Note 176 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)
Reading edition
Texts ed. L. Delisle, in Romania, iv (1875), 1. The earlier version is from Bibl. Nat. Lat. 9449 (†1060, a Gradual, or, according to Gautier, Les Tropes, 123, a Troper). The text is headed ‘Versus ad Stellam faciendam.’ The later is from B. N. Lat. 1235 (twelfth-century Gradual). It is headed ‘Ad Comm[unionem].’ Of the first part, down to the end of the interview with Herod, there are two alternative forms in this MS. The one, a free revision of the normal text, is headed:
‘Sic speciem veteres stellae struxere parentes, quatinus hos pueri versus psallant duo regi.’