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In the choral prayer, the chant of Alleluia was suppressed from
Septuagesima Sunday to Holy Saturday; at compline, ‘Laus tibi
Christe rex eteme glorie’ was substituted for it (see ON, p. 189; AN,
p. 110 sqq.). Was the same rule applied to the recitation of our Psalter
during Lent by the redactor of MS s?
The phraseology of our Suscipe-prayer comes very close to that of
the votive masses; e.g. the collect of the missa communis, found in
MS Oxford Auct. D. I. 20, written for Saint-Gall in the second half of
the ninth century (Tc 3116): ‘Suscipe domine clementissime.. . suppli-
cationes et preces, quas tibi ego peccator praesumo offerre, in honore’
(etc.). The same applies to the collect of a votive mass Pro vivis atque
defunctis found in Jum, p. 313, and in a nearly identical form also in
GrU 1133.6
Like these prayers, ours contain three clauses, (1) ad honorem, (2)
pro remissione, (3) ad salutem, which could all be expanded according
to the intentions of the writer, or the owner.
The first clause, in honorem, has been expanded to include a great
many saints in some of our manuscripts:
A
Trinitatis
Crucis
Marie v.
Michaelis
Iohannis Bapt.
Petri
Pauli
Iohannis ev. • .
Andree........
Bartholomei
Simonis
lude
Stephani
Laurencii
Olaui
Thome (Cant.)
Dionisij
6 See also the offertory prayers of the tenth-century sacramentary of Amiens, MS
Paris lat. 9432, ed. V. Leroquais, L’Ordo Missae du sacramentaire d’Amiens: EL 41
(1927), pp. 441-42.
B c P s t Nb
I • I
Mauritii