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The earliest western Graduals have no Common of Saints, except for those of bishops: the Vigil of One Bishop (CAO 170), the Nativity of One Bishop (CAO 171-171.3), the Ordination of One Bishop (CAO 171.4), and the Ordination of Many Bishops (CAO 172). Instead these early sources include a variety of propers for saints’ days, but no further Commons of Saints. The Common of Saints was assembled over time as a convenient means of providing for saints’ days that lacked propers, and to avoid having multiple copies of repeated musical items. Thus the CAO numbers in the present volume are significant only in that they indicate that an item is part of the oldest layers of the gradual.  (Multiple reference numbers of repeated chants found in CAO are not indicated in the edition).

The following CAO feasts are not found in the Sarum Rite, although many of the chants appear in the common:
031.2, St. Felicis (Felix of Metz?, Feb. 21)
097, St. Alexander and companions (Feb. 26)
101, St. Pudentiana (May 19)
104, St. Urban (May 25)
113, Sts. Primus and Felician (June 9)
124 Sts. Processus and Matinian (July 2)
127 St. Praxedis (July 21)
132 St. Xystus (Aug. 6)
133 Sts. Felicissimus and Agapitus (Aug. 10)
139 St. Eusebius (Aug. 1)
144 St. Hermetis (Hermes) (Aug. 28)
145 St. Sabina (Aug. 29)
147 St. Adrian (Aug. 26)
148.2 St. Stephen (Aug. 6?)
151 Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian (Sept. 16)
153 St. Euphemia and companions (Sept. 16)
161 St. Caesarius (Nov. 1 or 3?)
164 St. Mennae (Nov. 11)

It is noteworthy that the selection of chants and readings from the Common of Saints for particular Feasts does not always follow the categories indicated below.  This may be partly on account of the historical circumstances outlined above, and partly on account of the suitability of certain texts for certain days. For example, On the Feast of St. Maur, Abbot and Confessor (January 15), the Officium and Communion are taken from the Common of One Martyr, rather than from the Common of One Confessor and Abbot. Further, some chants, such as the Communion Magna est gloria appear in more than one common.

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Image: The miracle of the Mass of St. Gregory.  Pope Gregory I kneeling at the altar, before the image of Christ appearing above the chalice. (The story of this miracle appears, among other places, in The Golden Legend.)  That the celebrant is wearing a tiara would appear to be an indication that this is Pope Gregory, rather than that the tiara would actually be worn during the consecration. Compare the image in the Sarum Book of Hours known as “Queen Mary’s Psalter”, where an attending cardinal holds the tiara.
Two instruments of the passion are also represented, being held by angels.  Another notable feature of this image is the small figures presumably of the Virgin and St. John the Apostle, as is typically found on Rood Screens.

Vigil of One Apostle or Evangelist

The Vigils of One Apostle or Evangelist are:
Nov. 29, St Andrew
Dec. 20, St. Thomas
July  24, St. James
Aug. 23, St. Bartholomew
Sept. 20, St. Matthew
There is no Vigil for St. John the Evangelist, St. Matthias, St. Mark the Evangelist, St. Barnabas, St. Paul, or St. Luke the Evangelist.
All of these vigils use the mass-chants from the common, except for St. Andrew, which uses only the Offertory from the common of the vigil; the Officium and Communion are proper, and the Gradual is from the Common of one Apostle.
Note that the Gradual, Alleluya, Offertory, and Communion chants for the Vigil of one Apostle or evangelist are also used for the Feast of One Martyr.

‘St. Luke has no Vigil probably because the Church is doubtful whether he suffered martyrdom.’ Frederick G. Lee, Directorium Anglicanum (London, Bosworth, 1865):100.

The Roman Missal 1543 includes a Vigil of Many Apostles, for use on the Vigils of Philip and James (April 30) and Simon and Jude (October 27). In the Sarum Use the only Vigil of Many Apostles is that of Simon and Jude (since there are no vigils of saints in Eastertide); therefore there is no Common for Vigils of Many Apostles. (Much of the content of that vigil is to be found in the common of the Roman Use.)

[In the Roman Use the Vigil of One Apostle was suppressed in the 1955 reform.]

Only the Officium chant is unique in the Vigil of One Apostle; the other chants are found in the Common of One Martyr.

Offic. Ego autem sicut oliva fructifera (Ps. 51:10-11; 1 (Old Roman).)
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24)
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23)
-Vigil of St. Matthew (Sep 20)

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Prayer. Quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut nostra devotio
The Roman Missal (1543) has ‘Da quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut beati N.’.
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24)
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23)

‘. . . beati N. . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Lesson. Benedictio Domini super caput

This Lesson appears in full in the Vigil of St. Andrew (Nov 29).
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20) or below
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24) or below
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23) or below

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Lesson. Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20) or above
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24) or above
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23) or above
-Vigil of St. Matthew (Sep 20)
-St. Chrysogonus (Nov 24)

Grad. Justus ut palma (Ps. 91:13-14; 3 9 (Gallican).)
This Gradual also appears in the Common of One Martyr.
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24)
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23)
-Vigil of St. Matthew (Sep 20)

When the vigil of Andrew falls on Sunday, the vigil mass is sung in Chapter with Alleluya. V. In omnem terram (Common of Apostles).
When the vigil of Matthew falls on Sunday, the vigil is mass sung in Chapter with Alleluya. V. Per manus autem (Common of Apostles).
When the other vigils fall on Sundays they are observed only as memorials at the mass.

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Gospel. Ego sum vitis vera
This Gospel is also used for other saints days in Eastertide.
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20) or below
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)
-St. Alphege (Apr 19)
-St. George (Apr 23)
-St. Mark (Apr 25)
-St. Vitalis (Apr 28)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Germanus (May 28)
-St. Nichomede (Jun 1)
-St. Edward trans. (Jun 9)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24) or below
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23) or below

Gospel. Ego sum vitis, vos palmites
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20) or above
-Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (Apr 14)
-Sts. Gordian and Epimachus (May 10)
-Sts. Nereus, Achillies and Pancratius (May 12)
-St. Augustine (May 26)
-Sts. Boniface and Companions (Jun 5)
-Sts. Marcellinus and Peter (Jun 2)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24) or above
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23) or above
-Vigil of Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 27)

Offer. Gloria et honore (Ps. 8:6-7)
This Offertory also appears in the Common of One Martyr.
-Vigil of St. Andrew (Nov. 29)
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24)
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23)
-Vigil of St. Matthew (Sep 20)

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Secret. Accepta sit tibi Domine nostre devotionis
This Secret also appears in the York, Westminster and Ambrosian Missals.
The Roman Missal (1543) has ‘Apostolice reverentie culminis’
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24)
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23)

Comm. Magna est gloria ejus
This Communion also appears in the Common of One Martyr.
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24)
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23)
-Vigil of St. Matthew (Sep 20)

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Postcomm. Presta nobis eterne largitor
This Postcommunion also appears in the York Missal.
The Ambrosian Postcommunion is related: Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus : ejus nos oratione ubique protege . . . ‘
The Roman Missal (1543) has ‘Sancti apostoli tui N. quesumus’.
-Vigil of St. Thomas (Dec. 20)
-Vigil of St. James (Jul 24)
-Vigil of St. Bartholomew (Aug 23)

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On the Day of One Apostle
The nine Feasts of One Apostle are:
Nov. 30, St. Andrew
Dec. 21, St. Thomas
Dec. 27, St. John (also Evangelist)
Feb. 24 (25 in leap years), St. Matthias
June 11, St. Barnabas
June 30, St. Paul
July 25, St. James
Aug. 24, St. Bartholomew
Sept. 21, St. Matthew (also Evangelist)
Nov. 28, Sts. Simon and Jude (see note below)

The Roman Missal 1962 has no Common of Apostles.  The Roman Missal 1543 has a Common of One Apostle, comprising Introit, Collect, Secret, and Postcommunion.

St. John the Apostle and Evangelist has his own propers; St. Matthew appears as an Evangelist; Sts. Peter and Paul generally have propers; Sts. Philip and James have Eastertide propers; St. Andrew and St. Thomas have some proper chants.  Sts. Simon and Jude use these chants, even though the chants are listed as under ‘One Apostle’.

The text of Ps. 138:17 appears in the Officium, in the first Gradual, in the first Alleluya, and in the third Offertory.
The text of Ps. 18:5 appears in the second Gradual, in the second Alleluya, and in the first Offertory.
The text of Ps. 44:17-18 appears in the third Gradual and in the second Offertory.

Officium. Michi autem nimis honorati sunt (Ps. 138:17, 1-2)
-St. Andrew (Nov 30)
-Octave of St. Andrew (Dec 7)
-St. Thomas (Dec 21)
-St. Matthias (Feb 24)
-St. Barnabas (Jun 11)
-Sts. Peter and Paul in oct.
-St. James (Jul 25)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24)
-St. Matthew (Sep 21)
-Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28)

Prayer. Exaudi Domine populum tuum
This prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.
This prayer appears in the Liber Sacramentorum of Gregory the Great (PL-78:151) as an additional prayer for St. Andrew.  It also appears in the Rituale Ecclesie Dunelmensis (Durham) :80.

‘. . . sancti apostoli tui N. . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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Lesson. Jam non estis hospites
-St. Thomas (Dec 21)
-St. Barnabas (Jun 11)
-Sts. Peter and Paul in oct.
-St. James (Jul 25)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24)

Lesson. Per manus apostolorum
This Lesson appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Gradual. Nimis honorati sunt (after Ps. 138:17-18)
-Vigil of St. Andrew (Nov 29)
-Octave of St. Andrew (Dec 7)
-St. Thomas (Dec 21)
-St. Matthias (Feb 24)
-St. Barnabas (Jun 11)
-Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28)

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Gradual. In omnem terram exivit (Ps. 18:5, 2)
-Vigil of St. Andrew (Nov 29)
-Vigil of Sts. Peter and Paul (Jun 28)
-St. James (Jul 25)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24)

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Gradual. Constitues eos principes (Ps. 44:17-18)
-St. Andrew (Nov 30)
-Sts. Peter and Paul (Jun 29)
-Sts. Peter and Paul in oct.
-St. Peter’s Chains (Aug 1)

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Alleluya. Nimis honorati sunt (Ps. 138:17)
-Vigil of Sts. Peter and Paul (Jun 28)
-Sts. Peter and Paul in oct.
-St. James (Jul 25)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24)

Alleluya. In omnem terram (Ps. 18:5)
This Alleluya does not appear in Graduale Romanum  1908.
-Vigil of St. Andrew (Nov. 29)
-St. Thomas (Dec. 21)
-St. Barnabas (Jun 11)

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Alleluya. Per manus autem apostolorum (Acts 5:12)
This Alleluya does not appear in the Graduale Romanum 1908 or the Dominican Gradual (1950).  It appears, however, in 15 continental sources in CANTUS.
-Vigil of St. Matthew on Sunday (Sep 20)
Presumably this Alleluya appears here instead of in the Vigil of One Apostle so that the rubrics will ensure that it is not sung inadvertantly on other vigils of apostles, but only when the Vigil of St. Matthew falls on a Sunday, thus only once in seven years!  On the other hand its place here may be connected with it being found here in other, continental uses.

Alleluya. Non vos me elegistis (John 15:16)
-Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28)

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Tract. Beatus vir qui timet Dominum (Ps. 111:1-3)
This Tract also appears in the Common of One Confessor.
-St. Matthias (Feb 24)

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Sequence. Clare Sanctorum
Attr. Notker of St. Gall.
Trans. © 2015 by Matthew Carver. Used with permission.
-St. Thomas (Dec 21)
-Sts. Philip and James (May 1)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24) or below
-Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28) or below

This sequence connects well with the Alleluyas as  follows:
-Nimis honorati, down a whole tone; sequence down a whole tone.
-In omnem terram, notated pitch; sequence at notated pitch
-Per manus, up a whole tone; sequence down a minor third.
-Non vos, up a whole tone; sequence down a minor third.

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Sequence. Alleluya nunc decantet
Trans. © 2018 by Matthew Carver. Used with permission.
The York Use has the sequence ‘Clare sanctorum’.
-St. Barnabas (Jun 11)
-St. James (Jul 25)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24) or above
-Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28) or above

This sequence connects well with the Alleluyas as  follows:
-Nimis honorati, down a whole tone; sequence down a perfect fifth.
-In omnem terram, notated pitch; sequence down a perfect fifth.
-Per manus, notated pitch; sequence down a perfect fifth.
-Non vos, notated pitch; sequence down a perfect fifth.

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Gospel. Hec mando vobis
-Sts. Peter and Paul in oct.
-Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28)

Gospel. Ecce ego mitto vos sicut oves
-Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius (Jun 12)
-Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Oct 25)

Gospel. Dixit Symon Petrus . . . Ecce nos relinquimus omnia
-St. Paul (Jun 30)

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Gospel. Venit Jesus in partes . . . Quem dicunt homines esse
-Sts. Peter and Paul (Jun 29)
-St. Peter’s Chains (Aug 1)

Gospel. Facta est contentio
-St. Apollinaris (Jul 23)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24)

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Offertory. In omnem terram exivit sonus (Ps. 18:5)
-Octave of St. Andrew (Dec 7)
-St. Matthias (Feb 24)
-Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28)

Offertory. Constitues eos principes (Ps. 44:17-18)
-St. Thomas (Dec 21)
-St. Peter’s Chair (Feb 22)
-Sts. Peter and Paul (Jun 29)
-Sts. Peter and Paul in oct.
-St. Peter’s Chains (Aug 1)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24)

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Offertory. Michi autem nimis honorificati sunt (Ps. 138:17)
-St. Andrew (Nov 30)
-Conversion of St. Paul (Jan 25)
-St. Barnabas (Jun 11)
-Vigil of Sts. Peter and Paul (Jun 28)
-St. Paul (Jun 30)
-St. James (Jul 25)

Secret. Beati apostoli tui
In the Roman Missal (pre- and post-Tridentine) this Secret appears on the feast of St. Bartholomew (August 24).
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘Beati apostoli tui N. . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Communion. Vos qui secuti estis me (after Mat. 19:28)
-St. Matthias (Feb 24)
-St. Barnabas (Jun 11)
-Sts. Peter and Paul in oct.
-St. James (Jul 25)
-St. Bartholomew (Aug 24)
-Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 28)

Postcommunion. Tuere nos misericors Deus
This Postcommunion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beati apostoli tui N. . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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The Birthday of One Evangelist
The Feasts of One Evangelist are:
Dec. 27, St. John (also Apostle) (propers in CAO) (see also May 6)
Apr. 25, St. Mark
Sept. 21, St. Matthew (also Apostle)
Oct. 18, St. Luke
St. Luke is the only one that takes all the chants from this common.  St. John has proper chants; St. Mark has some alternate chants, perhaps because his feast falls in Eatertide. St. Matthew takes the officium from the Common of One Apostle.

Officium. Os justi meditabitur (Ps. 36:30-31, 1)
This Officium is also used for Feasts of One Confessor and Abbot.
-St. Luke (Oct 18)

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Prayer. Interveniat pro nobis
In the Roman Missal (pre and post Tridentine) this Prayer appears on the Feast of St. Luke (October 18).
‘. . . crucis mortificationem . . .’ appears to be a reference to Luke 9:23, ‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me’.
This prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . sanctus tuus N. . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the nominativse case.

Lesson. Similitudo vultus quattuor
-St. Matthew (Sep 21)
-St. Luke (Oct 18)

Gradual. Os justi meditabitur
-St. Matthew (Sep 21)
-St. Luke (Oct 18)

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Alleluya. Primus ad Syon dicet
-St. Mark (Apr 25)
-St. Matthew (Sep 21)
-St. Luke (Oct 18)

[No Tract appears, as no Feast of an Evangelist falls between Septuagesima and Easter.]

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Sequence. Laus devota
Trans. in Hymn Melodies for the Whole Year (The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 1896): xv.
-St. Mark (Apr 25)
-St. John before the Latin Gate (May 6)
-St. Matthew (Sep 21)
-St. Luke (Oct 18)

This sequence connects well with the Alleluya if the Alleluya is transposed down a major second (or minor third) and the sequence is transposed up a minor third (or major second).  The seqence will begin a minor third below the ending of the Alleluya repetition.

The York Use has the sequence ‘Plausu chorus’.

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Gospel. Designavit dominus et alios septuaginta duos
-St. Luke (Oct 18)

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Offertory. Posuisti Domine in capite eus
This Offertory also appears on the Feast of St. Thomas, and on Feasts of One Martyr.
-St. Matthew (Sep 21)
-St. Luke (Oct 18)

Secret. Donis celestibus da nobis
In the Roman Missal this Secret appears on the Feast of St. Luke.
‘. . . medicinam nobis operentur . . .’ appears to be a reference to Luke, the Physician (see. Col. 4:14).
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beato N. evangelista . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

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Communion. Magna est gloria ejus
This Communion appears also on the Vigil of One Apostle, and on Feasts of One Martyr.
-St. Matthew (Sep 21)
-St. Luke (Oct 18)

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus
In the Roman Missal this Postcommunion appears on the Feast of St. Luke.
This Postcommunion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beati evangeliste tui N. . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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The Birthday of One Martyr

The Sarum feasts of one martyr are:
Dec. 26, St. Stephen (propers in CAO)
Dec. 29, St. Thomas of Canterbury (1173)
Jan. 14, St. Felix (propers in CAO)
Jan. 16, St. Marcellus (propers in CAO)
Jan. 22, St. Vincent (propers in CAO)
Feb. 3, St. Blaise
Feb. 14, St. Valentine (propers in CAO)
March 18, St. Edward
April 19, St. Alphege
April 23, St. George (propers in CAO)
April 28, St. Vitalis (propers in CAO)
June 1, St. Nichomedes (propers in CAO)
June 22, St. Alban
July 17, St. Kenelm
July 18, St. Arnulph (1121)
July 23, St. Apollinaris (propers in CAO)
July 28, St. Panthaleon
August 2, St. Stephen (propers in CAO)
August 5, St. Oswald
August 9, St. Romanus
August 10, St. Laurence (with octave) (propers in CAO)
August 11, St. Tiburtius (propers in CAO)
August 18, St. Agapitus (memorial) (propers in CAO)
August 19, St. Magnus (memorial)
August 27, St. Rufus
Sept. 9, St. Gorgonius (memorial) (propers in CAO)
Sept. 17, St. Lambert
Sept. 25, St. Firmin
Oct. 2, St. Leger
Oct. 14, St. Calixtus
Oct. 31, St. Quintinus
Nov. 9, St. Theodore (propers in CAO)
Nov. 23, St. Clement (propers in CAO)
Nov. 24, St. Chrysogonus (propers in CAO)
Nov. 26, St. Linus

In the Sarum sources, the order in which the Officia appear varies.

Officium. Justus ut palma (Ps. 91:13, 2)
In the Roman Missal this Officium appears in the Common of One Confessor.
-St. Maur (Jan 15)
-St. Tiburtius (Aug 11)

Officium. Justus non conturbabitur. (after Ps. 36:26, 28; 1)
This Officium does not appear in the Graduale Romanum 1908.
-St. Panthaleon (Jul 28)
-St. Rufus (Aug 27)

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Officium. Gloria et honore. (Ps. 8:6-7; 2)
This Officium does not appear in the Graduale Romanum 1908.
-St. Edward, King and Martyr (Mar 18)
-St. Edward, King and Martyr trans. (Jun 20)
-St. Kenelm (Jul 17)
-St. Oswald (Aug 5)
-Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Aug 29)
-St. Edmund (Nov 20)
-St. Chrysogonus (Nov 24)

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Officium. In virtute tua (after Ps. 20:2-3)
-St. Valentine (Feb 14)
-St. Alban (Jun 22)
-St. Donatus (Aug 7)
-St. Theodore (Nov 9)

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Officium. Letabitur justus in Domino (Ps. 63:11; 2)
-St. Vincent (Jan 22)
-St. Nichomede (Jun 1)
-St. Arnulph (Jul 18)

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Officium. Protexisti me Deus (Ps. 63:3; 2)
Seeing that ‘Alleluya’ is integral to the chant, this Officium ought to be sung in Eastertide, as is in fact indicated in the Roman Missal.
-St. Alphege (Apr 19)
-St. George (Apr 23)
-St. Mark (Apr 25)
-St. Vitalis (Apr 28)

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Prayer. Presta quesumusomnipotens Deus : ut qui beati N.

‘. . . beati N. martyris tui . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Prayer. Adesto Domine supplicationibus nostris
In the Roman Use this prayer appears on the Vigil of St. Laurence (August 9). The Roman Missal 1962 includes an additional phrase, ‘cujus praevenimus festivitatem’.
-St. Meloro (Oct 1) (in full)

‘. . . beati N. martyris tui . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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Lesson. Beatus vir qui in sapientia
-St. Vincent (Jan 22)
-St. Nichomede (Jun 1)
-St. Arnulph (Jul 18)
-St. Rufus (Aug 27)
-St. Theodore (Nov 9)
-St. Edmund (Nov 20)

Lesson. Benedictus Deus et Pater
-Sts. Abdon and Sennen (Jul 30)
-Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (Aug 6)
-Sts. Cosmas and Damian (Sep 27)

Lesson. Beatus vir qui inventus est sine macula
-St. Valentine (Feb 14)
-St. Edward, King andMartyr (Mar 18)
-St. Edward, King and Martyr trans. (Jun 20)
-St. Kenelm (Jul 17)
-St. Oswald (Aug 5)

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Lesson. Testificor coram Deo
-St. Felix (Jan 14)
-St. Apollinaris (Jul 23)

Lesson. Nemo militans Deo
-St. Vitalis (Apr 28)
-St. Donatus (Aug 7)

Lesson. Confido in vobis
This Lesson appears to be used only for Feasts of the Holy Cross; a such it does not really belong in the Common of One Martyr.
-Invention of the Holy Cross (May 3)
-Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Sep 14)

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Gradual. Posuisti Domine super caput ejus (after Ps.20:4; 3.)
-St. Thomas the Martyr (Dec 29).
-St. Vincent (Jan 22)
-St. Edward, King andMartyr (Mar 18)
-St. Edward, King and Martyr trans. (Jun 20)
-St. Thomas of Canterbury trans. (Jul 7)
-St. Kenelm (Jul 17)
-St. Panthaleon (Jul 28)
-St. Oswald (Aug 5)
-St. Laurence octave day (Aug 17)
-Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Aug 29)
-St. Edmund (Nov 20)
-St. Chrysogonus (Nov 24)

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Gradual. Beatus vir qui timet Dominum (Ps. 111:1-2)
-St. Valentine (Feb 14)
-St. Nichomede (Jun 1)
-St. Alban (Jun 22)
-St. Theodore (Nov 9)

Gradual. Justus non conturbabitur (after Ps. 36:26, 28; 1)
This Gradual appears in the Missale Romanum 1543, but does not appear in the Graduale Romanum 1908.
-St. Arnulph (Jul 18)
-St. Tiburtius (Aug 11)
-St. Rufus (Aug 27)

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Gradual. Justus ut palma florebit (Ps. 91:13-14; 3 9 (Gallican).)
This Gradual also appears on the Vigil of One Apostle or Evangelist.
This Gradual appears not to be used for Feasts of One Martyr in the Sarum Rite.

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Alleluya. Posuisti Domine super caput ejus (after Ps.20:4)
-St. Blaise, (Feb 3)
-St. Nichomede (Jun 1)
-St. Alban (Jun 22)
-St. Tiburtius (Aug 11)

Alleluya. Justus ut palma (Ps. 91:13 (Gallican).)
-St. Theodore (Nov 9)

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Alleluya. Letabitur justus (Ps. 63:11)
This Alleluya appears in the Missale Romanum 1543, but does not appear in the Graduale Romanum 1908.
This melody is also used for ‘Alleluya. Caro mea’ at Corpus Christi, ‘Alleluya. Levita Laurentius’ for the Feast of St. Lawrence, and ‘Alleluya. Concussum est’ for the Feast of St. Michael.
-St. Vincent (Jan 22)
-St. George (Apr 23)
-St. Panthaleon (Jul 28)
-St. Edmund (Nov 20)

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Alleluya. Iste sanctus digne
This Alleluya is not in the Roman Missal, nor does it appear in the printed Sarum Missals.
-St. Clement (108)

Alleluya. Beatus vir qui suffert (James 1:12)
In the Roman Rite this Alleluya appears in the Common of a Confessor not a Bishop.
-St. Valentine (Feb 14)
-St. Edward, King and Martyr trans. (Jun 20)
-St. Kenelm (Jul 17)
-St. Oswald (Aug 5)
-St. Chrysogonus (Nov 24)

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Alleluya. Beatus vir qui timet (Ps. 111:1)
In the Roman Rite this Alleluya appears also in the Common of a Confessor not a Bishop. In the Graduale Romanum 1908 it appears only in the Common of a Confessor not a Bishop.
-St. Arnulph (Jul 18)
-St. Rufus (Aug 27)

Alleluya. Gloria et honore (Ps. 8:6-7)
This Alleuya appears in the Missale Romanum 1543, but not in the Graduale Romanum 1908.
This Alleluya and the next share the same melody.
-St. Thomas the Martyr (Dec 29).
-St. Thomas of Canterbury trans. (Jul 7)

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Alleluya. Justus non conturbabitur
This Alleluya appears in the Missale Romanum 1543, but not in the Graduale Romanum 1908.
This Alleluya and the previous one share the same melody.
This Alleluya appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Sequence. Organicis canamus
Trans. © 2018 by Matthew Carver. Used with permission.

The sequence has an extraordinarily wide range; it connects well with the Alleluyas this way:
-Posuisti Domine, at notated pitch; sequence at notated pitch.
-Justus ut Palma, at notated pitch; sequence at notated pitch.
-Letabitur justus, at notated pitch; sequence at notated pitch.
-Iste sanctus, at notated pitch; sequence at notated pitch.
-Beatus vir qui suffert, at notated pitch; sequence at notated pitch.
-Beatus vir qui timet, at notated pitch; sequence at notated pitch.
-Gloria et honore, up a perfect fourth; sequence at notated pitch.
-Justus non conturbabitur, up a perfect fourth; sequence at notated pitch.

The Hereford and York Uses have the sequence ‘Ecce pulchra’.

-St. George (Apr 23)
-St. Vitalis (Apr 28)
-St. Edward, King and Martyr trans. (Jun 20)
-St. Edmund (Nov 20)
-St. Clement (108)

‘. . . N. . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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Tract. Desiderium anime ejus (Ps. 20:3-4)
-St. Vincent (Jan 22)
-St. Edward, King andMartyr (Mar 18)

[49]
Gospel. Nisi granum frumenti cadens
-St. Vincent (Jan 22)
-St. Laurence (Aug 10)

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Gospel. Qui vos audit : me audit
-St. Felix (Jan 14)
-St. Leger (Oct 2)
-St. Chrysogonus (Nov 24)

Gospel. Si quis vult post me venire : abneget
-St. Valentine (Feb 14)
-St. Nichomede (Jun 1)
-St. Alban (Jun 22)
-St. Panthaleon (Jul 28)
-Vigil of St. Laurence (Aug 9)
-St. Tiburtius (Aug 11)
-St. Theodore (Nov 9)

Gospel. Si quis venit ad me : et non odit
-St. Edward, King andMartyr (Mar 18)
-St. Edward, King and Martyr trans. (Jun 20)
-St. Kenelm (Jul 17)
-St. Arnulph (Jul 18)
-Sts. Timothy and Simphorian (Aug 22)
-St. Edmund (Nov 20)

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Gospel. NIchil opertum quod non reveletur
-St. Blaise, (Feb 3)
-St. Rufus (Aug 27)

Offertory. In virtute tua (after Ps. 20:2-3)
In the Roman Use this Offertory appears in the Common of a Confessor not a Bishop.
-St. Valentine (Feb 14)
-St. Nichomede (Jun 1)
-St. Alban (Jun 22)
-St. Arnulph (Jul 18)
-St. Panthaleon (Jul 28)
-St. Laurence octave day (Aug 17)
-St. Rufus (Aug 27)
-St. Lambert (Sep 17)

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Offertory. Posuisti Domine in capite ejus (after Ps.20:4-5)
This Offertory also appears on Feasts of One Evangelist.
-St. Thomas the Martyr (Dec 29).
-St. Edward, King and Martyr trans. (Jun 20)
-St. Thomas of Canterbury trans. (Jul 7)
-St. Tiburtius (Aug 11)
-Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Aug 29)
-St. Edward trans. (Oct 13)

‘ . . . nisi infra septuagesimam.’ This will occur when the commemoration of St. Thomas (or of the saint of the place–such as Saint Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge) falls between Septuagesima and Lent.   (Presumably churches dedicated to St. John the Baptist would use the chant Justus ut palma from the Nativity of John the Baptist for their commemoration.)  When this chant is sung without ‘alleluya’, ‘ei’ is presumably sung GAG.G.  (Compare Dominican Gradual (Suarez, 1950):10*.)

Offertory. Justus ut palma (after Ps. 91:13.)
In the Roman Rite this Offertory appears in the Common of One Confessor and Bishop. In the Graduale Romanum 1908 it appears in the Common of a Doctor.
-St. John the Evangelist (Dec 27)
-St. John before the Latin Gate (May 6)
-St. John the Baptist (Jun 24)

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Offertory. Confitebuntur celi (Ps. 88:6)
This Offertory also appears in the Common of Many Martyrs.
In the Graduale Romanum 1908 this Offertory appears in the Common of One Martyr in Eastertide.
-Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (Apr 14)
-St. Alphege (Apr 19)
-St. George (Apr 23)
-St. Mark (Apr 25)
-Sts. Philip and James (May 1)

Offertory. Gloria et honore (Ps. 8:6-7)
This Offertory also appears on Vigils of One Apostle or Evangelist.
-St. Felix (Jan 14)
-St. Vincent (Jan 22)
-St. Blaise, (Feb 3)
-St. Edward, King andMartyr (Mar 18)
-St. John the Baptist vigil (Jun 23)
-St. Kenelm (Jul 17)
-St. Oswald (Aug 5)
-St. Theodore (Nov 9)
-St. Edmund (Nov 20)
-St. Chrysogonus (Nov 24)

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Secret. Presentia munera Domine
In the Missale Romanum (Venice, 1558) this Secret appears on the Feast of Saint Blaise (February 3). In the Liber Sacramentorum of Gregory the Great, this Secret appears in the Mass of One Martyr (PL-78:164).
-St. Meloro (Oct 1) (in full)
This Secret is related to that for the Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21).

‘. . . sanctus N. martyr . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the nominative case.

Communion. Qui vult venire post me (Mat. 16:24)
In the Roman Rite this Communion appears in the Common of One Martyr not a Bishop.
-St. Vincent (Jan 22)
-St. Edward, King and Martyr trans. (Jun 20)
-Vigil of St. Laurence (Aug 9)
-St. Tiburtius (Aug 11)

Communion. Qui michi ministrat (John 12:26)
In the Roman Rite this Communion appears in the Common of One Martyr not a Bishop.
-St. Laurence (Aug 10)

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Communion. Posuisti Domine in capite ejus (Ps.20:4)
In the Roman Rite this Communion appears in the Common of One Martyr and Bishop.
-St. Felix (Jan 14)
-St. Blaise, (Feb 3)
-St. Nichomede (Jun 1)  This would potentially require the addition of an Alleluya which does not appear in the sources.
-St. Arnulph (Jul 18)
-St. Laurence octave day (Aug 17)
-St. Lambert (Sep 17)
-St. Chrysogonus (Nov 24)

Communion. Letabitur justus in Domino (Ps. 63:11)
In the Missale Romanum (1543) this Communion appears in the Common of One Martyr not a Bishop. In the Graduale Romanum (1908) this Communion appears in the Common of One Martyr in Eastertide.
-St. George (Apr 23)

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Communion. Ego sum vitis vera (John 15:5)
In the Missale Romanum 1543 this Communion appears in the Common of Many Apostles. This Communion does not appear in the Graduale Romanum 1908.
-St. Alphege (Apr 19)
-St. Mark (Apr 25)
-St. Vitalis (Apr 28)

Communion. Magna est gloria ejus (Ps. 20:6)
This Communion also appears on the Vigil of One Apostle, and on Feasts of One Evangelist.
In the Roman Rite this Communion appears in the Vigil of One Apostle.
-St. Thomas the Martyr (Dec 28).
-St. Maur (Jan 15)
-St. Valentine (Feb 14)
-St. Edward, King andMartyr (Mar 18)
-St. Alban (Jun 22)
-St. John the Baptist vigil (Jun 23)
-St. Thomas of Canterbury trans. (Jul 7)
-St. Kenelm (Jul 17)
-St. Panthaleon (Jul 28)
-St. Oswald (Aug 5)
-St. Donatus (Aug 7)
-St. Rufus (Aug 27)
-Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Aug 29)
-St. Edward trans. (Oct 13)
-St. Theodore (Nov 9)
-St. Edmund (Nov 20)

Postcommunion. Quos refecti Domine celesti mysterio
This Postcommunion appears to be based upon one with the same incipit in the Gelasian Sacramentary (LXV Orationes in Contentione ad Missas), H. A. Wilson, The Gelasian Sacramentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894): 279; PL-74:1222.
This Postcommunion also appears in the York Missal, Minster Library MS XVI I 3, on the Feast of St. Nichomede (June 1); see Missale ad usum insignis ecclesie Eboracensis II (Durham: Andrews and Co., 1874):41.
-St. Meloro (Oct 1) (in full)

‘. . . beato N. martyre tuo . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

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On the Birthday of One Martyr and Bishop
Prayer. Deus qui sanctam nobis hujus diei
-The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21) (in full)???

‘. . . beati martyris tui N. . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Lesson. Omnis pontifex ex hominibus
-St. Thomas of Canterbury (Dec 29)
-St. Marcellinus (Jan 16)
-St. Blaise, (Feb 3)
-St. Thomas of Canterbury trans. (Jul 7)
-St. Stephen (Aug 2)
-St. Lambert (Sep 17)
-St. Firmin (Sep 25)
-St. Linus (Nov 26)

Lesson. Doctrinis variis et peregrinis
-St. Alphege (Apr 19)
-St. Tiburtius (Aug 11)
-St. Calixtus (Oct 14)

Gospel. Circuibat Jesus civitates
-St. Lambert (Sep 17)
-St. Firmin (Sep 25)

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Gospel. Homo quidam nobilis abiit
-St. Thomas of Canterbury trans. (Jul 7)
-St. Stephen (Aug 2)
-St. Machutus (Nov 15)
-St. Clement (108)
-St. Linus (Nov 26)

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Secret. Intende propicius quesumus Domine
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beati N. martyris tui . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Postcommunion. Sumpsimus Domine in sancti martyris
-The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21) (in full)???

‘. . . atque pontificis N. . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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On the Birthday of Many Martyrs
(‘Many’, of course, means ‘more than one’.)

The Sarum feasts of many martyrs are:
Dec. 28, the Holy Innocents (propers in CAO)
Jan. 8, Lucian and comps. (Memorial)
Jan. 20, Fabian and Sebastian (propers in CAO)
Feb. 6, Vedastus and Amandus
April 14, Tiburtius and Valerian (propers in CAO)
May 10, Gordian and Epimachus (propers in CAO)
May 12, Nereus, Achilles, and Pancratius (propers in CAO)
June 2, Marcellinus and Peter (propers in CAO)
June 5, Boniface and comps.
June 8, Medard and Gildard
June 12, Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius (propers in CAO)
June 15, Vitus, Modestus, and Crecentia
June 18, Mark and Marcellian (propers in CAO)
June 19, Gervase and Protase (propers in CAO)
June 26, John and Paul (propers in CAO)
July 2, Processus and Matinianus
July 10, the Seven Holy Brothers (propers in CAO)
July 27, the Seven Sleepers
July 29, Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice (propers in CAO)
July 30, Abdon and Sennen (propers in CAO)
Aug. 6, Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus
Aug. 8, Cyriacus and comps. (propers in CAO)
Aug. 13, Hippolytus and comps. (propers in CAO)
Aug. 22, Timotheus and Simphorianus
Aug. 23, Timotheus and Apollinaris (propers in CAO)
Aug. 30, Felix and Adauctus (propers in CAO)
Sept. 11, Protus and Hyacith (Memorial) (propers in CAO)
Sept. 22, Maurice and comps.
Sept. 26, Cyprian and Justina
Sept. 27, Cosmas and Damian (propers in CAO)
Oct. 1, Remigius and comps.
Oct. 7, Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius
Oct. 9, Dionysius and comps. (propers in CAO)
Oct. 10, Gereon and comps.
Oct. 11, Nicasius and comps.
Oct. 25, Crispin and Crispinian
Nov. 8, the Four Crowned Martyrs (propers in CAO)
Nov. 29, Saturninus and Sisinnius

Officium. Intret in conspectu tuo
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20)
-Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius (Jun 12)
-Sts. Abdon and Sennen (Jul 30)
-Sts. Maurice and comps. (Sep 22)
-Sts. Dionysius and comps. (Oct 9)
-Vigil of Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 27)
-The Four Crowned Martyrs (Nov 8)

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Officium. Clamaverunt justi
-Sts. Marcellinus and Peter (Jun 2)

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Officium. Timete Dominum
-Sts. Cyriacus and comps (Aug 8)
-Vigil of All Saints (Oct 31)

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Officium. Justi epulentur
-Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crecentia (Jun 15)
-Sts. Hippolytus and comps. (Aug 13)
-Sts. Gereon and comps. (Oct 10)

Officium. Sapientiam sanctorum
-Octave of Sts. Peter and Paul (Jul 6)
-Feast of Relics (Jul 8-14)
-Sts. Felix and Adauctus (Aug 30)
-Sts.  Cosmas and Damian (Sep 27)

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Officium. Salus autem justorum
-Sts. Mark and Marcellian (Jun 18)
-The Seven Sleepers (Jul 27)
-Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (Aug 6)
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26)
-Sts. Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius (Oct 7)
-Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Oct 25)

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Officium. Judicant sancti gentes
-Sts. Processus and Matinianus (Jul 2)

In the Graduale Romanum 1908 this Officium appears on the Vigil of All Saints.

Officium. Sancti tui Domine
-Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (Apr 14)
-Sts. Gordian and Epimachus (May 10)
-Sts. Boniface and Companions (Jun 5)

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Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus da nobis
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26) or below, or proper.

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : quod in sanctorum martyrum
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26) or above, or proper.

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Lesson. Sancti per fidem
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20)
-Sts. Processus and Matinianus (Jul 2)
-Sts. Maurice and comps. (Sep 22)
-Sts. Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius (Oct 7)
-Sts. Gereon and comps. (Oct 10)

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Lesson. Justorum anime in manu Dei sunt
-Sts. Gordian and Epimachus (May 10)
-Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius (Jun 12)
-The Seven Sleepers (Jul 27)
-Sts. Timothy and Simphorian (Aug 22)
-Sts. Felix and Adauctus (Aug 30)
-Vigil of Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 27)
-The Four Crowned Martyrs (Nov 8)

Lesson. Justi autem imperpetuum vivent
-Sts. Nereus, Achillies and Pancratius (May 12)
-Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crecentia (Jun 15)
-Sts. Hippolytus and comps. (Aug 13)
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26) or below, or proper

Lesson. Rememoramini pristinos dies
-The Seven Holy Brothers (Jul 10)
-Sts. Nicasius and comps. (Oct 11)

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Lesson. Spectaculum facti sumus
-Sts. Boniface and Companions (Jun 5)
-Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Oct 25)

Lesson Lingua sapientiam ornat
-Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (Apr 14)
-Sts. Mark and Marcellian (Jun 18)
-Sts. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice (Jul 29)

Lesson Redet Deus mercedem
This Lesson appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

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Lesson. Hi sunt viri misericordie
-Sts. John and Paul (Jun 26)
-Sts. Peter and Paul oct. (Jul 6)
-Feast of Relics (Jul 8-14)

Gradual. Gloriosus Deus in sanctis
This Gradual also appears on Feasts of Many Virgins.
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20)
-Sts. Gervase and Protase (Jun 19)
-Sts. Abdon and Sennen (Jul 30)
-Sts. Maurice and comps. (Sep 22)
-Sts. Dionysius and comps. (Oct 9)

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Gradual. Clamaverunt justi
-Sts. Boniface and Companions (Jun 5)
-Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crecentia (Jun 15)
-Sts. Cosmas and Damian (Sep 27)

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Gradual. Timete Dominum
-Sts. Cyriacus and comps (Aug 8)
-All Saints (Nov 1)

Gradual. Justorum anime
-Sts. Marcellinus and Peter (Jun 2)
-Sts. Mark and Marcellian (Jun 18)
-Sts. Peter and Paul oct. (Jul 6)
-Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (Aug 6)
-Sts. Hippolytus and comps. (Aug 13)
-Sts. Timothy and Simphorian (Aug 22)
-Sts. Felix and Adauctus (Aug 30)
-Sts. Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius (Oct 7)
-Sts. Gereon and comps. (Oct 10)

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Gradual. Exultabunt sancti in gloria
This Gradual also appears in the Common of Many Virgins.
-Sts. Processus and Matinianus (Jul 2)
-The Seven Sleepers (Jul 27)
-Feast of Relics (Jul 8-14)
-Vigil of All Saints (Oct 31)

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Gradual. Vindica Domine
-Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius (Jun 12)
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26) or below, or proper
-Vigil of Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 27)
-The Four Crowned Martyrs (Nov 8)

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Gradual. Ecce quam bonum
This Gradual also appears on the 22nd. Sunday after Trinity.
-Sts. John and Paul (Jun 26)
-Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Oct 25)

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Gradual. Anima nostra
-Holy Innocents (Dec 28).

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Alleluya. Sancti tui Domine benedicent te
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20)
-Sts. Timothy and Simphorian (Aug 22)
-Vigil of Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 27)

Alleluya. Sancti tui Domine florebunt
-Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (Apr 14)
-St. Vitalis (Apr 28)
-Sts. Gordian and Epimachus (May 10)
-Sts. Boniface and Companions (Jun 5)

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Alleluya. Sancti et justi
-Sts. Gervase and Protase (Jun 19)
-Feast of Relics (Jul 8-14)
-Sts. Hippolytus and comps. (Aug 13)

Alleluya. Vox exultationis
-Sts.Nereus, Achillies and Pancratius (May 12)
-Sts. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice (Jul 29)
-Sts. Cosmas and Damian (Sep 27)
In non-Sarum sources this chant is usually classified as Mode VIII, transposed down a fourth, ending on G.  The Sarum version allows for B-flat and B-natural, what would otherwise be F-natural and F-sharp.

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Alleluya. Justi epulentur
-Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius (Jun 12)
-The Seven Sleepers (Jul 27)
-Sts. Felix and Adauctus (Aug 30)
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26) or below, or proper
-Sts. Dionysius and comps. (Oct 9)
-Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Oct 25)

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Alleluya. Reddet Deus mercedem
-Sts. Mark and Marcellian (Jun 18)
-Sts. Processus and Matinianus (Jul 2)
-Sts. Abdon and Sennen (Jul 30)
-Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (Aug 6)
-Sts. Gereon and comps. (Oct 10)

Alleluya. Mirabilis Dominus noster
-Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crecentia (Jun 15)
-Sts. Cyriacus and comps (Aug 8)
-Sts. Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius (Oct 7)
-Vigil of All Saints (Oct 31)
-The Four Crowned Martyrs (Nov 8)

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Alleluya. Te martyrum candidatus
-Holy Innocents (Dec 28).
-Sts. Maurice and comps. (Sep 22)

Tract. Qui seminant in lachrymis
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20)

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Sequence. Ecce pulchra canorum
Trans. © 2018 by Matthew Carver. Used with permission.
-Sts. Fabian and Sbastian (Jan 20) (or below)
-Sts. John and Paul (Jun 26)
-Sts. Peter and Paul oct. (Jul 6)
-Feast of Relics (Jul 8-14)
-Sts. Hippolytus and comps. (Aug 13) (or below)
-Sts. Maurice and comps. (Sep 22)
-Sts. Dionysius and comps. (Oct 9)
-Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Oct 25)
This melody is also used on the Conversion of St. Paul.

This sequence can be connected with the Alleluyas as follows:
-Sancti tui Domine benedicent te, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Sancti tui Domine florebunt, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Sancti et justi, down a whole tone; sequence down a whole tone.
-Vox exultationis, down a perfect fifth; sequence no transposition.
-Justi epulentur, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Reddet Deus mercedem, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Mirabilis Dominus noster, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Te martyrum candidatus, no transposition; sequence no transposition.

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Sequence. Mirabilis Deus in sanctis
Trans. in Hymn Melodies for the Whole Year (the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 1896): xvii.
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20) (or above)
-Sts. Hippolytus and comps. (Aug 13) (or above)

This sequence can be connected with the Alleluyas as follows:
-Sancti tui Domine benedicent te, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Sancti tui Domine florebunt, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Sancti et justi, down a perfect fourth; sequence no transposition.
-Vox exultationis, down a perfect fifth; sequence no transposition.
-Justi epulentur, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Reddet Deus mercedem, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Mirabilis Dominus noster, no transposition; sequence no transposition.
-Te martyrum candidatus, no transposition; sequence no transposition.

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Gospel. Elevatis Jesus oculis . . . Beati pauperes : quia vestrum est
-Sts. Cosmas and Damian (Sep 27)

Gospel. Videns Jesus turbas . . . Beati pauperes spiritu
-Feast of Relics (Jul 8-14)

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Gospel. Cum persequentur vos
-Sts. Boniface and Companions (Jun 5)
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26) or below, or proper
-Sts. Nicasius and comps. (Oct 11)

Gospel. Ponite ergo in cordibus vestris
This Gospel appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Gospel. Descendens Jesus de monte
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20)
-Sts. Maurice and comps. (Sep 22)
-Sts. Dionysius and comps. (Oct 9)

Gospel. Cum audieritis prelia
-Sts. Marcellinus and Peter (Jun 2)
-The Seven Sleepers (Jul 27)
-Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (Aug 6)
-Sts. Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius (Oct 7)
-Sts. Gereon and comps. (Oct 10)
-The Four Crowned Martyrs (Nov 8)

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Gospel. Attendite a fermento
-Sts. John and Paul (Jun 26)
-Sts. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice (Jul 29)
-Sts. Hippolytus and comps. (Aug 13)
-Sts. Felix and Adauctus (Aug 30)

Gospel. Dic nobis quando hec erunt
This Gospel appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

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Gospel. Ve vobis qui edificatis monumenta
This Gospel appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Gospel. Egrediente Jesu de templo
This Gospel appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

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Divisio. Videte ne quid vos seducat
-Sts. Mark and Marcellian (Jun 18)
-Sts. Abdon and Sennen (Jul 30)

Gospel. Nolite arbitrari
This Gospel appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

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Gospel. Egressus Jesus de templo ibat
This Gospel appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Offertory. Mirabilis Deus in sanctis suis
-Sts. Gordian and Epimachus (May 10)
-Feast of Relics (Jul 8-14)
-The Seven Sleepers (Jul 27)
-Sts. Abdon and Sennen (Jul 30)
-Sts. Gereon and comps. (Oct 10)
-All Saints (Nov 1)

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Offertory. Gloriabuntur in te
-Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crecentia (Jun 15)
-Sts. John and Paul (Jun 26)
-Sts. Processus and Matinianus (Jul 2)
-Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (Aug 6)
-Sts. Cosmas and Damian (Sep 27)
-Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Oct 25)

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Offertory. Letamini in Domino
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20)
-Sts. Marcellinus and Peter (Jun 2)
-Sts. Gervase and Protase (Jun 19)
-Sts. Cyriacus and comps (Aug 8)
-Sts. Felix and Adauctus (Aug 30)
-Sts. Maurice and comps. (Sep 22)
-Sts. Dionysius and comps. (Oct 9)
-Vigil of All Saints (Oct 31)

Offertory. Exultabunt sancti in gloria
This Offertory also appears on Feasts of Many Confessors.
-Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius (Jun 12)
-Sts. Peter and Paul oct. (Jul 6)
-Sts. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice (Jul 29)
-Sts. Timothy and Simphorian (Aug 22)
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26) or below, or proper
-Sts. Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius (Oct 7)
-Vigil of Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 27)
-The Four Crowned Martyrs (Nov 8)

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Offertory. Anima nostra sicut passer
-Holy Innocents (Dec 28).
-Sts. Mark and Marcellian (Jun 18)
-The Seven Holy Brothers (Jul 10)
-Sts. Hippolytus and comps. (Aug 13)

Offertory. Confitebuntur celi (Ps. 88:6)
This Offertory also appears in the Common of One Martyr.
-Sts. Nereus, Achillies and Pancratius (May 12)
-Sts. Boniface and Companions (Jun 5)

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Offertory. Repleti sumus mane misericordia.
This Offertory appears on the Feast of St. Vitalis (April 28).

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine munera populi tui
This Secret appears in the Gelasian Sacramentary (Oxford: Clarendon, 1894) : 213.
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Secret. Sanctorum martyrum tuorum atque pontificum
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Communion. Gaudete justi in Domino
-Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (Apr 14)
-Sts. Nereus, Achillies and Pancratius (May 12)
-Sts. Boniface and Companions (Jun 5)
-Feast of Relics (Jul 8-14)
-All Saints (Nov 1)

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Communion. Multitudo languentium
-Sts. Fabian and Sebastian (Jan 20)
-Sts. Cyprian and Justina (Sep 26) or below, or proper
-Sts. Dionysius and comps. (Oct 9)

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Communion. Posuerunt mortalia
-Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius (Jun 12)
-Sts. Gervase and Protase (Jun 19)
-Sts. Abdon and Sennen (Jul 30)
-Sts. Cosmas and Damian (Sep 27)
-The Four Crowned Martyrs (Nov 8)

Communion. Justorum anime in manu Dei sunt
-Sts. Gordian and Epimachus (May 10)
-Sts. Marcellinus and Peter (Jun 2)
-Sts. Peter and Paul oct. (Jul 6)
-The Seven Sleepers (Jul 27)
-Sts. Maurice and comps. (Sep 22)
-Sts. Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius (Oct 7)
-Sts. Gereon and comps. (Oct 10)
-Vigil of Sts. Simon and Jude (Oct 27)
-Vigil of All Saints (Oct 31)

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Communion. Ego vos elegi
This Communion also appears on Feasts of Many Confessors.
-Sts. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice (Jul 29)
-Sts. Sixtus, Felicissimus, and Agapitus (Aug 6)
-Sts. Timothy and Simphorian (Aug 22)

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Communion. Et si coram hominibus
-Sts. John and Paul (Jun 26)
-Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Oct 25)

Communion. Anima nostra sicut passer
-Sts. Vitus, Modestus, and Crecentia (Jun 15)
-Sts. Processus and Matinianus (Jul 2)

Communion. Ego sum vitis vera
This Communion appears in the Common of One Martyr.
This Communion appears to have no assignments to many martyrs in the Sarum liturgy.

Communion. Dico autem vobis amicis meis
-St. Hipolitus (August 13).

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Communion. Quod dico vobis
In the Graduale 1508, this Communion only appears on the Feast of Sts. Felix and Adauctus (August 30).
This Communion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Communion. Amen dico vobis quod uni
In the Graduale 1508 this Communion appears only on the Feast of Saints Mark, Marcellus, and Apuleius (October 7).
In the Graduale Romanum 1908 this Communion appears on the Monday of Lent 1.
-St. Francis (Oct 4)

Postcommunion. Sacramentorum tuorum Domine
This Postcommunino appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

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Postcommunion. Deus qui nos sacramenti tui
This Postcommunion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Another Mass for Many Martyrs not Bishops
In the Missale Romanum 1543 the prayers of this Mass appear as the first set of prayers for Masses of Many Martyrs.  The prayers of this Mass appear in the Roman Missal 1962 in the Missa ‘Sapientiam’ for Many Martyrs.
This Mass appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy, but presumably could be used ad libitum or for a memorial.

Prayer. Deus qui nos concedis sanctorum martyrum tuorum

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Secret. Munera tibi Domine

Postcommunion. Presta nobis quesumus Domine intercedentibus

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Another Mass for Many Martyrs
This Mass appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy, but presumably could be used ad libitum or for a memorial.

Prayer. Concede quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut sanctorum

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Secret. Propicius esto Domine supplicacionibus nostris

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

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Postcommunion. Salutaris almonie participacione

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Another Mass for Manny Martyrs (and Bishops)
This Mass appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy, but presumably could be used ad libitum or for a memorial.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui in sanctorum martyrum

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Secret. Sanctorum martyrum tuorum atque pontificem

‘. . . N. et N. . . . ‘ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Postcommunion. Deus qui nos sacramenti tui veneranda

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On the Birthday of One Confessor
The Sarum Feasts of One Confessor are:
Dec. 4, St. Osmund (Deposition)
Dec. 6, St. Nicholas
Dec. 31, St. Silvester (propers in CAO)
Jan. 5, St. Edward (Memorial)
Jan. 15, St.Maurus (Abbot)
Jan. 17, St. Sulpicius
Jan. 27, St. Julian
March 1, St. David
March 2, St. Chad
March 12, St. Gregory (Doctor)
March 20, St. Cuthbert
March 21, St. Benedict (Abbot)
April 3, St. Richard
April 4, St. Ambrose (Doctor)
April 30, St. Erkenwald
May 7, St. John of Beverley
May 19, St. Dunstan
May 25, St. Aldhelm
May 26, St. Augustine (of Canterbury)
May 28, St. Germanus
June 9, Translation of St. Edmund
June 13, St. Basil
June 16, Translation of St. Richard
June 28, St. Leo (Doctor)
July 4, Translation of St. Martin
July 11, Translation of St. Benedict (Abbot)
July 16, Translation of St. Osmund
July 28, St. Sampson
July 31, St. Germanus
Aug. 28, St. Augustine (of Hippo) (Doctor)
Sept. 1, St. Giles (Abbot)
Sept. 3, Ordination of St. Gregory (Doctor)
Sept. 4, Translation of St. Cuthbert
Sept. 5, St. Bertin (Abbot)
Sept. 30, St. Jerome (Doctor)
Oct. 13, Translation of St. Edward
Oct. 15, St. Wulfram
Oct. 23, St. Romanus
Nov. 6, St. Leonard (Abbot)
Nov. 11, St. Martin (with octave)
Nov. 13, St. Brice
Nov. 14, Translation of St. Erkenwald (London)
Nov. 15, St. Machutus
Nov. 16, St. Edmund
Nov. 17, St. Hugh

Officium. Statuit ei Dominus
-St. Osmund (Dec. 4)
-St. Nicholas (Dec. 6)
-St. Marcellinus (Jan 16)
-St. Wulfstan (Jan 19)
-St. Julian (Jan 27)
-St. Peter’s Chair (Feb 22)
-St. David (Mar 1)
-St. Patrick (Mar 17)
-St. Cuthbert (Mar 20)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Germanus (May 28)
-St. Basil (Jun 14)
-St. Richard trans. (Jun 16)
-St. Martin trans. (Jul 4)
-St. Sampson (Jul 28)
-St. Augustine (Aug 28)
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15)
-St. Romanus (Oct 23)
-St. Martin (Nov 11)
-St. Machutus (Nov 15)
-St. Hugh (Nov 17)
-St. Martin Octave (Nov 18)

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Officium. Sacerdotes tui Domine
-Saint Silvester (Dec 31).
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Apollinaris (Jul 23)
-St. Stephen (Aug 2)
-St. Linus (Nov 26)

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Officium. Sacerdotes Dei
This Officium also appears on Feasts of One Confessor and Doctor.
-St. Felix (Jan 14)
-St. Sulpice (Jan 16)
-St. Blaise, (Feb 3)
-St. Chad (Mar 2)
-St. Germanus (Jul 31)
-St. Donatus (Aug 7)
-St. Lambert (Sep 17)
-St. Firmin (Sep 25)
-St. Leger (Oct 2)
-St. Calixtus (Oct 14)
-St. Brice (Nov 13)

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui nos beati N.
-St. Germanus (May 28) (in full)

‘. . . beati N. confessoris tui . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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Prayer. Da quesumus omnipotens Deus ut beati N.
-St. Patrick (Mar 17) (in full)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7) (in full)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15) (in full)

‘. . . beati N. confessoris tui . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Lesson. Ecce sacerdos magnus qui in diebus suis
The incipit ‘Ecce sacerdos magnus’ refers to this Lesson (rather than the following one) unless otherwise specified.
-St. Osmund (Dec. 4)
-St. Nicholas (Dec. 6)
-St. Silvester (Dec 31)
-St. Wulfstan (Jan 19)
-St. David (Mar 1)
-St. Patrick (Mar 17)
-St. Cuthbert (Mar 20)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Germanus (May 28)
-St. Basil (Jun 14)
-St. Richard trans. (Jun 16)
-St. Martin trans. (Jul 4)
-St. Sampson (Jul 28)
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15)
-St. Martin (Nov 11)
-St. Machutus (Nov 15)
-St. Martin Octave (Nov 18)

Lesson. Ecce sacerdos magnus : qui in vita sua
-St. Edward trans. (Jun 9)
-St. Osmund trans. (Jul 16)
-St. Edmund (Nov 16)

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Lesson. Justum deduxit Dominus per vias rectas
-St. Sulpice (Jan 16)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Germanus (Jul 31)
-St. Francis (Oct 4)
-St. Romanus (Oct 23)
-St. Brice (Nov 13)

Lesson. Dilectus Deo et hominibus
-St. Chad (Mar 2)
-St. Hugh (Nov 17)

Gradual. Ecce sacerdos magnus
-St. Silvester (Dec 31).
-St. Sulpice (Jan 16)
-St. Julian (Jan 27)
-St. Cuthbert (Mar 20)
-St. Augustine (May 26)
-St. Sampson (Jul 28)
-St. Romanus (Oct 23)
-St. Brice (Nov 13)

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Gradual. Juravit Dominus
This Gradual also appears on Feasts of One Confessor and Doctor.
-St. Osmund (Dec. 4)
-St. Felix (Jan 14)
-St. Patrick (Mar 17)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Germanus (May 28)
-St. Germanus (Jul 31)
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4)
-St. Clement (108)

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Gradual. Inveni David servum meum
-St. Marcellinus (Jan 16)
-St. Martin trans. (Jul 4)
-St. Apollinaris (Jul 23)
-St. Stephen (Aug 2)
-St. Donatus (Aug 7)
-St. Lambert (Sep 17)
-St. Leger (Oct 2)
-St. Calixtus (Oct 14)
-St. Romanus (Oct 23)
-St. Machutus (Nov 15)
-St. Linus (Nov 26)

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Gradual. Domine prevenisti eum
-St. Nicholas (Dec. 6)
-St. Wulfstan (Jan 19)
-St. Blaise, (Feb 3)
-St. David (Mar 1)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Edward trans. (Jun 9)
-St. Basil (Jun 14)
-St. Richard trans. (Jun 16)
-St. Osmund trans. (Jul 16)
-St. Augustine (Aug 28)
-St. Francis (Oct 4)
-St. Edward trans. (Oct 13)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15)
-St. Martin (Nov 11)
-St. Edmund (Nov 16)
-St. Hugh (Nov 17)
-St. Martin Octave (Nov 18)

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Alleluya. Justus germinabit
-St. Osmund (Dec. 4)
-St. Nicholas (Dec. 6)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Basil (Jun 14)
-St. Richard trans. (Jun 16)
-St. Osmund trans. (Jul 16)
-St. Augustine (Aug 28)
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4)
-St. Edward trans. (Oct 13)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15)
-St. Machutus (Nov 15)
-St. Hugh (Nov 17)

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Alleluya. Inveni David servum meum
-St. Silvester (Dec 31).
-St. Felix (Jan 14)
-St. Wulfstan (Jan 19)
-St. Firmin (Sep 25)

Alleluya. Amavit eum Dominus
-St. Maur (Jan 15)
-St. Julian (Jan 27)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7)
-St. Sampson (Jul 28)
-St. Germanus (Jul 31)
-St. Bertin (Sep 5)
-St. Brice (Nov 13)

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Alleluya. Disposui testamentum
-St. Donatus (Aug 7)

Alleluya. Elegit te Dominus sibi
-St. Marcellinus (Jan 16)
-St. Alphege (Apr 19)
-St. Germanus (May 28)
-St. Martin trans. (Jul 4)
-St. Apollinaris (Jul 23)
-St. Stephen (Aug 2)
-St. Leger (Oct 2)
-St. Calixtus (Oct 14)
-St. Linus (Nov 26)

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Tract. Beatus vir qui timet Dominum
This Tract also appears in the Common of One Apostle.
-St. David (Mar 1)
-St. Chad (Mar 2)
-St. Patrick (Mar 17)
-St. Gregory (Mar 12)
-St. Cuthbert (Mar 20)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)

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Sequence. Adest nobis dies alma
Tr. © 2018, Matthew Carver. Used by permission.
At c1 the standard text is presumably ‘. . . presul N. . . .’  Defensorium Directorii indicates that this is the only form that is used in the church of Sarum, even for confessors that are not priests, viz. Edward, Benedict, Leonard, and Giles.  Several missals however, including printed missals, have the alternate, ‘. . . confessor N. . . .’, which certainly seems more appropriate in these cases.  Furthermore, some texts have ‘. . . presul Christi N. . . .’.  The addition of ‘Christi’ may be to provide for a better musical setting, that conforms more naturally to the following line, c2–but note that this leads to a repetition of ‘Christi’ in the following line.
At ‘N‘ the name should be added in the vocative case in each instance.
-St. Osmund (Dec. 4)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4) (or the following)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Richard trans. (Jun 16)
-St. Benedict trans. (Jul 11)
-St. Augustine (Aug 28)
-St. Giles (Sep 1)
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4) (or the following)
-St. Jerome (Sep 30)
-St. Edward trans. (Oct 13)
-St. Calixtus (Oct 14)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15) or below
-St. Leonard (Nov 6)
-St. Brice (Nov 13) or below
-St. Machutus (Nov 15) or below
-St. Hugh (Nov 17) or below

This sequence can be connected with the Alleluyas as follows:
-Justus germinabit, down a whole tone; sequence, down a whole tone.
-Amavit eum Dominus, down a whole tone; sequence, down a whole tone.
-Disposui testamentum, up a minor third; sequence, down a whole tone (repeat of Alleluya ends G-F; sequence begins G-F).
-Elegit te Dominus, up a minor third; sequence, down a whole tone (repeat of Alleluya ends G-F; sequence begins G-F).
-Inveni David, up a minor third; sequence, down a whole tone (repeat of Alleluya ends G-F; sequence begins G-F).
-Posui adjutorium, down a whole tone; sequence, down a whole tone.

‘. . . presul N. . . .’, ‘confessor N. . . . ‘ the proper name is inserted in the vocative case.

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‘O sancte N.’ the proper name is inserted in the vocative case.

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Sequence. Alma cohors una laudum
Tr. © 2018, Matthew Carver. Used by permission.
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4) (or the previous)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Augustine (May 26)
-St. Edward trans. (Jun 9)
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4) (or the previous)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15) or above
-St. Brice (Nov 13) or above
-St. Machutus (Nov 15) or above
-St. Edmund (Nov 16)
-St. Hugh (Nov 17) or above

This sequence can be connected with the Alleluyas as follows:
-Justus germinabit, no transposition; sequence up a perfect fourth (repetition of Alleluya ends on F; sequence begins on F).
-Amavit eum Dominus, up a whole tone; sequence up a whole tone.
-Disposui testamentum, up a perfect fourth; sequence up a perfect fourth.
-Elegit te Dominus, up a perfect fourth; sequence up a perfect fourth.
-Inveni David, up a perfect fourth; sequence up a perfect fourth.
-Posui adjutorium, down a major third; sequence up a minor third (repetition of Alleluya ends on E-flat; sequence begins on E-flat).

‘. . . rutilat N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the nominative case.

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Gospel. Homo quidam peregre
-St. Osmund (Dec. 4)
-Saint Silvester (Dec 31).
-St. Sulpice (Jan 16)
-St. Wulfstan (Jan 19)
-St. David (Mar 1)
-St. Cuthbert (Mar 20)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Germanus (May 28)
-St. Edward trans. (Jun 9)
-St. Basil (Jun 14)
-St. Richard trans. (Jun 16)
-St. Osmund trans. (Jul 16)
-St. Sampson (Jul 28)
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15)
-St. Martin (Nov 11)
-St. Brice (Nov 13)
-St. Edmund (Nov 16)
-St. Martin Octave (Nov 18)

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Gospel. Videte, vigilate, et orate
-St. Chad (Mar 2)
-St. Basil (Jun 14)
-St. Hugh (Nov 17)

Gospel. Vigilate quia nescitis qua hora
This Gospel does not appear here in Legg, The Sarum Missal: 374.
-St. Marcellinus (Jan 16)
-St. Julian (Jan 27)
-St. Patrick (Mar 17)
-St. Gregory (Mar 12)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Germanus (Jul 31)
-St. Donatus (Aug 7)
-St. Calixtus (Oct 14)
-St. Romanus (Oct 23)

Offertory. Veritas mea
This Offertory also appears on Feasts of One Confessor and Doctor.
-St. Nicholas (Dec. 6)
-St. Marcellinus (Jan 16)
-St. Wulfstan (Jan 19)
-St. David (Mar 1)
-St. Gregory (Mar 12)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Germanus (May 28)
-St. Edward trans. (Jun 9)
-St. Richard trans. (Jun 16)
-St. Martin trans. (Jul 4)
-St. Osmund trans. (Jul 16)
-St. Apollinaris (Jul 23)
-St. Germanus (Jul 31)
-St. Augustine (Aug 28)
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4)
-St. Leger (Oct 2)
-St. Francis (Oct 4)
-St. Calixtus (Oct 14)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15)
-St. Romanus (Oct 23)
-St. Leonard (Nov 6)
-St. Martin (Nov 11)
-St. Machutus (Nov 15)
-St. Edmund (Nov 16)
-St. Hugh (Nov 17)
-St. Martin Octave (Nov 18)

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Offertory. Inveni David servum meum
This Offertory also appears on the Feast of Saint Silvester (December 31).
-St. Osmund (Dec. 4)
-Saint Silvester (Dec 31).
-St. Sulpice (Jan 16)
-St. Julian (Jan 27)
-St. Chad (Mar 2)
-St. Patrick (Mar 17)
-St. Cuthbert (Mar 20)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Augustine (May 26)
-St. Sampson (Jul 28)
-St. Stephen (Aug 2)
-St. Firmin (Sep 25)
-St. Jerome (Sep 30)
-St. Brice (Nov 13)
-St. Clement (108)
-St. Linus (Nov 26)

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Secret. Propiciare quesumus Domine supplicationibus nostris
-St. Germanus (May 28) (in full)

‘. . . beato N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

Secret. Respice quesumus Domine munera populi tui
-St. Patrick (Mar 17) (in full)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7) (in full)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15) (in full)

‘. . . beati N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the gentetive case.

Communion. Domine quinque talenta
-St. Osmund (Dec. 4)
-St. Marcellinus (Jan 16)
-St. Chad (Mar 2)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Germanus (Jul 31)
-St. Stephen (Aug 2)
-St. Firmin (Sep 25)
-St. Jerome (Sep 30)

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Communion. Beatus servus quem cum venerit dominus (after Mat. 24:46, Luke 12:43)
While the Roman books have ‘Dominus’, i.e. the Lord, the Vulgate and the dominican Gradual (1950) have ‘dominus’, i.e. ‘[his] lord’–which in this context is a metaphor for ‘[his] Lord’.
This communion also appears on the Feast of Saint Silvester (December 31).
-St. Nicholas (Dec. 6)
-Saint Silvester (Dec 31).
-St. Wulfstan (Jan 19)
-St. Julian (Jan 27)
-St. David (Mar 1)
-St. Cuthbert (Mar 20)
-St. Benedict (Mar 21)
-St. Richard (Apr 3)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)
-St. Aldhelm (May 25)
-St. Germanus (May 28)
-St. Edward trans. (Jun 9)
-St. Basil (Jun 14)
-St. Richard trans. (Jun 16)
-St. Benedict trans. (Jul 11)
-St. Osmund trans. (Jul 16)
-St. Augustine (Aug 28)
-St. Giles (Sep 1)?
-St. Cuthbert trans. (Sep 4)
-St. Leger (Oct 2)
-St. Calixtus (Oct 14)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15)
-St. Martin (Nov 11)
-St. Machutus (Nov 15)
-St. Edmund (Nov 16)
-St. Hugh (Nov 17)
-St. Martin Octave (Nov 18)
-St. Clement (108)
-St. Linus (Nov 26)

Communion. Fidelis servus
This Communion also appears on Feasts of One Confessor and Doctor, and One Confessor and Abbot.
-St. Sulpice (Jan 16)
-St. Patrick (Mar 17)
-St. Gregory (Mar 12)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7)
-St. Augustine (May 26)
-St. Martin trans. (Jul 4)
-St. Sampson (Jul 28)
-St. Romanus (Oct 23)
-St. Brice (Nov 13)

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Postcommunion. Presta quesumus Domine Deus noster ut divinis
-St. Germanus (May 28) (in full)

‘. . . beato N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

Postcommunion. Quos tuis Domine reficis
-St. Patrick (Mar 17) (in full)
-St. John of Beverley (May 7) (in full)
-St. Wulfram (Oct 15) (in full)

‘. . . sancti N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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On the Birthday of One Confessor and Doctor
The following are Sarum Feasts of One Confessor and Doctor
March 12, St. Gregory (Doctor) (propers in CAO)
April 4, St. Ambrose (Doctor)
June 28, St. Leo (Doctor)
Aug. 28, St. Augustine (of Hippo) (Doctor)
Sept. 3, Ordination of St. Gregory (Doctor)
Sept. 30, St. Jerome (Doctor)

All of the proper chants appear also in the Feast of One Confessor.

Officium. Sacerdotes Dei benedicite
-St. Gregory (Mar 12)
-St. Augustine (May 26)
-St. Jerome (Sep 30)

Prayer. Exaudi Domine preces nostras quas in sancti N.
This Prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . sancti N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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Lesson. Dedit Dominus confessionem
-St. Julian (Jan 27)
-St. Gregory (Mar 12)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)
-St. Augustine (May 26)
-St. Augustine (Aug 28)
-St. Jerome (Sep 30)

Lesson. Optavi, et datus est michi
This Lesson appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Gradual. Juravit Dominus
-St. Gregory (Mar 12)
-St. Ambrose (Apr 4)
-St. Jerome (Sep 30)

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Alleluya. Amavit eum Dominus
-St. Augustine (May 26)

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Gospel. Vos estis sal terre
-St. Augustine (Aug 28)
-St. Jerome (Sep 30)

Secret. Munera quesumus Domine tibi dicata sanctifica
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beato N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

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Communion. Fidelis servus
This Communion also appears on Feasts of One Abbot.

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus ut de percepis muneribus
This Postcommunion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beato N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

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On the Birthday of One Confessor and Abbot
The following are Sarum Feasts of One Confessor and Abbot
Jan. 15, St.Maurus
March 21, St. Benedict
Jul 11, St. Benedict, translation
Sept. 1, St. Giles
Sept. 5, St. Bertin
Nov. 6, St. Leonard

Officium. Os justi meditabitur
This Officium also appears on Feasts of One Evangelist.
-St. Benedict (Mar 21)
-St. Benedict trans. (Jul 11)
-St. Giles (Sep 1)
-St. Bertin (Sep 5)
-St. Francis (Oct 4)
-St. Leonard (Nov 6)

Prayer. Deus qui beatum N. confessorem tuum.
This Prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beatum N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the accusative case.

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Lesson. Justus cor suum tradet
-St. Maur (Jan 15)
-St. Benedict (Mar 21)
-St. Benedict trans. (Jul 11)
-St. Giles (Sep 1)
-St. Bertin (Sep 5)
-St. Edward trans. (Oct 13)
-St. Leonard (Nov 6)

Gradual. Os justi
This Gradual also appears on Feasts of One Evangelist.
-St. Maur (Jan 15)
-St. Benedict (Mar 21)
-St. Benedict trans. (Jul 11)
-St. Giles (Sep 1)
-St. Bertin (Sep 5)
-St. Leonard (Nov 6)

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Alleluya. Posui adjutorium
-St. Sulpice (Jan 16)
-St. Dunstan (May 19)
-St. Benedict trans. (Jul 11)
-St. Giles (Sep 1)
-St. Jerome (Sep 30)
-St. Leonard (Nov 6)

Tract. Desiderium anime ejus
-St. Benedict (Mar 21)

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Gospel. Nemo accendit lucernam
-St. Maur (Jan 15)
-St. Benedict (Mar 21)
-St. Benedict trans. (Jul 11)
-St. Giles (Sep 1)
-St. Bertin (Sep 5)
-St. Edward trans. (Oct 13)
-St. Leonard (Nov 6)

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Offertory. Desiderium anime ejus
-St. Maur (Jan 15)
-St. Benedict (Mar 21)
-St. Benedict trans. (Jul 11)
-St. Giles (Sep 1)
-St. Bertin (Sep 5)

Secret. Sacrificium Domine quod pro sancti N.
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . sancti N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Communion. Fidelis servus et prudens
This Communion also appears on Feasts of One Confessor and of One Confessor and Doctor.
-St. Giles (Sep 1)?
-St. Bertin (Sep 5)
-St. Leonard (Nov 6)

Postcommunion. Libantes Domine sacrosancta mysteria
This Postcommunion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beato N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

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Mass of Any Confessor
This Mass has no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.  The older Sarum missals include here only the three prayers.  The chant-items are repeated from the Common of One Confessor and Abbot.

Prayer. Adesto Dojmine precibus nostris

‘. . . sancti N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Grad. Os justi meditabitur.
In 1513 this Gradual is identified by its other name, Responsory, as is found in the Dominican Rite.

Secret. Suscipe Domine sacrificium placacionis

‘. . . beato N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

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Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus ut cujus festivitate

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On the Birthday of Many Confessors
(The Roman breviaries and missals, both pre-and post Tridentine, have no common of many confessors.)
The following are Sarum Feasts of Many Confessors:
-Feb. 6, Sts. Vedastus and Amandus
-June 8, Sts. Medard and Gildard
-July 15, St. Swithun and Companions
-Oct. 1, Sts. Remigius, Germanus, Vedast and Bavonis
-Oct. 11, Sts. Nicasius and comps

Officium. Sacerdotes ejus induant salutare
-Sts. Vedastus and Amandus (Feb 6)
-Sts. Medard and Gildard (Jun 8)
-St. Swithun and Companions, trans. (Jul 15)
-Sts. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice (Jul 29)
-Sts. Remigius, Germanus, Vedast and Bavonis (Oct 1)
-Sts. Nicasius and comps. (Oct 11)

Prayer. Beatorum confessorum tuorum
This Prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . N. et N. . . .’ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Prayer. Deus qui nos sanctorum confessorum
This Prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . N. et N. . . .’ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

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Prayer. Deus qui nos concedis
This Prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . N. et N. . . .’ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Lesson. Plures facti sunt sacerdotes
-Sts. Vedastus and Amandus (Feb 6)
-Sts. Medard and Gildard (Jun 8)
-St. Swithun and Companions, trans. (Jul 15)
-Sts. Remigius, Germanus, Vedast and Bavonis (Oct 1)

Lesson. Qui timent Dominum
This Lesson appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Gradual. Sacerdotes ejus induant salutare
-Sts. Vedastus and Amandus (Feb 6)
-Sts. Medard and Gildard (Jun 8)
-St. Swithun and Companions, trans. (Jul 15)
-Sts. Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice (Jul 29)
-Sts. Remigius, Germanus, Vedast and Bavonis (Oct 1)
-Sts. Nicasius and comps. (Oct 11)

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Alleluya. Fulgebunt justi
-Sts. Vedastus and Amandus (Feb 6)
-Sts. Medard and Gildard (Jun 8)
-St. Swithun and Companions, trans. (Jul 15)
-Sts. Remigius, Germanus, Vedast and Bavonis (Oct 1)
-Sts. Nicasius and comps. (Oct 11)

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Gospel. Sint lumbi vestri
-Sts. Vedastus and Amandus (Feb 6)
-Sts. Medard and Gildard (Jun 8)
-St. Swithun and Companions, trans. (Jul 15)
-Sts. Remigius, Germanus, Vedast and Bavonis (Oct 1)

Gospel. Misit Jesus duodecim discipulos suos
This Gospel appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Offertory. Exultabunt sancti in gloria
This Offertory also appears on Feasts of Many Martyrs.
-Sts. Vedastus and Amandus (Feb 6)
-Sts. Medard and Gildard (Jun 8)
-St. Swithun and Companions, trans. (Jul 15)
-Sts. Remigius, Germanus, Vedast and Bavonis (Oct 1)
-Sts. Nicasius and comps. (Oct 11)

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Secret. Adesto Domine precibus populi tui
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Communion. Ego vos elegi de mundo.
This Communion also appears on Feasts of Many Martyrs.
-Sts. Vedastus and Amandus (Feb 6)
-Sts. Medard and Gildard (Jun 8)
-St. Swithun and Companions, trans. (Jul 15)
-Sts. Remigius, Germanus, Vedast and Bavonis (Oct 1)
-Sts. Nicasius and comps. (Oct 11)

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Postcommunion. Fideles tui Deus celestis doni
This Postcommunion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

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On the Birthday of One Virgin and Martyr
The following are Sarum Feasts of One Virgin and Martyr
Dec. 13, St. Lucy (propers in CAO)
Jan.18, St. Prisca (propers in CAO)
Jan. 21, St. Agnes (propers in CAO)
Jan. 28, St. Agnes (second feast) (propers in CAO)
Feb. 5, St. Agatha (propers in CAO)
Feb. 16, St. Juliana
July 20, St. Margaret
July 24, St. Christina
Aug. 29, St. Sabina
Oct. 6, St. Faith
Nov. 3 St. Wenefrede
Nov. 22, St. Ceciia (propers in CAO)
Nov. 25, St. Katherine

Officium. Dilexisti justiciam
This Officium also appears on Feasts of One Virgin not a Martyr.
-St. Wenefrede (1498. Missal)
-Saint Lucy (Dec. 13)

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Officium. Loquebar de testimoniis tuis
-St. Prisca (Jan 18)
-St. Praxedis (Jul 21)
-St. Tecla (Sep 23)
-St. Faith (Sep 6)
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3)
-St. Cecilia (Nov 22)

Officium. Me expectaverunt
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)
-St. Juliana (Feb 16)
-St. Margaret (Jul 20)
-St. Katherine (Nov 25)

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Prayer. Indulgentiam nobis
-St. Christina (Jul 24) (in full)

‘. . . beata N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the nominative case.

Prayer. Exaudi nos Deus salutaris noster
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3) (in full)

‘. . . beate N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Lesson. Domine Deus meus exaltasti
-St. Prisca (Jan 18)
-St. Juliana (Feb 16)
-St. Margaret (Jul 20)
-St. Sabina (Aug 29)
-St. Faith (Sep 6)
-St. Wenefrede (1498. Missal)
-St. Cecilia (Nov 22)

Lesson Confitebor tibi Domine rex
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)
-St. Agatha (Feb 5)
-St. Katherine (Nov 25)

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Lesson. Sapientia laudabit animam suam
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3)

Gradual. Dilexisti justiciam
This Gradual also appears on Feasts of One Virgin not a Martyr.
-St. Wenefrede (1498. Missal)
-Saint Lucy (Dec. 13)

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Gradual. Specie tua
-St. Prisca (Jan 18)
-St. Agnes, Second Feast (Jan 28)
-St. Margaret (Jul 20)
-St. Faith (Sep 6)
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3)
-St. Katherine (Nov 25)

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Gradual. Diffusa est gratia
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)
-St. Brigid, (Feb 1)
-St. Juliana (Feb 16)
-St. Sabina (Aug 29)

Gradual. Audi filia et vide
This Gradual appears on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin.
-St. Cecilia (Nov 22)

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Gradual. Propter veritatem
This Gradual appears on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.
This Gradual appears to have no assignments for Feasts of One Virgin and Martyr in the Sarum liturgy.

Alleluya. Emulor enim vos Dei
This Alleluya also appears on Feasts of One Virgin not a Martyr.
-Saint Lucy (Dec. 13)
-St. Agatha (Feb 5)

Alleluya. Veni electa mea
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)
-St. Margaret (Jul 20)
-St. Wenefrede (1498. Missal)
-St. Cecilia (Nov 22)

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Alleluya. Specie tua
-St. Prisca (Jan 18)
-St. Brigid, (Feb 1)
-St. Petronilla (May 31)
-St. Sabina (Aug 29)

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Alleluya. Diffusa est gratia
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3)

Alleluya. Hec est virgo sapiens
-St. Agnes, Second Feast (Jan 28)
-St. Juliana (Feb 16)
-St. Faith (Sep 6)

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Alleluya. Loquebar de testimoniis
-St. Katherine (Nov 25)

Tract. Diffusa est gratia
This Tract also appears on the Feast of One Virgin not a Martyr.
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)
-St. Agatha (Feb 5)

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Sequence. Exultemus in hac die
In Rylands-24 this sequence appears for many virgins.
Translation © 2018 Matthew Carver. Used by permission.
-St. Lucy (Dec. 13)
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)
-St. Agatha (Feb 5)
-St. Margaret (Jul 20)
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3)
-St. Cecilia (Nov 22)
When the name (N.) is only three syllables, presumably the pattern given in Cam-Queens-MS-28:472 should be followed: EF.DC.D.

The sequence can be connecte with the Alleluyas as follows:
-Emulor enim vos Dei, up a whole tone; sequence up a whole tone.
-Veni electa mea, down a whole tone; sequence up a minor third (the repetition of Alleluya ends on G; the sequence begins on C).
-Specie tua, down a major second; sequence up a minor third (the repetition of Alleluya ends on F;  the sequence begins on C
-Diffusa est gratia, down a major second; sequence up a minor third (the repetition of Alleluya ends on F;  the sequence begins on C
-Hec est virgo sapiens, up a whole tone; sequence up a whole tone.
-Loquebar de testimoniis, up a whole tone, sequence up a whole tone.

‘. . . claruit N.’ the proper name is inserted in the nominative case.

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Gospel. Simile est regnum celorum thesauro
-St. Lucy (Dec. 13)
-St. Prisca (Jan 18)
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)
-St. Bathilde (Jan 30)
-St. Agatha (Feb 5)
-St. Juliana (Feb 16)
-St. Margaret (Jul 20)
-St. Sabina (Aug 29)
-St. Faith (Sep 6)
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3)
-St. Cecilia (Nov 22)
-St. Katherine (Nov 25)

Offertory. Filie regum
-St. Prisca (Jan 18)
-St. Juliana (Feb 16)
-St. Sabina (Aug 29)
-St. Katherine (Nov 25)

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Offertory. Offerentur regi virgines post eam (minor)
This Offertory also appears on the Feast of One Virgin not a Martyr and of Feasts of Many Virgins.
-St. Lucy (Dec. 13)
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)
-St. Agnes, Second Feast (Jan 28)
-St. Agatha (Feb 5)
-St. Margaret (Jul 20)
-St. Faith (Sep 6)
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3)
-St. Cecilia (Nov 22)

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Offertory. Offerentur regi virgines proxime ejus (major) (after Ps. 44:15-16).
In LU:1219 this offertory begins ‘Afferentur regi . . . afferentur tibi . . .’.
=St. Wenedrede (Crede michi)

Secret. Hostias Domine quas tibi offerimus
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3) (in full)

‘. . . beata N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

Communion. Diffusa est gratia
This Communion also appears on the Feast of One Virgin not a Martyr.
The Alleluya would appear to be proper to Mode V, not Mode VI.
-St. Wenefrede (1498. Missal)
-St. Lucy (Dec 13)

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Communion. Principes persecuti sunt
This Communion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

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Communion. Feci judicium
-St. Prisca (Jan 18)
-St. Margaret (Jul 20)
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3)

Communion. Simile est regnum celorum homini
-St. Agnes, Second Feast (Jan 28)
-St. Juliana (Feb 16)
-St. Praxedis (Jul 21)
-St. Tecla (Sep 23)
-St. Faith (Sep 6)
-St. Katherine (Nov 25)

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Communion. Quinque prudentes virgines
This Communion also appears on Feast of Many Virgins.
-St. Agnes (Jan 21)

Postcommunion. Placeant tibi quesumus misericors Deus
-St. Wenefrede (Nov 3) (in full)

‘. . . beata N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

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On the Birthday of One Virgin not at Martyr
The following are Sarum Feasts of One Virgin, not a Martyr:
Jan. 31, St. Bathilda
Feb. 1, St. Brigid
Feb. 10, St. Scholastica
May 31, St. Petronilla
June 23, St. Etheldreda
Aug. 31, St. Cuthburga
Sept. 16, St. Edith
Sept. 23, St. Tecla
Oct. 19, St. Frideswide

St. Mary is not included here as all her feasts use propers for St. Mary.
All of the proper chants also appear on the Feast of One Virgin and Martyr.

Officium. Dilexisti justiciam
-St. Bathilde (Jan 30)
-St. Scholastica (Feb 10)
-St. Petronilla (May 31)
-St. Cuthberga (Aug 31)
-St. Edith (Sep 16)
-St. Etheldreda (Oct 17)
-St. Frideswide (Oct 19)

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus auctor virtutis
This Prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beate N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

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Lesson. Qui gloriatur, in Domino glorietur
-St. Agnes, Second Feast (Jan 28)
-St. Brigid, (Feb 1)
-St. Petronilla (May 31)
-St. Cuthberga (Aug 31)
-St. Edith (Sep 16)
-St. Tecla (Sep 23)
-St. Etheldreda (Oct 17)
-St. Frideswide (Oct 19)

Lesson. Sapientia vincit maliciam
-St. Bathilde (Jan 30)
-St. Scholastica (Feb 10)
-St. Praxedis (Jul 21)

Lesson. Gaudens gaudebo in Domino
This Lesson appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Gradual. Dilexisti justiciam
-St. Bathilde (Jan 30)
-St. Scholastica (Feb 10)
-St. Petronilla (May 31)
-St. Praxedis (Jul 21)
-St. Cuthberga (Aug 31)
-St. Edith (Sep 16)
-St. Tecla (Sep 23)
-St. Etheldreda (Oct 17)
-St. Frideswide (Oct 19)

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Alleluya. Diffusa est gratia
-St. Bathilde (Jan 30)
-St. Scholastica (Feb 10)
-St. Etheldreda (Oct 17)
-St. Frideswide (Oct 19)

Alleluya. Emulor enim vos Dei
-St. Praxedis (Jul 21)
-St. Cuthberga (Aug 31)
-St. Edith (Sep 16)
-St. Tecla (Sep 23)

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Tract. Difffusa est gratia
This Tract appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

[169]
Sequence. Virginis venerande
In Rylands-24 this sequence appears for feasts of one virgin.
Trans. © 2018 by Matthew Carver. Used with permission.
-St. Edith (Sep 16)
-St. Etheldreda (Oct 17)
-St. Frideswide (Oct 19)

This sequence can connect with the Alleluyas as follows:
-Diffusa est gratia, no transposition; sequence, no transposition.
-Emulor enim vos, no transposition; sequence, no transposition.

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Gospel. Simile est regnum celorum decem virginibus
This Gospel also appears in the Commonn of Many Virgins
-St. Agnes, Second Feast (Jan 28)
-St. Brigid, (Feb 1)
-St. Scholastica (Feb 10)
-Sts. Perpetua and Felicity (Mar 7)
-St. Petronilla (May 31)
-St. Praxedis (Jul 21)
-St. Cuthberga (Aug 31)
-St. Edith (Sep 16)
-St. Tecla (Sep 23)
-St. Etheldreda (Oct 17)
-St. Frideswide (Oct 19)
– The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21)

Offertory. Offerentur regi virgines post eam (major)
This Offertory also appears on Feasts of One Virgin and of Many Virgins.
-St. Bathilde (Jan 30)
-St. Brigid, (Feb 1)
-St. Scholastica (Feb 10)
-St. Petronilla (May 31)
-St. Praxedis (Jul 21)
-St. Cuthberga (Aug 31)
-St. Edith (Sep 16)
-St. Tecla (Sep 23)
-St. Etheldreda (Oct 17)
-St. Frideswide (Oct 19)

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Secret. Offerimus Domine preces et munera
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . sancte N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Communion. Diffusa est gratia
The Alleluya would appear to be proper to Mode V, not Mode VI.
-St. Bathilde (Jan 30)
-St. Scholastica (Feb 10)
-St. Petronilla (May 31)
-St. Mary Magdalene (Jul 22)
-St. Anne (Jul 26)
-St. Cuthberga (Aug 31)
-St. Edith (Sep 16)
-St. Etheldreda (Oct 17)
-St. Frideswide (Oct 19)

Postcommunion. Prosint nobis Domine quesumus
This Postcommunion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . beata virgine tua N. . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the ablative case.

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On the Birthday of Many Virgins
The following are Sarum Feasts of Many Virgins:
March 7, Sts. Perpetua and Felicity
Oct. 21, The Eleven Thousand Virgins

Officium. Vultum tuum
-St. Agnes, Second Feast (Jan 28)
-St. Brigid, (Feb 1)
-Sts. Perpetua and Felicity (Mar 7)
– The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21)

Prayer. Deus qui ut humanum genus
This Prayer appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Lesson. De virginibus autem preceptum
-Sts. Perpetua and Felicity (Mar 7)

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Lesson. O quam pulchra est casta generatio
– The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21)

Gradual. Exultabunt sancti in gloria
This Gradual also appears in the Common of Many Martyrs.
– The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21)

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Gradual. Gloriosus Deus in sanctis
This Gradual also appears on Feasts of Many Martyrs.
-Sts. Perpetua and Felicity (Mar 7)

[176]
Alleluya. Adducentur regi virgines
– The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21)

Alleluya. Quinque prudentes virgines
In the Graduale Romanum 1908 this Alleluya appears on the Feast of St. Agnes.
The extreme range at ‘clamor’ is a rare examples in which the music directly portrays the meaning of the text.
This Alleluya appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

No sequence is given for feasts of many virgins.  Ss. Perpetua always falls in Lent, and thus does not warrant a sequence.  The Eleven-thousand Virgins, of only three lessons, does not require a sequence.  The York Use indicates the sequence ‘Mundi etate’ taken from the common for feasts of many confessors (Surtees ed. II:205).

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Offertory. Offerentur regi virgines
This Offertory also appears on Feasts of One Virgin, and of One Virgin not a Martyr.
-Sts. Perpetua and Felicity (Mar 7)
-The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21)

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Secret. Fac nos quesumus Domine beatarum virginum
This Secret appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . N. et N. . . .’ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

Communion. Quinque prudentes virgines acceperunt oleum
This Communion also appears on Feasts of One Virgin and Martyr.
-St. Brigid, (Feb 1)
-Sts. Perpetua and Felicity (Mar 7)
-The Eleven Thousand Virgins (Oct 21)

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus ut qui in sanctarum virginum
This Postcommunion appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

‘. . . N. et N. . . .’ the proper names are inserted in the genitive case.

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Common of Virgins not Martyrs
This Mass appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui nos idoneos

‘. . . N. et N. . . .’ the proper names are inserted in the accusative case.

Secret. Intercedentibus sanctis virginibus

‘. . . N. et N. . . .’ the proper names are inserted in the ablative case.

Postcommunion. Quesumus Domine Deus noster ut sacri mysterii munus

‘. . . N. et N. . . .’ the proper names are inserted in the ablative case.

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Of Non-Virgins
This Mass does not appear in the earlier printed Sarum Missals, 1492, 94, 97, 98.  It will be noted also that this while this Mass does not appear in the Missal 1515, there the first lesson appears earlier, amongst the lessons for one virgin.  Thus it would appear that this Mass was separated out at some later stage, presumably some time after the adoption of the Feast of St. Anne in 1383.  This is supported also by the fact that all of the propers except the Prose are borrowed from the Mass for One Virgin.

The following are Sarum Feasts of Non-Virgins
July 22, St. Mary Magdalene
July 26, St. Anne

Offic. Gaudeamus omnes in Domino
This Officium also appears on several Feasts of Saints (in particular St. Mary Magdalene and St. Anne), on All Saints, and on Feasts of the Blessed Virgin.
That this is labelled ‘Introitus’ in the Missal 1513 may be an indication that it is a later addition to the Sarum liturgy from some other tradition.

Presumably this mass was not sung, but only said; however music is available in other locations for all the propers except the prose.

Prayer. Exaudi nos Deus salutaris noster
-St. Lucy (Dec 13) (in full)

‘. . . beate N. . . . .’ the proper name is inserted in the genitive case.

Lesson. Mulierem fortem quis invenit
-St. Mary Magdalene (Jul 22)
-St. Anne (Jul 26)

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Gradual. Propter veritatem
This Gradual also appears on the Feast of the Assumption (August 15).
This Gradual appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Alleluya. Diffusa est gratia
This Alleluya also appears in the Common of One Virgin.
This Alleluya appears to have no assignments in the Common of Non-Virgins.

Prose. Mulier laudabilis
This prose (really a rhymed and metered sequence) appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.  It is comprised of couplets in the following form:
7pp6p x2; 7pp6p x2; 7pp6p x2; 7pp6p x2; 7pp7pp x2; 7pp6p 6pp6p;  7pp7pp6p x2; 7pp7pp6p x2; 8p8p6pp x2.
In AH-55:28 (p, 31) it is listed as ‘De sancta vidua’.  19 sources, mostly French, are listed.  There are 2 entries for this sequence in CANTUS, one under St. Elizabeth, and one under St. Bathild.  The melody indicated there is ‘Virgines egregiae’.
The ms. Graduale Rothomagense-pdf:538. give the text and music of ‘Virgines egregie’, in which the final couplet shares the same text as ‘Mulier laudabilis’.   Apart from minor discrepancies the text of ‘Mulier laudabilis’ is easily adapted to the melody of ‘Virgines egregie’.

This sequence connects well with the Alleluya without any transposition.

Tract. Diffusa est gratia
This Tract also appears in the Common of One Virgin (Martyr or non-Martyr).
This Tract appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Gospel. Simile est regnum celorum thesauro
This Gospel appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

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Offertorium. Diffusa est gratia
This Offertory also appears on the Feast of the Purification (February 2).
This Offertory appears to have no assignments in the Sarum liturgy.

Offertorium. Filie regum in honore tuo
This Offertory also appears in the Common of of One Virgin and Martyr.
-St. Mary Magdalene (Jul 22)
-St. Anne (Jul 26)

Secret. Accepta tibi Domine sit sacre plebis oblatio
-St. Leodegar (Oct 2) (in full) in Bologna-2565 [Legg:331].

Communion. Simile est regum celorum homini
This Communion also appears in the Common of One Virgin and Martyr

Postcommunion. Satiasti Domine familiam tuam
-St. Anastasia (Dec 25) (in full)
-St. Lambert (Sep 17) (in full) in Bologna-2565 [Legg:324].

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Votive Masses
Votive masses may be said throughout the week.  The usual commemorations are:

Week-day	Mass
Sunday	Holy Trinity
Monday	Of the Angels
Tuesday	I am the Salvation (Salus populi)
Wednesday	Of the Holy Ghost
Thursday	Of the Holy Sacrament (Corpus Christi)
Friday	Of the Holy Cross
Saturday	Of the Blessed Virgin

While it is likely that most week-day commemorative masses were said in chapel rather than sung in quire, the presence of music at this location in the printed graduals for the Sunday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday masses suggests that at least some of these votive masses were sung some of the time.

Commemoration of the Holy Trinity
This Mass follows that of the Feast of the Trinity, except that it has different Lessons, and includes a second Alleluya for use in Eastertide.

Officium Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas

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Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui dedisti famulis tuis

Epistle.  Presumably the two epistles that are provided would be used in rotation.

Gradual. Benedictus es Domine

Alleluya. Benedictus es Domine

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Alleluya. V. Laudate pueri
Presumably this would be used as the second alleluya. in Eastertide

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Sequence. Benedicta  sit beata Trinitas
The presence of ‘Amen’ is unusual, seeing that ‘amen’ is not sung at the conclusion of sequences at masses in the Sarum Rite.  ‘Amen’ also appears at the conclusion of several other sequences among the votive masses.

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Offertory. Benedictus sit Deus Pater

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Secret. Sanctifica quesumus Domine Deus Trinitatis

Communion. Benedicimus Deum celi

Postcommunion. Proficiat nobis ad salutem

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Mass of the Angels
This Mass uses the proper chants of the Feast of St. Michael (September 29).

Officium. Benedicite Dominum omnes angeli ejus

Prayer. Perpetuum nobis Domine tue miserationis

Gradual. Benedicite Dominum omnes angeli ejus

Alleluya. In conspectu angelorum

Offertory. Stetit angelus juxta aram templi

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Secret. Hostias tibi Domine laudis offerimus

Communion. Benedicite omnes anglei

Postcommunion. Repleti domine benedictione celesti

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Rubrics for Mass ‘Salus populi’

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Mass ‘Salus populi’
Officium. Salus populi
This Officium appears also on Thursday of Lent 3 and Trinity 19.

Prayer. Deus quod caritatis dona

Gradual. Propicius esto
This Gradual also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Lent, Thursday of Lent 2, Trinity 4, and Saturday in the Ember Days of September.

Alleluya. Ostende nobis
This Alleluya also appears on Advent 1.

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Offertory. Exaudi Deus
This Offertory also appears on Monday of Lent 3.

Secret. Miserere quesumus Domine famulis

Communion. Amen dico vobis
This Communion also appears on Trinity 23.

Postcommunion.  Divina libantes mysteria

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Commemoration of the Holy Ghost
The Officium, Gospel, Offertory, Secret, Communion and Postcommunion also appear on the Feast of Pentecost.

Officium. Spiritus Domine

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Prayer. Deus qui corda fidelium

Gradual. Beata gens
This Gradual also appears on Wednesday of Lent 4 and Trinity 17

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Alleluya. Veni Sancte Spiritus
This Alleluya also appears on Tuesday after Pentecost and Saturday in the Ember Days of Pentecost.

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Alleluya. Emitte Spiritum
This Alleluya appears throughout Pentecost week.

Sequence. Veni Sancte Spiritus
This sequence has been attributed to Stephen Langton (d. 1228), Archbishop of Canterbury. (See F. J. E. Raby, The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse, Oxford, 1959: 496.) It has also been attributed to Pope Innocent III (d. 1216). Called the ‘Golden Sequence’, in the Roman Use it is found on Pentecost Sunday, and is one of the handful that remain in the modern books (LU:880).  To this point only one Sarum source for this melody has appeared.  The presence of ‘Amen’ is unusual among Sarum sequences.

The sequence can follow either of the Alleluyas without transposition.

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Offertory. Confirma hoc Deus

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Secret. Munera quesumus Domine

Communion. Factus est repente

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Postcommunion. Sancti Spiritus Domine

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Commemoration of Corpus Christi
This Mass is entirely drawn from the Feast of Corpus Christi.

Officium. Cibavit eos

Prayer. Deus qui nobis sub sacramento

Gradual. Oculi omnium

Alleluya. Caro mea

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Offertory. Sacerdotes Domini incensum

Secret. Ecclesie tue quesumus domine unitatis

Communion. Quotienscunque manducabitis

Postcommunion. Fac nos quesumus Domine divinitatis tue

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Rubrics for Mass of the Cross

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Mass of the Holy Cross
This Mass, including all the proper chants, is mostly drawn from the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14).

Officium. Nos autem gloriari
This Officium also appears on Tuesday of Holy Week.

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Prayer. Deus qui unigenti Filii tui

Gradual. Christus factus est
This Gradual also appears on Thursday of Holy Week.

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Alleluya. Dulce lignum
This Alleluya also appears on the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross.

Alleluya. Nos autem gloriari oportet

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Offertory.  Protege Domine
This Offertory also appears on the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross.

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Secret. Hec oblatio quesumus Domine ab omnibus

Communion. Per lignum
This communion also appears on the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross.

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Postcommunion. Adesto nobis Domine Deus noster : et quos

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Mass of the Five Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ
‘It is not certain whether this was Boniface VIII., 1294-1303, or Boniface IX., 1389-1404.’, Warren, The Sarum Missal II:64. For a detailed examination of the development of this feast, see Richard Pfaff, New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970):84-90. See also Duffy, Stripping of the Altars: 238.
In the Arbuthnott missal (1491) this mass is added at the beginning.

A form of this mass appears in the Gradual Romanum (1908):[78] as ‘Missa de Passione D. N. J. C.’  A similar from of this mass appears in the Dominican Gradual (1950):68* as ‘De V. Stigmatibus. D. N. J. C.’  these sources include settings of  the officium, gradual, offertory, and communion.  The alleluya texts are somewhat different (see below), while the tracts are completely different (‘Vere languores’).

This Mass could be employed as an alternative to the foregoing Mass on Fridays (see Roman Catholic Daily Missal 1962:1558.).

‘The Devotion to the Five Wounds was very popular in England, and it was adopted as the banner of the Catholic rising called “The Pilgrimage of Grace,” in the time of Henry VIII.  William Robert Brownlow, ‘Notes on a Ms. Copy of the Sarum Missal’, The Downside Review XIII (July 1894): 134.

Officium. Humiliavit semetipsum (after Phil. 2:8-9, Ps. 88:2.)
CANTUS lists a single source for this chant P-BRs Ms. 034:387 (Mode I).

Prayer. Domine Jesu Christe

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Gradual. Improperium
CANTUS lists a single source for this chant P-BRs Ms. 034:388 (Mode 6).

Alleluya. Ave rex noster
Related alleluyas are found in the Graduale Romanum (1908):[80] and [82], and in the Dominican Gradual (1950):70*.
CANTUS indicates two related chants, g01472 and g02438.  The second appears in P-BRS Ms. 034:389 (Mode I).

Tract. Judica me Deus (Pss. 42:1-2, 26:12; 128:3; 21:18-19; 21:17-18; 68:27. )
This Tract does not appear in the CANTUS index.
Verse 5 also appears in the tract for Palm Sunday.  This verse has been re-used for the musical reconstruction that appears in the appendix.

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Sequence. Cenam cum discipulis
The stanzas are goliardic: 7pp6p x 4.
CANTUS lists three sources for this chant, but none with music.
The setting provided in the appendix uses the melody of Virginis veneranda (lines a-c) repeated as necessary, following the pattern of ‘Dies irae’.

This sequence can follow the Alleluya with no transposition.

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Offertory. Insurrexerunt
CANTUS lists a single source for this chant P-BRs Ms. 034:390 (Mode 1).

Secret. Domine Jesu Christe

Communion. Foderunt manus meas
CANTUS lists a single source for this chant P-BRs Ms. 034:391 (Mode 2).

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Postcommunion. Domine Jesu Christe

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On the Feast of the Crown of the Lord
(Also known as the Crown of thorns). ‘The crown of thorns was brought to Paris by St. Louis in 1239.  See Gibbon’s “Roman Empire,” edit. 1862, vol. vii., p. 341.’, Warren, Sarum Missal II:72.  For a detailed examination of the development of this feast, see Richard Pfaff, New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970):91-96.  Chants for this mass (and for the office) appear in the Dominican books.
This Mass could be employed as an alternative to the foregoing Masses on Fridays.

Officium. Gaudeamus omnes. V. Gaudent angeli.

Prayer. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut qui in memoriam

Alleluya. Tuam coronam
This Alleluya does not appear in the CANTUS index.
It would appear that the omission of the Gradual and doubling of the Alleluya is due to the observance of this feast on May 4, as indicated in the Sarum Hours 1551 (Rouen), 1554 (London) and 1557 (London), and also as kept by the Dominicans (April 24) (Pfaff, New Liturgical Feasts:97, 94.) But see also the Sarum Martirology, August 11.

A musical setting adapted from Alleluya V. Inveni David (Feasts of Confessors) appears in the appendix.

Alleluya. Diadema spineum
This alleluya is in metre and rhyme: 7pp x4; a b a b.
This Alleluya does not appear in the CANTUS index.

In the Dominican gradual, Alleluya. Diadema is the first alleluya.  The second is, in Eastertide, Alleluya. Surrexit; and in Ascensiontide, Alleluya. Ascendens.

Sequence. Si vis vere gloriari
This sequence takes the form 8p8p7pp x4; 7pp7pp7pp x2; 7pp7pp6p x4; 7pp7pp7pp x4; 7pp7pp6p x8; 8p8p7pp x2.
This sequence appears in two sources in CANTUS.
No Sarum melodies are extant.  A newly composed chant, based Odas hac in die, Veni Mater gratie, and Mulier laudabilis, appears in the appendix.

This sequence can be sung with Alleluya. Tuam coronam with both chants are transposed up a whole tone.
This sequence can be sung with Alleluya. Diadema spineum with no transposition.

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Offertory. Gloria et honore

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Secret. Tuorum militum rex

Communion. Posuisti Domine

Postcommunion. Supplices te rogamus omnipotens Deus : ut hec sacramenta

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Rubrics for daily mass of the Virgin

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Votive mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin
A currently unidentified MS Sarum missal gives five reasons for the mass of the Virgin on Saturdays: ‘First “because in a certain church at Constantinople there was an Image of the B. Virgin with a veil hanging before it which veiled the whole picture. But this veil, on Friday after vespers, drew back from the picture without anyone moving it; but solely a miracle from God removed the veil, so that the whole picture could be fully seer.  After vespers were performed on Saturday, the same veil came down as before and covered the picture, and remained there until the next Friday. When this was perceived, it was settled to have Saturday always kept in honour of the B. Virgin.”
‘Another reason is, “because when our Lord was crucified and dead, and the disciples fled away and despaired of His Resurrection, in her alone faith remained. For she knew how He had borne [our sins) in His sorrow, and so also that he was the Son of God, and had said that He would rise again the third day. And this is the reason why Saturday, rather than any other day, is appropriated to the Blessed Virgin.”
‘A third reason is, “because the Sabbath day is the gate and entrance to the Lord’s day or Sunday. But the Lord’s day is a day of rest, and signifies eternal life. Hence, when we are truly in the grace of our Lord, then we are in the gate of Paradise. Because then she is to us the gate to the kingdom of heaven, which is figured by the Lord’s day. And so on the seventh day which precedes the Lord‘s day we solemnize her.
‘A fourth reason is that the solemnity of the Mother is continued in the solemnity of her Son.
‘A fifth reason is that we keep a feast on the day when God rested.’  William Robert Brownlow,  ‘Notes on a Ms. Copy of the Sarum Missal’, The Downside Review XIII (July 1894): 135-136.

Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent
This mass is not said on the Feast of the Conception (December 8) because on that day the principal mass is in honour of the Blessed Virgin.

Officium. Rorate celi
This Officium also appears on Wednesday in the Ember Days of Advent.

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Prayer. Deus qui beata Marie virginis utero

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Gradual. Tollite portas
This Gradual also appears on Wednesday in the Ember Days of Advent, and the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25).

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Alleluya. Ave Maria
This Alleluya also appears on the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25).

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Sequence. Missus Gabriel de celis
Trans. J. M. Neale, Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences (London: Joseph Masters, 18667): 137.

This sequence is sung at the commemoration of the Blessed Virgin in the first week of Advent.
The Alleluya and sequence can be performed together transposed up a whole tone.

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Sequence. Mittit ad virginem
Peter Abelard
Trans. © 2014 Matthew Carver, based on those of AH Brown and AH Pearson.
6ppx5
A translation by J. M. Neale appears in The Hymnal Noted (London: Novello, Ewer and Co., 1851): 186 (#95).
This Sequence appears in AH-LIV: 296 (#191), with an additional final stanza:
Qui nobis tribuat
Peccati veniam,
Reatus diluat
Et donet patriam
In arce siderum.

Matthew Carver’s translation includes two additional stanzas, the latter of which is a translation of the above stanza:
Now nature’s laws are torn,
The Virgin bears a Son,
The King of kings is born,
Who pow’r divine doth own,
And rules the heaven’s height.

Who doth on us bestow
Forgiveness from His hand,
Our guilt makes white as snow
And gives us all a land
Amid His city bright.

This sequence is sung at the commemoration of the Blessed Virgin in the second week of Advent.

The melody is remarkable for its prominent use of the tritone F-B; some sources temper this with F-A.

The Alleluya and sequence can be performed together with the Alleluya transposed up a perfect fourth and the sequence transposed down a whole tone; the repeition of alleluya will end on G and the sequence will begin on C.

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Sequence. Verbum bonum et suave
Trans. in Hymn Melodies for the Whole Year (the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 1896): xx.
Another translation, by ‘Mr. Wrangham’, appears in William Samuel Lilly, Chapters in European History I (London: Chapman and Hall, 1886): 228.
This sequence begins with the melody of ‘Lauda Syon’ but it diverges from there.
This sequence is sung at the commemoration of the Blessed Virgin in the fourth week of Advent.

The Alleluya and sequence can be performed together if the Alleluya is transposed up a perfect fourth; the Alleluya will end on G and the sequence will begin D-G.

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Offertory. Ave Maria
This Offertory also appears on Wednesday in the Ember Days of Advent, and the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25).

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Secret. In mentibus nostris quesumus Domine

Communion. Ecce virgo
This Communion also appears on Wednesday in the Ember Days of Advent, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, and the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25)

Postcommunion. Gratiam tuam quesumus Domine mentibus

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Mass of the Blessed Virgin from Christmas until the Purification
Officum. Vultum tuum
This Officium also appears in the Common of Many Virgins.

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Prayer. Deus qui salutis eterne beate Marie virginitate

Gradual. Speciosus forma
This Gradual also appears onthe Sixth Day of Christmas.

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Alleluya. Post partum virgo
This Alleluya also appears on the Vigil of the Assumption (August 14).

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Sequence. Post partum virgo
Most of these sequences appear within the Octave of the Assumption.
This sequence appears on the second day of the Octave of the Assumption.
It will be noted that this sequence takes up the text of the forgoing alleluya.

Sequence. Ave Maria
This sequence appears on the third day of the Octave of the Assumption.

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Sequence. Letabundus
This sequence appears on the fourth day of the Octave of the Assumption.

Sequence. Salve sancta parens
This sequence takes as its basis three familiar hymns to the Virgin: Ave Maris Stella, Quem terra ponthus, and O gloriosa Femina.  In each stanza one of the four lines is taken from the corrseponding stanza of the hymn.  For the first two hymns it is the final line that is borrowed, but in the final hymn it is the first line of each stanza that is borrowed.  Indeed the final stanza, the standard doxology for Marian hymns, is entirely repeated from the hymn.
In stanza two the final words are inverted for the sake of the rhyme.
No music is extant, but the sequence can be sung to the melodies of the above hymns.  While Ave Maris Stella is provided with two melodies, Modes I and IV, for feasts and for commemorations (Breviary {405} and {407}, Quem terra ponthus {420} and O gloriosa Femina {431} –really two parts of the same hymn–share a single melody in Mode II.  For the printed Sarum Gradual the mode IV melody of Ave Maris Stella has been selected, since the sequence is to be sung on weekday commemorations.  While the melodies are in different modes, they are in fact complementary in that the second begins with what can be understood as a melodic transformation–or sequence–of the first.  On the other hand, the more neumatic that syllabic style is less typical of a sequence!

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Sequence. Hac clara die
This sequence appears on the fifth day of the Octave of the Assumption.

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Sequence. Ave mundi spes Maria
This sequence appears on the sixth day of the Octave of the Assumption.

Sequence. Hodierne lux diei
This sequence appears on the seventh day of the Octave of the Assumption.

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Offertory. Offerentur regi
This Offertory also appears inthe Common of One Virgin and in the Common of Many Virgins.

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Secret. Oblatis Domine muneribus

Communion. Diffusa est
This Communion also appears in the Common of One Virgin and at the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene (July 22).

Postcommunion. Da quesumus misericors Deus : ejus nos

Memorial Prayers
Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : que dedisti famulis

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Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui facias

Prayer. Omnipotens et misericors Deus unica

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui vivorum

Memorial Secrets

Secret. Sanctifica quesumus Domine Deus Trinitas sancta

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Secret. Hostias quesumus Domine famulorum

Secret. Sanctifica quesumus Domine hec fidelium

Secret. Deus cui soli cognitius

Memorial Postcommunions

Postcommunion. Proficiat nobis ad salutem

Postcommunion. Quos celesti recreas

Postcommunion. Vivificet nos quesumus

Postcommunion. Pro celestis convivii

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Mass of the Blessed Virgin from the Purification until Advent
Officium. Salve sancta parens
Text from Sedelius, Carmen Paschale ii. 63.
The music borrowed from Officium ‘Ecce advenit Dominus’ (Epiphany).
This Officium also appears at the Vigil of the Assumption (August 14).

Prayer. Concede nos famulos tuos quesumus

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Gradual. Benedicta et venerabilis es
This Gradual also appears at the Vigil of the Assumption (August 14).
The music is also used in Gradual ‘Domine prevenisti eum’ (One confessor).

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Alleluya. Salve virgo mater Dei

Alleluya. Obtine sacris precibus

Alleluya. Post partum virgo

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Alleluya. Ora pro nobis

Alleluya. Virtutes celi.
This Alleluya is a variation of that found on the Second Sunday of Advent.

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Alleluya. Veni electa mea
This Alleluya also appears in the Common of One Virgin.

Alleluya. Salve virgo.

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Alleluya. Virga Jesse floruit

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Offertory. Felix namque
This Offertory also appears on the Vigil of the Assumption (August 14).

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Secret. Tua Domine propiciatione

Communion. Beata viscera
This Communion also appears on the Feast of the Assumption (August 15).

Communion. Vera fides geniti
This Communion also appears on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin (September 8).

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Postcommunion. Sumptis Domine salutis nostre subsidiis

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Mass for Peace
Officium. Da pacem Domine
This Officum also appears on Trinity 18.

Prayer. Deus a quo sancta desideria

Lesson. Orationem faciebant
This Lesson also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Lent.

Gradual. Letatus sum
This Gradual appears on Lent 4 and Trinity 18

Alleluya. Qui posuit fines tuos pacem
This Alleluya appears on Trinity 23.

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Offertory. Deus tu convertens
This Offertory appears also on Advent 2 and on Friday in the Ember Days of Advent.

Secret. Deus qui credentes in te

Communion.
This Communion also appears on Trinity 23.

Postcommunion. Deus auctor pacis et amator

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Mass for the King
This mass may also be suitable for the Queen; the propers for St. Batildis, queen, (January 30) may also be suitable for a queen.
Officium. Protector noster.
This Officium also appears on Trinity 14, but without Alleluya.

Prayer. Quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut famulus tuus rex noster
For a queen the prayer would read ‘. . . ut famula tua regina nostra N. . . .’

Gradual. Salvum fac servum tuum
This Gradual also appears on Friday in the Ember Days of Lent.

Alleluya. Eripe me de inimicis
This Alleluya also appears on Trinity 6.

Offertory. Exaudi Deus orationem
This Offertory also appears on Monday of Lent 3.

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Secret. Munera quesumus Domine oblata sanctifica
For a queen the prayer would read ‘. . .famule tue N. regine nostre . . .’

Communion. Amen dico vobis : quicquid
This Communion also appears in the Mass Salus populi and in the Mass for Peace.

Postcommunion. Hec Domine saultaris sacramenti
For a queen the prayer would read ‘. . .famulam tuam reginam nostram N. . . .’

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For the Invocation of the Grace of the Holy Ghost
Compiled by Alcuin (F. E, Warren, ed., The Leofric Missal (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883):177.
In the Leofric Missal this Mass is titled here ‘Missa de cordis emundatione per Spiritum Sanctum postulanda’ (Mass for Cleansing of the Heart by Beseeching the Holy Ghost) .  fo. 213; F. E, Warren, ed., The Leofric Missal (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883):177.
The Officium, Gradual and Alleluya also appear in the Commemoration of the Holy Ghost.

Officium. Spiritus Domine

Prayer. Deus qui omne cor patet

Prayer. Deus qui omne cor patet

Gradual. Beata gens
This Gradual also appears on Wednesday of Lent 4 and Trinity 17

Alleluya. Veni Sancte Spiritus
This Alleluya also appears on Tuesday after Pentecost and Saturday in the Ember Days of Pentecost.

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Offertory.  Emitte spiritum tuum
This Offertory appears on the Vigil of Pentecost.

Secret. Hec oblatio Domine Deus quesumus cordis

Communion.  Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos
This Communion appears on Monday in the octave of Pentecost.

Postcommunion. Sacrificium salutis nostre tibi offerentes

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Mass for Oneself
Three of the proper chants for this Mass are dran from Monday of Lent 4.

Officium. Deus in nomine tuo
This Officum appears on Monday of Lent 4.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui me pecctorem

Gradual. Esto michi in Deum protectorem
This Gradual also appears on Monday of Lent 4, and on Trinity 8.

Alleluya. Eripe me de inimicis meis
This Alleluya also appear on Trinity 6.

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Offertory. Intende voic orationis mee
This Offertory also appears on Friday of Lent 3 and on Trinity 1.

Secret. Deus qui te precipis

Communion. Ab occultis meis
This Communion also appears on Monday of Lent 4.

Postcommunion. Aures tue pietatis mitissime Deus

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Mass to ask the Gifts of the Holy Ghost
Officium. Caritas Dei
This Officum also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Pentecost.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui justiciam tue legis

Gradual. Domine Dominus noster
This Gradual appears on Trinity 9.

Alleluya. Domine Deus salutis mee
This Alleluya appears on Trinity 10.

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Offertory. Lauda anima mea
This Offertory appears in the Sunday Mass for the Third Week after the Octave of Easter, on the Sunday after Ascension and on Friday after Pentecost.

Secret. Emitte quesumus Domine Spiritum caritatis

Communion. Primum querite
This Communion appears on Trinity 9.

Postcommunion. Spiritum nobis Domine tue caritatis infunde

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Mass for Sinners
Officium. Si iniquitates
This Officium appears on Trinity 22.

Prayer. Exaudi quesumus Domine supplicum preces

Gradual. Propitius esto
This Gradual also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Lent, Thursday of Lent 2, Trinity 4, and Saturday in the Ember Days of September.

Alleluya. Ostende nobis
This Alleluya appears on the First Sunday in Advent.

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Offertory. Deus tu convertens
This Offertory appears on the Second Sunday in Advent and on Friday in the Ember Days of Advent.

Secret. Hostias tibi Domine placationis offerimus obsecrantes

Communion. Inclina aurem tuam
This Communion appears on Trinity 7.

Postcommunion. Presta nobis eterne Salvator

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Mass for Penitents
Officium. Justus es Domine
This Officium appears on Trinity 17.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : confitenti tibi

Gradual. Salvum fac servum
This Gradual appears on Friday in the Ember Days of Lent.

Alleluya. Qui timent Dominum
This Alleluya appears on Trinity 16.

Offertory. Sperent in te
This Offertory appears on Tuesday in Passion Week and Trinity 3.

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Secret. Presta quesumus omnipotens et misericors Deus : ut hec salutaris

Communion. Amen dico vobis quicquid
This Communion appears on Trinity 23.

Postcommunion. Omnipotens et misericors Deus qui omnem animam

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Mass for the Inspiration of Holy Wisdom
Officium. Lex Domini
This Officium appears on Saturday of Lent 2.

Prayer. Deus qui per coeternam tibi sapientiam

Gradual. Venite filii audite me
This Gradual also appers on Wednesday of Lent 4, Trinity 7, and Wednesday in the Ember Days of September.

Alleluya. Ostende nobis
This Alleluya also appears on Advent 1.

Offertory. Benedictus es Domine
This Offertory also appears on Quinquagesima and Friday of Passion Week.

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Secret. Sanctificetur quesumus Domine hujus nostra oblacionibus

Communion. Tu mandasti
This Communion appears also on Thursday of Lent 3 and Trinity 19.

Postcommunion. Infunde quesumus Domine Deus per hec sancta

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Mass for Tribulation of the Heart
Officium. Justus es Domine
This Officium appears on Trinity 17.

Prayer. Deus qui contritorum non despicis gemitum

Gradual. Ad Dominum cum tribularer
This Gradual also appears on Friday of Lent 2 and on Trinity 2.

Alleluya. Qui timent Dominum
This Alleluya also appears on Trinity 16.

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Offertory. Immittit angelus Domini
This Offertory also appears on Thursday of Lent 1 and on Trinity 14.

Secret. Deus qui tribulatos corde sanas

Communion. Redime me Deus Israel
This Communion appears on Tuesday of Passion Week.

Postcommunion. Dimitte quesumus Domine Deus peccata nostra

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Mass for the Sick
Officium. Justus es Domine
This Officium appears on Trinity 17.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus salus eterna

Gradual. Miserere michi Domine
This Gradual appears on Wednesday of Lent 3.

Alleluya. Qui sanat contritos
This Alleluya appears on Trinity 22.

Offertory. Domine convertere
This Offertory appears on Monday of Passion Week and Trinity 2.

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Secret. Deus cujus nitibus vite nostre

Communion. Redime me Deus Israel
This communion appears on Tuesday of Passion Week.

Postcommunion. Deus infirmitatis humane singulare presidium

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Mass for the Health of a Friend
Officium. Justus es Domine
This Officium also appears on Trinity 17.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : miserere famulo tuo

Gradual. Salvum fac servum tuum
This Gradual appears on Friday in the Ember Days of Lent.

Alleluya. Qui timent Dominum
This Alleluya appears on Trinity 16.

Offertory. Sperent in te
This Offertory appears on Tuesday of Passion Week and on Trinity 3.

Secret. Proficiat quesumus Domine hec oblatio

Communion. Amen dico vobis : quicquid
This Communion appears on Trinity 23.

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Postcommunion. Sumentes Domine perpetue sacramenta salutis

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Mass for Good Weather
The Officium, Gradual and Communion also appear in the Votive Mass Salus populi.

Officium. Salus populi
This Officium appears on Thursday of Lent 3 and Trinity 19.

Prayer. Ad te nos Domine clamantes exaudi

Gradual. Propicius esto
This Gradual also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Lent, Thursday of Lent 2, Trinity 4, and Saturday in the Ember Days of September.

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Alleluya. Domine refugium
This Alleluya appears on Trinity 11.

Offertory. Si ambulavero
This Offertory also appears on Thursday of Lent 3 and Trinity 19.

Secret. Exaudi Domine preces nostras : et suscipe vota

Communion. Amen dico vobis
This Communion also appears on Trinity 23.

Postcommunion. Preces populi tui quesumus Domine benignus exaudi

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Mass to Ask for Rain
Officium. Letetur cor querentium
This Officium appears on Thursday of Lent 4 and Friday in the Ember Days of September.

Prayer. Deus in quo vivimus movemur et sumus : pluviam nobis

Gradual. Oculi omnium
This Gradual appears on Thursday of Lent 3, Corpus Christi, and Trinity 20.

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Alleluya. De profundis clamavi
This Alleluya appears on Septuagesima and Trinity 20.

Offertory. Portas celi
This Offertory appears on Wednesday after Easter and Tuesday after Pentecost.
The rubric ‘In tempore paschali, Alleluya.’ appears to be redundant in terms of the Gradual, where ‘alleluya’ is an integral part of the chant.  However, it would appear that when this mass was said outside of Eastertide, ‘alleluya’ would be omitted.  On the other hand, it would be possible to conclude the chant with D as the final neume of ‘homo’.

Secret. Oblatis Domine placare muneribus

Communion. De fructu operum tuorum
This Communion appears on Trinity 12.

Postcommunion. Deus qui pluis super justos et injustos

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Mass in Time of War
Officium. Reminiscere
This Officium also appears on Wednesday in the Ember Days of Lent.

Prayer. Deus regnorum omnium regumque dominator

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Gradual. Propitius esto
This Gradual also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Lent, Thursday of Lent 2, Trinity 4, and Saturday in the Ember Days of September.

Alleluya. Ostende nobis
This Alleluya also appears on Advent 1.

Offertory. Deus tu convertens
This Offertory appears also on Advent 2 and on Friday in the Ember Days of Advent.

Secret. Adesto quesumus Domine propicius populo tuo : et quem misteriis

Communion. Inclina aurem tuam
This Communion appears on Trinity 7.

Postcommunion. Corporis et sanguinis Domini nostri Jesu Christi sacrosancta

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Mass for Him that is in Prison
Officium. Nunc scio vere
This Officium appears on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29) and the Chains of St. Peter (August 1).

Prayer. Deus indulgentie, Deus totius consolationis

Gradual. Constitues eos
This Gradual appears in the Common of One Apostle

Alleluya. Solve jubente
This Alleluya appears on the Feast of the Chains of St. Peter (August 1).

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Offertory. Constitues eos principes
This Offertory appears in the Common of One Apostle.

Secret. Hec Domine placationis et laudis

Communion. Tu es Petrus
This Communion appears on the Feast of St. Peter’s Chair (February 22) and the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29).

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus Domine : ut hoc munus redemptionis

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Mass Against the Death of Men
This Mass uses the Officium, Gradual and Communion from the Mass Salus populi.

Officium. Salus populi
This Officium appears also on Thursday of Lent 3 and Trinity 19.

Prayer. Deus qui imminentem Ninivitis interitum

Gradual. Propicius esto
This Gradual also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Lent, Thursday of Lent 2, Trinity 4, and Saturday in the Ember Days of September.

Alleluya. Domine refugium
This Alleluya appears on Trinity 11.

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Offertory. Sperent in te
This Offertory appears Tuesday of Passion Week and Trinity 3.

Secret. Ecclesie tue quesumus omnipotens Deus munus

Communion. Amen dico vobis
This Communion also appears on Trinity 23.

Postcommunion. Omnipotens et misericors Deus : respice populum majestati tue

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For a Plague of Animals
The proper chants for this Mass are repeated from the previous mass.

Officium. Salus populi
This Officium also appears on Thursday of Lent 3 and Trinity 19.

Prayer. Deus qui laboribus hominum etiam de mutis animalibus

Gradual. Propicius esto
This Gradual also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Lent, Thursday of Lent 2, Trinity 4, and Saturday in the Ember Days of September.

Alleluya. Domine refugium
This Alleluya appears on Trinity 11.

Offertory. Sperent in te
This Offertory appears Tuesday of Passion Week and Trinity 3.

Secret. Subveniat nobis Domine quesumus sacrificii presentis

Communion. Amen dico vobis
This Communion also appears on Trinity 23.

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Postcommunion. Averte Domine quesumus per hec sancta que sumpsimus

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For Any Tribulation
1513 indicates that this Mass is based on the Mass for Tribulation of Heart, whereas 1508 indicates that it is based on the Mass for Brethren and Sistren.

Officium. Salus populi
This Officium also appears on Thursday of Lent 3 and Trinity 19.

Ineffabilem misericordiam tuam

Gradual. Propicius esto
This Gradual also appears on Saturday in the Ember Days of Lent, Thursday of Lent 2, Trinity 4, and Saturday in the Ember Days of September.

Alleluya. Ostende nobis
This Alleluya appears on the First Sunday of Advent.

Offertory. Exaudi Deus
This Offertory appears on Monday of Lent 3.

Secret. Sacrificia tibi Domine immolanda

Postcommunion. Quos celesti munere Domine reficis divina

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Common Memorials
The employment of the term ‘memoria’ and the omission of the term ‘missa’ among the following observances suggests that they were used normally only as memorials attached to other masses.

For a friend
Prayer. Deus, qui justificas impium

Secret. Hujus quesumus Domine virtute mysterii

Postcommunion. Purificent nos quesumus Domine sacramenta

For a sick person near death
Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus conservator animarum

Secret. Adesto quesumus Domine pro pietate tua

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Postcommunion. Gratias tibi agimus Domine refecti salutaribus

For Those going on a Journey
Prayer. Adesto Domine supplicationibus nostris : et viam

Secret. Propiciare Domine supplicationibus nostris : et has oblationes

Postcommunion. Sumpta quesumus Domine celestis mysterii sacramenta

For the Pope
Prayer. Deus omnium fidelium pastor et rector

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Secret. Oblatis quesumus Domine placare muneribus : et famulum

Postcommunion. Hec nos domine divini sacramenti perceptio protegat

For a Bishop
Prayer. Rege quesumus Doine famulum tuum N. pontificis

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine tibi munus oblatum

Postcommunion. Subjectum tibi famulum tuum N. pontificem

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Another for a Bishop

Prayer. Concede quesumus Domine famulo tuo

Secret. Munera nostra quesumus Domine placatus suscipe

Postcommunion. Hec nos communio Domine purget a crimine

For Prelates and Subordinates
Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui facis mirabilia magna solus

Secret. Hostias quesumus Domine famulorum tuorum placatus intende

Postcommunion. Quos celesti recreas munere

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Another for oneself, non Sarum

Prayer. Suppliciter te Deus \pater omnipotens qui es creator

Secret. Deus misericordie, Deus pietatis

Postcommunion. Deus qui es vivorum salvator omnium

For (i.e. against) Bodily Temptation
Prayer. Ure igne Sancti Spiritus renes nostros

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Secret. Dirumpe Domine igne Spiritus Sancti vincula

Postcommunion. Domine Deus adjutor et protector noster : adjuva nos

Against Evil Thoughts
Prayer. Omnipotens mitissime Deus : respice propicius preces nostras

Secret. Has tibi Domine Deus offerimus oblationes

Postcommunion. Per hoc quesumus Domine sacrificium quod te

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For Petitions of Tears

Prayer. Omnipotens et misericors Deus qui sitienti

Secret. Hanc oblationem quam tue majestati Domine

Postcommunion. Corpore et sanguine tuo Domine saginati

Against Airy Tempests
Prayer. A domo tua quesumus Domine spiritales

Secret. Offerimus tibi Domine laudes et munera

Postcommunion. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui nos et castigando

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Against Assaults on the Church
Prayer. Concede nobis omnipotens et mitissime Deus

Secret. Hostias tibbi Domine placationis et laudis

Postcommunion. Preces nostras quesumus Domine placatus exaudi : et quod

For Sailors
Prayer. Deus qui transtulisti patres nostros per mare Rubrum

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine preces populi tui cum oblationibus

Postcommunion. Sanctificati divino mysterio majestatem tuam Domine

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For Benefactors and Health of the Living

Prayer. Pretende Domine famulis et famulabus tuis

Secret. Propiciare Domine supplicationibus nostris : et has oblationes

Postcommunion. Da famulis et famulabus tuis quesumus Domine in tua fide

Against Adversaries
Prayer. Hostium nostrorum quesumus Domine elide superbiam

Secret. Hujus quesumus Domine virtute mysterii

Postcommunion. Purificet nos quesumus Domine participatio tui sancta mysterii

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For a pregnant woman

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui beatoissimam virginem et matrem

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine preces et hostias humilitatis nostre

Postcommunion. Adesto supplicationibus nostris omnipotens Deus : et famulam

Of Saints Katherine, Margaret, and Mary Magdalene
Prayer. Deus qui sacratissimis virginibus tuis Katherine

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Secret. Gratum tibi Domine sit munus oblatum

Postcommunion. Celesti alimonia vegetati quesumus

Memorial for those with Fever, of Saint Sigismund
Parts of this memeorial are translated in [John Patrick], Reflections upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, 2nd. ed. (London, 1686): 239.
St. Sigismund, King of the Burgundians, d. 524. (Feast Day, May 1)
Subdunensi (Sedunensis) Sion, capital of the Swiss Canton of Valais.

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui per sanctos apostolos

Secret. Offerimus tibi Domine munera sancta, in nomine electi

Postcommunion. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui dedisti ministris

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Memorial against Pagans
Prayer. Sempiterna Trinitas unus Deus cujus est potentie

Secret. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : nostras indignas

Postcommunion. Quos celesti Domine dono satiasti

Memorial of the Incarnation
Prayer. Corda nostra quesumus Domine sanctus splendor

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Secret. In mentibus nostris quesumus Domine ver fidei

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut qui Filii tui

Memorial for Penitents
Prayer. Exaudi quesumus Domine supplicum preces

Secret. Hostias tibi Domine placationis offerimus obsecrantes

Postcommunion. Presta nobis eterne Salvator : ut percipientes

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Memorial of the Resurrection in Easter-tide
Prayer. Deus qui per unigenitum tuum eternitatis

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine perces populi tui

Postcommunion. Spiritum in nobis Domine tue caritatis infunde

Memorial of All Saints throughout the Year
Prayer. Concede quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut intercessio sancte Dei genitricis

Secret. Oblatis domine placare muneribus : et intercedente

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Postcommunion. Sumpsimus Domine beate Dei genitricis

Memorial for the Universal Church
Prayer. Ecclesie tue Domine preces placatus admitte

Secret. Protege nos Domine quesumus, tuis mysteriis

Postcommunion. Quesumus Domine Deus noster : ut quos divina tribuis

Memorial for Peace
Prayer. Deus a quo sancta desideria

Secret. Deus qui credentes in te populos nullis

Postcommunion. Deus auctor pacis et amator

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Memorial for the King and Queen
Prayer. Deus in cujus manu sunt corda regum

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine preces et hostias ecclesie tue

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut per hec mysteria

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The solemnization off a wedding

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Prayer. Creator et conservator humani generis : dator

Prayer. Benedic Domine hunc anulum

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Ps. Manda Deus. (Ps. 67:29-31)

Prayer. Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac, Deus Jacob sit vobiscum

Prayer. Benedicat vos Deus Pater : custodiat vos

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Prayer. Benedicat vos Dominus ex Syon

Prayer. Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac, Deus Jacob : benedic adolescentes istos

Prayer. Respice Domine de celis : et benedic conventionem istam

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Prayer. Respice Domine propicius super hunc famulum tuum

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui primos parentes nostros

Blessing. Benedica vos Deus omnipotens omni benedictione celesti

Nuptial Mass
Apart from the sequence, the chants are taken from the feast (or commemoration) o rht Trinity.

Officium. Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas

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Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui dedisti famulis tuis

Prayer. Exaudi nos omnipotens et misericors Deus

Gradual. Benedictus es Domine qui intueris abyssos

Alleluya. Benedictus es Domine Deus Patrum nostrorum

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Sequence. Alma chorus Domini

Offertory. Benedictus sit Deus Pater

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Secret. Sanctifica quesumus Domine Deus Trinitas Sancta

Secret. Adesto Domine supplicationibus nostris : et hanc oblationem

Prayer. Propiciare Domine supplicationibus nostris

Prayer. Deus qui potestate virtutis tue de nichilo

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Prayer. Deus qui tam excellenti mysterio conjugalem

Prayer. Deus per quem mulier jungiter viro

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Communion. Benedicimus Deum celi

Postcommunion. Proficiat nobis ad salutem corporis et anime

Postcommunion. Quesumus omnipotens Deus instituta providentie

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Blessing. Benedic Domine istum panem et hunc potum

Blessing. Benedic Domine thalamum istum

Blessing. Benedic Domine hoc cubiculum

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Blessing. Benedic Deus corpora vestra et animas vestras

Blessing. Manus Domini sit super vos

Blessing. Benedicat vos Pater, et Filius

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Mass for a pregnant woman
Officium. Alma virgo virginum

Prayer. Exaudi clementissime Pater deprecationem

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Gradual. Ecce virgo concepit

Alleluya. Ad tuum o Maria confugiunt

Sequence. O ancilla Christi Maria

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Offertory. Ave Maria parturientium consolatrix

Secret. Piissime Christe Jesu qui absque

Communion. In partu puerorum

Postcommunion. Beatissime Spiritus per quem condita sunt

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The blessing of a woman after childbirth
Prayer. Deus qui hanc famulam tuam de pariendi

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The /Blessing of Bread on Sunday
Prayer. Benedic Domine hanc creaturam panis

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Office for Pilgrims
Psalm 24

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Psalm 50

Psalm 90

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Kyrieleyson

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Prayer. Adesto Domine supplicationibus nostris : et viam

Prayer. Deus qui ad vitam ducis

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Prayer. Deus qui diligentibus te misericordiam

Prayer. Domine Jesu Christe qui ineffabili tua

In nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi accipe hanc peram

Accipe hunc baculum

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Deus invicte potentie

Accipe vestimentum cruce

Mass for those going on a Journey
Officium. Esto michi in Deum protectorem

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Prayer. Adesto Domine supplicationibbus nostris : et viam

Gradual. Esto michi in Deum protectorem

Alleluya. Qui timent Dominum

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Offertory. Sperent in te

Secret. Propiciare quesumus Domine supplicationibus nostris

Communion. Tu mandasti mandata tua

Postcommunion. Sumpta quesumus Domine celestis mysterii

Prayer. Deus infinite misericordie et majestatis immense

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Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui es via

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Mass for the Dead
The Mass for the dead is said
a) when there is a corpse (i.e. a funeral service)
b) when there is a trental or anniversary
c) on All Souls’ Day, November 2; on Wednesday of Holy Week (Only on All Souls’ Day is the principal mass the requiem mass.
d) on all days when the choir is not ruled–and not preceded by a double feast–from the octave of epiphany to Wednesday of Holy Week and from the morrow of the Trinity until Christmas.(Presumably the rubric ‘not preceded by a double feast’ is because in those cases Vigils of the Dead is omitted due to festal second vespers of the feast.)    d) is the requiem mass ‘in capitulo’, in memory of the faithful departed.
e) with considerable frequency, even daily, as an endowed chantry masses.  According to Wordsworth, Notes on Medieval Services:13, there were as many as 11 daily chantry masses at Salisbury Cathedral, but up to 40 at Lincoln Cathedral.

The requiem mass ‘in capitulo’ is said before terce.  On anniversaries of bishops it is said at the high altar, or at an altar near to the tomb; else–at Salisbury Cathedral–the requiem mass ‘in capitulo’ would presumably take place either in the Lady Chapel or in the Chapel of St. Stephen and the Martyrs, both of which are adjacent to the canons’ cemetery in the south east corner of the church-yard.  Certainly the Lady or Salve chapel is the only space other than the choir enclosure that can accommodate the large number of canons, vicars, and other clerics who attend a significant mass in capitulo.   The missa in capitulo was also said from time to time in the chapel of St. Peter and the Apostles, to the north of the Lady Chapel: 20 September 1326, ‘Gift, by Henry de la Wyle […] for providing a clerk [who would serve] the 3 chaplains celebrating every day at the altar of the Apostles in the cathedral; and who would serve at the 2 masses which are celebrated there for the souls of William of York, formerly Bishop of Salisbury, and of Ralph of York, formerly Chancellor; and at all the capitular masses which are celebrated there at that altar . . .’ (Salisbury Archive Press 4 O E 9, quoted in Christopher Wordsworth Notes on Medieval Services:190-91).   It may also be the altar mentioned in one of the Fasti, which states that St Osmund’s remains lie ‘between the Salve chapel and the chapel of St Stephen, i.e., in the third arch from the morning altar’,  (compiled c.1695 from an unknown source; Rich Jones, Fasti:84).

It is not entirely clear whether anniversaries, trentals and funerals, when they took place, were observed at, or in addition to, the capitular mass; the practice itself may not have been entirely consistent.

a) b) and c) would presumably have been sung to full music, as given here and in the Manual.  d), being ferial–or ordinary–in nature, would use the ferial melodies for Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei, as is indicated at the Agnus Dei in the Kyriale.

e) would have normally been spoken or recited recto tono.  It is conceivable that on special occassions such as the anniversary of the deceased, a sung requiem might be performed if time permitted and singers were available.

a) would presumably take place at the appropriate altar: the high altar for members of the clergy, the nave altar for layfolk.

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Officium. Requiem eternam

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Prayer. Deus qui propirum est misereri semper

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Gradual. Si ambulem in medio umbre mortis

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Gradual. Requiem eternam

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Tract. Sicut cervus

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Tract. De profundis (cantus abbreviatus)
This tract omits the long melismas (except the final one) that appear in the version for Septuagesima.

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Offertory. Domine Jesu Christe rex glorie

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Hostias et precibus

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Offertory. O pie Deus

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Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine misericors Pater

As indicated in the Manual:302, the daily preface is used at masses of the dead.

As indicated in the Manual:302, at funerals (when a body is present), trentals, anniversaries, and when the mass for the dead is done for the last time before Easter, and on All Souls’ Day, the Sanctus melody is that in Mode II, beginning on C, page 49*. of the Kyriale.  Presumably on other days the ferial melody would be used, in Mode VI, beginning on A, page 50*. of the Kyriale.

Two Agnus Dei melodies are used for requiem masses, as indicated in the Manuale:303.

Communion. Pro quorum memoria

[352]
Communion. Lux eterna

[353]
Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut animam

On the day of burial
Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus misericordiam tuam

Secret. Suscipe Domine pro anima famuli tui

[354]
Postcommunion. Presta quesumus Domine : ut anima famuli tui

Memorial on Trentals
Prayer. Deus cui proprium est misereri semper

Secret. Intuere quesumus omnipotens eterne Deus

Postcommunion. Prosit quesumus Domine anime famuli tui

Memorial on Anniveraries
Prayer. Deus indulgentiarum Domine : da anime famuli tui

Secret. Propiciare quesumus Domine supplicationibus

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus Domine, ut anima famuli tui

[355]
Memorial for a Bishop

Prayer. Deus qui inter apostolicos sacerdotes

Secret. Offerimus tibi Domine oblationem nostre

Postcommunion. Profidciat quesumus Domine animabus

Memorial for Brethren and Sistren
Prayer. Deus venie largitor et humane salutis amator

Secret. Deus cujus misericordie non est numerus

[356]
Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens et misericors Deus ut anime

Memorial for Benefactors
Prayer. Omnipotens et misericors Deus, unica salus

Secret. Sanctifica quesumus domine hec fidelium

Postcommunion. Viuvificet nos quesumus Domine

Memorial for an Abbot
Prayer. Presta quesumus Domine : ut anima famuli tui abbatis

[357]
Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine hostias quas tibi

Postcommunion. Concede quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut per hec sancta mysteria

Memorial for a Priest
Prayer. Deus cujus misericordie non est numerus

Secret. Quesumus Domine Deus noster : ut oblationem

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus : per hec sancta mysteria

Memorial for a Father and a Mother
Prayer. Deus qui nos patrem et matrem honorare precepisti

Secret. Suscipe Domine hoc sacrificium tibi

[358]
Postcommunion. Celestis Domine participatio sacramenti

Memorial for Anyone Deceased
Prayer. Deus cui soli competit medicinam

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine hanc oblationem

Postcommunion. Ascendat ad te Domine preces nostre

Memorial for a Deceased Friend
Prayer. Adjuva nos Deus salutaris noster

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine hostias placationis

Postcommunion. Ascendant ad te Domine preces nostre

[359]
Memoria pro defuncto morte prevento
Prayer. Omnipotens et misericors Deus : in cujus potestate

Secret. Satisfaciat tibi Domine quesumus pro anima

Postcommunion. Deus a quo prewstatur humanis cordibus

Memorial for Men of a Family
Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus cui nunquam sine spe

Secret. Propiciare quesumus Domine animabus famulorum

Postcommunion. Hec nos communio Domine purget

[360]
Memorial for Women of a Family
Prayer. Quesumus Domine pro tua pietate

Secret. His sacrificiis Domine anime famularum tuarum

Postcommunion. Inveniat quesumus Domine anime famularum

Memorial for a Woman Deceased
Prayer. Majestatem tuam quesumus domine suppliciter deprecamur

Secret. Hostias tibi Domine humili supplicatione

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus Domine anime famule tue

[361]
Memorial for Trentals
Prayer. Inclina Domine aurem tuam ad preces nostras

Secret. Animas famulorum famularumque

Postcommunion. Annuenobis Domine per hoc sacrificium

Memorial for Benefactors
Prayer. Miserere quesumus Domine animabus omnium benefactorum

Secret. Placeat tibi Domine sacrificii presentis oblatio

Postcommunion. Sumpta sacramenta Domine nos absolvant

Memorial for Those at Rest in the Cemetery
Prayer. Deus in cuus miseratione anime

[362]
Secret. Pro animabus famulorum famularumque

Postcommunion. Deus fidelium lumen animarum

Memorial for Those to be kept in Prayer
Prayer. Concede quesumus Domine Deus noster : ut anime

Secret. Hec munera quesumus Domine que oculis tue

[363]
Postcommunion. Deus qui inestimabili misericordia

Memorial of the Faithful Departed
Prayer. Fidelium Deus omnium conditor et redemptor

Secret. Hostias quesumus Domine quas tibi

Postcommunion. Animabus quesumus Domine omnium fidelium

General Prayers
The following four sets of prayers are read in order as the seventh and final prayers at the mass of the Lenten fast, from Monday after the first Sunday in Lent until Maundy Thursday.  They may be understood as coordinating with the singing of the fifteen gradual psalms ‘pro omni populo’ after terce on each of these same ferias.

(1) Prayer. Pietate tua quesumus Domine nostrorum

[364]
Secret. Deus qui singulari corpora

Postcommunion. Sumpta sacramenta quesumus Domine omnia crimina

(2) Prayer. Sanctissime Dei genitricis semperque virginis Marie

[365]
Secret. In conspectu divine majestatis tue

Postcommunion. Per hujus sacramenti mysterium

(3) Prayer. Omnium sanctorum tuorum intercessionibus

[366]
Secret. Oblationes nostras quesumus Domine propiciatus intende

Postcommunion. Hec sacrificia Domine que sumpsimus

(4) Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui vivorum dominaris

Secret. Deus cui soli cognitus est numerus electorum

Postcommunion. Pro celestis convivii jocunditate

[367]
Trental of St. Gregory
Prayer. Deus summa spes nostre redemptionis

Secret. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus redemptor animarum

[368]
Postcommunion. Deus cujus misericordie non est numerus

[369]
Prose for the Dead
Sequence. Dies ire dies illa
Attr. Thomas of Celano
Trans. (Performine Edition) William Josiah Irons, 1848. Irons’ translation, as it appears in The Words of the Hymns in the Appendix of the Brompton Metrical Psalter (1861): 29, begins:
‘Day of Wrath ! O Day of mourning,
See once more the Cross returning–
Heav’n and earth in ashes burning!’
The Edition follows The English Hymnal (1906): #351 here.
Trans. (Scholarly Edition) William Josiah Irons, 1848, as altered in The English Hymnal (1906): #351.
It would appear that the original poetic text ended at ‘mei finis’.
An extensive article on this Hymn is found in John Julian A Dictionay of Hymnology: 295-301.

[370]
Mass for the Avoidance of Death
Authorized by Clement VI in 1348, against the plague

Officium. Recordare Domine testamenti tui

Prayer. Deus qui non vis mortem

[371]
Gradual. Misit Dominus verbum

Alleluya. Salvabo populum meum

Sequence. Jubilemus pia mente

[372]
Offertory. Stetit pontifex inter mortuos
This text is based on that of the Offertory Stetit angelus for the feast of St. Michael.

[373]
Secret. Subveniat Domine quesumus plebi tue

Communion. Multitudo languentium

Postcommunion. Exaudi nos Deus salutaris noster

[374]
Passion according to St. John
Prayer. domine Jesu Christe qui manus tuas

[375]
Mass for travellers, of the three kings of Cologne
Prayer. Deus qui tres magos orientales

Secret. Suscipe clementissime Deus oblationes

Postcommunion. Sanctorum trium regum

[376]
Another mass of the three kings
Prayer. Deus illuminator omnium gentium

[377]
Mass of St Sebastian in time of Plague
Parts of this mass are translated in [John Patrick], Reflections upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, 2nd. ed. (London, 1686): 242.

Officium. Egregie martyr Sebastiane

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui meritis

Gradual. O sancte Sebastiane

Alleluya. O sancte Sebastiane

Alleluya. O quam gloriosum

Sequence. Omnes una decantemus

[378]
Offertory. Martyr egregie decus militie

Secret. Subveniat nobis Domine tua misericordia

Communion. Beatus es et bene tibi erit

[379]
Postcommunion. Da quesumus Domine populo tuo salutem

[380]
Mass of St. Roch
This mass would be used in time of plague.  (The feast day of St. Roch is August 16).
(See also [387].)
See. Acta Sanctorum, ed novissima, XXXVII:389-391.

Officium. Congratulamini omnes

Prayer. Deus qui es gloriosus

Gradual. Tibi pro sancto Rocho

[381]
Alleluya. O beate confessor Roche

Offertory. Te beatum Rochum

Preface. Eterne Deus. Qui imminentem Ninivitis interitum.
The presence of a proper preface is highly unusual.  This also appears in Missale Romanum, 1511 (Acta Sanctorum, XXXVII:390), as does the Communion.

Secret. Parce nobis Domine et flagella ire tue

Communion. O quam magnificum est nomen tuum beate Roche

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus, ut qui celestia

[382]
Mass of Saint Genovefa (Genevieve) (virgin)
Born Nanterre, c. 419/422 A.D., died Paris 502/512 A.D., Feast Day January 3 (presumably equivalent to the translation).  Invocation of St. Genovefa for protection against ‘burning sickness’ (ergot poisoning) dates from 1129, when Paris, suffering from an epidemic, was relieved after Saint Genevieve’s relics were carried in a public procession.

Officium. Gaudeamus omnes in domino . . . sub honore Genovefe

Prayer. Deus qui beate Genovefe virginis

Gradual. Specie tua

Alleluya. Hec est virgo sapiens

Sequence. Genovefe solennitas

[383]
Tract. Gaude, sancta Genovefe
This tract is in metre and rhyme

Offertory. Offerentur Regi virgines

Secret. Per hec Domine dona presentia

[384]
Communion. Diffusa est gratia

Postcommunion. Beata virgo Genovefa

[385]
Mass in Commemoration of St. Erasmus
St. Erasmus of Formia, d. ca. 303. Patron of sailors and of abdominal pain; one of the fourteen holy helpers.  Feast day June 2.

Officium. Letabitur justus in Domino

Prayer. Deus qui sanctam nobis hujus diei leticiam

Gradual. Posuisti Domine super caput ejus

Alleluya. Gloria et honore coronasti eum

Offertory. Posuisti Domine in capita ejus coronam

Secret. Intende propicius quesumus Domine oblata

[386]
Communion. Magna est gloria ejus

Postcommunion. Sumpsimus domine in sancti martyris tui

[387]
Mass of St. Roch
(See also [380].)

Officium. Letabitur justus in Domino

Prayer. Omnipotens et misericors Deus : qui meritis

Gradual. Justus ut palma

Alleluya. Justus germinabit sicut lilium

Sequence. In honore Salvatoris sancti Rochi

[388]
Offertory. Veritas mea

[389]

Secret. Munera tibi quesumus Domine oblata sanctifica

Communion. Magna est gloria ejus

Postcommunion. Sumpsimus Domine tua sancta beati Rochi

[390]
Mass in Commemoration of St. Christopher
Officium. Gloria et honore

Prayer. Concede quesumus omnipotens et misericors Deus : ut qui beati Christoferi

Gradual. Posuisti Domine super caput ejus coronam

Alleluya. Letabitur justus in Domino

[391]
Offertory. Gloria et honore coronasti eum

Secret. Accepta sit in conspectu tuo

Communion. Magna est gloria ejus

Postcommunion. Sacro munere satiati supplices te Domine

[392]
Mass for St. Anthony
Parts of this mass are translated in [John Patrick], Reflections upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, 2nd. ed. (London, 1686): 235.

Officium. Gaudeamus omnes in Domino . . . sub honore beati Antonii

Prayer. Deus qui concedis obtentu beati Antonii

Gradual. Domine prevenisti eum

Alleluya. Felix corpus et felix anima

Alleluya. O Antoni pasto inclyte

[393]
Sequence. In hac die letabunda

Offertory. Veritas mea

Secret. Sacrificium nostrum quesumus Domine benignus intende

[394]
Communion. Beatus servus quem cum venerit

Postcommunion. Prosit nobis Domine ad salutem

[395]
Mass for St. Raphael
Officium. Ego sum Azarias

Prayer. Deus qui beatum Raphaelem archangelum

[396]
Gradual.Angelus Raphael apprehendit

Alleluya. Missus est Raphael angelus
Presumably the Alleluyas are alternatives.

Alleluya. Angele medicinalis

Alleluya. Angelum nobis medicum salutis

Alleluya. Angelus Domini descendit de celo

Offertory. In honorem sancti Raphaelis

[397]
Secret. Mitte Deus archangelum tuum Raphaelem

Communion. Jubilus summe laudis

Postcommunion. Dirigere dignare Domine Deus in adjutorium

[398]
Mass for St. Gabriel
Officium. Gaudeamus omnes in Domino . . . sub honore Gabrielis

Prayer. Abstrege quesumus Domine Christiani populi

Gradual. Preco fulgens splendore nimio

This and all the following propers are in a single metre (10pp) and rhyme.

[399]
Alleluya. Per te preco opus mirabile

Tract. A te preco virgo amabilis

Prose. Proloquium altum recitemus

Offertory. Fortis preco omnes communiter

[400]
Secret. Munera sacrificii nostri quesumus omnipotens Deus in corpus

Communion. O Gabriel refove flebiles

Postcommunion. Beati Gabrielis archangeli tui

[401]
Mass of St. Gabriel
Officium. Gaudeant omnes fideles de sublimi

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui per Gabrielem

[402]
Gradual. Cum viderem ego Daniel visionem

Alleluya. Inter milia milium

Sequence. Nunc letetur pleebs fidelis

Tract. Gaude Maria virgo cunctas hereses

[403]
Offertory. Confitebimur tibi Domine Deus

Secret. Munera sacrificii nostri quesumus Domine Deus in corpus

Communion. Apparuit autem angelus stans

Postcommunion. Sacramentum absconditumn a seculis

[404]
Mass of the Compassion or Lamentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This Mass appears in virtually identical form in Robert Lippe, ed. Missale Romanum Mediolani (London, 1907), Vol. II: 339. It is here indicated to be found only in the Paris Editions of 1515, 1530 and 1540.

Officium. Gaudeamus omnes in Domino . . . de cujus presentatione

Prayer. Deus, qui beatam virginem Mariam tibi

Alleluya. Felix virgo que nondum edita

Sequence. Altissma providente

[405]
Secret. Hec munera quesumus Domine beata Marie

Postcommunion. Sacramenta que sumpsimus Domine beate Marie

[406]
Mass of the compassion or lamentaion of blessed Mary the Virgin
Wordsworth, Tracts of Clement Maydeston:164. dates the introduction of this observance at Salisbury to 1487.

Officium. Vide Domine quoniam tribulor

Prayer. Pietatam tuam quesumus Domine Jesu

Gradual. Omnes  inimici mei audierrunt malum

[407]
Alleluya. Ecce positus est hic in ruinam

Alleluya. Omnes inimicii ejus apprehenderunt

Alleluya. Posuit me Dominus desolatam

Tract. Usquequo Domine oblivisceris me (Ps. 12:1-4; Ps. 85:5; Ps. 68:19, 18; Ps. 85:16)

Sequence. Meste parentis Christi Marie lachrymas

[409]
Offertory. Christum cruce mortuum nostros

Secret. Hostias quesumus omnipotens redemptor

Communion. De cruce depositum

[410]
Postcommunion. Redemptor noster atque Salvator

[411]
Feast of Saint Armagillus
Armagillus (Armel), d. ca. 570; feast day August 16.  St. Armel was popularized by King Henry VII.

Prayer. Deus qui beatum Armagillum

Alleluya. Armagile scandens celos

Sequence. Corde lingua mente tota

[412]
Secret. Hostias quas tibi offerimus in honore beati Armagilli

Postcommunion. Concede nobis clementissime Pater

[413]
Mass for St. Barbara
Officium. Loquebar de testimoniis tuis

Prayer. Deus cujus diletionem beata Barbara

Gradual. Adjuvabit eam Deus vultu suo

Alleluya. Hec est virgo sapiens quam Dominus

Offertory. Filie regum in honore tuo

Secret. Hostiam nostre devotionis tibi Domine offerimus

[414]
Communion. Principes persecuti sunt me gratis

Postcommunion. Ut nobis Domine veri corporis et sanguinis

[415]
Prayer of the Passion of the Lord
Prayer. Domine Jesu Christe Fili Dei vivi qui pro redemptione

Secret. Auxilientur nobis pie Domine Jesu Christe

Postcommunion. Domine Deus de Deo : lumen de lumine

C-01 Kyriale

1*
Kyries with Latin Verses
Typically the Sarum sources present the Kyries with Latin Verses as given here. However, Manchester, Rylands Latin MS 24:21-24 follows each invocation with a repetition of the same melody on the text ‘Kyrie eleyson’, ‘. . . no doubt because in early times each petition was sung twice over, without farsing as well as with it : cp. the method of singing the proses of the Responds at Mattins or processions.’, W. H. Frere, Graduale Sarisburiense:xlix.

Deus Creator omnium
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.
Deus Creator omnium is the beginning of the Vespers Hymn for Saturdays, by St. Ambrose.

3*
Kyrie Rex Genitor
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

4*
Kyrie fons bonitatis
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

6*
Kyrie omnipotens Pater
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

8*
Kyrie Rex splendens
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

10*
Lux et origo
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

11*
Cunctipotens Genitor
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

13*
Conditor Kyrie
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

14*
Orbis factor
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

17*
Kyries without Latin Verses
Kyrie : O Rex clemens

Kyrie : Rex sempiterne

18*
Kyrie : Conditor Kyrie

19*
Kyrie : Rex splendens
(Vatican VII)

The following extracts relating to this piece are taken from William Stubbs, ed. Memorials of Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Longman, 874).

From the Introduction, pp. cxiv-cxv.
Of Dunstan’s musical ability it is possible that we have a trace in the trope or cantus “Kyrie rex splendens,” which according to the Salisbury use is appointed to be sung on his festival after the officium. . . .  All, however, that can be said of it is that it may be Dunstan’s.  The history of it is this.  Eadmer relates a story of Dunstan falling sleep one Sunday at mass, whilst waiting for Edgar who had gone out hunting.  In his sleep he heard a solemn service in heaven, and when he awoke dictated to his servants a “Kyrie Eleyson” which he had learned there, which, according to the biographer, was in his days sung in many places among the solemn ceremonies of the mass.  It would seem a natural conclusion that the “Kyrie rex splendens” which was sung only on the feasts of Dunstan and S. Michael should be identified with this; and although William of Malmesbury does not notice it except in a very cursory way, it must been believed soon after his day.  Higden is, however, the first writer who distinctly states that the kyrie which Dunstan learned contained the “modulos harmoniae” which were contained in the trope so famous among the English, “Kyrie rex splendens.”  The statement is copied by Capgrave, and appears also in Bromton, and possibly in other writers of the fifteenth century.  If, however, we venture to assume thus much, it may reasonably be questioned whether the words or the music only should be attributed to Dunstan.  Higden’s language seems to refer to the music, that of Eadmer to the words.  It has indeed been thought that as the peculiar tropes or variations on the kyrie are not found until the thirteenth century in the common missals, the music only of this one could even by tradition be Dunstan’s.  But this is a mistake, for we possess a tropary dating nearly if not quite from Dunstan’s days [MS. Bodl. 775], which contains a large number of kyries, both words and music.  In this we do not find Kyrie rex splendens, but several forms of expression more or less coinciding with it.  If we suppose that Dunstan wrote the trope, it would not of course appear at once in the service books, but there is nothing in it inconsistent with this antiquity.  It may have been many times remodelled like the other kyries and rearranged afterwards

From the Life of St. Dunstan by Eadmer, p. 207.
‘Alio quodam tempore rex in die Dominica mane venatum lvit, et Dunstanum, qui tunc forte secum erat, Missam suam donec rediret differre petivit.  Appropinquante igitur hora tertia vir Dei ad ecclesiam procedit, et indutus sacris vestibus, regem sicut ei promiserat exspectabat.  Stabat ergo cubitis innixus altari, orationi ac lacrymis deditus.  Tum subito sopore leviter in coelum rapitur, et beatis angelorum agminibus associatus, audit eos summae Trinitati in laudem modulatis vocibus decantantes atque dicentes, “Kyrie eleyson, Christe eleyson, Kyrie eleyson.”  Quorum melodiam coelestium contemplator edoctus ad se reversus est.  Et conversus ad suos interrogat rexne venerit annon.  At ubi eum nondum venisse accepit ad suas preces sese convertit.  Factoque non grandi intervallo, iterum extra se ductus audivit in coelis altisona voce dici, “Ite, Missa est.”  Ad quod cum “Deo gratias” responderetur, accurrentes clenci regis regem adesse vociferantur, sacerdotem ut festinantius Missam celebret obsecrant.  At ille versus ab altari Missam se habere pronunciat, et aliam se ea die celebraturum abnegat.  Depositisque vestibus sacris a suis de re inquiritur, quod latebat operitur.  Ex hoc itaque sumpto sermone regem in diebus Dominicorum deinceps a venatu prohibuit.  “Kyrie eleyson” vero quod in coelestibus didicit, suos docuit, idque multis in locis hodie sancta ecclesia inter Missarum solennia canit.’

From Capgrave’s Life and Miracles of Dunstan, p. 346.
Quodam tempore rex Edgarus adhuc vivens, dum venatum pergeret, Dunstanum donec rediret Missam differre rogavit. Appropinquante hora tertia, vir Dei sacris induitur vestibus, regem exspectat, stans cubitis innixus altari, lacrymis deditus et orationi. Et ecce! subito sopore leniter pressus, raptus in coelum et junctus angelis audit eosdem Trinitati modulatis vocibus canere, “Kyrie eleyson, Christe eleyson, Kyrie eleyson.” Et rediens ad se interrogat rex advenisset. Respondetur, “Non.” Iterum ergo orat, et iterum in coelum raptus audit ibi altisona voce dici, “Ite, Missa est.” Cumque responderetur, “Deo gratias;” accurrerunt clerici regem adesse dicentes. Quibus ille respondit quod jam Missam audierat, nee aliam eo die auditurus vel celebraturus erat. Interrogatus quare, visionem aperit, et sumpto ex hoc sermone prohibuit regi ne ulterius in die Dominico venatum iret. “Kyrie eleyson,” quod in coelo audierat suos clericos docuit. Cujus modulos harmoniae adhuc continet tropus ille apud Anglos famosus, “Kyrie rex splendens.”

In a later footnote on p. 357 Stubbs comments on the above:
‘The story told by Eadmer p. 207, represents Dunstan as learning in his sleep a heavenly melody of the Kyrie eleyson. This melody, as we learn from Capgrave (p. 346 above), was identified in his days with the cantus Kyrie Rex splendens, which, as appears from the rubric above, was in some special way connected with the festival of S. Dunstan. In the Winchester Troper of the tenth century, now MS. Bodl. 775, which contains most of the Kyries mentioned in the last nore in a ruder and earlier form that that in which they appear in the Salisbury Missal, this particular Kyrie is not found. It may therefore have been originally drawn up by Dunstan; but it is impossible to say with anything like certainty that the words given in the text represent the original form.’

See also William Chappell, ‘On the use of the Greek language, written phonetically, in the early Service Books of the Church in England . . .’ Archaeologia XLIV (1881):389-402, esp. 401-402. and the plate labelled ‘A Kyrie eleyson by Saint Dunstan’.

20*
Kyrie : Cunctipotens Genitor
(Vatican IV)

21*
Kyrie : Rex summe

22*
Kyrie : Orbis factor
(Vatican ‘Ad libitum’ X)

Kyrie : Lux et origo
(Vatican I)

23*
Kyrie : Kyrie : Kyrie Deus sempiterne

24*
Kyrie : Kyrie omnipotens

25*
Kyrie VIII (GABC.AG.AGAE)

Kyrie III [I] (EF.E.DDC)
This Kyrie is closely related to LU #15 (Dominator Deus).

26*
Kyrie II (AGF.FE.GBA)

Kyrie V (F.GA.AGAF)

Kyrie III [I] (C.A.A) (ferial)

27*
Gloria in excelsis VIII (GA.GF.G)
(Vatican III)

29*
Gloria in excelsis II (DG.FE.FG)
(Vatican XI)

30*
Gloria in excelsis VIII (C.AG.G)
(Vatican X)

32*
Gloria in excelsis IV (CDF.F.F)
(Vatican IV)

34*
Gloria in excelsis VIII (G.FE.D)
(Vatican V)

36*
Gloria in excelsis VI (E.DE.C)

38*
Gloria in excelsis I (A.C.CD)

39*
Gloria in excelsis III (CC.A.A)
(Vatican XIV)

41*
Gloria in excelsis VII (GAGG.FG.G)
(Vatican IX)
This Gloria contains the famous ‘Spiritus et alme’ tropes for the Blessed Virgin.

44*
Sanctus I (CEDGGFED)
(Vatican II)

Sanctus VI (FGAFGGf.F)
(Vatican VIII)

45*
Sanctus VIII (GCAGEFGAg.G)
(Vatican IV)

46*
Sanctus II (DACd.D)
(Vatican XI)
See 48* below.

47*
Sanctus V (BCAA.F)
(Vatican VII)

Sanctus VIII (GAg.F)
(Vatican XIII)

48*
Sanctus II (FFE.D)
Parts of this melody: ‘. . . in excelsis. Benedictus . . . osanna in excelsis.’ are the same as in the Kyrie on p. 46*.

49*
Sanctus II (Cd.D)
(Vatican XV)

Sanctus II (DFEDCd.D)
(Vatican XII)

50*

Sanctus VI (A.AG)
(related to Vatican XVIII)

51*
Agnus Dei II (AC.DF)
(Vatican XII)

Agnus Dei VII (GAg.AB)
(Vatican IV)

52*
Agnus Dei VIII (GA.G)
(Vatican XIV)

53*
Agnus Dei VIII (GAGG.FG)
(Vatican VI)

54*
Agnus Dei IV (E.DEDC)

Agnus Dei II (DE.CEFEE)
(Vatican II)

55*
Agnus Dei VIII (AGC.CD)
(Vatican VII)

Agnus Dei I (D.EF)

56*
Agnus Dei I (D.F DCE.E)
(Vatican XV)

Agnus Dei VIII (G.G GA.A)
(Vatican XVIII)

59*
Feri vi.
It will be noted that the incipit duplicates that for feria v.  Presuming that the fundamental purpose of these lists is to secure variety in the daily mass of the Virgin, this duplication must be an error.  It is safe to assume that what is intended is one of the chants not yet added to the list, that is, Sanctus 6, 7, or 8.

61*
Benedicamus Domino and Ite missa est.
The choice of using ‘Benedicamus Domino’ or ‘Ite missa est’ is dependent on the ranking and type of Feast or feria and the season of the church year.  ‘Ite missa est’ is used when ‘Te Deum’ is sung at matins and/or when ‘Gloria in excelsis’ is sung at Mass.  Otherwise ‘Benedicamus Domino’ is used.  ‘Benedicamus Domino’ is also used for the conclusion of the Office, so there is considerable overlap between Missal and Breviary.

Generally speaking the elaboration of the melodies reflects the importance of the occasion.  In many cases the same melody is provided for both ‘Ite missa est’ and ‘Benedicamus Domino’.  Certain days have proper melodies for ‘Ite missa est’.  (17.) is used on the vigils of Easter and Pentecost.

The initial set of ornate melodies, 1-12, is presumably appropriate for use on Sundays and Feasts of 9 lessons.  The following simpler melodies, 13-16, are for use at mass on Feasts of 3 lessons; melodies 18-26 would be used on Double Feasts.

The additional, lettered melodies (a.)-(uu.) are taken from Rylands-24:31-32.  Duplications of the standard melodies are indicated.  Here we find another selection for use with Triple Invitatories, presumably for Simple Feasts. Those labelled ‘ix. lec.’ would then be used on Simple Feasts of Nine Lessons with Duple Invitatory; we then find another series for Simple Feasts of Three Lessons.  Double Feasts with Triple Invitatory (t-jj) would be used not at Mass, but at Vespers and Lauds.   The series (mm-rr) would presumably be used at Vespers and Lauds in Eastertide, although (nn) is proper to Epiphany, and would presumably be used at Vespers and Lauds of that day.

The earliest printed Sarum Missals available (1489, 1494-Venice, 1497-Morin, 1497-Paris, 1504-Verard), essentially those identified by Dickinson as type A, contain a series of 12 settings of both ‘Benedicamus Domino’ and ‘Ite missa est’.  (These are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4a, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 9a, 10, 11, 12 in the Edition.)  Beginning with the 1500-Pynson Missal, we find the following set of 10 ‘Benedicamus Domino’ lacking the associated ‘Ite missa est’: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9a, 4b, 12, 10.   This trend continues through the subsequent Missals of Dickinson types B and C.  Beginning with the 1511-Hopyl-Brykman Missal we find the following set of 10 ‘Benedicamus Domino’: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8b, 9b, 12, 10.  This order is generally followed in Dickinson’s D type Missals.  The manuscript Gradual, British Museum Lansd. 462, also contains a set of 10 ‘Benedicamus Domino’ in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9a, 10, 12, 4a.  The printed Graduals contain the same set of 10 ‘Benedicamus Domino’ as Lansd. 462, but with no. 4a in 9th position.  Regarding the variations presented in nos. 4a and b, 8a and b, and 9a and b, it should be noted that all these melodies are related to one another, and the first three and last two syllables are set the same in all cases.  These variations may have arisen either through varied performances or through manuscript errors.

Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.11.3. and MS B.11.11. contain a collections of Benedicamus and Ite missa est melodies which, with minor variants, duplicate those in the edition.

Ite missa est.
This may mean literally ‘Go, it has been sent.’ or ‘Go, it is the dismissal.’ In the English edition, ‘Go, the mass is ended.’ accomodates the music effectively, and is similar to the commonly used ‘Go forth, the mass is ended.’

According to the rubrics, there is no audible response to the ‘Benedicamus Domino’ or the ‘Ite missa est’ at Mass except on the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost. (Compare the silent response to the Versicle at Matins, Lauds, and Vespers, and note also that elsewhere throughout the Ordinary of the Mass the responses are printed in full.) Evidently the presence of ‘Deo gratias’ at 27. is meant for use in the Office, not the Mass.

The responses labelled t-jj appear to be for use at Vespers and Lauds, but not at Mass.  The forms including ‘alleluya’ given in t-z, and gg-jj are in accordance with the rubric on p. 1241 of the Noted Breviary, that indicates the response ‘Deo gratias alleluya’ is to be made audibly at Lauds and Vespers in Eastertide, on Double Feasts, (when sung by two clerks) until the Feast of the Trinity.    According to this rubric, these most elaborate melodies would only be sung at the first Benedicamus of Vespers and Lauds.  The melodies for the second Benedicamus are given on 116* of the Noted Breviary.

See also Robertson, Anne Walters. ‘Benedicamus Domino: the Unwritten Tradition’, JAMS XLI-1 (1988):1-62.  This article frequently refers to Rylands-24, but names it ‘The Exeter Missal’.

(1.)  This melody is recognizeable as a variant of Missa de Angelis. (LU:39.)
The following remarks are of interest: ‘. . . the Kyrie . . .is a work probably of Norman origin, and dating from the 14th century.  At that time the Graduale of the Cathedral of Rouen included this Kyrie among certain chants “ad libitum” for the solemnity of feasts.  In the following century, again in Rouen, we find this Kyrie already given the title “de Angelis”; and, in England, where, for the most part, the customs were the same as those of Normandy, we find, from that time, the Benedicamus sung thereafter to the air of one of the sections of this Kyrie.’ (‘The “Missa de Angelis”‘, analysis by A. Gastoue, trans. Albert Gingras, The Caecilia, December 1933, p. 375.)  Francis Burgess, The English Gradual, v. notes the resemblance of this melody to the Missa de Angelis.  However, there is no other evidence to suggest that anything more of Missa de Angelis than ‘Benedicamus’ and ‘Ite missa est’ were used in the Sarum Mass.

This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 16** (a.) in a form suitable for Double Feasts in Eastertide.

(5.) This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 15** (c.)

63*
(6.)  Francis Burgess, The English Gradual, v. notes the resemblance of this melody to the Missa de Angelis.

This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 16** (b.) in a form suitable for Double Feasts in Eastertide.

64*
(8a.) This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 14** (a.)

(9a.) This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 16** (c.) in a form suitable for Double Feasts in Eastertide.

65*
(11.) This melody, too, appears to be derived from the Kyrie of Missa de Angelis; in this case, from the final Kyrie.

67*
(17.) This melody is taken from the Alleluya of the Mass for the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost, 744.

‘Pro dispositione diaconi vel sacerdos.’ would seem to be a concession: that although the ‘Ite missa est’ should properly match the melody of the Kyrie from the beginning of the Mass, that if necessary another melody (perhaps more familiar or easier) could be substituted.

72*
(r.) This melody appears in the Solesmes books for simple feasts.

‘In duplicibus festis cum triplex invitatorio . . .’

Melodies (t.) through (jj.) could be used at Vespers and Lauds on Double Feasts; during Eastertide the version with ‘Alleluya’ is used.

75*.
(x.) This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 15** (b.).

77*.
(gg.) This melody appears in varied form Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 15** (d.).

80*.
(nn.) This melody is for use only at both Vespers and Lauds of the Epiphany.

(qq.) This melody appears in the Solesmes books, to be used from Holy Saturday through Easter Saturday.

(rr.) This melody is taken from the Christmas Hymn, A solus ortus cardine.  This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 16**.

81*
‘In duplicibius festis ultimo loco . . .’  Presumably this melody is intended for the final ‘Benedicamus’ after the Memorial(s).

‘In rogacionibus.’  Presumably these three melodies were sung on the Rogation days immediately preceding the Ascension; perhaps one was assigned to each day.  They do not appear to be derived from music associated with those days.

a) b) and c) would presumably have been sung to full music, as given here and in the Manual.  d), being ferial–or ordinary–in nature, would use the ferial melodies for Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei, as is indicated at the Agnus Dei in the Kyriale.

e) would have normally been spoken or recited recto tono.  It is conceivable that on special occassions such as the anniversary of the deceased, a sung requiem might be performed if time permitted and singers were available.

a) would presumably take place at the appropriate altar: the high altar for members of the clergy, the nave altar for layfolk;

[338]
Officium. Requiem eternam

[340]
Prayer. Deus qui propirum est misereri semper

[341]
Gradual. Si ambulem in medio umbre mortis

[342]
Gradual. Requiem eternam

[343]
Tract. Sicut cervus

[345]
Tract. De profundis (cantus abbreviatus)
This tract omits the long melismas (except the final one) that appear in the version for Septuagesima.

[348]
Offertory. Domine Jesu Christe rex glorie

[349]
Hostias et precibus

[350]
Offertory. O pie Deus

[351]
Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine misericors Pater

Communion. Pro quorum memoria

[352]
Communion. Lux eterna

[353]
Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut animam

On the day of burial
Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus misericordiam tuam

Secret. Suscipe Domine pro anima famuli tui

[354]
Postcommunion. Presta quesumus Domine : ut anima famuli tui

Memorial on Trentals
Prayer. Deus cui proprium est misereri semper

Secret. Intuere quesumus omnipotens eterne Deus

Postcommunion. Prosit quesumus Domine anime famuli tui

Memorial on Anniveraries
Prayer. Deus indulgentiarum Domine : da anime famuli tui

Secret. Propiciare quesumus Domine supplicationibus

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus Domine, ut anima famuli tui

[355]
Memorial for a Bishop

Prayer. Deus qui inter apostolicos sacerdotes

Secret. Offerimus tibi Domine oblationem nostre

Postcommunion. Profidciat quesumus Domine animabus

Memorial for Brethren and Sistren
Prayer. Deus venie largitor et humane salutis amator

Secret. Deus cujus misericordie non est numerus

[356]
Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens et misericors Deus ut anime

Memorial for Benefactors
Prayer. Omnipotens et misericors Deus, unica salus

Secret. Sanctifica quesumus domine hec fidelium

Postcommunion. Viuvificet nos quesumus Domine

Memorial for an Abbot
Prayer. Presta quesumus Domine : ut anima famuli tui abbatis

[357]
Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine hostias quas tibi

Postcommunion. Concede quesumus omnipotens Deus : ut per hec sancta mysteria

Memorial for a Priest
Prayer. Deus cujus misericordie non est numerus

Secret. Quesumus Domine Deus noster : ut oblationem

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus : per hec sancta mysteria

Memorial for a Father and a Mother
Prayer. Deus qui nos patrem et matrem honorare precepisti

Secret. Suscipe Domine hoc sacrificium tibi

[358]
Postcommunion. Celestis Domine participatio sacramenti

Memorial for Anyone Deceased
Prayer. Deus cui soli competit medicinam

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine hanc oblationem

Postcommunion. Ascendat ad te Domine preces nostre

Memorial for a Deceased Friend
Prayer. Adjuva nos Deus salutaris noster

Secret. Suscipe quesumus Domine hostias placationis

Postcommunion. Ascendant ad te Domine preces nostre

[359]
Memoria pro defuncto morte prevento
Prayer. Omnipotens et misericors Deus : in cujus potestate

Secret. Satisfaciat tibi Domine quesumus pro anima

Postcommunion. Deus a quo prewstatur humanis cordibus

Memorial for Men of a Family
Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus cui nunquam sine spe

Secret. Propiciare quesumus Domine animabus famulorum

Postcommunion. Hec nos communio Domine purget

[360]
Memorial for Women of a Family
Prayer. Quesumus Domine pro tua pietate

Secret. His sacrificiis Domine anime famularum tuarum

Postcommunion. Inveniat quesumus Domine anime famularum

Memorial for a Woman Deceased
Prayer. Majestatem tuam quesumus domine suppliciter deprecamur

Secret. Hostias tibi Domine humili supplicatione

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus Domine anime famule tue

[361]
Memorial for Trentals
Prayer. Inclina Domine aurem tuam ad preces nostras

Secret. Animas famulorum famularumque

Postcommunion. Annuenobis Domine per hoc sacrificium

Memorial for Benefactors
Prayer. Miserere quesumus Domine animabus omnium benefactorum

Secret. Placeat tibi Domine sacrificii presentis oblatio

Postcommunion. Sumpta sacramenta Domine nos absolvant

Memorial for Those at Rest in the Cemetery
Prayer. Deus in cuus miseratione anime

[362]
Secret. Pro animabus famulorum famularumque

Postcommunion. Deus fidelium lumen animarum

Memorial for Those to be kept in Prayer
Prayer. Concede quesumus Domine Deus noster : ut anime

Secret. Hec munera quesumus Domine que oculis tue

[363]
Postcommunion. Deus qui inestimabili misericordia

Memorial of the Faithful Departed
Prayer. Fidelium Deus omnium conditor et redemptor

Secret. Hostias quesumus Domine quas tibi

Postcommunion. Animabus quesumus Domine omnium fidelium

General Prayers
Prayer. Pietate tua quesumus Domine nostrorum

[364]
Secret. Deus qui singulari corpora

Postcommunion. Sumpta sacramenta quesumus Domine omnia crimina

Prayer. Sanctissime Dei genitricis semperque virginis Marie

[365]
Secret. In conspectu divine majestatis tue

Postcommunion. Per hujus sacramenti mysterium

Prayer. Omnium sanctorum tuorum intercessionibus

[366]
Secret. Oblationes nostras quesumus Domine propiciatus intende

Postcommunion. Hec sacrificia Domine que sumpsimus

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui vivorum dominaris

Secret. Deus cui soli cognitus est numerus electorum

Postcommunion. Pro celestis convivii jocunditate

[367]
Trental of St. Gregory
Prayer. Deus summa spes nostre redemptionis

Secret. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus redemptor animarum

[368]
Postcommunion. Deus cujus misericordie non est numerus

[369]
Prose for the Dead
Sequence. Dies ire dies illa
Attr. Thomas of Celano
Trans. (Performine Edition) William Josiah Irons, 1848. Irons’ translation, as it appears in The Words of the Hymns in the Appendix of the Brompton Metrical Psalter (1861): 29, begins:
‘Day of Wrath ! O Day of mourning,
See once more the Cross returning–
Heav’n and earth in ashes burning!’
The Edition follows The English Hymnal (1906): #351 here.
Trans. (Scholarly Edition) William Josiah Irons, 1848, as altered in The English Hymnal (1906): #351.
It would appear that the original poetic text ended at ‘mei finis’.
An extensive article on this Hymn is found in John Julian A Dictionay of Hymnology: 295-301.

[370]
Mass for the Avoidance of Death
Authorized by Clement VI in 1348, against the plague

Officium. Recordare Domine testamenti tui

Prayer. Deus qui non vis mortem

[371]
Gradual. Misit Dominus verbum

Alleluya. Salvabo populum meum

Sequence. Jubilemus pia mente

[372]
Offertory. Stetit pontifex inter mortuos
This text is based on that of the Offertory Stetit angelus for the feast of St. Michael.

[373]
Secret. Subveniat Domine quesumus plebi tue

Communion. Multitudo languentium

Postcommunion. Exaudi nos Deus salutaris noster

[374]
Passion according to St. John
Prayer. domine Jesu Christe qui manus tuas

[375]
Mass for travellers, of the three kings of Cologne
Prayer. Deus qui tres magos orientales

Secret. Suscipe clementissime Deus oblationes

Postcommunion. Sanctorum trium regum

[376]
Another mass of the three kings
Prayer. Deus illuminator omnium gentium

[377]
Mass of St Sebastian in time of Plague
Parts of this mass are translated in [John Patrick], Reflections upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, 2nd. ed. (London, 1686): 242.

Officium. Egregie martyr Sebastiane

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus : qui meritis

Gradual. O sancte Sebastiane

Alleluya. O sancte Sebastiane

Alleluya. O quam gloriosum

Sequence. Omnes una decantemus

[378]
Offertory. Martyr egregie decus militie

Secret. Subveniat nobis Domine tua misericordia

Communion. Beatus es et bene tibi erit

[379]
Postcommunion. Da quesumus Domine populo tuo salutem

[380]
Mass of St. Roch
This mass would be used in time of plague.  (The feast day of St. Roch is August 16).
(See also [387].)
See. Acta Sanctorum, ed novissima, XXXVII:389-391.

Officium. Congratulamini omnes

Prayer. Deus qui es gloriosus

Gradual. Tibi pro sancto Rocho

[381]
Alleluya. O beate confessor Roche

Offertory. Te beatum Rochum

Preface. Eterne Deus. Qui imminentem Ninivitis interitum.
The presence of a proper preface is highly unusual.  This also appears in Missale Romanum, 1511 (Acta Sanctorum, XXXVII:390), as does the Communion.

Secret. Parce nobis Domine et flagella ire tue

Communion. O quam magnificum est nomen tuum beate Roche

Postcommunion. Presta quesumus omnipotens Deus, ut qui celestia

[382]
Mass of Saint Genovefa (Genevieve) (virgin)
Born Nanterre, c. 419/422 A.D., died Paris 502/512 A.D., Feast Day January 3 (presumably equivalent to the translation).  Invocation of St. Genovefa for protection against ‘burning sickness’ (ergot poisoning) dates from 1129, when Paris, suffering from an epidemic, was relieved after Saint Genevieve’s relics were carried in a public procession.

Officium. Gaudeamus omnes in domino . . . sub honore Genovefe

Prayer. Deus qui beate Genovefe virginis

Gradual. Specie tua

Alleluya. Hec est virgo sapiens

Sequence. Genovefe solennitas

[383]
Tract. Gaude, sancta Genovefe
This tract is in metre and rhyme

Offertory. Offerentur Regi virgines

Secret. Per hec Domine dona presentia

[384]
Communion. Diffusa est gratia

Postcommunion. Beata virgo Genovefa

[385]
Mass in Commemoration of St. Erasmus
St. Erasmus of Formia, d. ca. 303. Patron of sailors and of abdominal pain; one of the fourteen holy helpers.  Feast day June 2.

Officium. Letabitur justus in Domino

Prayer. Deus qui sanctam nobis hujus diei leticiam

Gradual. Posuisti Domine super caput ejus

Alleluya. Gloria et honore coronasti eum

Offertory. Posuisti Domine in capita ejus coronam

Secret. Intende propicius quesumus Domine oblata

[386]
Communion. Magna est gloria ejus

Postcommunion. Sumpsimus domine in sancti martyris tui

[387]
Mass of St. Roch
(See also [380].)

Officium. Letabitur justus in Domino

Prayer. Omnipotens et misericors Deus : qui meritis

Gradual. Justus ut palma

Alleluya. Justus germinabit sicut lilium

Sequence. In honore Salvatoris sancti Rochi

[388]
Offertory. Veritas mea

[389]

Secret. Munera tibi quesumus Domine oblata sanctifica

Communion. Magna est gloria ejus

Postcommunion. Sumpsimus Domine tua sancta beati Rochi

[390]
Mass in Commemoration of St. Christopher
Officium. Gloria et honore

Prayer. Concede quesumus omnipotens et misericors Deus : ut qui beati Christoferi

Gradual. Posuisti Domine super caput ejus coronam

Alleluya. Letabitur justus in Domino

[391]
Offertory. Gloria et honore coronasti eum

Secret. Accepta sit in conspectu tuo

Communion. Magna est gloria ejus

Postcommunion. Sacro munere satiati supplices te Domine

[392]
Mass for St. Anthony
Parts of this mass are translated in [John Patrick], Reflections upon the Devotions of the Roman Church, 2nd. ed. (London, 1686): 235.

Officium. Gaudeamus omnes in Domino . . . sub honore beati Antonii

Prayer. Deus qui concedis obtentu beati Antonii

Gradual. Domine prevenisti eum

Alleluya. Felix corpus et felix anima

Alleluya. O Antoni pasto inclyte

[393]
Sequence. In hac die letabunda

Offertory. Veritas mea

Secret. Sacrificium nostrum quesumus Domine benignus intende

[394]
Communion. Beatus servus quem cum venerit

Postcommunion. Prosit nobis Domine ad salutem

[395]
Mass for St. Raphael
Officium. Ego sum Azarias

Prayer. Deus qui beatum Raphaelem archangelum

[396]
Gradual.Angelus Raphael apprehendit

Alleluya. Missus est Raphael angelus
Presumably the Alleluyas are alternatives.

Alleluya. Angele medicinalis

Alleluya. Angelum nobis medicum salutis

Alleluya. Angelus Domini descendit de celo

Offertory. In honorem sancti Raphaelis

[397]
Secret. Mitte Deus archangelum tuum Raphaelem

Communion. Jubilus summe laudis

Postcommunion. Dirigere dignare Domine Deus in adjutorium

[398]
Mass for St. Gabriel
Officium. Gaudeamus omnes in Domino . . . sub honore Gabrielis

Prayer. Abstrege quesumus Domine Christiani populi

Gradual. Preco fulgens splendore nimio

This and all the following propers are in a single metre (10pp) and rhyme.

[399]
Alleluya. Per te preco opus mirabile

Tract. A te preco virgo amabilis

Prose. Proloquium altum recitemus

Offertory. Fortis preco omnes communiter

[400]
Secret. Munera sacrificii nostri quesumus omnipotens Deus in corpus

Communion. O Gabriel refove flebiles

Postcommunion. Beati Gabrielis archangeli tui

[401]
Mass of St. Gabriel
Officium. Gaudeant omnes fideles de sublimi

Prayer. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui per Gabrielem

[402]
Gradual. Cum viderem ego Daniel visionem

Alleluya. Inter milia milium

Sequence. Nunc letetur pleebs fidelis

Tract. Gaude Maria virgo cunctas hereses

[403]
Offertory. Confitebimur tibi Domine Deus

Secret. Munera sacrificii nostri quesumus Domine Deus in corpus

Communion. Apparuit autem angelus stans

Postcommunion. Sacramentum absconditumn a seculis

[404]
Mass of the Compassion or Lamentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This Mass appears in virtually identical form in Robert Lippe, ed. Missale Romanum Mediolani (London, 1907), Vol. II: 339. It is here indicated to be found only in the Paris Editions of 1515, 1530 and 1540.

Officium. Gaudeamus omnes in Domino . . . de cujus presentatione

Prayer. Deus, qui beatam virginem Mariam tibi

Alleluya. Felix virgo que nondum edita

Sequence. Altissma providente

[405]
Secret. Hec munera quesumus Domine beata Marie

Postcommunion. Sacramenta que sumpsimus Domine beate Marie

[406]
Mass of the compassion or lamentaion of blessed Mary the Virgin
Officium. Vide Domine quoniam tribulor

Prayer. Pietatam tuam quesumus Domine Jesu

Gradual. Omnes  inimici mei audierrunt malum

[407]
Alleluya. Ecce positus est hic in ruinam

Alleluya. Omnes inimicii ejus apprehenderunt

Alleluya. Posuit me Dominus desolatam

Tract. Usquequo Domine oblivisceris me (Ps. 12:1-4; Ps. 85:5; Ps. 68:19, 18; Ps. 85:16)

Sequence. Meste parentis Christi Marie lachrymas

[409]
Offertory. Christum cruce mortuum nostros

Secret. Hostias quesumus omnipotens redemptor

Communion. De cruce depositum

[410]
Postcommunion. Redemptor noster atque Salvator

[411]
Feast of Saint Armagillus
Armagillus (Armel), d. ca. 570; feast day August 16.  St. Armel was popularized by King Henry VII.

Prayer. Deus qui beatum Armagillum

Alleluya. Armagile scandens celos

Sequence. Corde lingua mente tota

[412]
Secret. Hostias quas tibi offerimus in honore beati Armagilli

Postcommunion. Concede nobis clementissime Pater

[413]
Mass for St. Barbara
Officium. Loquebar de testimoniis tuis

Prayer. Deus cujus diletionem beata Barbara

Gradual. Adjuvabit eam Deus vultu suo

Alleluya. Hec est virgo sapiens quam Dominus

Offertory. Filie regum in honore tuo

Secret. Hostiam nostre devotionis tibi Domine offerimus

[414]
Communion. Principes persecuti sunt me gratis

Postcommunion. Ut nobis Domine veri corporis et sanguinis

[415]
Prayer of the Passion of the Lord
Prayer. Domine Jesu Christe Fili Dei vivi qui pro redemptione

Secret. Auxilientur nobis pie Domine Jesu Christe

Postcommunion. Domine Deus de Deo : lumen de lumine

C-01 Kyriale

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Kyries with Latin Verses
Typically the Sarum sources present the Kyries with Latin Verses as given here. However, Manchester, Rylands Latin MS 24:21-24 follows each invocation with a repetition of the same melody on the text ‘Kyrie eleyson’, ‘. . . no doubt because in early times each petition was sung twice over, without farsing as well as with it : cp. the method of singing the proses of the Responds at Mattins or processions.’, W. H. Frere, Graduale Sarisburiense:xlix.

Deus Creator omnium
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.
Deus Creator omnium is the beginning of the Vespers Hymn for Saturdays, by St. Ambrose.

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Kyrie Rex Genitor
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

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Kyrie fons bonitatis
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

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Kyrie omnipotens Pater
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

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Kyrie Rex splendens
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

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Lux et origo
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

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Cunctipotens Genitor
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

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Conditor Kyrie
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

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Orbis factor
anon. trans. © 2014 by Matthew Carver.

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Kyries without Latin Verses
Kyrie : O Rex clemens

Kyrie : Rex sempiterne

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Kyrie : Conditor Kyrie

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Kyrie : Rex splendens
(Vatican VII)

The following extracts relating to this piece are taken from William Stubbs, ed. Memorials of Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Longman, 874).

From the Introduction, pp. cxiv-cxv.
Of Dunstan’s musical ability it is possible that we have a trace in the trope or cantus “Kyrie rex splendens,” which according to the Salisbury use is appointed to be sung on his festival after the officium. . . .  All, however, that can be said of it is that it may be Dunstan’s.  The history of it is this.  Eadmer relates a story of Dunstan falling sleep one Sunday at mass, whilst waiting for Edgar who had gone out hunting.  In his sleep he heard a solemn service in heaven, and when he awoke dictated to his servants a “Kyrie Eleyson” which he had learned there, which, according to the biographer, was in his days sung in many places among the solemn ceremonies of the mass.  It would seem a natural conclusion that the “Kyrie rex splendens” which was sung only on the feasts of Dunstan and S. Michael should be identified with this; and although William of Malmesbury does not notice it except in a very cursory way, it must been believed soon after his day.  Higden is, however, the first writer who distinctly states that the kyrie which Dunstan learned contained the “modulos harmoniae” which were contained in the trope so famous among the English, “Kyrie rex splendens.”  The statement is copied by Capgrave, and appears also in Bromton, and possibly in other writers of the fifteenth century.  If, however, we venture to assume thus much, it may reasonably be questioned whether the words or the music only should be attributed to Dunstan.  Higden’s language seems to refer to the music, that of Eadmer to the words.  It has indeed been thought that as the peculiar tropes or variations on the kyrie are not found until the thirteenth century in the common missals, the music only of this one could even by tradition be Dunstan’s.  But this is a mistake, for we possess a tropary dating nearly if not quite from Dunstan’s days [MS. Bodl. 775], which contains a large number of kyries, both words and music.  In this we do not find Kyrie rex splendens, but several forms of expression more or less coinciding with it.  If we suppose that Dunstan wrote the trope, it would not of course appear at once in the service books, but there is nothing in it inconsistent with this antiquity.  It may have been many times remodelled like the other kyries and rearranged afterwards

From the Life of St. Dunstan by Eadmer, p. 207.
‘Alio quodam tempore rex in die Dominica mane venatum lvit, et Dunstanum, qui tunc forte secum erat, Missam suam donec rediret differre petivit.  Appropinquante igitur hora tertia vir Dei ad ecclesiam procedit, et indutus sacris vestibus, regem sicut ei promiserat exspectabat.  Stabat ergo cubitis innixus altari, orationi ac lacrymis deditus.  Tum subito sopore leviter in coelum rapitur, et beatis angelorum agminibus associatus, audit eos summae Trinitati in laudem modulatis vocibus decantantes atque dicentes, “Kyrie eleyson, Christe eleyson, Kyrie eleyson.”  Quorum melodiam coelestium contemplator edoctus ad se reversus est.  Et conversus ad suos interrogat rexne venerit annon.  At ubi eum nondum venisse accepit ad suas preces sese convertit.  Factoque non grandi intervallo, iterum extra se ductus audivit in coelis altisona voce dici, “Ite, Missa est.”  Ad quod cum “Deo gratias” responderetur, accurrentes clenci regis regem adesse vociferantur, sacerdotem ut festinantius Missam celebret obsecrant.  At ille versus ab altari Missam se habere pronunciat, et aliam se ea die celebraturum abnegat.  Depositisque vestibus sacris a suis de re inquiritur, quod latebat operitur.  Ex hoc itaque sumpto sermone regem in diebus Dominicorum deinceps a venatu prohibuit.  “Kyrie eleyson” vero quod in coelestibus didicit, suos docuit, idque multis in locis hodie sancta ecclesia inter Missarum solennia canit.’

From Capgrave’s Life and Miracles of Dunstan, p. 346.
Quodam tempore rex Edgarus adhuc vivens, dum venatum pergeret, Dunstanum donec rediret Missam differre rogavit. Appropinquante hora tertia, vir Dei sacris induitur vestibus, regem exspectat, stans cubitis innixus altari, lacrymis deditus et orationi. Et ecce! subito sopore leniter pressus, raptus in coelum et junctus angelis audit eosdem Trinitati modulatis vocibus canere, “Kyrie eleyson, Christe eleyson, Kyrie eleyson.” Et rediens ad se interrogat rex advenisset. Respondetur, “Non.” Iterum ergo orat, et iterum in coelum raptus audit ibi altisona voce dici, “Ite, Missa est.” Cumque responderetur, “Deo gratias;” accurrerunt clerici regem adesse dicentes. Quibus ille respondit quod jam Missam audierat, nee aliam eo die auditurus vel celebraturus erat. Interrogatus quare, visionem aperit, et sumpto ex hoc sermone prohibuit regi ne ulterius in die Dominico venatum iret. “Kyrie eleyson,” quod in coelo audierat suos clericos docuit. Cujus modulos harmoniae adhuc continet tropus ille apud Anglos famosus, “Kyrie rex splendens.”

In a later footnote on p. 357 Stubbs comments on the above:
‘The story told by Eadmer p. 207, represents Dunstan as learning in his sleep a heavenly melody of the Kyrie eleyson. This melody, as we learn from Capgrave (p. 346 above), was identified in his days with the cantus Kyrie Rex splendens, which, as appears from the rubric above, was in some special way connected with the festival of S. Dunstan. In the Winchester Troper of the tenth century, now MS. Bodl. 775, which contains most of the Kyries mentioned in the last nore in a ruder and earlier form that that in which they appear in the Salisbury Missal, this particular Kyrie is not found. It may therefore have been originally drawn up by Dunstan; but it is impossible to say with anything like certainty that the words given in the text represent the original form.’

See also William Chappell, ‘On the use of the Greek language, written phonetically, in the early Service Books of the Church in England . . .’ Archaeologia XLIV (1881):389-402, esp. 401-402. and the plate labelled ‘A Kyrie eleyson by Saint Dunstan’.

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Kyrie : Cunctipotens Genitor
(Vatican IV)

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Kyrie : Rex summe

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Kyrie : Orbis factor
(Vatican ‘Ad libitum’ X)

Kyrie : Lux et origo
(Vatican I)

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Kyrie : Kyrie : Kyrie Deus sempiterne

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Kyrie : Kyrie omnipotens

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Kyrie VIII (GABC.AG.AGAE)

Kyrie III [I] (EF.E.DDC)
This Kyrie is closely related to LU #15 (Dominator Deus).

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Kyrie II (AGF.FE.GBA)

Kyrie V (F.GA.AGAF)

Kyrie III [I] (C.A.A) (ferial)

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Gloria in excelsis VIII (GA.GF.G)
(Vatican III)

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Gloria in excelsis II (DG.FE.FG)
(Vatican XI)

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Gloria in excelsis VIII (C.AG.G)
(Vatican X)

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Gloria in excelsis IV (CDF.F.F)
(Vatican IV)

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Gloria in excelsis VIII (G.FE.D)
(Vatican V)

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Gloria in excelsis VI (E.DE.C)

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Gloria in excelsis I (A.C.CD)

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Gloria in excelsis III (CC.A.A)
(Vatican XIV)

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Gloria in excelsis VII (GAGG.FG.G)
(Vatican IX)
This Gloria contains the famous ‘Spiritus et alme’ tropes for the Blessed Virgin.

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Sanctus I (CEDGGFED)
(Vatican II)

Sanctus VI (FGAFGGf.F)
(Vatican VIII)

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Sanctus VIII (GCAGEFGAg.G)
(Vatican IV)

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Sanctus II (DACd.D)
(Vatican XI)
See 48* below.

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Sanctus V (BCAA.F)
(Vatican VII)

Sanctus VIII (GAg.F)
(Vatican XIII)

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Sanctus II (FFE.D)
Parts of this melody: ‘. . . in excelsis. Benedictus . . . osanna in excelsis.’ are the same as in the Sanctus on p. 46*.

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Sanctus II (Cd.D)
(Vatican XV)

Sanctus II (DFEDCd.D)
(Vatican XII)

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Sanctus VI (A.AG)
(related to Vatican XVIII)

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Agnus Dei II (AC.DF)
(Vatican XII)

Agnus Dei VII (GAg.AB)
(Vatican IV)

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Agnus Dei VIII (GA.G)
(Vatican XIV)

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Agnus Dei VIII (GAGG.FG)
(Vatican VI)

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Agnus Dei IV (E.DEDC)

Agnus Dei II (DE.CEFEE)
(Vatican II)

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Agnus Dei VIII (AGC.CD)
(Vatican VII)

Agnus Dei I (D.EF)

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Agnus Dei I (D.F DCE.E)
(Vatican XV)

Agnus Dei VIII (G.G GA.A)
(Vatican XVIII)

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Feri vi.
It will be noted that the incipit duplicates that for feria v.  Presuming that the fundamental purpose of these lists is to secure variety in the daily mass of the Virgin, this duplication must be an error.  It is safe to assume that what is intended is one of the chants not yet added to the list, that is, Sanctus 6, 7, or 8.

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Benedicamus Domino and Ite missa est.
The choice of using ‘Benedicamus Domino’ or ‘Ite missa est’ is dependent on the ranking and type of Feast or feria and the season of the church year.  ‘Ite missa est’ is used when ‘Te Deum’ is sung at matins and/or when ‘Gloria in excelsis’ is sung at Mass.  Otherwise ‘Benedicamus Domino’ is used.  ‘Benedicamus Domino’ is also used for the conclusion of the Office, so there is considerable overlap between Missal and Breviary.

Generally speaking the elaboration of the melodies reflects the importance of the occasion.  In many cases the same melody is provided for both ‘Ite missa est’ and ‘Benedicamus Domino’.  Certain days have proper melodies for ‘Ite missa est’.  (17.) is used on the vigils of Easter and Pentecost.

The initial set of ornate melodies, 1-12, is presumably appropriate for use on Sundays and Feasts of 9 lessons.  The following simpler melodies, 13-16, are for use at mass on Feasts of 3 lessons; melodies 18-26 would be used on Double Feasts.

The additional, lettered melodies (a.)-(uu.) are taken from Rylands-24:31-32.  Duplications of the standard melodies are indicated.  Here we find another selection for use with Triple Invitatories, presumably for Simple Feasts. Those labelled ‘ix. lec.’ would then be used on Simple Feasts of Nine Lessons with Duple Invitatory; we then find another series for Simple Feasts of Three Lessons.  Double Feasts with Triple Invitatory (t-jj) would be used not at Mass, but at Vespers and Lauds.   The series (mm-rr) would presumably be used at Vespers and Lauds in Eastertide, although (nn) is proper to Epiphany, and would presumably be used at Vespers and Lauds of that day.

The earliest printed Sarum Missals available (1489, 1494-Venice, 1497-Morin, 1497-Paris, 1504-Verard), essentially those identified by Dickinson as type A, contain a series of 12 settings of both ‘Benedicamus Domino’ and ‘Ite missa est’.  (These are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4a, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 9a, 10, 11, 12 in the Edition.)  Beginning with the 1500-Pynson Missal, we find the following set of 10 ‘Benedicamus Domino’ lacking the associated ‘Ite missa est’: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9a, 4b, 12, 10.   This trend continues through the subsequent Missals of Dickinson types B and C.  Beginning with the 1511-Hopyl-Brykman Missal we find the following set of 10 ‘Benedicamus Domino’: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8b, 9b, 12, 10.  This order is generally followed in Dickinson’s D type Missals.  The manuscript Gradual, British Museum Lansd. 462, also contains a set of 10 ‘Benedicamus Domino’ in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9a, 10, 12, 4a.  The printed Graduals contain the same set of 10 ‘Benedicamus Domino’ as Lansd. 462, but with no. 4a in 9th position.  Regarding the variations presented in nos. 4a and b, 8a and b, and 9a and b, it should be noted that all these melodies are related to one another, and the first three and last two syllables are set the same in all cases.  These variations may have arisen either through varied performances or through manuscript errors.

Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.11.3. and MS B.11.11. contain a collections of Benedicamus and Ite missa est melodies which, with minor variants, duplicate those in the edition.

Ite missa est.
This may mean literally ‘Go, it has been sent.’ or ‘Go, it is the dismissal.’ In the English edition, ‘Go, the mass is ended.’ accomodates the music effectively, and is similar to the commonly used ‘Go forth, the mass is ended.’

According to the rubrics, there is no audible response to the ‘Benedicamus Domino’ or the ‘Ite missa est’ at Mass except on the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost. (Compare the silent response to the Versicle at Matins, Lauds, and Vespers, and note also that elsewhere throughout the Ordinary of the Mass the responses are printed in full.) Evidently the presence of ‘Deo gratias’ at 27. is meant for use in the Office, not the Mass.

The responses labelled t-jj appear to be for use at Vespers and Lauds, but not at Mass.  The forms including ‘alleluya’ given in t-z, and gg-jj are in accordance with the rubric on p. 1241 of the Noted Breviary, that indicates the response ‘Deo gratias alleluya’ is to be made audibly at Lauds and Vespers in Eastertide, on Double Feasts, (when sung by two clerks) until the Feast of the Trinity.    According to this rubric, these most elaborate melodies would only be sung at the first Benedicamus of Vespers and Lauds.  The melodies for the second Benedicamus are given on 116* of the Noted Breviary.

See also Robertson, Anne Walters. ‘Benedicamus Domino: the Unwritten Tradition’, JAMS XLI-1 (1988):1-62.  This article frequently refers to Rylands-24, but names it ‘The Exeter Missal’.

(1.)  This melody is recognizeable as a variant of Missa de Angelis. (LU:39.)
The following remarks are of interest: ‘. . . the Kyrie . . .is a work probably of Norman origin, and dating from the 14th century.  At that time the Graduale of the Cathedral of Rouen included this Kyrie among certain chants “ad libitum” for the solemnity of feasts.  In the following century, again in Rouen, we find this Kyrie already given the title “de Angelis”; and, in England, where, for the most part, the customs were the same as those of Normandy, we find, from that time, the Benedicamus sung thereafter to the air of one of the sections of this Kyrie.’ (‘The “Missa de Angelis”‘, analysis by A. Gastoue, trans. Albert Gingras, The Caecilia, December 1933, p. 375.)  Francis Burgess, The English Gradual, v. notes the resemblance of this melody to the Missa de Angelis.  However, there is no other evidence to suggest that anything more of Missa de Angelis than ‘Benedicamus’ and ‘Ite missa est’ were used in the Sarum Mass.

This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 16** (a.) in a form suitable for Double Feasts in Eastertide.

(5.) This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 15** (c.)

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(6.)  Francis Burgess, The English Gradual, v. notes the resemblance of this melody to the Missa de Angelis.

This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 16** (b.) in a form suitable for Double Feasts in Eastertide.

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(8a.) This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 14** (a.)

(9a.) This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 16** (c.) in a form suitable for Double Feasts in Eastertide.

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(11.) This melody, too, appears to be derived from the Kyrie of Missa de Angelis; in this case, from the final Kyrie.

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(17.) This melody is taken from the Alleluya of the Mass for the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost, 744.

‘Pro dispositione diaconi vel sacerdos.’ would seem to be a concession: that although the ‘Ite missa est’ should properly match the melody of the Kyrie from the beginning of the Mass, that if necessary another melody (perhaps more familiar or easier) could be substituted.

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(r.) This melody appears in the Solesmes books for simple feasts.

‘In duplicibus festis cum triplex invitatorio . . .’

Melodies (t.) through (jj.) could be used at Vespers and Lauds on Double Feasts; during Eastertide the version with ‘Alleluya’ is used.

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(x.) This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 15** (b.).

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(gg.) This melody appears in varied form Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 15** (d.).

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(nn.) This melody is for use only at both Vespers and Lauds of the Epiphany.

(qq.) This melody appears in the Solesmes books, to be used from Holy Saturday through Easter Saturday.

(rr.) This melody is taken from the Christmas Hymn, A solus ortus cardine.  This melody appears in Palmer, The Order of Vespers, 16**.

81*
‘In duplicibius festis ultimo loco . . .’  Presumably this melody is intended for the final ‘Benedicamus’ after the Memorial(s).

‘In rogacionibus.’  Presumably these three melodies were sung on the Rogation days immediately preceding the Ascension; perhaps one was assigned to each day.  They do not appear to be derived from music associated with those days.