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ence of the Franciscan order.81 After the lessons follow brief specifica-
tions for Second Vespers, comprising the antiphon Tecum principium for
the standard Vespers psalmody and the hymn Hostis Herodes for the
Epiphany. The compiler of V has made no use (or has had no know-
ledge) of the rest of the proper liturgy.
The lessons in V (printed in SRD and in VSD 208-11) deal only with
the day of the duke’s murder. This much shortened redaction has some
general resemblance at the beginning to S, later to R, but none of the
three texts seems on doser inspection to be dependent on either of the
remaining two: see e.g. the variants at K 343-48 Ad - operis] = V, om.
R, S; 363 celari] om. R, celare S, latere V; 364 Kanute] = R, S, Frater V;
369 inter nos hoc] = S, hoc inter nos R, V; 374 cappe] = S, om. R, V; 376
findit] = R, scidit S (and O), scindit V. Gertz (VSD 534) expressed the
view that V is closely related to R. Its private readings are probably all
corruptions.
4.2.5. The Breviarium Lundense (LN 27, here designated L; cf. SRD IV
262-64) appeared at Paris in 1517, again with the name of Christiem
Pedersen as editor. It provides material for both feasts, beginning in each
place with an antiphon of which the opening words are Ave martyr dux
Danorum. This is not, however, the Magnificat antiphon in three five-
line strophes with the same opening words occurring at First Vespers of
the Passion in K (§ 1:5), but an independent text consisting of a single
six-line strophe. It has evidently been composed on the model of the
psalm antiphon Ave martyr gloriose at the beginning of First Vespers of
the Translation feast in K. That antiphon also has the opening words Ave
martyr and the pronoun nos at the beginning of its fourth line. It is also
six lines long, though the rhyme scheme and metre are not the same:
K (§ 9:1) L (f. 107 [sig. o iij] r, f. 284 [sig. K iiij] r)
Ave martyr gloriose Aue martyr dux Danorum [Dauorum (!) ff. 107,284]
aue sydus iam celeste Canute [Canuti (!) f. 107] : qui proditorum
81 Cf. Baumer GB 326; Ludwig Eisenhofer, Handbuch der katholischen Liturgik,
Freiburg/Br. 1932-33 [HKL], II494.