Young—Officium Pastorum. 
355 
It is in the midst of this psalmodic series that the dialogue 
Past ores, dicite, quidnam vidistis ? achieves its most interesting 
development within the liturgy of Christmas. The simplest 
type of this development is well represented by the following 
text d 
<AD LAUDES IN; NATIVITATE DOMINI> 1 2 
<foL 175 V > Eintta comMUNiONE ph’me Misse, cantan- 
tur MAtutine Lau des, in quibus no n dicatur Cap itulum nec 
H ymnus, see mcipito sequels antipiiona: Quern uidistis, 
pastures, dicite? Annunciate nobis in terris quis apparuit? 
Natum uidimus in choro angelorum Saluatorem Dommnm, 
alleluia, alleluia. 
<fol. I76 r > P salmus: Dominus regnauit <xcn>. 
Ant iphona: Genuit puerpera regem, cui nomen etemum et 
gaudium matris habeas cum uirginitatis honore; nec primam 
similem uisa est, nec habere sequentem, alleluia. 
P salmus : Ivihilate <xcix>. 
A ntiphona: Angelus ad pastores ait: Annuncio uobis 
gaudium magnum, quia natus est nobis hodie Saluator mundi, 
alle^ma. 
vsalmus: Dews, Deus <lxii, et Deus misereatur (lxvt)>, 
a ntiphona: Facta est cum angelo multitudo icelestis exerci- 
tus 3 4 laudantium et dicentium: Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in 
terra pax homimbus bonse uoluntatis, alleluia. 
vsalmus: Benedicite < Daniel iii>. 
bum cantatut vsalmus Bencd icite, uArumT ptjeri retro al- 
TAREp ET EINITA ANTIPHOHO- ILLIUS PSALmi, ILLI QUI CHORTim 
1 For similar texts see Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS. lat. 1273, Breviariunx 
Andegavense saec. xiv, fol. 39^, printed below, Appendix B; Ibid., MS. 
lat. 16309, Breviariunx Santonense saec. xiv, fol. 35r-35v; Paris, Bibl. 
Sainte Genevieve, MS. 117, Liber Responsalis Bellovacensis saec. xiii- 
xiv, fol. 25r; Paris, Bibl. de VArsenal, MS. 279, Breviarium C’adomense 
saec. xiii, fol. 87 r . 
2 Bibl. Nat. MS. lat. 1268, Breviarium Silvanectense saec. xiv, fol- 
175v-176v. 
8 MS. excercitus. 
4 Concerning the use of altare see pp. 306-311, 336-7. 
