Note 1127 — Chapter XIV · THE FEAST OF FOOLS (continued)

The following may all be for Jan. 1, and I do not think that there was a scholarium episcopus on any other day at Mosburg: Gregis pastor Tityrus (Dreves, op. cit. 110), Ecce novus annus est (Dreves, 131, headed in MS. ‘ad novum annum’), Nostri festi gaudium (Dreves, 131, ‘in circumcisione Domini’), Castis psallamus mentibus (Dreves, 135, 251, ‘cum episcopus eligitur’), Mos florentis venustatis (Dreves, 135 ‘dum itur extra ecclesiam ad choream’), Anni novi novitas (Dreves, 136 ‘cum infulatus et vestitus praesul inthronizatur’). Some other New Year cantiones found elsewhere by Dreves (pp. 130, 131) have no special reference to the feast.