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Ps. 120: MSS c L q (s)
Versiculi ,
MS c, f. 169r: Kyriel. Christel. Kyriel. Pater noster. Ego dixi.
Inclina cor meum. Fiat cor meum. Domine exaudi.
MSS L, and q, f. 188r: Pater noster qvi. Ego dixi domine. Domine
exaudi.
MS s, f. 216r: Kyriel. Christel. Kyriel. Pater noster. Ave Maria.
Ego dixi educ me de inf(eris). Inclina cor meum. Domine exaudi.
Oracio. Corda nostra quesumus domine sanctus splendor incamati-
onis natiuitatis circumcisionis apparicionis passionis resurrectionis
ascensionis domini nostri ihesu christi et aduentus sancti spiritus
dementi respectu illustret. quo mundi huius tenebris carere ualeamus
et ipso ducente perueniamus ad patriam claritatis eteme. per.
apparicionis] ‘reliqva desunt’ s resurrectionis] et add. c per] ejusdem add. c
MS Paris lat. 9436, sacramentary of St. Denis, c. 1050, f. 128v-129r: In commemo-
ratione saluatoris; Jum 241 sq. (no rubric); New Minster 208: Missa in memoriam
saluatoris nostri; MS CCCC 422, p. 129: Missa in memoriam saluatoris domini
nostri; MS Vitellius A XVIII, f. 159v (Vit); The Missal of St. Augustine’s Abbey
Canterbury (Aug), ed. M. Rule (1896), p. 132: Missa de Incarnatione Domini; The
Bec Missal, p. 245: In commemoratione incamationis, etc.; W 2, 1140-1141: De
incarnacione domini.
Three eleventh-century English texts are identical, i.e. Jum, New Minster, CCCC
422, except for the final clause.
domine] om. Jum sanctus] om. Paris splendor] tue add. Paris Jum Vit Aug
Bec dominice add. W circumcisionis] om. Paris Jum Aug Bec apparicionis]
om. Jum Vit Aug Bec W resurrectionis] ammirabilis r. et Paris domini nostri
ihesu christi] om. et aduentus (aduentu Aug)] aduentusque Paris sancti
spiritus] spiritus sancti dementi] nos c. Jum ipso (te add. Vit Aug) ducente]
om. Paris per] dominum add. Jum (om. New Minster CCCC) qui uiuis Paris Vit
Aug Bec et regnas cum deo Paris Bec patre in unitate eiusdem Paris
This prayer, which is modelled on the collect of the Vigil of Epiphany, is found as the
collect of a votive mass, very often inserted after the first, the Trinity Mass, of Alcuin’s
votive masses for the week. In England, we also find it in the Guiseborough Missal of
1322, Brit. Mus. MS Add. 35285, f. 163r: De humanitate christi, and in the fourteenth-
century Whitby Missal, Oxford Bodi. MS Rawl. lit. b. 1 (390), f. 274r: De incarnatione
domini.
St. Denis apart, in France it appears in the earliest missals of the great Norman
abbey s:
The sacramentary of St. Wandrille of the first half of the eleventh century, added by a
slightly more recent hånd, Rouen MS 272 (Y. 196), f. 275: In veneratione humanitatis
christi (Leroquais, Les Sacramentaires, 1, p. 136); '
the missal of Fécamps, second half of the twelfth century, Rouen MS 290 (A. 313), f.