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phona: Quern uidistis. Pastores alias a ntiphonas incip- 
iant, UNvsQuisque suAm secunuuM ordtoem, et omues cum 
neum^s FiNiANT^r, et Pastores regant cHORwm. A ntiphona: 
Genuit puerpera: Ps almus: Iub Hate. Antiphona Ange- 
lus ad pa < stores >. P salmus: Deus, Jdeus. Antiphona: 
Facta est cum angelo. P salmus: Bencd icite. Antiphona: 
Paruulus filius. P salmus: Laudate. CAuitulum: Populus 
gentium. Ymnus: A solis ortws cardme. Versus: Yider- 
unt om nes fi<nes> t erre. Antiphona sicut in Vesperis repe- 
TAtw: Gloria in excelsis. V salmus: Beuedictus. Or atio: 
Concede, quesumus, omnipotent Dens. Benedicam us cantettjr 
a pastorum. Yerbum Patris hodie. Quo finito, Pastores 
cantent hang a ntiphonam totam in pulpito : Ecce com- 
pleta sunt. Archiep iscopus uel SAcemos dicat u ersum: 
Post partum Virgo. Or atio: Deus, qui salutis eterne. Bene- 
dicamus in. de prima sede. 1 
The chief interest of this text lies, manifestly, in the new 
details furnished by the rubrics as to mise en scene. The play 
is explicitly designated Officium Pastorum. We are given the 
exact location of the Prcesepe (retro altare), —and, hence, of 
the main action,—and we are definitely told that Maria is pres- 
.sent in an artificial figure of some sort (Ym.ago Sancte 
Marie). The pueri who represent the Chorus Angelorum are 
placed in some elevated spot under the vaulting (in uoltis), and 
the Pastores, numbering five (ad quinque canonicos . . . Pas¬ 
tores), are vested in tunics and amices (tunicis et amictis indu- 
tos) and approach the Prsesepe through the portal of the choir- 
screen (per magnum hostium chori). The Ohstetrices are in 
this case impersonated by two priests vested in dalmatics (duo 
preshyteri dalmaticati). Concerning the role of the Pastores 
in the first Mass and in Lauds significant additional details are 
offered. 
In the Officium Pastorum of Bouen the original Introit- 
trope Quern quwntis in prcesepe reached its highest dramatic 
development within the liturgy of Christmas, Further than this 
i Followed immediately by the rubric: Sequatur Missa de Luce. 
