fol. 22 r > Lectio 4 * nona Euu anGelium: In principio erat 
uerbum. liesponsorium : Verbum caro factum. Versus: In 
principio. Plenum. Gloria, et cetera. Oimes de maiori 
SEDE IN SUPOrLIClTS, EXCEPTO BECANO, IN MODUm CORONE CAN- 
TENT PROSAm, ei incipiatur a cantore: Quern ethera et terra, 
ET CHORUS Jiesp O NDE A T NEUMIS. ElNITA PROSA, SACOfDOS 
CANONICUS, REUESTITIJS OMRIBRS INDUMENTIS SACERDOTALIBWS, 
cum ipso subi naconus tunica reuestitus, cantet ante 
altare EuuanGOLittM: Liber generationis. Einito EuudRGE- 
LIO, ARCHIEpisOOpUS UEL ALIUS SacCTDOS INCIPIAT ANffi ALTARE 
cum cANDELABns et thuribuUs: Te Deum laudamus. Einito 
Te Deum laudamus, peragatur OpinciuM PAsTORum hoc 
mouo sectmmm RoTiioMAGonscm usum. 
PrESEPE SIT PARATUm RETRO ALTARE et YlIAGO SanC^E 
Marie sit in eo posita. Inprimis quidam puer an^ 
1 See the rubric Presepe sif paratum retro altare et Ymago gamete 
Marie sit in eo posita , from Rouen MS. 384 (Y. 110), fob 22r, printed 
below. 
2 See below, pp. 352 ff. 
3 Rouen, Bibiiot.heque de la Ville, MS. 384 (Y. 110), Ordinarium 
Rothomagevse saec. xiv, fol. 22^-2 3 l Printed by A. Gaste, Les Drames 
liturgiques de la Cathedrale de Rouen, Evreux, 1893, pp. 25-32. I re¬ 
print from the manuscript. 
4 1 begin with the last Lectio of Christmas Matins in order to make 
clear the setting of the Qfficium Pastorum. 
