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stituted for the periphrasis cuius superius mencionem fecimus. At the
Translation feast the first lesson leaps from K 704 to 741, omitting the
story of the early development of the saint’s cult in favour of the politi-
cal developments leading to his canonisation.
A glance at the variants in Appendix I shows that the lessons in R
share a few characteristic readings with O (e.g. lines 364 ducem Canu-
tum, circumvenit, 368 et tu). Neither text can be derived from the other,
if only for the reason that they exhibit mutually exclusive omissions as
compared with K. There is in faet no doubt that the lessons in O and R
were independently extracted from fuller texts; one of those texts may
also have been the source of BAM, which like O (and N, S) ends its story
prior to the actual Translation, but goes on as far as the emergence into
the political limelight of the future King Valdemar I (cf. K 760 fe ret ro
imposuerunt, O, as mentioned on p. 21, ends already at K 743 incremen-
tum accepit). Some affinity between BAM and R might just possibly be
inferred from the readings 703 non (ne) quis, 743 (common omission),
746 (inverted word-order), 753 reddebat, or between BAM and O (N, S)
from the readings 705 generis (so also L, O), 716 Inde frustrati (so also
N, O, S), and 735 (inverted word-order; so also N, O).
4.2.4. The Breviarium Arosiense (here designated V; cf. SRD IV
274-75) was published at Basle for use in the Swedish diocese of
Vasterås. The preface is dated 1504 but the book did not actually appear
until 1513.80 V gives a collect and legenda for the Passion only. The col-
lect is Deus in cuius fide (as K § 1:6) with the variants 38 mortern] ita
mortern (= N, O, RD), meritis] + et precibus (= MH, O, S). The lessons
are an abstract of the Vita altera divided - as has already been observed
in the case of the manuscript BKB - into nine portions, thereby providing
for all three noctums of Matins without a homily. This is a familiar pat-
tern in the late middle ages, reflecting the widespread liturgical influ-
80 See Isak Collijn, Sveriges bibliografi intill år 1600, I: 1478-1530, Uppsala 1934—38,
221-26, here 223.