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Michael Chesnutt
psalms of Matins in K are Pss. 4—5-8 and 10-14-20 respectively, corre-
sponding to the second and third noctums in normal secular use; imme-
diately afterwards, in the ninth position in K, follows Ps. 54. The
Roskilde redactor, finding Ps. 54 in his monastic model as the psalm
next after the (incomplete) secular series to which he was accustomed,
must have borrowed that psalm to fill the place of the missing Ps. 3.
The following is a locus that might seem at first sight to contradict the
derivation of *r from K:
K 786-88 perpendens multiplicari miracula. eius translacioni operam super
hoc archipresulem [...] consuluit
R perpendens miracula eius multiplicari dans operam super hoc
archipresulem [...] consuluit (VSD 217,[31-32])
Here, while the verb dans is wanting in K, the substantive translationi is
wanting in R. The text is found intact, though syntactically modified, in
L: translationi operam dabat et super hoc archipresulem [...] consuluit
(VSD 218,[18-19]). On balance it seems most likely that dans has been
conjecturally restored in *r; the word order (and the sense) has been al-
tered at the same time, and the indirect object omitted in the process.
The alternative interpretation would be that K and *r descend from *k
via one or more intermediaries exhibiting the various errors shared by K
and R, but not that occurring at K 786-88. Given the complexity of the
compilation process behind the text of K (see section 2.1.3 above), that
alternative is less plausible as it would relegate K to the status of a copy
at second hånd.
The *k recension is not unique in being a monastic revision of a pre-
existing secular model.102 Since its terminus post quem is the promulga-
tion of the national secular liturgy, it cannot be older than ca. 1200 and
may not even be much older than the extant manuscript. If it were
thought desirable to place the genesis of *k in a specific historical con-
text, an event a whole century later than the Translation solemnities of
102 Cf. Reames (n. 17 above), here 256,258, on various medieval forms of the Office for St
Cecilia. - There may or may not be a remnant of the secular model in K § 3:1:2, which in-
dicates Ps. 99 as the second psalm with antiphon at Lauds; this is the normal choice of
psalm in that position according to the secular use for feast days, whereas the monastic use
normally had Ps. 117 (see LU 221; MBHA VI 196, cf. I fo. 3v).