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tion of the antiphon Jocundus homo for the psalms of Second Vespers
(as in O, RD), together with sets of six lessons for the first and second
nocturns of the two feasts (printed in SRD and in VSD 212, 218). These
lessons are a concise paraphrase of the whole extent of the narrative in
the Vita altera and can accordingly not derive from any of the other bre-
viaries; among these only S offers a similarly comprehensive abstract.
Dependence on the Roskilde tradition might have been looked for in L
in view of the geographical proximity and institutional links between the
two dioceses, but the textual evidence is far from conclusive: it is parti-
cularly notable that the antiphon Ave martyr gloriose cannot be shown to
have been present in *r.
4.2.6. The Breviarium Arhujiiense (LN 25, here designated A; not in-
cluded in SRD) was printed locally at Århus in 1519. It makes provision
only for the Translation feast, of which First Vespers yields precedence
to Second Vespers of St John the Baptist. For a commemoration de san-
cto Kanuto at the latter, A specifies the antiphon Beatus vir from the
Common of One Martyr83 together with the collect Deus pro cuius fide
(as K § 1:6, variants (K] A): 36 in] pro; 36-37 incedens] misprinted in-
cedes; 38 addicitur] adducitur; promeruimus] meruimus (= N, R, S,
etc.)). As in all the other printed breviaries except V, six lessons extrac-
ted from the Vita altera are supplied for Matins (VSD 204-07), here sup-
plemented by three homiletic lessons on the Gospel text Nolite arbitrari
- i.e. the same Gospel as occurs in MH at both feasts and in R at Matins
of the Passion. Strangely enough, the extracts from the Vita are not from
the Translation narrative but from that of the duke’s life, beginning in
the same way as S:
K (§ 2a:2:3:l)
Factus igitur dux
Dei disposicione Kanutus.
posuit super femur
A (f. 273 [sig. B i] v)
Factus dux Dei gratia
Kanutus, christia<n>issimi
regis Erici filius
posuit super femur
S (f. 299, recte 303 [sig. L
xiij] r)
Beatus Kanutus regis Erici
filius : Dei dispositione
factus dux Iucie.
posuit super femur
83 Presumably the Magnificat antiphon printed at A f. 356 [sig. Y iv] v, the text of which,
however, is from Eccli. 31:8-9 (cf. K 953-56); not to be mistaken for the rhymed antiphon
Beatus vir, vere beatus at K 60-61.